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Home Theater
July 1, 2009 |
Sharp Shows Five-Color LCD Sharp has developed a new five-color LCD that, according to the company, "faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving."   |
Home Theater
June 29, 2009 |
Will Toshiba Support Blu-ray? Toshiba may be contemplating a move into Blu-ray. If it happens, the move would be quite a turnaround for the company that developed Blu-ray's superb competitor HD DVD. |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Next Big Thing in TV Tech Internet apps are coming to your home theater. |
Home Theater
June 24, 2009 |
Blu-ray Gets Online Database If you're a hardcore film buff, you're probably used to looking up information online during or after a movie, when the curiosity bug bites. Thanks to a new BD-Live feature, you won't have to use a computer to do it. |
Home Theater
June 24, 2009 |
Smaller DTVs May See Renewed Focus The outlook for DTVs includes a renewed focus on smaller sets and higher sales for sets with double or quadruple frame rates, which reduce image lag in LCD displays. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2009
Ronald Grover |
TiVo Wants to Be the Google of Television. How? By helping viewers search for programs and by selling ads and ratings data to advertisers. A still-potent brand name and 140 patents should help. |
Home Theater
June 18, 2009 |
DTV Weak? Try Double Rescan Has your television reception survived the DTV transition not quite fully intact? Here are a few tips from the Federal Communications Commission, including one we haven't heard before. |
Home Theater
June 17, 2009 |
Managed Copy Will Be Mandatory in Blu-ray Managed Copy, until now an option in the Blu-ray disc format, will become a requirement next year. |
Home Theater
June 16, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
FCC Gets 900,000 DTV Panic Calls The Federal Communications Commission has fielded more than 900,000 calls since analog television broadcasting was shut down on Friday June 12. |
Home Theater
June 15, 2009 |
1080p Wasted on Most Viewers Many viewers are sitting too far from their HDTVs to enjoy the full resolution of a 1080p display, according to a poll by the good folks at Gizmodo. |
Popular Mechanics
June 8, 2009
Seth Porges |
The Problem With DVD Audio Mixes -- And What To Do About It An audio mix that will fill an auditorium beautifully can present problems for DVD- and Blu-ray-watching home viewers, who typically listen to movies using relatively puny speakers at low volume. |
Home Theater
June 5, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
DTV Transition One Week Away On June 12, 2009, more than half of the nation's television broadcasters will make the final switch to digital signals, shutting off analog forever. |
Home Theater
June 2, 2009 |
LCD Tops Plasma in Large Screen Sizes LCD is selling more in the 40 inches and up categories for the first time. |
Home Theater
June 1, 2009 |
Yahoo Widgets Come to TVs Yahoo's Widgets have been through several generations of development for several platforms. Soon they will be available in HDTVs from Samsung, Sony, LG, and Vizio. |
Home Theater
May 22, 2009 |
FCC Girds for Analog Armageddon The Federal Communications Commission is going into high gear to ensure that the final stage of the DTV transition goes smoothly. |
Home Theater
May 21, 2009 |
Discs Still Preferred to Downloads For all the hooplah over downloads, they still have only three percent of the movies-on-video market. |
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. |
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