| Quorum Productions’ Hit TV Show Designing Spaces to Feature the ...
Wondering how you can really make your LCD TV's picture stand out? The hit Quorum Productions television program Designing Spaces will feature Andy Wong of 3M Optical showing viewers how they can get the best quality picture from their LCD TV. "The latest trend in LCD is a technology called Vikuiti. Vikuiti is a film placed inside the TV by manufacturers which enhances the picture clarity in any light conditions," says Wong. "This addition makes it possible to view your TV at its best in dark or light conditions. I'll be showing viewers some of the brands that currently use Vikuiti and how their picture quality stacks up in various light conditions." .
A brighter picture. Chris Dziadul looks at HD developments in CEE
The news that Estonia's Elion has added Voom to its programme line-up is a highly welcome development and one that is likely to act as a catalyst for the introduction of HD services in the Baltic Republics as a whole. Certainly in Estonia, Elion has been setting the pace for the last two years, being the first company to introduce digital cable TV services and then IPTV. Starman and STV, the country's two leading MSOs, have been forced to react by themselves rolling out digital cable and – in the case of Starman – entering into a partnership with the transmission company Levira to launch a DTT service late last year. The latter, which employs MPEG-4 compression, certainly plans to offer HD sometime in the future. Elsewhere, HD is already part of the media landscape in Poland following the launch of the DTH platform n last autumn and Canal+'s first HD channel in the country in December.
HDTV: Why its hot and why its not
Those high definition TV pictures in the stores look awesome, with every little leaf on a Discovery Channel tree crystal clear, including tiny drops of dew on porous surfaces.
Grains of dirt smudged along a couple of inches of white material on a football uniform helps put viewers on the field.
But watching sweat bead on Rolling Stone's guitarist Keith Richard's craggy forehead might be a little too much digital information. There's no arguing that high definition images on TVs these days are amazing, whatever the programming. But before you shell out $1,000 to $2,000 for a plasma or liquid crystal display (LCD) television, be sure to check with your TV signal provider to find out what kind of special equipment you need to get HD reception.
When TV shopping, you'll still find some of those standard cathode-ray tube (CRT) screens, updated for digital reception.
Buying HD TV a super experience
It used to be that if I bought the chips and dip, the Budweisers and the rib-eye steaks, I could assemble enough friends to fill all six seats in my living room for an annual Super Bowl fest. But not last year. That's because one of my friends - we will call him R.M. - broke from tradition and purchased a 50-inch Panasonic plasma HD television. So in 2006, I enlisted a designated driver to carry me to and from the Super Bowl XL party, which was held just off McLeod Road. But I am back in the running to host the 2007 Super Bowl extravaganza. Last week, after listening to the owner of a 50-inch plasma television complain throughout the Fiesta Bowl about the “crappy picture" on my 32-inch ProScan TV, I had a decision to make: Tell R.M.
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