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Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Friday, 24th February 2006 @ 11:43 PM

If you are in the market for a HDTV you probably are somewhat confused by all of the terminology used in the industry, but actually it doesn't take too long to learn your way around, and be an educated television consumer. When looking for a HDTV, you will no doubt run into a couple of terms that you will need to understand very well. You will see a TV labeled as "HDTV Enabled", and then you may see others labeled "HDTV Ready" or "HDTV Integrated". There is no... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Friday, 24th February 2006 @ 11:04 PM

There are so many acronyms used in defining television technology that is difficult to keep it all straight, and even worse, sometimes the acronyms are almost the same. That's the case with DTV and HDTV. At first glance they would seem to be very similar, and yes they are definitely related, but there are also significant differences as well. DTV stands for Digital TV, and HDTV stands for High Definition TV. To understand DTV, you have to go back before cable and satellite TV to the ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Friday, 24th February 2006 @ 7:55 PM

OK, so you have your brand new HDTV or are seriously thinking about getting one soon. That's a great decision because this new television technology is going to quickly become the standard for broadcasting television signals. In fact by 2007 all television broadcasting will have switched over to digital format under the direction of the FCC, and that paves the way for high definition television to become the accepted norm. So how do you actually get the HDTV signal then? Well, there ... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Friday, 24th February 2006 @ 7:14 PM

Who wants to go shopping for something that they really don't know anything about? Or who wants to feel at the mercy of a salesperson who rattles on with all the technical terms that sound like a language from another planet? It's no wonder that lots of people feel intimidated by shopping for electronics products and especially is that true of television sets. Let's start with HDTV. You hear about it all the time now, but just what is it? The simple version is that it stand... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Friday, 24th February 2006 @ 6:47 PM

As with so many questions in life the answer to whether you neeed to buy a HDTV now or wait longer, is that it depends. It depends on your own viewing habits and how much television you like to watch. It also depends on how much you can afford to spend. Currently, you can view pretty much all television programming with analog TV sets, but the FCC has made it necessary for all television broadcasting companies to switch over to being able to send their TV signals in HDTV format by 2007, a... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Monday, 20th February 2006 @ 7:32 PM

Home theater is a rapidly growing segment of the home entertainment field. The term is often used, but you may not really know what it means. Don't feel bad as there are plenty of terms and acronyms used in the electronics field that you won't find anywhere else, and the technical afficianados are the only ones who seem to be able to keep it all stratight, and sometimes it's a challenge for them as well. Basically, a home theater is created when you upgrade the audio and vi... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Sunday, 19th February 2006 @ 6:25 AM

In the field of television broadcasting there are plenty of acronyms to go around and it all can all be very confusing. One of the most common terms you will read about and hear is "HDTV". A lot of people use that term in articles and at the consumer electronics stores and assume that everyuone knows exactly what they are talking about. But plenty of us are not tech-heads that know all the latest jargon in the electronics world, so let's go over just what HDTV is and what it means f... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Sunday, 19th February 2006 @ 3:55 AM

For so many years television viewing renmained essentailly unchanged. The TV sets may have gotten bigger but the resolution was the same and the signal itself could only carry so much audio and video information. In fact, mnay argue that the only major change in television since it's inception was the advent of color TV as opposed to just black and white. But all of that is changing significantly and rapidly in the next few years. With the introduction of the HDTV standard, everythin... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @ Sunday, 19th February 2006 @ 3:06 AM

HDTV is a vastly improved method of broadcasting television shows and watching entertainment media. It is a byproduct of the digital age in electronics. By converting the picture and sound in digital format, great improvements have been made in the quality of the viewing experience in recent years. We are now able to watch digitally produced movies and programs by DVD and enjoy a much richer picture quality and sound that can even begin to rival movie theaters, however on a much smaller scale.more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Albert Medinas @

Have you ever noticed how satellite TV subscribers seem to live in groups? Really…take a look at a subdivision, and notice how 5-6 dish owners all live next to one another - it’s like some sort of weird cult when you think about it! I have seen entire subdivisions go “the way of the dish” in a few short months. So why does this “grouping” phenomenon seem to happen with satellite TV? There aren’t any doctoral theses on the subject, but I would like to offer an educated guess: Basically,... more...

Recreation and Leisure » Entertainment » Television | By Jim Johnson @

The technology of television has continued to advance through the years too and these days there are more choices and decisions to be made when buying a tv than ever before. Some of the terms can be confusing too, but take heart, there is really only a few basic things to keep in mind in order to make a well-informed buying decision. Most older tv sets made use of analog technology that only allows so much data transfer of picture and sound at one time. So that meant that television progr... more...