Tag archive: high definition tv

Audio and Video gear maker JVC today announced its DLA-HD1 home threater projector, offering full HD capability and a 15,000-to-1 contrast ratio which—as of today, anyway—is the highest in the industry. “High definition TV content is now widely available and a growing number of consumers are ready to move up to screen sizes that only a front projector system can provide,” explained Mike Holmes, VP of JVC… Read More

Whenever there is a merger like this, many of us get interested in the back story. I was able to speak to executives from both firms and an interesting story emerged on why they want to do this. For HP: Margin, Leadership, Advocacy, and Image The performance gaming market is unique, while the regular PC market is largely commoditized now with razor thin margins. The performance side enjoys much stronger margins more in line with where the… Read More

Satellite TV service DISH Network yesterday announced they were launching new high definition TV channels in the Los Angeles area market, as well as new satellite receivers designed to accommodate their growing HD customer base. DISH Network said they will offer four different programming packages to choose from. This coincides with the company announcing they are also expanding their HD channel lineup during the year by adding five new… Read More

Nearly one-quarter of respondents – 24 percent – said that a high-definition TV, flat-panel TV with LCD display, rear-projection TV or plasma TVs is the high-tech “toy” they'd most like to receive this year. The next most popular choices were digital cameras (15.6 percent), MP3 or other digital music players (11.8 percent) and wireless home networks (10.6 percent). Other wish-list products that made the… Read More

“SBC Communications plans to offer IP (Internet Protocol) TV over a fiber-based network by the end of next year, the carrier says. The fiber network will reach 18 million potential customers by the end of 2007 and will be able to deliver to a household four simultaneous streams of TV, including high-definition TV, in addition to IP-based data and voice services, the company says.” Several companies such as Akimbo… Read More

The three versions will be called Xbox Next, Xbox Next HD, and Xbox Next PC. “The standard Xbox Next will not include a hard drive, which will allow Microsoft to cut costs on this basic unit. Xbox Next HD, as you might imagine, does include a hard drive and will offer increased functionality based on this. Xbox Next PC is, according to the presentation, an entry-level PC that runs Windows and all standard PC software. It also… Read More

“Fox is also part of a group that is endorsing a rival technology called HD-DVD, which is being pushed by Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. Both formats promise increased storage capacity and movie resolution high enough to get the most out of high-definition TV sets. Fox technology expert Michael O'Neill said the company was not ready to put its films, television shows and other content on Blu-ray discs. “ It… Read More

From Sharp's press release: Sharp Electronics showcases the world's largest widescreen Liquid Crystal HDTV today at InfoComm 2004. With sales scheduled to begin early this summer, the new AQUOS 45-inch LC-45G1U is part of Sharp's rapidly-expanding family of ultra large-screen, elegantly-designed flat-panel TVs. Sharp's AQUOS collection offers consumers the widest choice of screen sizes, speaker placement and unit… Read More

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Quote from the article: “Next time your neighbor starts bragging about his snazzy high-definition plasma screen, just smile to yourself. Chances are, Mr. Sophisticated has just paid a lot of money to watch the same old picture blown up to a bigger size. If he's like most high-definition TV set owners, he doesn't really have high-def programming on the screen. Less than one in four owners of HDTV sets actually subscribe… Read More

And later this year, subscribers may have another reason to dump Voom as it shifts to a bigger home satellite dish, nearly twice as wide, requiring the dishes installed so far to be replaced. The startup problems are revealed in a document Cablevision filed this week with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the planned spinoff of Voom into a separate company. Although Cablevision executives expected a turbulent shakedown period for… Read More

New details of Infinium Labs' plans for the Phantom Game Service have emerged, with company president Kevin Bachus revealing that the Phantom console will effectively be free, and providing the first pictures of the hardware itself. Describing the pricing decision as “something we had to do,” Bachus told US website GameDaily that the hardware would be provided free of charge to consumers who sign up for the Phantom Gaming… Read More

From a story at Wired News. Several of the new, more robust high-definition DVRs will sport 250-GB hard drives — enough room to store 30 hours of high-definition programming or about 200 hours of standard broadcast. The beefier hard drives are necessary because signals for high-definition TV, or HDTV, carry far more information per frame than standard TV. For example, one HDTV standard in the United States (1080i) calls… Read More

The availability of IEEE 1394b devices enables much greater distances and higher performance for home networking and entertainment applications such as whole house video and audio. The plug-and-play,quality of service and other ease-of-use features inherent to FireWire provide consumers with a user-friendly home entertainment networking system. “People are spending more time in their homes enjoying video games, DVDs, High Definition TV and… Read More

Their content includes digital standard-definition TV (SDTV) and high-definition TV (HDTV) programs. DirecTV and rival Dish Network, for example, deliver 5.1 through their SD pay-per-view channels, and they deliver 5.1 SD content provided by HBO, Showtime and Starz!. As of last November, HBO had announced plans to broadcast at least two series (including “The Sopranos”) and 31 movies in 5.1-channel SD during the 2002-2003 season,… Read More