Home Theater and Entertainment Technology

Comparison of high definition optical disc formats Technical details A Table Comparing the High-definition Optical Media Formats DVD included for comparison Mandatory codecs must be supported by the player. Each disc must use one or more of the mandatory codecs. Blu-ray Disc HD DVD CBHD (CH-DVD) AVCHD AVCREC DVD Muse LD Laser wavelength 405 nm [...]

Going Head To Head: Upconversion Vs. Blueray In the fast world of electronics and gadgets, upconversion vs. blueray is the latest controversial battle. These two powerful technologies have been very useful and remarkable in a lot of ways but belonging in the same category has placed them in a tight competitive situation. Will blueray finally [...]

Is The New Apple iPad Worth it? It’s gorgeous, it’s sexy, It’s thin (you can never be too rich or too thin), but is it worth it? Well, let me answer that in a roundabout way: In the late seventies and early eighties, when computers had a couple of kilobytes of RAM and programs had [...]

The Latest New Age DVD Players A standard CD-Rom could hold only 700 MB of data. Later on CDs with more storage space were manufactured but failed to attract the attention of the buyer. Additional storage space meant an increase of 50 to 60 MB, which was not much considering the data requirement of the [...]

Blue Ray Disks Features During the first few months of 2007, a survey was conducted by the Home Research Media. The findings of the survey were that the blu ray movies sale was almost double compared to the High Definition DVD’s in USA. The main competitor of blue ray disks is High Definition DVD disks. [...]