!#5: Hdtv Resolution Cheap: January 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012

TVB ePort - NTIA - Landmark - Netflix - LG - CinemaNow - Med

!±8± TVB ePort - NTIA - Landmark - Netflix - LG - CinemaNow - Med

THE TVB announced that ePort is now live, allowing media-buying agencies to place electronic orders with TV stations. 644 stations are participating in 186 markets, reaching 97.8 percent of the country. The system can currently handle orders, confirmations and makegoods. A full range of features will be rolled out in the coming months. THE NTIA announced that over 1 million converter box coupons were requested in the first 40 hours of availability. If this rapid pace continues coupons will run out by February. LANDMARK COMMUNICATIONS will put its assets up for sale, including the Weather channel, nine daily newspapers, 50 community papers and TV stations in Las Vegas and Nashville. The Weather Channel offering will include Weather.com, which draws over 30 million unique users per month. NBC and Comcast have shown interest in buying the property, which may fetch over billion. NETFLIX and LG are teaming up to create a device that will bring streaming movies directly to TV sets, expanding Netflix's current PC-based movie service. The service will reportedly be integrated into LG's combination HD DVD / Blu-ray player and be available by mid-year. Netflix had been developing its own hardware to access the service but canceled those plans after finding a large demand from third-party device makers. The DVD rental company is preparing for the post-DVD era and plans to embed its service into many more devices, including video game consoles. CINEMANOW and MACROVISION are ...

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Monday, January 16, 2012

HDTV + classic video game = intolerable lag! (Amdek Color-I FTW!)

!±8± HDTV + classic video game = intolerable lag! (Amdek Color-I FTW!)

This brand new Pyle LCD HDTV may be great for watching TV or DVDs, but its analog to digital conversion produces a very noticeable latency (lag) on the video, which renders classic video games nearly unplayable due to the delay between when something happens and when it actually shows up on the screen. You can compare the "lag" of the Pyle TV with a classic original 1983 Amdek Color-I monitor placed underneath it, showing the correct undelayed video. This lag (which averages about 1/10th of a second) is due to the TV de-interlacing the analog video and upscaling it to HDTV resolution. A *non-HDTV* flat-panel TV (known as "EDTV" or "480P") will have much less lag because it doesn't need to do any upscaling, and a CRT picture tube TV will have no lag at all, even if it has a "480i" digital TV tuner built-in. Aside from the latency problems, this Pyle TV has very poor picture quality when using the composite video input. Even with its "3D digital comb filter" enabled, any text or sharp edges on the screen are laced with large amounts of mulicolored blur. In fact, the display is less sharp and crisp than the 26-year-old Amdek monitor, which has *no* comb filter and a large dot pitch CRT -- not to mention that the Amdek is tremendously brighter and more vivid, and has a much better sounding built-in speaker. The moral of the story: only use a new digital HDTV for playing video games if you are using a modern game console through a digital HDMI connection, in which case the ...