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Friday, March 14, 2008 7:08 AM

Audio Not Keeping Up With HD Video?

Here is an interesting read about how the audio in HD TV is not keeping up with the video. People are buying 1080p TV sets. The networks are paying more attention to the quality of their video, but they are not yet doing much with the audio. Many movies
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:34 PM

HD-DVD: 2006 - 2008, R.I.P.

According to reports , Toshiba will soon stop manufacturing HD-DVD equipment. The writing has been on the wall since Time-Warner's January announcement that it would go exclusively to the BluRay format. More recently Netflix and WalMart have announced
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:26 PM

Dynamic Range and Color Spaces

Bill Crow, best known for his work on HDPhoto/JPEG-XR, has a great post about dynamic range and color spaces. If you are into photography or video, understanding this is important. As we try to aggregate video from more and more sources onto varying display
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:37 AM

HD-DVD Wins Over Dreamworks and Paramount

Recently people have begun to declare a victor in the next-gen DVD wars. Because of the PS3, the number of BluRay players on the market are higher than the number of HD-DVD players and thus sales of BluRay discs are higher than HD-DVD players. From what
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Friday, May 18, 2007 9:01 PM

What's Wrong With HDMI

Interesting article over at Audioholics covering the subject of HDMI and what's wrong with it. They bring up the legacy of DVI which has a confusing number of options and doesn't handle distance runs well. "Most computer displays are mounted at most a
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Friday, May 04, 2007 4:59 PM

Video Acceleration By The Numbers

Here's an interesting article from AnandTech talking about the new GeForce 8600's video acceleration features. It features H.264 acceleration. The article analyzes the performance win from doing acceleration in hardware. It also gives some statistics
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Friday, April 27, 2007 9:42 PM

Real Numbers In the Next-Gen DVD Battle

Finally some real numbers showing how the two sides compare. In the first quarter, BluRay sold 830,000 titles and HD-DVD sold 335,000 according to Home Media Magazine. Those numbers look pretty bleak for HD-DVD but they are both so small in the overall
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:41 PM

How Much Better Is High Definition Video?

Moving to HD is expensive. You have to buy a new TV, new DVD player, and possibly a new receiver. If you've ever wondered if HD-DVD (or BluRay) is worth it, this demo I found may be interesting. These are a series of pictures taken from the DVD and the
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:16 AM

Windows Media for Firefox Users

Microsoft just released a Windows Media Player plugin for Firefox. This will allow people who use firefox to view web videos being broadcast in WMV format. I'm not actually a firefox guy but I know many that are. This is a cool development.
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Friday, April 06, 2007 11:24 AM

Yet Another Way To Connect Your PC and Your Screen

First it was VGA , then DVI , then HDMI , now we add DisplayPort . Engadget is reporting that DisplayPort was just ratified by VESA. DisplayPort is apparently compatible with DVI which is also compatible with HDMI. Why do we need yet another connector?
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Monday, March 12, 2007 4:28 PM

Why Don't PCs Have Hardware Video Decoders?

Robert X. Cringely speculates in his latest column that Apple may soon be adding H.264 hardware decoding and encoding to its Macintosh line. Cringely is wrong more often than he is right so the truth of this rumor is unknown. I'm sure someone at Apple
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 10:22 AM

Microsoft Announces HD-Photo

Once known as Windows Media Photo, Microsoft just released a new photo format called HD-Photo. Bill Crow has a good writeup on the benefits of the new format. Basically it allows for high-fidelity photo editing and storage. While those of us in the normal
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:40 PM

Display Adapters Demystified

The world of display adapter types is an alphabet soup of options today. HDMI, DVI, VGA, UDI, DisplayPort? Which will become the standard in the next few years? HDMI looks like a sure bet in the consumer electronics space but it is failing to make inroads
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 10:23 PM

The Sorry State of HD Television

I attended a Superbowl viewing party at a friend's house today. No, the screen wasn't larger than 55" so the NFL doesn't need to worry. I don't happen to have an HDTV at home yet so this is one of the few times I've seen the programming. What I saw doesn't
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:54 PM

HD-DVD Looks Better Than BluRay

I was in Circuit City the other day and they had a beautiful Sony SXRD television set up playing some BluRay content. I thought I was going to be blown away. I wasn't. The disc playing was a demo disc featuring snippets of lots of movies. Each one was
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