Tuesday, May 18, 2010

About Home Theater: Demystifying TV Technologies

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From Robert Silva, your Guide to Home Theater
Welcome to my Weekly Home Theater Newsletter! It isn't easy buying a new TV these days. Check out an enlightening overview of TV technology. Also, are you proud of your home theater system? Find out how you can get it featured on the About.com Home Theater Site. In addition, if you an older HDTV that doesn't have HDMI or DVI connections and you get your HD signals via component video connections, your access to HD may be curtailed.

Demystifying CRT, Plasma, LCD, and DLP TV Technologies
Buying a television for your home theater can be very confusing these days, especially with several types of TV technologies to choose from. Gone are the bulky CRT sets that dominated living rooms in the second half of the twentieth century. Here is a brief overview that should shed some light on the difference between CRT and current television technologies.

Show Off Your Home Theater System
Home Theaters come in many configurations, from a simple TV and Home Theater-in-a-Box system, to a full fledged custom installed system with a video projector and high-end sound system. Some are nice and neat and some are interesting examples of Rube Goldberg ingenuity. What is your home theater like? To share, all you have to do is fill out a simple form and upload up to two photos of your system. Show us your stuff!.

3D Glasses Compatibility Controversy
Now that consumers are being assaulted by Ads beckoning them to jump on the 3D bandwagon, reality is beginning to set in that it is not so easy or affordable... Read more

The FCC Approves Optional Hi-Def Component Video Output

 


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