Recent Posts Tagged With 'HDTV'

• Plasma TV “Burn-In”: Fact or Myth?

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 07:41 in television, HDTV, plasma, tvs

  HDGURU has a great write up on Plasma TV burn-in. It’s always talked about that you have to be careful with Plasma TVs so you don’t burn the image in to the screen. I advise people on this too even with current TVs. HDGURU advises tha...

• Deal: SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDHR

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 22:28 in HDTV, htpc, tuner, media center, hdhomerun, hdhr, silicondust

  The SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDHR is on sale right now for only $124 with free shipping. The HDHomeRun is a dual qam network tuner. It works with Windows, Mac and Linux. I know a lot of people use these with MythTV, Windows Media Center or SageTv and...

• HD Media Player Battle

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 21:51 in hardware, HDTV, media player, streaming

  With all the HD media players on the market it is tough to decide which one is best. Gizmodo has a great article comparing five of the best out there. If you don’t want to read through it look at the chart breakdowns to see how they compare....

• Moxi Lowers Prices and Releases 3 Tuner DVR

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 22:23 in TV, television, HDTV, moxi, hd dvr, set-top box, moxi mate

  Moxi lowered prices of their two-tuner HD DVRs to $499 down from $799. They also released multi-room bundles for two room and three room setups. The two room with a three-tuner HD DVR is $799 and comes with one Moxi Mate. The three room setup wit...

• FiOS TV Updates for Mac Support

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 15:29 in TV, cable, mac, HDTV, fios, verizon, cable satellite

  Verizon has updated FiOS TV to work with Mac. The Media Manager for Mac streams iTunes playlists, albums and slideshows. It’s not as full featured as the version for Windows but it’s great to see and will only get better. I’m wa...

• Video: OLED Explained Using a Pickle

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 22:26 in video, HDTV, oled

  OLED stands for organic light-emitting diode. There are a few HDTVs that are based on the OLED technology but they are still small and very expensive. The video above describes how OLED works by using a pickle. Pretty cool and it’s only 3 mi...

• Calibrate Your HDTV to Save Money

  Posted on Friday September 4th, 2009 at 05:20 in HDTV, calibrate, thx

  A THX study shows that calibrating your TV can save you money on your electric bill. Most people don’t even adjust a single setting when they get their new HDTV home. I can honestly say I didn’t do much to the plasma and the LCD I didn&...

• Snow Leopard is HDTV Ready

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 20:56 in apple, TV, mac, HDTV, lcd, plasma

  If you connect your Mac to a LCD or plasma you might have experienced some issues getting it to output the display properly. Now in Snow Leopard’s display preferences you can set the resolution to 720p, 1080i or 1080p. This will help out a lo...

• Vudu Coming to Connected LG HDTVs

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 21:20 in movies, LG, television, HDTV, streaming, vudu, connected tvs

  Vudu announced that they are coming to LG connected TVs. Gizmodo got a demo of it in action. I had issues with their business plan of selling expensive set-top boxes but now they seem to be headed in the right direction. Building into existing pro...

• Blockbuster On Demand Coming to HDTVs and Blu-ray Players

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 21:52 in movies, HDTV, streaming, blu-ray, ondemand, Blockbuster, netflix, set-top box

  Blockbuster is bringing it’s On Demand service to the living room. That shouldn’t be a surprise since the company has nothing going for it right now. I’m not sure there is a Blockbuster left in my area. Netflix wiped them out wit...

• Chumby Widgets Coming to Your TV

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 21:18 in Software, TV, HDTV, widgets, blu-ray, chumby, set-top

  Chumby widgets are coming to connected TVs and Blu-Ray players. The video demo is above. I’m not in favor of all these widgets on my TV. I’m sure they see how it can be useful to some but in my house we have our laptop or cell phone wi...

• Calibrate Your HDTV

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 in video, television, HDTV, calibrate

  Calibrating your HDTV isn’t as complicated as one might think. The video has a lot of helpful tips. I can say that I haven’t calibrated either one of my HDTVs. I have never been watching a show and thought that the colors weren’t...