HDTV Review Guides

(5 reviews) Samsung LN-S4052D 40" Wide LCD HDTV with Integrated Tuner - $1,799.99

Tomorrow I will post the top 5 Plasma HDTVs according to HDTV Magazine

LCoS TV Display

noreply@blogger.com (NateH) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:42:00 +0000

HDTV Guides Edition 6 - LCoS HDTV Display

Today we briefly talk about the LCoS TV Display basics.

The LCoS architecture borrows from DLP TV displays, which uses microscopic mirrors to direct light. Similar to projection, direct view and LCD TVs, LCoS uses tiny liquid crystals to create the colored pixels that make up the TV’s onscreen display. In an LCoS system, the crystal layer sits on top of a reflective mirror substrate. Instead of shining a backlight directly through the LCD layer, light is bounced off the mirror behind the liquid crystal. When an electrical charge is applied to a cell filled with the liquid crystals, the crystal's state is modified to allow or block light – turning the pixel on or off.

Some advantages of LCoS technology:

A) . The matrix lines that separate individual pixels are thinner, eliminating the “screen door” effect of black lines appearing between pixels unlike the LCD TVs on the market today.

B). No moving parts – no pivoting micro-mirrors or spinning color wheels. The color wheels is the culprit behind the “rainbow effect” artifacts that bother some DLP viewers... not me though.

SED Display Guide

noreply@blogger.com (NateH) — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:52:00 +0000

HDTV Guides Edition 5 - SED Display Guides

Surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) technology Developed by Toshiba - co-developed with Canon.

They say that SED Displays have:

"same picture quality as a CRT"
"wall-mounted large-screen TV displays that are only several centimeters thick"
"energy consumption that is roughly one-half that of a large-screen CRT and about one-third that of a plasma display panel"

Some news broadcasts had stated that the SED Displays would be available at low cost but Toshiba is considering its SED display TVs as their high end HDTV line. They claim the SED displays will have the best resolution and contrast ratio and response time.

There are boasts of very high capability of displaying black with contrast ratio's from 8400:1 to 100,000:1

Like conventional CRTs, SEDs use the collision of electrons with a phosphor-coated screen to emit light. Electron emitters, which correspond to an electron gun in a CRT, are distributed in an amount equal to the number of pixels on the display.

Hot Celebs on HDTV

noreply@blogger.com (NateH) — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:16:00 +0000

HDTV hottest Celebrities

Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba should have her own HDTV Guide to looking hot on HDTV. Her skin is so smooth and her lips are luscious.

Eva Longoria
At the HDTV Red Carpet broadcast, Longoria's skin was milky, creamy smooth; deep and inviting eyes Longoria was one hot HDTV treat.

Anna Kournikova
Anna is absolutely gorgeous and she looks even better in high-definition. Her skin is sparkling and also smooth and her eyes are like stars in the night.

Ben Affleck
Again smooth skin is the secret to looking good on HDTV.

Ashton Kutcher
He looks much younger in high definition.

Marcia Cross
At 40 years old and with one of the smoothest complexions ever.
Halle BerryHer skin is moist and smooth in high-def.

Jessica Simpson
She is flawless in High definition. Hottest singer ever, please sir can I have more Jessica Simpson on the HDTV Guides blog?

Nicole Kidman
At low-def.or high-def. At 38, she can still handle a close-up from the highest resolution HDTV camera.

Angelina Jolie
One of the best in high-def, some times she looks good on camera and sometimes not, but on HDTV cameras she looks yummy.

How to play HD DVDs on your HDTV for only 200$

noreply@blogger.com (NateH) — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:33:00 +0000

XBox360 HD DVD Player

Well that is if you already own a HDTV first and if you have your Home Theater PC or a your PC hooked up to your HDTV. If you do have a Media Center PC already hooked up to your HDTV and as long as the hookup is using a at least Component Video,DVI or HDMI from the Media Center PC to the HDTV then your golden. All you need is the XBOX 360 HD DVD drive for 200$. Hook that up via the USB port on your Media Center PC and Windows should detect it,if not you can google the "HD DVD xbox drivers for windows" to find the drivers. All the drivers do is allow Windows to read the HD DVD formatting on the HD DVD movie.

There is one catch, you need to buy the Japanese version of WinDVD platinum 8, other english version of WinDVD will play the HD DVD but not at High Definition quality. Cyberlink will be coming out with their HD DVD Player software early spring, but the Japanese version of WinDVD 8 will play the HD DVD at full High Definition resolution.

Check this discussion for lots of great info about playing the XBOX 360 HD DVD drive on your HTPC and HDTV.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/printthread.php?t=748426&page=8&pp=30

HDTV Standards

noreply@blogger.com (NateH) — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:09:00 +0000

HDTV Standards

Below is a list of the NTSC (National Television System Committee) and the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) standards that produce HDTV programming.

ATSC 16x9(1080i = 1920x1080 interlaced at 60 half-frames/sec); HDTV Stations: HDTV - CBS, NBC.

ATSC 16x9 (720p = 1280x720 progressive at 60 FULL-frames/sec): HDTV Stations: HDTV - ABC,FOX.

Interlaced - Odd numbered horizontal lines are scanned in the frame 1 and even lines are scanned in the next frame.

Progressive - All lines are rendered within the same frame.
A Digital TV is required for progressive scanning.

HDTV and High Definition abbreviations

noreply@blogger.com (NateH) — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:56:00 +0000

HDTV Guides Edition 1 - HDTV and High Definition abbreviations

Today I will start out this HDTV blog with some High Definition abbreviations commonly used for HDTV.

HD - High-Definition
HD-MAC - High-Definition – Multiplexed Analogue Component
1080p/50 - 1080 lines, progressive scan, 50 Hz
720p/50 - 720 lines, progressive scan, 50 Hz
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
DLP - Digital Light Processing.

MC - Multi-Channel
PMC (EBU) - Production-technology Management Committee
SD - Standard-Definition
SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (USA)

BMC (EBU) - Broadcast-technology Management Committee
CCD - Charge-Coupled Device
CMOS - Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
DCT - Discrete Cosine Transform

for information about HDTV abbreviations go to http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/HDTV

Why I am here

noreply@blogger.com (NateH) — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:58:00 +0000

Hello world,

This is my first post relating to everything on HDTV and HDTV Guides. Please stay tuned for great new content. My main site will be http://www.hdtv.fm Iwill be posting lots of great content there as well.