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Learn to love a 10 foot HDTV screen

Learn to love a 10 foot HDTV screenGreat Article!Thank you for this informative article. I've often dreamed of owning my our home theater, but the technical stuff often seemed daunting. You have peeked my interest greatly.I am curious why you chose 720P over 1080i; isn't the higher def the "standard"...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, TVs, HDTV Screen, HDTV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

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HP LP3065 30-inch monitor

The most appealing selling point of the 30-inch HP LP3065 is its super-high 2,560x1,600 resolution. Gamers with powerful enough video cards to run at that resolution will not be disappointed. With its great color preproduction and wide viewing angles, movies also look great on the large display. Professional graphic artists...

Tags: Monitors & displays, bezel, monitor, HP LP3065, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-10-29

Vizio VF551XVT

Photo gallery: Vizio VF551XVTWe're willing to bet that when Vizio announced the VF551XVT back in January, plenty of savvy HDTV bargain hunters marked down "June" as the time they'd buy this 55-inch LED-based LCD. Then the company pushed its release back to September. Then it announced that the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Vizio VF551XVT, Vizio

Product reviews 2009-10-23

Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q850

Toshiba's Qosmio line has always been the company's experimental playground for high-end systems, from massive gaming rigs to inventive multimedia home theater laptops. While there were a lot of interesting ideas there, you often ended up with slightly overpriced systems with out-of-date video cards or non-functioning Webcam hand gesture controls....

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Qosmio line, Toshiba Qosmio, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-19

Sharp LC-52LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Sharp LC-40LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Sharp LC-46LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16

News to know: Oracle OpenWorld; Google Wave; Intel; Windows 7; WiFi

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more Paul Greenberg: Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Wi-Fi, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Philips universal remote, Casio Exilim digital camera, Sharp LCD HDTV

A Philips universal remote, a Casio Exilim digital camera, and a 46-inch Sharp LCD HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Wednesday, October 14, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the Philips SRU8015/37 Prestigo 15-Device Universal Remote at Woot.com today for $29.99. The remote can control...

Tags: HDTV, Sharp Corp., Digital Camera, Camera, Philips Electronics N.V., Casio Inc., Casio Exilim, Prestigo, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Sony DCR-DVD650

DVDs were never a perfect solution for directly recording video to with a camcorder. The medium makes even less sense now with hard-disk-drive and flash-memory models reasonably priced and able to store much more video in far smaller packages. About the only advantage camcorders like the Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 have...

Tags: Corporate communications, Consumer electronics, Flash memory, Memory, Monitors & displays, video, DVD, camcorder, Sony Corp., memory stick, pixel

Product reviews 2009-10-13

HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV?

No... Whah? I have a PC laptop actually hooked up to my Samsung HDTV, and I comfortably use a mouse to control it.I'm supposed to ditch the mouse to do what? Stand up and walk across the room to touch the stupid thing?When I was a kid, my folks...

Tags: Mice, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Desktops, desktop computer, Microsoft Windows, TouchSmart PC, mouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., HDTV, Microsoft Windows 7, desktop, PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

"HDTV" experiment proves believing is seeing

The result isn't really that surprising, but it's still an interesting finding. According to a recent Dutch experiment, it turns out that the power of suggestion once again can make unsuspecting test subjects talk themselves into seeing something that isn't there—literally, in this case. The study used...

Tags: HDTV, Video Clip, Programming, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Gadget Gal's daily deals: iPod nano, Acer Aspire notebook, LG HDTV

An iPod Nano, an Acer Aspire notebook, and a 42-inch LC LCD HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Friday, October 9, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get a reconditioned iPod nano from Buy.com for $69.99, down from $149.99. The 4-gigabyte nano has a 2-inch screen,...

Tags: Apple iPod, LG Electronics Inc., Apple iPod Nano, Buy.com, HDTV, Acer Inc., Notebooks, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Samsung UN46B8500

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB8500 seriesIf you watch football or read CNET, chances are you've noticed ads for Samsung's so-called LED TVs. The company has released three series of these super-thin LED-based LCDs so far this year, the 6000, the 7000, and the 8000 models, but it's saved the...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung UNB8500, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Samsung UN55B8500

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB8500 seriesIf you watch football or read CNET, chances are you've noticed ads for Samsung's so-called LED TVs. The company has released three series of these super-thin LED-based LCDs so far this year, the 6000, the 7000, and the 8000 models, but it's saved the...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung UNB8500, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Gadget Gal's daily deals: PSP Go, Dell Latitude notebook, Toshiba Regaza HDTV

A sale on the soon-to-be-released PSP Go, a Dell Latitude laptop, and a Toshiba Regaza 40-inch LCD HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Monday, September 28, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Save 15 percent off of gaming consoles, phones, GPS, MP3 players, video cards and...

Tags: Coupon, Dell Computer Corp., HDTV, Sony PlayStation Portable, Toshiba Corp., Dell Latitude, TVs, Notebooks, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Samsung P2570HD

Great AlternativeFirst Impression on the p2570HD:The great: Samsung?s SyncMaster P2570HD offers plenty of inputs, a descent HDTV monitor, basic speakers, and a remote control with all necessary features. Also, great style and very good performance are included in a panel less than 2? deep.The bad: No VGA cable, no...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., monitor, TV

Discussion threads 2009-09-27

Instant Demo 7.50.42 (Windows)

Instant Demo is an easy-to-use Windows screen recorder software that creates Flash movies for demonstrations, tutorials, presentations and training. The Flash movies play immediately in the viewers web browser with streaming MP3 sound. Editing features include annotated text and interactive hotspots. The screen recordings can be exported to Flash or...

Tags: Movies, NetPlay Software, Microsoft Windows, Internet, TVs, Wireless And Mobility, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Startup firm HDI previews 100-inch laser 3D HDTV

How else but glasses?Begs the question though:If synchronised glasses are required anyway, why not make miniature HD displays in them and bypass the need for a screen at all?Of course, a viewing experience is not shared if you cannot see each other. And what about the food you are trying...

Tags: 3D, laser

Discussion threads 2009-09-20

HDTV Converter 1.5.0 (Mac)

1. The HDTV Converter is the only software that allows you to convert digital camera pictures, which have been edited in photo editors, such as Photoshop, back into a format that will be accepted by: Photo players, such as the Panasonic HDTV Photo Player HDTVs with...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, HDTV, Photograph, VAVsoft, HDTV Converter, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-09-18