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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 28, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Will Hollywood Break the Window? Early VOD will be costly to consumers and offensive to theater owners. |
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
July 25, 2008 |
Hollywood TV Sabotage Opposed Public Knowledge and a half-dozen other consumer groups are leading the charge against selectable output control, Hollywood's attempt to deny signals to the component video inputs on early (in fact, all) high-definition TVs. |
Home Theater
March 25, 2009 |
iTunes Goes HD for Movies Apple has started selling and renting high-def movies through iTunes. |
PC World
November 20, 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
Gotcha: PlayStation 3's High-Def Tools Are MIA Some essential components for obtaining optimum performance from your brand-new PS3 do not come bundled with the console. |
Home Theater
January 28, 2009 |
HDTVs Abundant, HDTV Not First the good news: More than 39 million U.S. households have HDTVs. Now the bad news: Only 22 million of them have a source of high-def programming, leaving the other 17 million out in the standard-def cold. |
Home Theater
February 8, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Cable Ops Unveil Same-Day DVD Movie Schemes Two cable systems are trying new methods of movie distribution in an attempt to achieve same-day parity with DVD release and on-air broadcast dates. |
Home Theater
January 16, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
Apple to Do High-Def Download Rentals Yesterday's raft of Apple announcements included the company's entry into high-def movie downloads and deals with several major studios. |
Home Theater
September 15, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
HDMI's HDCP Hacked The digital rights management scheme that protects HDMI inputs has been undermined with the recent revelation of a master key that unlocks HDCP. |
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
May 1, 2007 |
Vudu to Offer Instant Movies Vudu is offering an Internet-connected set-top download box that starts a movie as soon as you press the play button. |
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... |
PC World
May 2004
Dan Tynan |
Whose TV Is It, Anyway? Hollywood wants to control how you use digital TV. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Craig Mazin |
Mr. Tech: Maximize Your HD Experience Here's a brief primer on HDTV technology. |
Home Theater
June 18, 2007 |
Blockbuster Says No to HD DVD Blockbuster Entertainment has picked a winner in the in the struggle of the high-def discs, choosing Blu-ray over HD DVD. Could this be the decisive moment in the format war? |
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. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
John C. Dvorak |
The Sony Blu-ray Debacle Sony has problems heading their way with their PS3, Blu-Ray DVD players, and their early model HD TVs... Hybrid hard disks... Mini turbine engines powering your laptop... |
PC Magazine
November 15, 2006
Robert Heron |
HDTV: The Time Is Now All your friends have them, and you want one, too. But how do you go about buying and setting up the right HDTV? It's really not as hard as you might think. Just relax and read on. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2005 |
New Avenues for Netflix? Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sat down for a conversation to discuss the company's past, present, and future. This is the second of four parts. |
Home Theater
April 30, 2008 |
Paramount Resumes Blu Releases "Bee Movie" will make its high-def debut on Blu-ray on May 20, one of several titles in Paramount's interrupted but now resumed Blu program. |
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. |
| AskMen.com |
6 HDTV-Friendly A/V Receivers Receivers designed to maximize the high-definition digital power of your system. Onkyo TX-NR1000... JVC RX-D702... Yamaha RX-V4600... Sony STR-DA7100ES... Denon AVR-3806... Pioneer VSX-72TXV... |
Home Theater
March 24, 2008 |
Satellite Providers Can Ax Local HD Local stations suffered a setback in the transition to digital television last week when the Federal Communications Commission ruled that satellite providers needn't carry local signals in HD till 2013. |
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. |
PC Magazine
July 5, 2006
Robert Heron |
Samsung BD-P1000 A stylish and capable DVD player that unleashes the full capabilities of the Blu-ray format. Unfortunately, the initial Blu-ray titles are a reminder that there are lots of older films that need some TLC before they will look great in HD. |
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 Theater
August 11, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Netflix Approaches Pay-TV Window Netflix has signed an unusual agreement that will let it stream titles from three major studios three months after cable and satellite providers get them. |
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
April 2006
Dan Tynan |
High-Def Discs Battle for Your Bucks Should you buy a new HD disc player? Probably, but not anytime soon. |
Home Toys
April 2006 |
HDCP Is Doom Upon Us? Go On, Read It! There is a lot of confusion surrounding HDCP -- copy protection for HD. People who own content don't want you making a free digital copy of something they had to pay out a ton of dough to bring you in the first place. But let's face it: where there's a will there's a way. |
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. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Don Labriola |
Battle of the New DVDs Next-generation DVD technology has finally arrived. But which format will work better for you: Blu-ray or HD DVD? |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2007
Robert Heron |
Toshiba HD-XA2 The HD-XA2 improves upon its predecessor in almost every way, yet regular DVD videos still exhibit too many jagged edges... Toshiba HD-A1... Samsung BD-P1000... |
PC World
March 27, 2007
Jacobi et al. |
High-Def Video Superguide Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are here. Who makes the best next-generation movie player? |
Home Theater
October 2006
Geoffrey Morrison |
Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player Blu-ray's first appearance will hopefully be remembered as its weakest hour or, with any luck, forgotten completely. HD DVD is half the price and looks a lot better -- at least for now. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Double Dose Of Bad News For HD DVD Best Buy and Netflix have turned their back on HD DVD. |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Lowry & Grover |
Cable Fights For Its Movie Rights Video-on-demand's reach is expanding, and the cable biz wants to show films sooner. |
PC World
July 26, 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
An Elegant Player for High-Def Movies Samsung's Blu-ray DVD player proves to be well-crafted but pricey. |
The Motley Fool
October 7, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Reasons Why Comcast's $60 Movies Will Fail The cable giant is testing on-demand rentals of nearly first-run features. |
Home Theater
September 20, 2007 |
New DVD Format Coming, Shoot Us Please HD DVD and Blu-ray will get some competition next month when New Media Enterprises drops its first red-laser-driven HD VMD players and titles on an unsuspecting world. |
Home Theater
August 1, 2008
Mark Fleischmann |
LG to Launch Streaming Blu-ray Player Should movies be consumed on disc or via the internet? You can have both options with LG's BD300 Blu-ray player. |
PC World
February 25, 2008
Yardena Arar |
For True High-Def Movies, Discs Are Best--for Now Services for downloading or streaming movies sound great, but not if you're looking for 1080p HDTV content. |
Home Theater
December 9, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal to Sell BD/DVD Combo Discs Universal Studios Home Entertainment will begin selling double-sided discs, with Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other. |
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. |
PC World
July 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
DVD Goes High-Def High-definition DVD products are here, but consumers still face a thorny dilemma as two incompatible formats battle for their dollars. |
Information Today
March 24, 2015 |
Disney Movies Are Now Streaming via hoopla digital hoopla digital made a content licensing agreement with The Walt Disney Studios to bring 100 movies to participating public libraries in the U.S. and Canada. |
