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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.   |
Home Theater
May 20, 2008 |
HD VOD May Upstage Blu-ray Video on demand may deliver the high-def goods to homes before Blu-ray discs even make it into stores. |
PC World
May 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
Gotcha! Where's My HD Picture? Having an HD DVD player doesn't guarantee that you'll get full, high-definition output from it. |
Home Theater
May 20, 2010 |
FCC Unleashes Selectable Output Control The Federal Communications Commission has caved in to the movie industry's demand to disable the component video interface on high-def devices, but the studios can use this so-called selectable output control only under very specific circumstances, to protect fresh video on demand titles. |
PC World
May 2004
Dan Tynan |
Whose TV Is It, Anyway? Hollywood wants to control how you use digital TV. |
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. |
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. |
PC World
May 2003
Anne Kandra |
Consumer Watch: Is It Time for a High-Definition TV? Your next monitor could double as a sophisticated entertainment device. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2008
Rob Sabin |
Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense. |
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. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Television's Digital Dilemma If the struggle over digital television in the U.S. were made into a TV show, it would be a tale of intrigue, backstabbing and hidden motives. |
Home Theater
September 12, 2003
Gary Merson |
FCC Approves "Plug'n'Play" The "plug and play" agreement will allow consumers to connect digital televisions directly into cable systems, without a set-top-box. |
Home Theater
September 2001
Mike Wood |
Home Theater Boot Camp: Receiving HDTV A three-step guide to receiving HDTV signals... |
Home Theater
October 2001
Kevin Miller |
Switching Hits How do you get both the 480p signal from the progressive-scan DVD player and the component video HD signal from your set-top box into your TV at the same time? A component video switcher is the answer... |
Home Theater
October 18, 2004
Darryl Wilkinson |
Digital Cable High-Def Ready Recorders Record up to sixty hours of HD with Sony's new Digital Cable Ready recorders, the DHG-HDD250 and DHG-HDD500. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2007
Morgan Housel |
Best Buy Gives Analog the Boot The retailer becomes the first to pull the plug on analog TVs. |
BusinessWeek
January 23, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Analog TV: Fade To Black On Feb. 17, 2009 Congress will decree that broadcasters must end analog transmissions on that date and switch to the digital technology they have been phasing in for several years. If you are planning to buy a television, make sure it's digital-ready. |
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. |
Home Theater
August 27, 2007 |
Free Analog Cable Service Urged A coalition of small cable operators is urging Congress to let them provide free analog cable service following the switchover to digital television broadcasting. |
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 World
May 2004
Yardena Arar |
HDTV Answer Guide Ready for next-generation television? Before you take the high-definition high dive, read this guide to the services, the sets, and more. |
AskMen.com
March 13, 2001
Peter Richmond |
Buying The Best Home Theater If you're going to buy a home theater system, do it right the first time. Is it really worth the expense and trouble of shopping around? Yes... |
BusinessWeek
January 26, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Buying The Right HDTV (Part One) Caveat emptor: All high-definition TVs are not created equal |
Home Theater
February 22, 2007
Darryl Wilkinson |
High Def for the Analog Set For those who can't sleep at night worrying about the impending analog TV cutoff on February 17th, 2009, the AV Tool ATSC-100 HDTV Off-Air Receiver might be better than an Ambien or a Lunesta. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2006
von Lohmann & Seltzer |
Death by DMCA A flood of legislation released by the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole classes of consumer electronics. |
Home Theater
August 17, 2001 |
Panasonic Gets Real with $2.1K HD Rear Projector The entry fee to widescreen high-def video keeps dropping, thanks to companies like Panasonic. On August 8, the electronics giant raised the stakes in the HDTV race by introducing its new 47-inch, 16:9 widescreen HDTV rear-projection monitor, at a suggested price of $2,099.95... |
Home Theater
March 26, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
HDTV Tuning for the Masses Can two hundred bucks really buy you high-definition happiness? |
Home Theater
March 2002
Mike McGann |
Get Plugged In The ins and outs of A/V connections... |
PC World
August 2006
Yardena Arar |
HDTV: Is Now the Best Time to Buy? Deciding when to move to high-definition TV involves more than just the set. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Robert Heron |
Expert View: Big Screens Don't Always Mean HDTV The most insidious problem is the fact that all video on TV is highly compressed. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Cliff Edwards |
Interactive TV: What's In The Cards? It's electronics companies vs. the cable giants in a battle over digital services |
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. |
Reason
April 2003
Mike Godwin |
Prisoners of Digital Television A misadventure in high-tech regulatory policy -- and a Harry Potter Fix. |
PC World
February 2005
Tom Spring |
The (Movie) Empire Strikes Back Spooked by powerful PCs and broadband pipes that make it ever easier to copy and share films, the movie industry is expanding its legal and legislative offensive against perceived threats. |
Home Theater
June 11, 2009 |
DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter? |
Home Theater
July 15, 2008 |
Will Tru2Way Succeed? Rocky road is a tasty type of ice cream. It's also the forecast some analysts are making for Tru2Way, the latest attempt to provide the consumer with the holy grail of digital cable readiness. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004 |
HD or Not HD High-definition TVs have become a hot consumer-electronics item, and some good-looking flat-panel HDTVs can now be had for less than $2,000. |
Home Theater
September 14, 2007 |
FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2007
Roy Mark |
FCC Pushes for Competitive Set-Top Market The Federal Communications Commission denies Comcast request for delay in separating security features from set-top digital receivers. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2007 |
Crane Electronics Offers Digital Switch Matrix Family The Electronics Group of Crane Aerospace & Electronics is offering a digital switch matrix family providing switching for high data rate emitter coupled logic signals as fast as 300 megabytes per second, or for the low data rate of RS-422 signals. |
PC Magazine
June 20, 2007
Jennifer L. DeLeo |
Gearlog: Ready Your TV For HD By February 17, 2009, all U.S. TV stations will be required to switch to digital broadcasts. |
Home Theater
October 18, 2007 |
Best Buy Banishes Obsolete TVs Best Buy stopped selling analog sets on October 1, 2007. No longer will confused low-end consumers take home obsolete TVs. A bright new DTV world is dawning. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 28, 2007
Cliff Edwards |
An End Run Around The Set-Top Box CableCARDs bypass a rental box, but the old providers won't give up without a fight. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2006
Joel Johnson |
HDTV Guidebook All you need to know, in plain English, about finding and setting up a great HDTV. |
InternetNews
June 16, 2006
Roy Mark |
Holy Analog Hole, Batman! Hollywood's latest efforts to roll back fair use rights involves technology developed for a cartoon show. Really. |
Home Theater
May 20, 2009 |
FCC to Do 'Soft Test' of DTV Transition Analog TV broadcasts will be interrupted three times on May 21, 2009 with a message heralding the end of analog broadcasting, coming on June 12. |
