Over the last few days I have been on forums and chatting with friends about HDTV. Anyone in the market should be aware that just getting HDMI is not enough. According to this article at cnet not all HDMI devices are compatible – nice. It was interesting to read Dvorak’s rant about HDCP in last [...]
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Bright people surround my life, but I am often surprised when conversation steers to HDTV. Many of these otherwise intelligent and technical savvy people make basic mistakes. HDTV is not a ‘core-comptency’ of mine, but I am confident that this is a list of some basics many people get wrong all the time: Video Cables: [...]
This is a public service announcement Tonight I was supposed to see Watts Humphrey speak, but Atlanta traffic put a stop to that! While killing time for rush hour to die down I wandered around a Best Buy and was amazed to see these prices: 42″ ED Plasma $799 50″ 720p Plasma $1499 43″ 1080p [...]
NAS, or Network Attached Storage is finally affordable to use at home. For a few weeks I have been running two $70 Coolmax CN-550 devices: This is an external USB drive with an RJ-45 ethernet port. My devices both have 320GB hard discs and allowed me to dismantle a dedicate file server PC Now we [...]
Just for the record: if anyone is considering a Plasma TV bear in mind that screen burn does happen. When buying mine early this year almost all the press were saying that it barely happened with old models, and is the same a CRT for the latest generation of Plasmas. Well with pretty light use [...]
Last year Scott Hanselman raved about the Harmony 880. I have been using one for three months, and have to say it tamed my fairly complex media set-up. The system was manageable before I cancelled Tivo + premium cable, instead switching to an xbox using xmbc. At this stage using the system effectively required juggling five remotes, and [...]
There is a lot of bad advice going around about hooking up a PC to a Plasma TV + I have seen several people driving their Plasma TV at 800×600 from their PC. Last week I bought an ED Maxent Plasma ($1200) so can finally comment: What I knew people were missing is that most modern [...]
Not that anyone can afford a 1080p TV/ Projector yet, but the media is now available: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-7338215-1038535?index=dvd&field-keywords=WMVHD Microsoft is finally catching up and providing movie trailers, though strangely not using h.264 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provider/film/ContentShowcase.aspx
Boring post I know: Today I used an Acer AL1914 19″ LCD Monitor with a DVI compatible video card (it was purchased for those contracts where contractors are provided whatever hardware was about to be sat on the curb). The difference is night and day – as one may expect you loose controls to set [...]
