Plasma Television and HDTV Articles

Help, I Need a New HDTV! (Part 2 of 5)

Feeling overwhelmed in selecting a new TV? With all the choices these days, you may feel like, Where do I start?! In part 2 of our 5 part article, we the discuss the options in TV technologies ... Read article

HDTV Receiver Primer

Without an hdtv receiver, an hdtv-ready tv is like Yin without the Yang, The Pips without Gladys Knight, BJ without the Bear. If you have an hdtv-ready tv, you need to get an hdtv receiver in order to see how much better hdtv really is. While regular tv looks great on an hdtv-ready flat screen tv, there is a significant amount of hdtv ... Read article

 

HDTV Broadcasts - Three Developments Should Speed Adoption

Turned off by high equipment costs, confused by the wide variety and types of television sets available and bewildered by the techno-speak, many people are tuning hdtv and hdtv broadcasts out of their minds. That's too bad because the technology is revolutionary. With five times the resolution of normal television broadcasts, a wider field of ... Read article

 

HDTV & plasma tv reviews & ratings - from high definition wide screen television systems, LCD projectors to flat screen tvs

HDTV, the most advanced television technology available was introduced in 1998. And what's the hype about? Well, regular TV sets (SDTV) give you only 480 lines of resolution, but HDTV gives you 1080 lines giving you the best image quality possible using ... Read article

 

Goodbye, CRT

By Paul O'Donovan

The next television you buy won’t contain a cathode-ray tube. And thanks to the imminent worldwide transition from analog to digital television, you probably will be buying a new TV soon—you and more than a billion other consumers around the world ... Read article

 

Goodbye, CRT Continued

By Paul O'Donovan

So what about the LCD , today’s most obvious alternative to plasma? A liquid-crystal television is, in effect, a sandwich with many ingredients. Its layers include a bright white backlight, a layer of liquid-crystal molecules, a matrix of thin-film transistors ... Read article

 

Goodbye, CRT Continued

By Paul O'Donovan

So which technology will dominate over the next four to five years? Two winners will emerge, one for screen sizes smaller than 50 inches, one for screen sizes larger than 50 inches. Fifty is the magic number in the TV business, because it is, at least today, the upper limit for economical production of reliable panels that ... Read article

 

Get Quality Satellite TV On Your PC

By Joseph Weber

You ever wondered if it was possible to get quality satellite TV on your PC? With the buzz of the internet at an all time high, it is not a bad thought. With internet connections so fast, there is pretty much no limit to what you can accomplish ... Read article

 

Gateway 42-Inch HD-Ready Plasma TV

By Dave Salvator

When people think about flat panel TVs, they're often thinking about plasma displays. If you're in the market for an HDTV and have priced out any plasma display panels (PDPs), you've hopefully recovered from the initial sticker shock. They're generally very expensive, though prices for EDTVs (extended-definition televisions) have dropped ... Read article

 

Gaming on a Plasma TV: Issues and Problems

With their huge screens and astounding picture quality (more so when coupled with HDTV ), plasma TVs and PlayStation 3s/Xbox 360s/Nintendo Wiis seem like the ultimate gaming platforms. Take note of the word seem . The experiences of many gamers tell of stories where video gaming ruins otherwise perfectly normal plasma ... Read article

 

Flat panel tv technology

A flat panel tv that uses plasma tv technology displays the picture by electrically charging gases that are sandwiched in thousands of small chambers between two panes of glass. Depending on the nature of the charge, the gas in each chamber will glow red, green or blue in color. When thousands of these cells are charged in this ... Read article

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