Recent content by Richard Paul

So far no company has announced dual format players though Samsung has said that they plan on making one eventually. Samsung announced all of this in this article which you can translate using Babelfish (German to English). I am hoping that dual format players never become a necessity and that...

The PS3 will be able to read single layer discs at 23, 25, and 27 GBs and dual layer discs at 46, 50, and 54 GBs. Articles at both IGN and GamesIndustry confirm that. The reason many have suggested 23 GB per layer was because those were the first discs made by Sony. Sony though has already...

Thomson developed FGM for MPEG-4 AVC HP (High Profile). The high profile increased both the quality and efficiency of MPEG-4 AVC and includes several features such as FGM. FGM stands for Film Grain Modeling and allows for film grain to be removed before encoding and put back in during decoding...

Chuck, I understand your concern but I personally agree with Pixar's decision to make the bad guys actually bad. This made The Incredibles a more realistic movie and added a true sense of apprehension to it. Pixar has guts to put a true villain in a kids movie and I tip my hat to them.

All you need to make sure of is that the TV can accept 720p and convert it to 1080i. In the US there are many 1080i CRT TVs that can accept 720p and convert it to 1080i. If you go to JVC's web page you should be able to download the user manual for that TV. Also check and see if the HV-32P40BU...

It uses a rechargable battery that can be recharged while in use and the 90 minute estimate is the worst case estimate for movies. From what I heard it will most likely be between 3 and 5 hours of use for most games. Though the $350 price was a rumor I wouldn't be surprised by a $300 price...

A sequel has much potential but unless there willing to ignore the FCC's censorship crusade I can't imagine it being gory. One of the things that bugs be about Sci-Fi is that most of there horror productions are PG even when they scream for an R rating.

Japan Today just broke the news that Twentieth Century Fox will adopt the Blu-ray standard. If this is true I believe there may not even be a format war. Also some interesting news about the HD-DVD rewritable specs is that it won't support dual layer writing. As such HD-DVD rewritable will be...

The BDA website has just been completed and if you go here you can download the specifications for Blu-ray. Besides the already announced additions of VC-1 and MPEG-4 AVC HP there is also the surprising news that DTS++ will be one of the mandatory audio codecs. DTS++ can go up to 7.1 channels...

The reason you can get this years model cheaper than last years model is because HDTVs have gotten cheaper every year since they where first released. As for whether the 34HFX84 has a better picture than the 34HF84 that is not yet known. The first real reviews of the 34HFX84 are at least a month...

To me this seems to be DirecTV's finishing move to both Dish Network and Voom. They are spending over a billion dollars with these satellite upgrades and it's likely that neither competitor can afford that.

I consider the show to be good with it being better than the Simpsons (last few seasons) and slightly worse than Family Guy. Also does anyone know if the show is made in the 16:9 aspect ratio or is it made in 4:3?

Around 50 years ago televisions would operate better if the frame rate was the same as the power frequency. This was the original reason for the two different frame rates, but it's no longer relevant in televisions with power transformers. All televisions made today have power transformers and...

Thanks for the link Gary. I had previously read that Toshiba's cinema series was for retail sale only. That and the fact that onecall had it listed for retail only seemed to indicate that it would only be availiable to aurthorized retail stores. There are two possiblities with one being that...

Blu-ray uses 128-bit AES encryption which is 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 times harder to break than the 56-bit encryption used with DVD. As such the encryption would never be broken by brute strength, but instead if ever broken would probably be done by bad security implementation on a DVD...