Hitachi’s New Interpolation Methods

"Say you have yourself a video at low-resolution, and want to upconvert it to a higher resolution for display on a higher-resolution television or monitor. That’s not hypothetical at all – it happens all the time when you display anything except HD on your HDTV. When you watch regular SD cable programming on your HDTV, your television (or maybe some […]

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Magnolia Launches First Blu-ray Slate

    Magnolia Home Entertainment has announced its first wave of high-definition titles. The distributor will bow six Blu-ray Disc releases Oct. 10. I studied the titles carefully, and can already see the one that will out-sell Titanic: "Bikini Destinations: Triple Fantasy." I love you Movie Industry Read the rest & see all the other SIX titles coming out here. 

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Stewart Introduces FireHawk G3 1080P Screen Engineered For 1080P Projectors

Stewart Filmscreen Corporation(r) (Booth 350)-the industry leader in precision projection screen technology in the home cinema and commercial markets-introduced its new FireHawk G3 1080p screen material today at CEDIA Expo 2006. FireHawk G3 1080p-the next generation of Stewart's most popular home cinema projection screen-is the first screen specifically designed for 1080p projectors and source material. FireHawk G3 1080p is aimed […]

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Usability tweaks in the Series 3 Remote

Foot in mouth

PVRBlog doesn't like the new TiVo Series 3 Remotes, and they're not afraid to say so. At least they do give an explanation why they hate it so…unlike my last girlfriend. "With the new remote, it's taking a long time to learn how to jump over those thumbs up/down buttons without looking. Now, maybe it's my muscle memory here that […]

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Logitech Enhances Mid-Range Harmony Remote with Easy-to-Use Harmony 670

FREMONT, Calif. — Oct. 10, 2006 — Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) today introduced the mid-range Harmony® 670 advanced universal remote, which builds on the features of the company´s popular Harmony® 659 remote, with enhancements that make controlling today´s complex home-entertainment systems even easier. The new remote features improved one-touch activity buttons and a button layout optimized to control digital […]

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Xbox 360 owners to spurn HD DVD drive

I'll file this under, too early to tell so quit making predictions category. However, since we are I might as well talk about it. Yet another journal is predicting the outcome of the format wars. This time around, the victor shall be Blu-ray because the Xbox360 owners will not buy the HD DVD add on. I think they are discounting […]

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Sharp ships new twin-tuner Freeview PVR

Sharp has just released a new DVR with twin Freeview tuners. The 160GB model supports the 8 day Freeview EPG along with a PIP function. As well, this model will record subtitles if recording your favorite foreign language film. From the article: Other features of the R160H worth a mention include an unusually low power consumption rate of 0.5W in […]

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What Are the Ugliest Products on the Market?

I really can;t think of too many ugly products at the moment. Luckily, CE Pro News has a couple of them. Any product that looks "a bit too much like Charlie Brown's teeth" has to be one only its mother could love ;). What ugly products can you think of? My wife says the Silver Sensor style antenna's fit into […]

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