Seen that? – DVI vs. HDMI vs. Component Video
DVI vs. HDMI vs. Component Video The Wired Home Weblog
Last week we gave you some information about HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface). But does HDMI offer better audio and video than component connections? There's an excellent article at Ecoustics.com that shows it isn't always easy to say which is better. From the article:DVI/HDMI and Component Video are all video standards which support a variety of resolutions, but which deliver the signal from the source to the display in very [...] Read More
Onkyo Launches Next Generation HDMI Receiver The Wired Home Weblog
According to the folks at Crave: "Onkyo has become the first mainstream manufacturer to officially announce an array of home audio products that offer the two big features that have been MIA on home audio products to date: HDMI 1.3 and on-board decoding of Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks found on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs." With prices starting at just $380 and moving up quickly, this [...] Read More
Unwired: Wireless HDMI Senders rock the boat The Wired Home Weblog
Despite the name of this blog being the "wired" weblog, there's certainly been a distinct trend over the past few years to head towards wireless systems, and televisions have been the one thing not complying with this; the uncompressed nature of HD content not lending itself to the reletively small bandwidth of wireless tech. Until now, that is, GefenTV have launched a set of wireless streamers capable of [...] Read More
Atlona Wireless HDMI Adapter Has Great Intentions and Greater Potential The Gadgets Weblog
I have always thought that wireless USB (WUSB) has fantastic potential. The ability to stream any USB data over the air (including video) is fabulous. There have been some manufactures that have embraced wireless USB; IOGear has some great option, and Panasonic has a LCD monitor with WUSB built-in, but unfortunately, the list is very short. Altona has announced a HDMI or VGA converter called the HDAiR WUSB. The Altona HDAiR [...] Read More
360 to get HDMI port? XboxSpace
This falls under the category of: I hope it's true…but I wish it wasn't. The pic comes from Xbox-Scene, I don't know much about it and neither does anybody else…so your guess is as good as mine as to whether it's legit or not. But here's a two reasons why I think this is legit: 1) Microsoft can put HD-DVD in the 360 2) It would be nice to have full digital output I just [...] Read More
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