By Gilford Blankenship

3D Television

Did you get to check out “Avatar, ” 2009’s spectacular blockbuster? If you did, then you’re likely among those people that were awestruck by the wonderful technology that James Cameron utilized in making this film. But beyond its awesomeness, what makes this flick so outstanding is that it has made 3D TV once more a buzz word in the home entertainment industry.

Does this mean that 3D television has become the future of home entertainment and a vision of this future is now upon us? The reply to this question is a definite “Yes. ” With more and more television and electronic makers showcasing their first-generation 3D TV offerings since the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, we will be able to really now say that the future of home entertainment is making a good progress.

Not A Newfangled idea

It isn’t like the idea of 3D television is a new concept, at any rate. Any colleague of the engineering and design crew or ETD of any television maker can tell you the idea for 3D TV has been around since the 1950s. It just didn’t catch on as fast with the general public as stereo and surround sound did.

But thanks to “Avatar ” and similar 3D movies released in recent times, the idea is quickly catching on. Many consumers all around the planet are getting interested in copying the 3D picture theater experience right in their own living rooms and home theaters. Television manufacturers are busy stokingthat interest by offering their present interpretations of the 3D TV system.

That is not to assume that the 3D TV concept does not have its share of dissenters. Just as viewing TV on 3D is slowly gaining a devout fan base globally so are the ones that think that this trend is nothing less than merely a profit-making fad started by TV makers. Still, 3D TV is part of the way forward for home entertainment and nobody can dispute that the future is occurring now.

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By John Lenihan

A white paper about high definition videography

Different types of HD

If you have recently been shopping for a High Definition Television, you know that there are a lot of specifications and numbers that are in use today. When high definition was agreed upon by the technical committees, they defined more than one standard for high definition. This was useful because the technology initially could not reach the highest level.

The TV display is made up of color dots called picture elements, shortened to pixels, arranged in a grid. Standard definition TV has 740 pixels across and 480 pixels down. These are refreshed 30 times per second (a slight simplification for now).

HD definition can be any one of the following:
1. 1280 x 720 HD (also called HDV)
2. 1440 x 1080 HD ( also called HDV)
3. 1920 x 1080 HD (also called True HD)

If we multiply the horizontal times the vertical, then divide by 1000, we can get the number of megapixels for each type.

1. 720 x 480 = 0.35 megapixels SD
2. 1280 x 720 = 0.9 megapixels HDV<br. 3. 1440 x 1080 = 1.5 megapixels HDV
4. 1920 x 1080 = 2.1 megapixels True HD

Compared to Standard Def of 740 x 480, HDV is either 3 or 4 times more detailed.

The 1920 is the best HD with 2.1 megapixels. This is 6 times the detail of standard definition.

Videographers who have purchased HD cameras in the last five years are using one of the two HDV standards above. That is 1280 x 720 or 1440 x 1080. Your TV automatically stretches the pixels to fit your screen, so you may not notice the lower detail right away. But if you saw them next to each other, you would notice it in a minute.

Increased camera requirements for HD

Filming in HD presents three new challenges to any serious videographer who is already very good at standard definition videography. These are depth of field, focus sensitivity, and low light performance.

1. Depth of Field- Because there are more pixels in HD, more things in the scene are visible to the viewer. This is wonderful for the things that you want to see. However, sometimes there is a person in the background walking that you wish was not there. With most cameras, there is not much that can be done. With the best cameras, one can adjust the depth of field to make the background go out of focus, and leaves the subject in focus. This way the viewer’s attention is held.

2. Focus Sensitivity – Because more details are present, if the automatic focus settles on the wrong subject in the scene, it is far more distracting than back in the standard definition days. With most cameras, it is hard to catch that type of thing looking at a relatively small view finder. With the best cameras, one can press a button to accentuate the focus so it becomes easier to spot and then manually adjust the focus.

3. Low Light Performance – Because the light coming into the camera has to be shared with more pixels, it is hard for most HD cameras to work in low light. For sports and interviews, this is not a problem because the lights can be turned up. For weddings and receptions the videographer doesn’t have the option of turning up the lights, so the low light video looks grainy and muddy. The best cameras, ones produced since about January 2009, have new technology sensors which are able to deal with the low light and produce low light video in real life situations.

Blu-ray equipment is required to deliver HD

Standard DVD discs and standard DVD players only know how to play 740 x 480 standard definition video. Blu-ray players know how to play all the variations of high definition plus standard definition.

Some videographers advertise that filming in HD is either free or only an extra $100 per camera. However, the fine print describes how much more you have to pay if you want the end product to be delivered on a Blu-ray disc. If the final video is delivered on a standard DVD, then the video had to be down converted to standard definition. To record in HD only to down convert it to SD is a waste. Because of the three problems listed in the Increased camera requirements for HD above, chances are you will end up with worse than just recording in straight SD from the beginning.

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By Mingki Tsui

As far as “those in know” are saying, there is only one way to watch a movie if you’re not in a theater, and that’s with Blu-ray. The holiday season will be big for this technology, which is finally reaching the psychological tipping point of around $100, if you remember to keep the second term clear in your mind – the first term, “Blu-ray,” is certainly uppermost in your mind, but don’t forget that the second term needs to be “player” instead of “recorder” if you want to keep that price down.

A quick recap is likely in order. Blu-ray discs look pretty much the same as CDs and DVDs, but store enough additional data (about six times as much) that they can hold high-definition (HD) video and plenty more. The Blu-ray technology, which stores 25GB for a single- and 50GB for a double-layer disc, gets its name from the blue-violet lasers that they use, as opposed to the red ones used for DVD.

Paradigm time? Consumer magazines, from the famous “no ads accepted” one to more commercial offerings, have reported that the time is right to “get with the Blu-ray program” since falling prices are occurring in tandem with maturing technology. With such better resolution for movies, and entire libraries able to fit on a single disc, the formula for consumers is already a winner. When that psychological tipping point mentioned above meets the commodity price for electronics devices – $99 – the floodgates will truly open and Blu-ray players will be everywhere.

In one test of over two dozen players costing between $130 and $700, there were absolutely no “clunkers” and uniformly good results on the basics – picture quality, controls and connectivity. All but the lowest-priced units have the new feature known as BD-Live, which lets you connect the player to the Internet to “stream” HD movies. Some players’ BD-Live functionality allows streaming movies from such services as Amazon Video On Demand, NetFlix, Vudu and other sites (usually with an Ethernet connection, but some allow wireless operation).

The usual suspects For most of 2009, publications and pundits alike have rated Blu-ray players for picture brightness, detail, clarity and color accuracy. As the end-of-the-year holiday shopping season approached, the most thorough “pubs and pundits” also assessed Blu-ray players for ease of use, build quality, availability and warranty. Among BD-Live players with the expected range of features, the usual names appeared.

The $229 Sony is a BD-Live player that is advertised as “BD-Live Ready” because you need to add memory for that feature to become active. It is a matter of $15 or $20 to upgrade the unit so that your Ethernet connection will connect you to the “virtual movie universe.” High-end units from Samsung, Panasonic and LG are also highly rated, and the reviews seem to suggest that if a company has a well-reviewed “upscale” model, its “entry” model is probably pretty good, too.

Prices dropping If you don’t need the streaming feature, and simply want to play purchased or rented Blu-ray discs – and spend a hundred dollars less – the $129 Magnavox player earned an “excellent” rating in several product round-ups. Still, the usual suspects mentioned previously in the context of premium models are also offering a full range of low- and mid-range players, too.

Electronics industry observers have seen some strong growth in Blu-ray players this year, one definite bright spot in what was shaping up as a very gloomy industry landscape for 2009. Almost all of the other “personal electronics” categories have been trending down – digital cameras, GPS devices, MP3 players – but in mid-2009 Blu-ray units were almost 15% of U.S. home-video-related purchases.

Entry-level quality Industry watchers predict that Blu-ray devices will rise to 50% of unit sales in 2010 if recent tends in demand and pricing hold steady. The all the magazines, were found to have “very good” to “excellent” picture quality. Some lower-priced units have remotes with only basic functions represented, while others lack such “geek level” features as S-video ports and other alternative connections. On the other hand, just about all the players tested had excellent picture quality, the feature clearly most important to consumers.

It would be to every Christmas shopper’s advantage to keep an eye on all the advertisements for Blu-ray players. Prices will not only continue to drop, especially around the semi-official “Black Friday” holiday shopping launch day. It is entirely possible that the price for a basic player will fall to $49, but there is no doubt that you’ll find a handful of decent ones for that friendly, affordable commodity price of $99.

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By Curtis H

With the Blu-ray format becoming more and more popular, there are now many different versions of Blu-ray DVD Players in the marketplace, all having their own set of features and functions. Combine this with the fact Blu-ray is a relatively new technology, it can get a little confusing for us consumers to figure out exactly what to look for when buying a new Blu-ray player. To help you decide, here are four features every good Blu-ray DVD Player should have:

BD LIVE

All Blu-ray Players are divided into Profiles and each Profile offers certain functions and features. Older profiles are 1.0 , 1.1, 2.0 and BD-Live is the latest and newest Profile. It is the best profile and contains all the functions and features of 1.0 and 1.1, as well as a few new ones. Most Blu-ray Players manufactured today are Profile 2.0 or BD Live, but not all of them. BD-Live allows you to access a wide variety of bonus material found on the web, such as online movie related games, latest trailers and other content. It allows your movie experience to be interactive since you can go into chat rooms and discuss movies online.

Ethernet/Wireless
Blu-ray Players are not sorely about the Blu-ray disc anymore, it offers so much more. Being able to connect your Blu-ray Player to the Internet or your home computer is no longer a convenient perk but a definite must. In the beginning the Ethernet port was mainly used as a nice and fast way of upgrading your Blu-ray Player’s firmware. Although this is still the case, having your Blu-ray Player connected, now offers so much more. There are many services out there that have online streaming of movies and TV shows in High Definition. Services like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon-on-Demand offer a wide variety of movies and TV shows in HD. Therefore, you no longer have to pay for specialty HD cable channels in order to watch your favorite TV shows or movies; you can Stream them online for free.

The Blu-ray DVD Player having a wireless connection is big plus since you don’t have to deal with all those annoying cables. Blu-ray Players with wireless Ethernet, once you turn the power on, will automatically pick up your wireless home network and connect you to it. Streaming movies and pictures from your home computer is also something you can do via some Blu-ray Players.

Fast Load Times

Blu-ray DVD Players have a reputation of very slow disc loading times. In the past, and to some extent still today, this has been a main criticism of Blu-ray DVD Players. It may seem like an insignificant feature, but most people when they insert a disc want instant playback and waiting around for a few minutes before you can access your disc can get rather annoying. Adding to the annoyance is you get different loading times with each movie Blu-ray disc. The good news is that Blu-ray Players are improving their load times. Players like Sony’s PlayStation 3, OPPO’s BDP-83, and Samsung’s BD-P3600 have very fast loading times, and most Blu-ray movies have the exact same loading time. Remember, updating the Blu-ray Players firmware can increase loading times, as manufactures are always trying to improve playback.

Audio/Video

Lastly, but certainly not least, it should come as no surprise that a Blu-ray Player should have great audio and video. Having a clear, sharp, crisp image/sound is a very important feature and Blu-ray Players can deliver this if they have Full HD 1080p video output. Every Blu-ray Player will have Dolby Digital, DTS, and PCM audio formats. However, if you want the best, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution and DTS-HD Master Audio; these are the formats you should look for in a Blu-ray DVD Player. These will bring you the best possible sound and most blu-ray movies will be encoded with these audio formats.

Of course, there are other great features and functions that a Blu-ray Player might have, but these four features are the core basics to every good Blu-ray DVD Player. Having all four of these features will make for a solid, dependable Blu-ray DVD Player, fully allowing you to get the best enjoyment out of your movie viewing experience and even a little bit more.

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