Category Archives: HDTV
One Set-Top Box to Rule Them All
Having fulfilled most of my hopes for couch surfing via tablet with their iPad, it was too much to hope that Apple would also solve the set-top box problem. This week they announced their latest take on the Apple TV, … Continue reading
Jonesing for a better TV…
The Harris Poll had some interesting HDTV statistics yesterday: Almost a year-and-a-half after Blu-Ray won the format war, 11% of US adults own HD-DVD players but only 7% own Blu-Ray players I own both, although my HD-DVD player is gathering … Continue reading
Eliminating Overscan
For years my Samsung TXN3071WHF HDTV has suffered from overscan. Most cathode-ray-tube (CRT) sets make the image too large to fit on the screen so that the edges are cut off. Many newer LCD and plasma televisions can disable overscan, … Continue reading
Netflix on TiVo
My purchase of a TiVo HD about a year ago continues to pay off. Now I can watch streaming movies from Netflix on the TiVo and the experience beats the pants off watching Netflix streaming movies on a computer. The … Continue reading
Blu Daze
Sony BDP-S350 at Amazon Impatient to move on from my HD-DVD debacle, I decided to not wait for the forthcoming Black Friday and beyond price drops. I just went out and bought a Blu Ray player. I decided to get … Continue reading
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