All Posts Tagged With: "hdtv"
Hitachi 50
Hitachi has unveiled one of the thinnest plasma displays yet. In fact, it’s amazing how thin it really is, talk about taking up hardly any room in the living room.
According to Hitachi, its engineering group considers the architecture of the 1.5 inch TVs to be one of their great achievements in the last few years, and at a quick glance, it rivals some of the best TVs from Samsung and LG. The colors looked full, with detailed shading, and the frame rate was pretty good.
With an expected price range between $4000 and $5000 I’m not sure it’ll be gracing my wall either. Thin is nice, but come on, sub $1000 LCD’s with pictures that are just as nice are a dime a dozen nowadays and trust me, my Lasik shattered eyeballs probably couldn’t tell the difference in picture qualities anyway.
via: Wired
Mitsubishi 65-inch LaserVue Rear Projection 1080p HDTV
Wow! This new Mitsubishi HDTV looks sah-weet! It’d look sweeter though if it were sitting in my living room. That’s probably not going to happen though because it’s going to be priced just a tick out of my range, only $7,000. Laser beams might make that much of a difference in picture quality but damn, that’s just a bit too steep. Oh well, maybe somebody will let me test drive one.. yeah, there’s an idea. Come on, any takers… lol
HDTV Gas Is Hazardous To Your Health
I thought this was interesting, especially considering how “green” the world wants to be nowadays. You know that flat-panel LCD you’ve got sitting in the living room? Well, apparently every time you sit down in front of it your slowly killing yourself. LCD’s use a gas called Nitrogen Triflouride and when this gas is inhaled is extremely harmful to the liver and kidneys. When released into the environment is about 17,200 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.
And you didn’t believe your mum when she told you sitting in front of the TV you would slowly waste away.
via: SlashGear
Make Your TV A Better TV With SpyderTV
This gadget form Colorvision, the makers of Colorvision Spyder2 for the PC and Mac promises to give your widescreen or HDTV improved visual performance and detail. A simple tool for assisting with managing the complicated calibration menus that are found in todays high end televisions. SypderTV uses an electronic eye to make scientific measurements to help determine the best settings to improve your overall viewing experience and satisfaction.
This thing is amazing.. My Plasma is like a whole new tv.. My 60″ Sony SXRD paired with a PS3 is the best looking picture I have ever seen, after using the STV100. This is a must have. –Amazon.com Customer
Thanks for the HDTV headache Santa
So how many people got up Christmas morning to find brand new HDTV’s waiting for them? If your like many out there, you rose to find the jolly ole fat man left you with a nice surprise and ushered your living room into the digital era, leaving you an LCD, Plasma, DLP or some other form of digital television. If your like many of those people, you found out Santa has a jolly ole sense of humor. After rushing the kids through opening packages, racing to make the rounds to various family, scarfing down dried up turkey and fixings, you head off to the living room to embark on this adventure so many of your coworkers brag about experiencing. Only to find hours later, your old television set looked better.
In previous years, whenever we got a new television it was a simple thing to plug them in and turn them on. At most you had to adjust the antenna or maybe wait for the cable company to come by but there was very little effort on your part. That’s no longer true. No longer can you simply plug the set in an expect it to work, now you have to have HD service to go along with that HD set.
DirecTV HR20-700 HD DVR: Reviewed
Finally! After months of waiting, DirecTV called me about a week ago to let me know the long awaited HD-DVR was available. They installed this puppy today. I’ve mostly kept up with the forum talk about there about this receiver and I read the review done of the set back in August and honestly, I can’t find reason why I wouldn’t get this. Other than the $299 price tag of course. Bah! It’s HD, it’s worth it. Isn’t it?
Anyway, since hoping on the HD bandwagon a couple of years ago I’ve suffered through a dual setup that included a DirecTV-Tivo and a DirecTV RCA HD Receiver (no DVR). Yuk!!! Since darn near everything I watch nowadays is recorded, it sucks not being able to watch those shows in HD. I mean, why have all this equipment if you can’t right? So the day has finally arrived and I’m pretty pleased with what I’ve got.
Olevia 232V LCD HDTV Review
I managed to nab this gem from Circuit City over the Thanksgiving weekend. Regularly $899 CC had put it on sale for $499, and the reviews on the web were pretty upbeat, all things considered. Alas, I missed it on Friday but one of the stores here in Charlotte happened to find eight of them in a corner of their warehouse Saturday morning and they were listed on the CC website for $499. Trying not to get pulled over by Charlotte’s finest, I zipped to the store and snagged one of two remaining units. While there, we were told the price had been reset to $899 but the store honored the $499 price, we did call first to make sure they had them.Anyway, I finally got around to getting it hooked up and I must say, it’s much more than I expected. I realize that if compared to a new Sony or some other top of the line model the Olevia 232V might seem lacking, but for a bedroom tv, it was a great bargain. In fact, it would go a long way as a primary tv in an apartment or for the new homeowner that would like to get and LCD HDTV but just doesn’t have a couple grand to fork over right now.
