Home Theater and Entertainment Technology

Switching To Hdtv: The Basics Should you invest in HDTV? Is it really worth it? Your answer will be determined by a number of factors, most significantly  how good you think it is and how easily you can access it. Simply put, HDTV is a new type of television service that requires the purchase of [...]

Understanding 1080p, High Resolution & Blu-ray Players If you haven’t had the pleasure of viewing a Blu-Ray movie or disc, you just may be asking yourself: Why do I need a Blu-ray Player? Here’s your simple answer: You need a Blu-ray System for the High Resolution and Supreme Audio! But to really understand the full [...]

What You Need To Know When You Buy A DVD Player DVDs are the standard for viewing movies now as VHS tapes are quickly becoming a relic of the electronics world past. And technology continues to improve, making more and more features available on DVD players to keep up with the advancing high definition formats. [...]

Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Disc Edition [Blu-ray] Calibration patterns for all major display controls Evaluation patterns for measuring display and player quality Clips to test deinterlacing performance Samples of different video and audio codecs All patterns created at 1080p in native color space using custom software Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, who created [...]

Blu-ray Movies: in the Highest Definition Ever! Blu-ray is capable of storing and playing movies in 1080p resolution. In many respects, 1080p resolution is called “True High-Definition” or “Full High-Definition”. A Blu-ray disc can store and play roughly around 5 to 6 hours of high-definition content (1080p resolution) and around 24 hours of standard-definition content [...]