Good news from Sony about Blu-ray and copy protection
Sony had news a few days ago about their upcoming Blu-ray plans. One important tidbit is about copy protection.
Sound And Vision Magazine: Blu-ray to Debut May 23:
In an important aside, Don Eklund, SPHE’s senior vice president for advanced technologies, said that Sony’s initial Blu-ray discs — and all of its Blu-ray titles for the forseeable [...]
The High-Definition Olympics
All our family has been enjoying the Olympics this year on the new HDTV. While there are some occasional problems with the video and audio, on the whole the high-def broadcasts have been a huge improvement over the old SD we’ve been used to.
One of the many hundreds of engineers NBC has employed to make [...]
TNT-HD coming to DirecTV
This just in:
Turner Network Television (TNT) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with DIRECTV, Inc. to provide customers with the high-definition (HD) feed of TNT. The service will launch on DIRECTV on Friday, Feb. 17 and will be available on DIRECTV channel 75. The 24/7 HD presentation of the TNT East Coast [...]
Behinds the scenes at the hi-def Super Bowl
Here’s an interesting article about preparations for high-definition broadcasting from this year’s Super Bowl.
In addition to just about every camera being high-definition, there is some interesting prototype technology being used.
ABC Sports will field test the Sony advanced prototype HD super slo-mo camera system, according to Robert Willox, director of marketing for content creation at Sony [...]
LCD HDTV prices will fall in the coming months
More news today of additional LCD manufacturing capacity, this time from a joint venture between Panasonic, Hitachi, and Toshiba, and sooner than originally scheduled. Previous announcements of capacity increases in the last few weeks were made by Sharp, Samsung, LG. This added capacity will accelerate the price drops seen over the past few months.
Meanwhile, production [...]
The old shows are coming back, now in high-definition
When I was younger, a favorite TV show was Hogan’s Heroes. Kind of a silly show, but the characters were fun, and the stories entertaining.
HDNet is a high-definition channel available on DirecTV with some original content, as well as a few shows from the past. One is Hogan’s Heroes, which they broadcast in full [...]
Good news for fans of Firefly/Serenity [updated]
Sci Fi Wire has news today that there could be a Serenity sequel.
As background for those unfamiliar with Serenity or Firefly, Firefly is a TV series, science fiction of course, from 2002. IMDB reports there were 15 episodes. Here’s the plot outline:
In the distant future, Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds is a renegade former interstellar officer [...]
Consumer Electronics Show 2006
There are many announcements and cool new products showing at the CES in Las Vegas. Huge 103″ HDTVs, Blu-Ray and HD DVD players, wannabe iPod killers, gadgets, computers, etc.
Here’s some links to sites with news:
Endgadget has lots of news, and is live-blogging many of the keynotes and presentations.
HD Beat
Popular Mechanics
CES 2006 Web site
Our new TV is already obsolete
We got a 61″ Samsung DLP (the 6168 model, 1080P) for the family Christmas present last month. Wonderful TV, incredible picture… Hi-Def rocks!
The 2006 CES show is underway, and Samsung has announced their next generation HDTVs. Very cool.
I’m happy with our TV though, and glad we got it… these new models won’t be available for [...]