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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...

Sony has announced that the PS3 will be able to play pre-recorded Blu-ray discs. The Blu-ray Founders also announced that the BD-ROM standard will be finalized by September 30.

Sony Corportaion of America's Mike Fidler, Senior Vice President of the Blu-ray Disc Group Division, has said in a interview with Widescreen Review that Dolby Digital will most likely be a requirement for pre-recorded Blu-ray. He said that DTS and other audio formats would be optional. Mike...

Since the price of flat panel screens continue to decrease and their size is going up to 60" I could see Rear-Projection being a dead technology in 10 years. Anything bigger than 60" you would buy a Front-Projector while anything smaller would be a flat panel like LCD or Plasma. It seems quite...

Since an ATSC receiver has to be able to decode both integer frame rates of 24fps, 30fps, and 60fps along with their ratio modified (1000/1001) rates of 23.976fps, 29.97fps, and 59.94fps how much more expensive are ATSC receivers? If the ATSC standard had dropped the old NTSC frame rate and did...

Since ATSC standards allows for both integer frames per second such as 24fps, 30fps, and 60fps along with NTSC's whacky 29.97fps, which was expanded to allow 23.976fps and 59.94fps, what do most HDTV's display at? Do most CRT displays do 59.94hz while LCD, DLP and Plasmas do 60hz or is it...

I am interested in getting a good, but not necessarily the best DVD player with seamless layer change and minimal pixel cropping. The price has to be below $250 and though I want a great picture from it I would be willing to accept a good one if it could do the other two. I would also like the...

My father has been thinking about replacing an aging 32" direct view with either a new direct view or a HDTV rear projection, and though I would like to recommend the HDTV rear projection, would it be the right choice? Though a rear projection easily beats out direct view sets in size the...