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Author Archives: Stephen Dawson
Blu-ray Region Codes
The Korean-based Dr David Steel, the Vice President, Marketing Team, Digital Media Business, for Samsung Electronics, has kindly provided the following information on Blu-ray region codes. There will be three codes: Region A: North America, South America, East Asia (except … Continue reading
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How good is HDTV anyway?
Of course, I love high definition. As I sit here writing, my son is playing ‘Call of Duty 2’ on an XBox 360, set to 1080i output, playing via a Denon AVR-4306 receiver (with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio) to an … Continue reading
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What output resolution to use for HDTV?
Okay, you have a nice shiny new high definition TV receiver. You work through its setup menus and discover you can set its high definition output resolution to 576p, 720p or 1080i. Which should you use? Preferably, none of them. … Continue reading
Posted in DTV, HDTV, Interlacing, Scaling, Video
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Pioneer moving out of DVD recorders?
There’s a story around that Pioneer is pulling out of the DVD recorder business. I wouldn’t like that because I think Pioneer’s DVD recorders are the best around at the moment. So I asked Pioneer Australia for its comments. It … Continue reading
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Samsung promises first Australian Blu-ray player
At yesterday’s product showing, Samsung demonstrated a Blu-ray player. It says it intends to be the first on the Australian market with a Blu-ray player, slated for the fourth quarter this year, and it’s aiming at a price of under … Continue reading
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Philips leads the field with digital TV/DVD recorder
Well, today was busy. First I went to a Samsung product showing in Melbourne, and then a Philips one in Canberra. Both Samsung and Philips have some interesting new technology to enhance black levels in LCD TVs, and the new … Continue reading
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iPod weirdness
Since home theatre receivers are now coming thick and fast with bridges for Apple iPods (Gen 3 and later), Apple has kindly lent me a very fancy iPod indeed. It does video, has a 60GB hard disk and so on. … Continue reading
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TDK Blu-ray recordables arriving
TDK has commencing shipping recordable Blu-ray discs. Its initial two offerings are a 25GB BD-R (Blu-ray Disc Recordable) and a 25GB BD-RE (Rewritable – so why not ‘RW’?) Australian US prices will be $US19.99 and $US24.99 respectively. Clearly, that’s pretty … Continue reading
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To Interlace or De-interlace
Interlacing is becoming an important matter these days. Why? Because our TV screens are getting bigger, so the problems it can cause are becoming far more obvious. So what is interlacing? Back in the early days of TV, the engineers … Continue reading
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Freakishly good and bad transfers
Ages ago I promised to compare two Australian DVDs of Tod Browning’s 1932 kinda horror flick Freaks. Well, belatedly, here I go. Of the two DVDs, one is from Siren Visual Entertainment (the top one in the picture to the … Continue reading
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