All right, all this talk about progressive scan broke me down. Recently, I picked up a Samsung TXM3096WHF TV and upgraded to a Toshiba SD-5700 DVD player all for the purpose of checking out ...
The human race has always been forced to learn new terminology when technology changes. That’s especially true when we’re forced to go out and spend hard-earned money on new gear. But I can’t think of ...
This article discusses the respective streaming quality produced by interlaced and deinterlaced source videos. Before I started this article, I knew two things for sure. The first was that if you’re ...
Video frame rates would seem to be a static subject frozen in the various International Television Union (ITU) and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers standards (SMPTE). However, ...
Many years ago, a team of engineers in England worked on what was then called high-definition television. It had 405 horizontal scan lines and was monochrome only. It offered high definition compared ...
November 25, 2008-- Imagination Technologies, a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP), announces POWERVR I2P261 and I2P280 de-interlacers. These latest versions of Imagination's ...
Is there a big difference between 1080 and 768 resolutions for LCD TVs? I am trying to decide between two Sony TVs -- the KDL-40X2000 and the KDL-40V2000. I was told that the key is to find out if the ...
Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...
I have the BBC Natural History collection (Planet Earth, Wild China, Galápagos, and Ganges) on Blu-Ray. I used MakeMKV to rip all the discs, then Handbrake to make Apple TV-friendly copies of Planet ...