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Digital videodiscs are enormously popular, and high-definition televisions are finally starting to catch on. But the next logical step--DVDS that carry high-definition (HD) movies--has proved to be a difficult one. Ordinary DVDs can't hold the data required for true HD video, and electronics manufacturers haven't been able to agree on a new DVD format with enough capacity to do the job. Instead, they have broken into two warring camps: the so-called Blu-ray group (established by Sony and endorsed by Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung) and the HD DVD Promotion Group (supported...
...true comparison, I connected both TVs to a Sony DVD player, using a special (and expensive) box. The DVD player upconverts the video signal from DVDs to high def. That doesn't mean that the videos themselves are HD, but they do look pretty good. I was able to view movies such as Batman Begins, House of Flying Daggers and The Incredibles on both screens at once. Later, I connected the TVs to my cable box to watch true high-definition signal - the ESPN HD broadcast of last Monday night's Phillies-Braves game. This might not be termed...
...question remains: since DVDs aren?t high-def, how do you enjoy the highest resolution video on your TV? You could play them back through the camcorder - pushing files back and forth to the SD memory card shouldn?t be a problem. Soon enough, though, you might end up with a Blu-ray or even HD DVD burner - one that will let you record true high-definition content onto a shiny silver disc. Sure, it?s cool, but in the first couple of years, none of that stuff will come cheap...
...sacrifice--to being a monarch," Mirren says. Elizabeth II has seen Elizabeth I, Mirren says. At a dinner party, the Queen told one of the mini-series' producers she enjoyed the program, so the producer offered to send a DVD. "The Queen said, 'Oh, we don't do DVDs. A video would be fine,'" Mirren says. We guess people who live in castles aren't early adapters...
SCENE IT? SQUABBLE Games with DVDs are coming on strong. After watching clips, you call out answers to onscreen questions. Scene It? sold 5 million copies in 2005, and now there are editions devoted to music, TV and even Harry Potter. The newest twist, Squabble, is billed as a battle of the sexes, but the original Scene It? movie version is better...