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Home Theater
May 20, 2010 |
FCC Unleashes Selectable Output Control The Federal Communications Commission has caved in to the movie industry's demand to disable the component video interface on high-def devices, but the studios can use this so-called selectable output control only under very specific circumstances, to protect fresh video on demand titles.   |
Home Theater
July 25, 2008 |
Hollywood TV Sabotage Opposed Public Knowledge and a half-dozen other consumer groups are leading the charge against selectable output control, Hollywood's attempt to deny signals to the component video inputs on early (in fact, all) high-definition TVs. |
Home Theater
May 20, 2008 |
HD VOD May Upstage Blu-ray Video on demand may deliver the high-def goods to homes before Blu-ray discs even make it into stores. |
PC World
May 2006
Melissa J. Perenson |
Gotcha! Where's My HD Picture? Having an HD DVD player doesn't guarantee that you'll get full, high-definition output from it. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
Connectivity Basics: Quick Guide to TV Video Inputs Here is a quick rundown of the basic inputs available, from lowest in image output quality to the best of the bunch. |
Home Theater
July 11, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Analog Video Be Gone Gefen's new analog-to-digital video scaler takes the VGA output from a single analog video source, such as a computer's analog video output or a DVD player's component video output, and scales it to 1280 x 1024 or 1080i. |
Home Theater
June 19, 2009 |
Down-Res to Plug BD's Analog Hole In a few years, new Blu-ray players will be required to down-res high-def images fed via component video, effectively turning older high-definition TVs into standard-definition TVs. |
PC World
May 2004
Dan Tynan |
Whose TV Is It, Anyway? Hollywood wants to control how you use digital TV. |
Home Toys
April 2004
Michael Weizer |
Connectivity Keeping Up - High-Definition Multimedia Interface The HDMI interface is an all-digital interface, eliminating the signal degradation that occurs in the signal conversion process. It combines both audio and video into a single, compact interface. |
Home Theater
May 28, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Will Hollywood Break the Window? Early VOD will be costly to consumers and offensive to theater owners. |
Home Theater
June 21, 2007 |
CableCARD Cost to Hit Comcast Customers Comcast has become the first cable operator to announce that it will pass on one particular cost of CableCARD-capable boxes to its subscribers. |
Home Theater
July 20, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
FCC Gets CableCARD Comments The FCC entertains suggestions from big cable and other interested parties. |
Home Theater
October 15, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
CEA Applauds New CableCARD Rules Stiffened FCC regs follow years of halfhearted cable compliance. |
Home Theater
August 11, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Netflix Approaches Pay-TV Window Netflix has signed an unusual agreement that will let it stream titles from three major studios three months after cable and satellite providers get them. |
PC World
October 26, 2006
Alan Stafford |
New HDTVs Bring Higher Def, Better Color Increased resolution, new peripherals and connections promise the best TV yet. |
Home Theater
October 2001
Kevin Miller |
Switching Hits How do you get both the 480p signal from the progressive-scan DVD player and the component video HD signal from your set-top box into your TV at the same time? A component video switcher is the answer... |
Home Toys
December 2004 |
A Guide to Digital Video HDMI, as of today, is much less complicated than DVI, although this new technology is backwards compatible. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Glenn Derene |
The Cable Guide: Know Your Computer and TV Wires The different wires that are needed for your home entertainment equipment are listed here. |
Home Theater
September 14, 2007 |
FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog. |
PC Magazine
June 20, 2007
Jennifer L. DeLeo |
Gearlog: Ready Your TV For HD By February 17, 2009, all U.S. TV stations will be required to switch to digital broadcasts. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2008
Rob Sabin |
Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense. |
Home Toys
June 2005
Bob Farinelli |
A Whole House High Definition Experience While the digital dust is settling, consider taking a component video switching approach. Three discrete, HD analog RGB signals can be run down some high quality coax for little more than the cost of the wire. |
PC World
April 23, 2002
Tom Spring |
DVD Copy Controls Head to Court Small software firm challenges digital copyright law, tries to assert the right to backups... |
Home Theater
December 2005
Mark Fleischmann |
Toshiba SD-6980SU Universal Disc Player The Toshiba SD-6980SU is an impressive summation of everything good that's ever entered your system on a disc. |
Home Theater
July 6, 2007 |
Verizon Dodges FCC CableCARD Rules Starting on July 1, all non-broadcast television providers are required under federal law to support the CableCARD standard and storebought cable boxes - with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is Verizon. |
BusinessWeek
April 17, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
HDTV's Digital Disconnect At best, the transition to HDTV was going to be confusing for consumers. But the piracy safeguards embedded in the hardware make it much more complicated. |
Home Theater
May 29, 2008 |
Sony Signs Tru2Way Pact Sony has signed an agreement with six major cable operators to make its products compatible with the new bidirectional, or Tru2Way, CableCARD standard. |
Home Theater
December 8, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
FCC Looks for Life After CableCARD What will be the next medium for digital cable readiness? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Television's Digital Dilemma If the struggle over digital television in the U.S. were made into a TV show, it would be a tale of intrigue, backstabbing and hidden motives. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
David Lee Smith |
Will Studios Nix Cable's Quick Trips for Flicks? Once again, operators want to shrink the time between movies' theatrical and home distribution. |
The Motley Fool
October 22, 2007
Morgan Housel |
Best Buy Gives Analog the Boot The retailer becomes the first to pull the plug on analog TVs. |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Drowning In Remotes? Thank Cable Operators It may be too soon to replace your cable set-top box. |
Home Theater
October 26, 2007 |
FCC Slaps Retailers on Analog TV Labeling The fines are for selling analog televisions without adequately warning consumers that these sets will become obsolete with the end of analog broadcasting on February 17, 2009. |
Home Theater
May 2005
Adrienne Maxwell |
Sony DVP-NS975V DVD/SACD Player Sony's DVP-NS975V is very easy to set up and use, and provides good performance through both the component and HDMI outputs. |
Home Theater
September 12, 2003
Gary Merson |
FCC Approves "Plug'n'Play" The "plug and play" agreement will allow consumers to connect digital televisions directly into cable systems, without a set-top-box. |
Home Theater
November 7, 2008 |
Cable Must Carry Broadcast Channels Following the DTV transition next February, cable systems will be required to carry broadcast channels. |
Home Toys
February 2004
Stuart Lindsay |
Installing Residential Modulators In Homes With Digital Cable Television Most residential modulators have output ranges on the CATV band from Channels 65-135. Since the output of the modulator and the digital cable signals are on the same frequency, they cannot be combined onto the same coaxial cable without interfering with each other. |
Home Toys
December 2004
Brent McCall |
The Hi-Fi Guy -- News, Views & Hyperbole For the first time in A/V history, we have a true one-plug solution: HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) incorporates all the cables that you need to hook up your A/V equipment into a single plug. |
Home Theater
February 2, 2007
Darryl Wilkinson |
Simplify Your HDMI Four new devices from TV One are designed to make life with HDMI a bit easier. |
PC Magazine
May 11, 2004
Loyd Case |
ADS HDUP-1500 HDTV UpConverter The HDUP-1500 is cheaper than the competition and has many features, but image quality may disappoint. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
G. M. Filisko |
FCC Ban Gets Bad Reception The FCC adopted the rule banning exclusive cable contracts to foster increased price competition among cable providers and provide residents of multifamily buildings with more choice. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2007 |
Crane Electronics Offers Digital Switch Matrix Family The Electronics Group of Crane Aerospace & Electronics is offering a digital switch matrix family providing switching for high data rate emitter coupled logic signals as fast as 300 megabytes per second, or for the low data rate of RS-422 signals. |
| AskMen.com |
6 HDTV-Friendly A/V Receivers Receivers designed to maximize the high-definition digital power of your system. Onkyo TX-NR1000... JVC RX-D702... Yamaha RX-V4600... Sony STR-DA7100ES... Denon AVR-3806... Pioneer VSX-72TXV... |
Home Theater
September 1, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Court Knocks FCC Cable Limit Until recently, no single cable operator was allowed to dominate more than 30 percent of the U.S. market. But a court has thrown out the Federal Communications Commission's market cap, eliminating a rule that's been the law of the land since 1992. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Unchained From The Cable Box The FCC is breaking the cable hold on set-top boxes and letting rivals step in. |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2005
Bill Howard |
Your Hi-Def PC PCs are capable of delivering higher-resolution video than cable, satellite, or DVD can offer. So you should think about the just-arriving HDTVs that can display a 1080p signal. |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Grover & Shields |
Why Hollywood Loves the White House Again In contrast to the last Bush White House, the Obama Administration has been responsive to Hollywood's policy agenda. |
InternetNews
April 14, 2008 |
FCC to Look Into Firms' Use of Customer Data Staff at the Federal Communications Commission are expected to recommend that it review rules on how phone and cable companies can use customer information as they try to take business from each other. |
PC World
September 2005
Sean Captain |
The Cable Game Salespeople may tell you that exotic video cables deliver a better picture. But the results of our exclusive lab tests could save you money. |
Home Theater
March 2002
Mike McGann |
Get Plugged In The ins and outs of A/V connections... |
