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- Letterbox
- The effect of displaying a wide screen movie on a standard TV set the way it was originally shot in full panoramic format. On the TV, the image frame...
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- Mitsubishi WD-65735
- Today the landscape in the big-screen rear-projection HDTV category is pretty stark. Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, and others have all exited this product segment, which leaves only Mitsubishi and Samsung to slug it out for the dollars of buyers who want a huge screen on a budget. Mitsubishi's WD-65735 is one...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsubishi WD-65735
- Product reviews 2008-07-31
- Zenith DTT901
- Editors' note: The DTT901 is nearly identical to the Zenith DTT900, except the DTT901 adds the ability to pass analog signals to a TV and has slightly better sound. Otherwise, the reviews are virtually identical.The FCC has pushed back the DTV transition several times already, but it looks as if...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, RCA DTA800, Zenith DTT901, digital television
- Product reviews 2008-07-21
- It's a start: Spammer gets jail time
- It's a start: Spammer gets jail timeI dont see spaming as a jail-able offense.I would love to give jailtime to companies that send crap to my mailbox.The issue is waisted time and resources. It costs x dollars to clean that up, so you owe me x dollars, if dont...
- Tags: Spam, spammer, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Aoork DVDRipper Pro (EXE)
- Aoork DVDRipper Pro is a professional DVD ripping and backup tool, which can help you easily and rapidly rip DVD to rm/rmvb/wmv/AVI/MP4/3GP/MOV/ASF/FLV/MPG/MP3/WMA/RA/AAC/AC2/OGG/MP2/AMR/WAV files with the perfect output quality. It has many additional and exciting features such as Support Video&Image&Text Watermark, Sutitle offset, DVD Crop or Letterbox, Snap DVD, Split DVD,...
- Tags: Aoork Soft, Aoork DVDRipper Pro, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2008-07-14
- Sony Bravia KDL-32M4000
- Sony has always been a go-to brand for people who don't mind paying more for HDTVs, or just about anything else for that matter, and the company's least-expensive 2008 32-inch HDTV, the KDL-32M4000, exemplifies the trend. This little set costs a couple of hundred dollars more than no-name LCDs, and...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, picture menu, Sony Corp., KDL-32M4000, HDTV
- Product reviews 2008-05-14
- Sharp LC-32D44U
- As off-brands such as Vizio, Insignia, and Westinghouse continue to make inroads among HDTV shoppers, traditional makers such as Sharp have to make it seem as if their sets are worth a couple of hundred bucks extra. That's especially tough in the small-to-medium-screen space, where the entry-level Sharp Aquos LC-32D44U...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-32D44U, HDTV
- Product reviews 2008-04-08
- Insignia NS-DXA1
- Editors' note: We found the Insignia NS-DXA1 and the Zenith DTT900 have virtually identical design, features, and performance; therefore, their reviews are the same.The FCC has pushed back the DTV transition several times already, but it looks as if it will shut off over-the-air analog TV signals on...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Insignia NS-DXA1, digital television
- Product reviews 2008-04-03
- Insignia NS-LCD32
- The Best Buy house brand Insignia can be found on some of the cheapest, er, least-expensive HDTVs available anywhere, and judging from the company's terrible NS-PDP42 plasma, you might be tempted to write these sets off entirely. Not so fast, bargain hunter. The 32-inch NS-LCD32 LCD TV fared a lot...
- Tags: TVs, Insignia NS-LCD32
- Product reviews 2008-04-02
- Zenith DTT900
- Editors' note: We found the Zenith DTT900 and the Insignia NS-DXA1 have virtually identical design, features, and performance; therefore, their reviews are the same.The FCC has pushed back the DTV transition several times already, but it looks as if it will shut off over-the-air analog TV signals on...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zenith DTT900, digital television
- Product reviews 2008-03-31
- VCD Size Calculator (exe)
- VCD Size Calculator is a small calculator for getting the size needed to letterbox/resize a video when encoding into VCD format. It works great for encoders that don't automatically keep the aspect ratio. It has the equation used on it as well so you know the math being used. This...
- Tags: VCD, EasySoft R.S., VCD Size Calculator
- Software downloads 2008-03-24
- Picture Converter (exe)
- Batch resizing and conversion of photos is easy with Digitope Picture Converter. Picture Converter has powerful resize capabilities with four resize modes, including stretch, fit-to-size, crop, and letterbox. Photos can be reduced or enlarged by percent or pixels. Six resize filters ensure optimal image quality. Convert photos between bmp, jpg,...
- Tags: Photograph, PNG, Folder Preset Utility
- Software downloads 2008-03-07
- Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: I don't care who wins!
- Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: I don't care who wins!Patiently waiting.Since we can't afford every technology that gets released, we need to wait on the sidelines as well. My concern with buying now is that I'll get a camera, burner, etc.. that won't allow exporting or authoring to a format...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Build a SuperZune!
- Podcast and iTunes Music Store compatibility on a Zune? Easier than you think. Read on to learn how to upgrade your Zune. The road less traveled If you are like most tech heavies, you're a rugged individualist. You don't follow the crowd. Who cares what the...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Software Development, BIOS, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- Samsung LN-T4681F
- Among that tiny segment of the population that cares about the latest HDTV technology, and the even tinier segment that can afford it, the introduction of Samsung's 81 series of flat-panel LCDs is kind of like early Christmas. The first widely distributed LCD HDTVs to incorporate LED backlights--Sony sold a...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Samsung LN-T4681F, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV
- Product reviews 2007-11-01
- Regular Mac users: wait for v10.5.1 to upgrade
- I've used a lot of operating systems starting with the late, great TOPS-20 on DEC's 36-bit DECsystems. Also VMS, RSTS, CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows versions 3.1 to XP, Solaris and Mac OS versions 6 to 10.5 Leopard. My definition of a great OS is one that makes...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Tiger, Operating System, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Back up b4 Leopard upgrade!
- Update: I'm seeing reports that other people are having upgrade problems. Before you upgrade to Leopard you really want to create a bootable back up. There are 2 free utilities that will do this for you on either a FireWire or USB 2 drive: Carbon Copy Cloner...
- Tags: Account, Laser, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Samsung FP-T5084
- Samsung's FP-T5084 represents the company's opening foray into the jungle of 1080p-resolution plasma, and it's a solid first effort. Compared to the company's earlier, less expensive HP-T5064, a lower-resolution 50-inch plasma, the FP-T5084 looks cooler and performs a bit better, although not cooler and better enough to earn a higher...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, menu system, main picture menu, Samsung FP-T5084, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma
- Product reviews 2007-10-10
- LCD panels and dead/stuck pixels
- LCD panels and dead/stuck pixelsre: LCD panels and dead/stuck pixelsre:I just took delivery of a Samsung 2232BW Pebble sounds weird when you say it like that. Thankfully I've had no dead pixels on it, and the performance is astounding, especially considering I was upgrading from a CTX VL700 17" CRT...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, pixel, LCD panel, dead pixel, LCD
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- A turn in the antispyware war?
- A turn in the antispyware war?WTF?A Common sense ruling in our US court system?!?! I tell ya, this country is going down hill fast.Next, we will be electing a president that has common sense ....;->WTF? Completely different.Standard journalistic practice is to sumarize the information needed to understand the article before...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, anti-spyware, spyware, advertisement, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
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