Television

Beginning today, New Yorkers will have another cable provider to choose from when Verizon begins offering their service. Verizon Communications, the city’s largest phone company, will start hooking up cable customers for television in parts of 108 neighborhoods across the five boroughs. On July 16, state regulators approved a 12-year franchise for the company to [...]

Hard to Distinguish Multiple Interfaces, or HDMI for short, is quite possibly one of the most difficult to understand standards in the High Defenition era. Ok, ok so HDMI doesn’t stand for “Hard to Distinguish Multiple Interfaces” but it’s still confusing. Thankfully the smart folks at CEPro have put together an article explaining just what [...]

For just under $3000 you can own a top of the line 1080p LCD television. Of course, now that everyone and their grandparents has 1080p, what features can television sets compete with? How about speed: 120Hz refresh reate, as opposed to the 60Hz of other televisions.
“Now that everyone is doing 1080p these days it seems [...]

Let’s face it: remote controls are becoming increasingly complicated, and they don’t show any signs of getting simplified anytime soon (maybe Apple should create a remote control?) - so in order to gain control of your remote, here are the top 4 tips for controlling the remote control:
“Flipping through product manuals can be boring and [...]

Sharp has a new AQUOS television out there, and it’s built with gamers in mind - high refresh rates and full 1080p support:
“The 32-inch (LC-32GP3U) AQUOS LCD is designed specifically with gamers in mind—geeky ones that want the full high-def 1080p experience. The company says that this new unit handles every frame rate under the [...]

People are often surprised to learn that I don’t have a high-definition television system at home. Am I just not an avid TV watcher? On the contrary, I have two networked DVRs plus a Media Center TV PC. Oh, plus a portable media player. Oh, and a Slingbox. If anything, I push the limits of [...]

Last January, at the Annual Las Vegas Consumer Electronics show, a handful of companies announced and displayed a variety of High Definition displays running at the once-futuristic native resolution of 1080p. They were not the first to do so; super-premium niche displays had been available at extreme prices for years, and Sharp Electronics had been [...]

Microsoft’s Update Rollup 2 for Windows Media Center Edition 2005 aka Emerald (for those with better things to do than recite long product names) broke one of the great add-ons for Windows Media Center Edition, Tweak MCE. Thankfully, Microsoft issued an updated version of Tweak MCE on November 4, solving the problem and restoring balance [...]

The whole home theater PC revolution being pushed by Windows XP Media Center Edition is a piece of cake to enjoy, as long as you have your home theater and your PC in the same room. Separate the two with a wall, or put them on opposite ends of the house and the options get [...]

In an amazing promotion to rebrand itself, EchoStar Communications Corporation, owners of DISH Network satellite TV has started a contest which could provide millions of dollars in DISH Network services and products to residents living in a daring city. The campaign invites cities in the US to officially change their name to “Dish.” In return, [...]

This is only my second post to the Media Center channel. My first one was published after I had purchased my first Plasma TV. This one is to detail the further evolution of my entertainment system.
Call it creative re-use of old hardware, but I found something to do with an old Compaq Evo n400C laptop [...]

Chris Marlowe of the Hollywood Reporter (via Yahoo! News) writes:
Starting this Thursday on the live edition of the show Big Brother, there will be a
new twist in the game. This will allow fans to text message from their
cellphones or go online to vote for the new America’s Choice feature
that Julie Chen will announce on the [...]

I was recently asked how to burn several episodes of a popular television show to a signle DVD. While more than one method will deliver a usable end result, some methods are better than others. Authoring DVDs is a fairly straight forward process, but if you forget any of the steps required you may end [...]

Long, strange trip getting there. I’d been researching and researching over what to buy to replace my ancient Zenith 32″ tube TV. One day, it dawned on me what I needed to do. I unplugged one of my ReplayTV DVRs and brought it with me to Best Buy. Rather than gambling on what a given [...]

Before Star Trek - even before Lost In Space - there was “The Doctor.”
Doctor Who was first produced by The British Broadcasting Company in 1963 and
aired continuously with new episodes until 1989. After 1989, there have
been radio programs; publications, a TV movie, and Flash-animated stories.

One of the more frequent questions I receive boils down to, ‘Which HDTV should I buy? DLP? Plasma? LCD? CRT?’ My response every time is, ‘That depends.’ Much of the HDTV shopping process is subjective to personal preference and budget. I personally lean toward DLP front projectors because I want the movie theater experience, but [...]

Dearest fans of Jeff & Natasha,
Over the weekend, in what is sure to be one of the red carpet events of
the decade, I asked the beautiful and glamorous Miss Natasha to be my
wife, and she accepted. As you can imagine, it was quite the media
spectacle; cameras were everywhere. There wasn’t a dry eye in the [...]

Norcent’s powerful DP-2700 and DP-5000 systems bring the cinematic experience home
CES Booth LVCC SO 3/31419 - Norcent, a leading
supplier of consumer electronics, will exhibit its feature rich Home
Theater System solutions at the 2005 International CES in Las Vegas
this January. Compact and affordable, the DP-2700 and DP-5000 Home
Theater Systems let consumers experience theater-like sound and image
quality [...]

I love the premise of this show. Sexy, capable woman kicks ass and takes names, making the world a safer place. That said, tonight’s two-hour installment did not thrill. A spy show has to thrive on secrets, yet any audience could have predicted the outcome to most of the plot twists on [...]

Did you ever see that movie, Arthur, with Dudley Moore? Someone asked him what it’s like to be so rich, and he replied with great irony, “It doesn’t suck.”
My family uses that phrase quite often as an expression of satisfaction. When we like something a lot, we say “it doesn’t suck.” That about [...]