Wired Test: High-Def TVs
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No need to play Goldilocks at your local gadget mall this holiday season: Match the right display to your visual appetite with our hands-on reviews.
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Electronics giant develops new television technology to attack core business from a new angle.
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Here's a hands-on look at the moderately priced, multiformat DV-CP802.
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High definition entertainment is expected to be the focus of the IFA consumer electronics show.
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By Chris Flores, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Dec. 16--Consumers buying flat-panel high-definition televisions are facing a curious little feature that they aren't quite sure about.
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(InfoWorld) - A chipset promising to allow users to send high definition (HD) video wirelessly throughout the home faces hurdles in the market due to competing technology standards, market researcher Gartner Inc. said Monday. Tzero Technologies, Inc. announced a new chipset earlier this month called ZeroWire, which can carry HD video wirelessly between devices, therefore eliminating the need for HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) cables. The chips can also stream HD signals through coaxial cable, the wires that carry cable TV to many U.S. homes. Any device outside the range of the wireless signal can use the coaxial cable connection instead. The technology was designed to make sure people didn't have to tear open walls to run new cables capable of carrying HD signals, instead making use of existing wires. The chipsets will likely be used to develop a number of wireless entertainment devices aimed at the home, including digital set-top boxes and HD TVs; DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc players; game consoles, and media center PCs. The chipsets are designed to transmit HD video wirelessly in a 10-to-20 meter range, according to Tzero. Devices out of range could receive HD content over coaxial cables instead. Several device makers are currently developing products with them, including Audiovox Corp., Gefen Inc. and Asustek Computer Inc. But competing standards could hold the technology back for while, according to Gartner. ZeroWire competes against technology developed by the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), which has gained favor as the right way to go for whole home HD video delivery, the market researcher says. ZeroWire uses ultrawideband (UWB) technology developed by the WiMedia Alliance and already accepted as the ECMA International standard. ECMA, which used to stand for European Computer Manufacturers Association before it changed its name, is a membership-based group established to promote device compatibility in Europe. Gartner expects that consumer electronics manufacturers will take a conservative approach to this new technology until a standard approach becomes more clear, said Stan Bruederle, a Gartner analyst, in the report. Further complicating the issue is that Tzero's rivals are marketing incompatible technologies of their own for wireless HD and HD over coaxial cables, Gartner said. One company, Pulse~Link Inc., last week filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Tzero over ultrawideband communication technologies, and claims it has been first in wireless HDMI and HD over coaxial cable transmission. Â
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One way to check the quality of a high-definition television before you buy it is to bring an HQV Benchmark disc to the store with you.
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The big, bulky tube television is ready to get a leaner look--and to challenge flat panels at their own game. Meanwhile, TV tuners are headed to new PCs.
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Latest in HDTV technology is on the floor at DisplaySearch's HDTV: The Future of Television conference.
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According to The Register, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, code-named Symphony, will support high definition television. Microsoft refuses to confirm the Register's report at this time.
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Federal regulators will try again to test prototypes for transmitting high-speed internet service over unused television airwaves. The devices will be tested in laboratory and real-world conditions.
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Sony Corp.'s Creation Box makes images from any TV clearer, flicker-free and more vivid. Users can zoom in on high-definition video without distortion. But at &#36;4,800, it's not for everyone.
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What could eventually resolve the value proposition for mainstream consumers to accept an incoming ultra-high-bandwidth pipeline into their homes is the ability of high-definition, on-demand video. But that will require a level of cooperation that competitors thus far have been unable to muster.
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TechWeb - A roundup of the most popular high-definition televisions from Sharp, Samsung, Sony, Hitachi, and more, along with a guide to HDTV technology basics.
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I have good news, bad news, and worse news.  The good news is that I managed to get MythTV working well enough that it now plays standard definition channels better than the cable box alone, even though it's getting its signal from the cable output of the cable box.  I get this benefit because MythTV allows me to tweak various parameters that you can't change on the cable box.   The bad news is that high definition channels still look worse through MythTV than they do if I watch then directly from the cable box.  I don't expect to solve this problem. The cable box may be able to handle HDTV itself, but it outputs a digital signal in 480p, which is basically standard definition. The fact that I have two HDTV-capable tuner cards does me little good.  Here's the worse news. I had to learn way too much to get this far.
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SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES  - The living room, once  the most technologically simple part of the average home, is a  high-tech battleground today as the consumer electronics  industry seeks to digitize home entertainment and make it  available anywhere, anytime.
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With connectivity between devices being the runaway principal theme of this year's CES, Broadcom is making an intriguing play: Yesterday afternoon, the provider of technologies embedded in devices announced it's producing the components for HDTV manufacturers to embed video-on-demand-ready features directly into their sets, bypassing set-top boxes.