Archive for HD

When 1080p is just not enough

HDPublished January 25, 2008 at 1:23 pm No Comments

As some of you know, I am an HD gear nut. I have a couple in my home with decent mid-range gear. But when you just want the highest possible resolution, you have to go to the NHK team and see what they have cooked up. I know this news is a bit old but
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OTA and still going strong

HDPublished January 19, 2008 at 7:37 pm No Comments

See, I am not the only one that is going to stay exclusively with OTA after February of 2009. It seems those Americans who watch only over the air tv will most likely stay that way after the digital cut over. The reason why I do this is for the quality. Dish and cable companies
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HD Stream will be weak

HDPublished January 19, 2008 at 6:47 pm No Comments

Enjoying uncompressed PCM audio and incredible image quality from Blu-Ray discs, I wonder how Apple, Microsoft and others can stream any HD movie and keep fidelity and image saturation up with such low bandwidth requirements. We just do not have the bandwidth from source to target to reproduce this type of experience. All this talk
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Whoa HD-DVD is really rattled (CES)

HDPublished January 5, 2008 at 4:22 pm No Comments

It seems the move Warner Bros made to go Blu-Ray exclusively shocked the HD-DVD camp so much that they canceled their pre-CES press conference. This does not mean that HD-DVD has lost the format war or raising the white flag. It does mean that Blu-Ray now have exclusive access to nearly 70% of all movies
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Cable and Satellite free does has it’s advantages

HDPublished January 3, 2008 at 11:53 am No Comments

Since I do not subscribe to cable or satellite and get all my programing over-the-air, or OTA, it seems I qualify for two $40 coupons to help me purchase digital converter boxes for my non-HD televisions.  This is great for folks like me that do not want to be locked into cable or satellite.  If
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