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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...

Blu-ray will be able to downconvert HD to standard defintion (SD). There is no reason or logic for them to include a SD version of an HD show. Every single HD receiver built has a digital downconverter so HD can be viewed on SD televisions. Also I can almost gurantee that every Blu-ray player...

A little negative towards Blu-ray aren't you? Considering the need for a format to record HDTV I see great reason why Blu-ray will succeed. Though the transition from DVD to Blu-ray is quicker than past formats this is because of the first US broadcast standard change in over 40 years. The ATSC...

The 34HFX84 is in Toshiba's Cinema series line of televisions and can't be bought over the internet. The Cinema series is Toshiba's "high end" line of televisions and includes more features and a different look. The main differences between the 34HFX84 and the 34HF84 is a better looking design...

Christopher, interlace causes several problems among them the fact that the horizontal resolution has to be decreased on average by about 33% to avoid interlace artifacts. In other words instead of getting 1080 by 1920 you get around 720 by 1920 in actual resolution with interlace. Also there...

I believe that Blu-ray will remain for around 20 years before any greatly improved format comes out. I can also safely guess that it will take 6 to 8 years for Blu-ray to start outselling DVD in the US. One of the reasons DVD will have a bit of a shorter life than VHS is the fact that it was...

The 34HFX84 is just being released and it will take at least one or two months before any real reviews start coming out for it. If I had to guess the only 34" television that could outperform it would be the recently released KD34XBR960 and last years KV34XBR910. Both of these televisions are...

Sebastien, what Toshiba is doing is pretty reasonable since you are getting there latest and best model television. The 34HFX84 is cheaper since like all technology HDTV has gotten cheaper, especially cutting edge electronics. At the same time it will most likely outperform the 34HDX82 in terms...

The MPAA is suing Sigma Designs and MediaTek for selling DVD players for breach of contract with the DVD Copy Control Association. The articles from CNET and Reuters do not even mention what the companies specifically did wrong. It is that the chips the companies sold could upscale to HD over...

Though I agree with the point that how a game looks matters a great deal most people still demand that the gameplay be good as well. Though Halo would have sold well even if it played like crap it would not have been a franchise or anywhere near as successful if it had. Its like Van Helsing...

This depends on the studios and not on the format so if you don't no one buys the content done in MPEG-2 then they will quickly change to MPEG-4 FRExt. I worry more about the studios releasing movies in 1080i since they want it to be "compatible" with most HD displays. Considering that both...

This is something I heard as well since the X-box has supposedly cost Microsoft between one and two billion dollars. I have heard that Microsoft was hoping to make a simplified Microsoft computer as the home computer of the future and wanted to test the idea with the X-box. Considering they are...

VC-9 is the video codec used in WM9 and besides being more limited in what resolutions it can do is the exact same codec. Also the codec the Blu-ray Association is going to us is MPEG-4 FRExt HP, which was literally finished last month and can be read about in this press release. The codec uses...

Personally I've recently heard a lot about Blu-ray that if correct would probably give it such an advantage over HD-DVD that there may not even be a format war (or at worst a very short one). BD-ROM will have a maximum speed of either 54 Mbps or 72 Mbps and will include both MPEG-4 AVC and PCM...

Tony, I can tell that you are a fan of the X-box and I'll tell you that I'm a fan of the PS2. The major reason the PS2 isn't as good in graphics as the X-box is because the X-box was released a year and a half after the PS2 and the components in the X-box are more expensive, which is the main...

I would recommend the Sanyo Z2 with a 70 to 80 inch screen. At under $2000 it is one of the best projectors per dollar. The screen door effect is caused by being to close to a low resolution digital projector. The Z2 has a resolution of 720p and with a 10 foot viewing distance the screen door...