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1) Consumers Suffer When Technology Gets Complicated
Author:
Nicole Evans
Category:
Communications
Technology, particularly home entertainment technology, should be simple to use. This simplicity of use is especially important for home entertainment technology because it ensures that the device that embodies that technology can be enjoyed rather than futzed with in order to make it work. Far too often technology is complicated by economic factors rather than just technical factors, and is therefore far too difficult to use in many respects. For example, it's completely conceivable that so...
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2) Home Theater Incorporates A Lot Of Technology
Author:
Nicole Evans
Category:
Communications
If you're interested in putting together a home theater system of your own, there are a lot of things that you need to consider that go beyond a simple HDTV set. Sure, the HDTV set is important because it's central to the entire system, but it is just one integral part of that system that needs to be incorporated with many others.
One factor that many aspiring home theater owners don't put enough thought into is the sound system. High Definition Television has Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sou...
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3) Unconventional Technology Makes Home Theater Even Better
Author:
Nicole Evans
Category:
Communications
When people shop around for HDTV equipment, all too often they fall prey to the idea that they need certain types of HDTV sets, while in reality there are a lot of different options that most people consider. Part of this is caused by media hype of certain types of products, but a lot of it is caused by simple ignorance of the existence of any alternatives.
The case of flat panel HDTV screens is an excellent example of this. Flat panel TV sets are the stereotypical HDTV display technology a...
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4) Paramount Drops Blu-ray DVD Technology
Author:
Nicole Evans
Category:
Communications
An unfortunate truth in the area of TV technology is that the best technology is not always the one that triumphs when two competing technologies go into competition with each other. The history of TV technology is littered with examples of this. The one that most people are most familiar with is the format war between the Betamax and VHS video cassette tape formats. Even though VHS won that particular format war, many people have argued that Betamax was actually the superior format. A less...
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5) Video Game Technology Makes Better Use of TV
Author:
Nicole Evans
Category:
Communications
Video gaming is a use of TV technology that's somewhat on the fringes of what most people lump in with home entertainment (probably because of its obvious computer origins), but it's a very popular use of TV equipment nonetheless.
Video games were first available back in the nineteen seventies with the introduction of the Atari and the Intellivision. Both of these video game systems produced very primitive, low resolution graphics and extremely simplistic sound effects and music, but offere...
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6) Direct TV News About Mobile TV Viewing
Author:
Nicole Evans
Category:
Communications
There are a lot of plans on the table to supply the owners of portable devices with video that can be viewed on the go. These schemes range from dedicated over the air digital TV channels that are designed to specifically target users of portable devices like mobile phones to data networks that run in parallel to the normal digital voice network that allows mobile phone users to communicate using traditional speech. Among all of the different schemes that are used to supply users of mobile de...
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