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Home Toys
December 2004 |
An Introduction to DVI and Digital Connectivity In the evolving world of high-tech displays, new connector types abound, and most are of great significance and value to consumers. This is especially true with the latest wave of digital video connections found on everything from today's newest flat panel monitors to HDTV sets.   |
Home Toys
February 2005 |
HDMI -- Smaller Connector, Bigger Options While HDMI clearly has the more robust feature set, whether you invest in either HDMI or DVI connectivity, you will have made a sure step into the future. |
Home Toys
April 2004 |
High-Definition (HDTV) and Digital (DTV) Television Connection and Cabling DVI is currently the format of choice for professional installers, favored for its ability to carry and deliver uncompressed digital video resolutions up to 1080i. |
Home Toys
April 2004
Michael Weizer |
Connectivity Keeping Up - High-Definition Multimedia Interface The HDMI interface is an all-digital interface, eliminating the signal degradation that occurs in the signal conversion process. It combines both audio and video into a single, compact interface. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
Connectivity Basics: Quick Guide to TV Video Inputs Here is a quick rundown of the basic inputs available, from lowest in image output quality to the best of the bunch. |
Home Toys
August 2005 |
An Overview of Consumer Connectivity Familiarity with the options available on contemporary components will allow you to make an informed decision and end up with a home theater or music system that provides the level of performance and convenience envisioned: HDMI... DVI... etc. |
Home Toys
April 2006
Hagai Gefen |
Home Theaters: Going All-Digital Is the Only Way All-digital systems connected by all-digital cabling, even up to hundreds of feet, allows consumers to immerse themselves in a richer, higher quality, more multi-dimensional viewing and listening experience. |
Home Toys
December 2005 |
Setting up Your Plasma Plasmas offer a wide viewing angle (160 ) allowing for a greater viewing audience with no degradation of picture quality. |
Home Toys
December 2004
Brent McCall |
The Hi-Fi Guy -- News, Views & Hyperbole For the first time in A/V history, we have a true one-plug solution: HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) incorporates all the cables that you need to hook up your A/V equipment into a single plug. |
Home Toys
June 2005
John E. Johnson |
Speaker Cables and Interconnects for Your Home Theater Out of all audio and video components we buy, perhaps the most misunderstood and underestimated are the cables we connect them all together with. Selecting cables for your home theater system is an important task. |
Home Toys
December 2005
Michael Weizer |
Going the Distance With HDMI New products break the barriers If you're looking to setup an audio/video system in a home or business, HDMI connectivity is certainly worth considering. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Glenn Derene |
The Cable Guide: Know Your Computer and TV Wires The different wires that are needed for your home entertainment equipment are listed here. |
PC World
September 2005
Sean Captain |
The Cable Game Salespeople may tell you that exotic video cables deliver a better picture. But the results of our exclusive lab tests could save you money. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2007
Wayne Ma |
DisplayPort Is Next Big Video Cable Standard, but Will It Hold Up? Now that you've traded in all your analog cords for expensive digital cables to work with your new equipment, you'll be less than thrilled to learn that another video standard is coming next year. Can it succeed, glitch-free? |
BusinessWeek
April 17, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
HDTV's Digital Disconnect At best, the transition to HDTV was going to be confusing for consumers. But the piracy safeguards embedded in the hardware make it much more complicated. |
Home Theater
February 2, 2007
Darryl Wilkinson |
Simplify Your HDMI Four new devices from TV One are designed to make life with HDMI a bit easier. |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
Loyd Case |
PC to HDTV the Right Way The typical home PC is no longer just for homework and accounting. It's now the entertainment hub of the household. |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2005
Bill Howard |
Your Hi-Def PC PCs are capable of delivering higher-resolution video than cable, satellite, or DVD can offer. So you should think about the just-arriving HDTVs that can display a 1080p signal. |
Home Theater
April 17, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
HDMI Mechanically Improved The HDMI interface is great for video and audio signal transfer, at least now that it's grown up a bit. But in a mechanical sense, it's no better today than it was at the outset. That's about to change. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007 |
VGA to DVI Is there an adapter that can convert my monitor's VGA plug to DVI? |
Home Toys
April 2006
Minsoo Park |
When it Comes to HDMI/DVI Connectivity, You Have Two Choices: Copper or Fiber Optics. Which is Right for You? Connectivity products such as cables are one investment you will need to live with for at least 10 years. Consider it an investment as cable quality does make a difference and it will stay with your system for a very long time. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2006 |
Graphics PMC card with M9 VGA/DVI graphics, audio I/O, and USB 2.0 The PCI mezzanine card delivers video, RGB, and DVI input capability and multimedia features. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008 |
Digital Interfaces: DVI on Decline as HDMI and Displayport Use Grows Use of the digital visual interface, better known as DVI, will begin a steep decline in 2008 as it faces strong competition from other technologies like the high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) and the DisplayPort standard in the PC market. |
PC World
December 2005
Kirk Steers |
A Tour of the Thoroughly Modern Motherboard If you haven't looked inside a PC in the last year or two, you may not recognize everything there. Here's a tour of today's motherboard. |
Home Theater
March 13, 2007
Darryl Wilkinson |
Video Mating Service If you have $349 and the need to switch between standard definition or high definition sources (component video) and scale them to resolutions up to 1080p, Gefen has the box for you. |
Home Theater
July 11, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Analog Video Be Gone Gefen's new analog-to-digital video scaler takes the VGA output from a single analog video source, such as a computer's analog video output or a DVD player's component video output, and scales it to 1280 x 1024 or 1080i. |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Losers and Winners of the Next Standard War The high-def revolution has been very, very good to Silicon Image, but the salad days are coming to an end. |
Home Theater
November 2004
Adrienne Maxwell |
V, Inc. Bravo D2 DVD Player If you have a DVI-equipped display, this is absolutely the player for you. For $249, you can create the illusion of higher-def DVD and bring out the best in your home theater system. |
Home Toys
April 2005 |
HDCP: For Better or for Worse? High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection attempts to solve a serious problem that's plagued content producers for years. HDCP compliance is an important factor to keep in mind when shopping for digital video equipment. |
Home Theater
June 19, 2009 |
Down-Res to Plug BD's Analog Hole In a few years, new Blu-ray players will be required to down-res high-def images fed via component video, effectively turning older high-definition TVs into standard-definition TVs. |
Home Theater
December 2005
Mark Fleischmann |
Toshiba SD-6980SU Universal Disc Player The Toshiba SD-6980SU is an impressive summation of everything good that's ever entered your system on a disc. |
Home Toys
June 2005
Bob Farinelli |
A Whole House High Definition Experience While the digital dust is settling, consider taking a component video switching approach. Three discrete, HD analog RGB signals can be run down some high quality coax for little more than the cost of the wire. |
Home Theater
June 2003
Mike Wood |
HD DirecTV Tuners Samsung SIR-TS160, Zenith HD-SAT520, and Sony SAT-HD200 HD DirecTV Tuners: Connect to the future of digital TV. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006 |
Laptop Output to HDTV Get your laptop screen to display on your HDTV with HDMI input. |
Home Theater
May 2005
Adrienne Maxwell |
Sony DVP-NS975V DVD/SACD Player Sony's DVP-NS975V is very easy to set up and use, and provides good performance through both the component and HDMI outputs. |
Home Theater
May 29, 2009 |
HDMI 1.4 Spec Unveiled HDMI 1.4 is here, with the release of a new specification by HDMI Licensing LLC, the consortium led by Silicon Image. Should you care? Here are some highlights of the new standard. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2006
Joel Johnson |
Tech Clinic Expert Q & A Recording songs with a portable satellite radios that also play MP3s... Setting up multiple computer screens... Understanding a digital camera's image stabilization technology... About that Apple virus... etc. |
Home Theater
September 29, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Studios Repeat HDTV-Crippling Demand The movie studios and their trade association are lobbying the Federal Communications Commission for power to cripple the component video interface - the only one available on millions of early-generation HDTVs. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007
Robert Heron |
Buying Guide: Flat Panel HDTVs The only thing worse than being unable to attend a favorite sporting event in person is knowing that the event is being broadcast in high definition and that your current TV won't do it justice. |
Home Theater
March 2006
Adrienne Maxwell |
Toshiba 32HLX95 LCD HDTV In all, the 32HLX95 is a versatile LCD that can accommodate a variety of audio/video systems, lighting conditions, and spatial needs, although it's best suited for someone looking for an all-in-one solution. |
Home Theater
August 18, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
HDMI Gets a Boost Tributaries Cable is bringing out the new HX100 HDMI Restorer that aims to maintain the full performance of high-definition video over HDMI cable. |
Home Theater
May 2006
Adrienne Maxwell |
Westinghouse LVM-42w2 LCD HD Monitor Regardless of where your loyalties lie, it's difficult not to be impressed by the LVM-42w2's performance. |
PC Magazine
May 30, 2007
Anne Louise Bannon |
Kiss Those Cables Goodbye? Organize your desk, remove clutter from your office, even stream video wirelessly! New technologies promise the moon, but when will they deliver? |
Home Theater
February 2006
Chris Chiarella |
Samsung DVD-HD950 HDTV-Compatible DVD Player For those of us who simply cannot wait to watch prerecorded movies in 720p/1080i via HDMI/DVI, the DVD-HD950 offers some tangible benefits and interesting little options, although it is not without its limitations. |
Home Theater
February 2007
Chris Chiarella |
Denon DVD-1930CI Disc Player This player manages to deliver those key features that would max out the quality of standard DVD, while keeping SACD and DVD-Audio alive and well, too. |
AskMen.com
January 14, 2003
Peter Richmond |
HDTV: Coming Soon To Your Living Room Governments around the world are forcing broadcasters to convert to both digital and high-definition pictures simultaneously. Broadcasters will have to squeeze more picture detail into the same bandwidth they were using for analog television. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006 |
Converting Audio in Audiovisual Files Conversion of analog videotape to digital format to be stored as a file in on a computer using analog 8mm video camera and a capture device to the PC. Video converts, but audio does not. |
PC Magazine
December 17, 2008
John R. Delaney |
ViewSonic N2201w The ViewSonic N2201w is a versatile hybrid HDTV/Monitor featuring a built-in DVD player and an assortment of multimedia connections. |
PC World
January 23, 2007
Stephen Manes |
Home-Theater Setup: It's Goofy! When Disney turns to cartoons to explain how to install the most complicated electronics system in your house, you can expect a fantasia. |
Home Theater
October 2007
Kim Wilson |
Pioneer Elite VSX-91TXH AV Receiver The Pioneer Elite VSX-91TXH AV receiver is a a worthy choice for any small to moderate sized home theater. |
