Recent Display Formats Articles
Spears & Munsil NEW Ultra HD Calibration Disc Has Pop Up Help
Spears & Munsil released their NEW 2023 Ultra High Definition calibration Blu-ray disc series to help installers and home theater enthusiasts calibrate their displays for the best possible picture.
Video Processing in DVD Players, Receivers and Displays
It has come to our attention many times in the past that people are generally confused about video processing. They are confused about which components are responsible for doing what, and they are …
Understanding HDMI Ver 1.3
HDMI is an acronym that stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface. As its name suggests, HMDI is an interconnectivity standard. Hitachi, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), Philips, Silicon …
Benchmark Testing DVDs ‑ Overview of HQV, Avia Pro and DVE
The Audioholics/HQV testing is rigorous; the simple fact is that many of the high-end DVD players cannot pass all the Audioholics/HQV tests. We at Audioholics feel there should be no compromise on …
Audioholics HDMI 1.3 Q&A
HDMI 1.3 has been the talk of the forums lately. Everyone wants to know what's going on with the new spec and what it means to the current and future crop of AV devices. We were fortunate enough to …
HDTV Past, Present and Future ‑ Part 2 Future
Just as HDTV begins to enter consumer electronics mainstream, it is poised for yet another evolution. The architects of today's HDTV system, long ago, envisioned a day when advancing technology would …
Mythbusting Plasma TV Performance
The digital television market is rife with misinformation and inaccurate perceptions of the performance capabilities of different display technologies.in particular, plasma televisions. Through …
VESA DisplayPort Standard v1.0
DisplayPort is an extensible industry standard intended to consolidate both external (box-to-box) and internal (LCD panel) display connections. The Promoter Group (made up of ATI, Dell, Genesis …
HDMI Interface ‑ A Beginner's Guide
Starting around 2003 we saw a rapid adoption of the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) across the digital consumer market. This included DTVs, high definition set -top boxes and computer graphics boards. …
HDTV Past, Present and Future ‑ Part I History
It has been nearly 80 years since the first public demonstration of television took place in a crowded laboratory in London . Since that time television has advanced from blurry black and white …
Fujitsu Plasma Tube Technology
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has been developing a revolutionary new plasma tube technology to produce narrow glass tubes, measuring one meter in length and one-millimeter in diameter, that emit light …
Understanding Widescreen, Letterboxed, and Pan & Scan
Why are There Black Bars on My TV? A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Not So Far Away someone introduced us to widescreen videos on VHS. These videos presented the full picture as you saw it in the …
CableCARDs ‑ A Primer
You probably keep hearing about CableCARD technology (also called "Digital Cable Ready") - or perhaps you've never heard of it. In either case, there's good news for you as a consumer. After …
Display Technologies Guide (LCD, Plasma, DLP, LCoS, D‑ILA, CRT)
A couple years ago it became apparent that in order to effectively review and compare the many upcoming display technologies, we'd need to publish an article or two about exactly what these differing …
Organic LED Displays (OLEDs) ‑ The Next Trend?
Wouldn't you like to be able to read off the screen of your laptop in direct sunlight? Your mobile phone battery to last much, much longer? Or your next flat screen TV to be less expensive, much …
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