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How to get HD audio without using a HDMI cable.
Right now the two main HD audio codecs are Dolby TrueHD & DTS-MA. These audio tracks can be found on Blu-ray disk. Unfortunately if you don’t have an AV Receiver you realize you’re constrained by your TV speakers. Now if you have an AV Receiver and […]

Sony XBR 8 vs Samsung 9 Series
Introduction:
The Sony XBR 8 is the latest in LCD LED technology. On paper it’s the best LCD in the market but Samsung has produced its own LCD LED model as well. I’m going to get a bit anal when it comes to this comparison. In the long run both […]

Last night we had a few friends over our apartment. The reason for the event was to watch the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Aside from just meeting up to hang out it was also a test to see what people thought of Blu-ray and a real surround sound.
Many people are finally catching word […]

Many of you who are YouTube junkies have noticed that YouTube has switched over all it’s video into a widescreen format. It was notced a few weeks ago that YouTube was also testing out some HD content. Well let me one of the first to share with you…. YouTube HD!
Obviously not all video on youtube […]

LCD vs Plasma was one of the most common questions I received while working at Circuit City. It’s probably the first thing we explained to all the rookies. The problem with this was who was telling the person the differences. Everyone is bias to one or the other deep down inside, even myself. Hopefully by […]

If you want to know what the future entails as far as Televisions go. OLEDs are what everyone is looking forward to. Samsung just showed this 40″ prototype which is the largest of its kind. As far specs go it’s got 1080P, 1,000,000:1 Contrast, and a NTSC color gamut of 107%. The […]

About a month ago I had the power supply changed on my Samsung 32″ that I bought almost 3 yrs ago. It got fried by a lightning strike in Tampa. Thankfully I had bought the warrenty for the set and they came and replaced the PS. Hadn’t really watched much TV on it since they […]

This is something I’ve wanted to put together for awhile now. This might scare you at first but keep in mind this is just to educate you on some of the problems out there. It doesn’t mean that you will have any of these problems when you get home. Consider this more of a check […]

The price of the Sony XBR 8 has finally been announced by Sony.
Alright so let’s just say the Samsung 9 Series looks like its really the best deal…
Sony XBR 8 40″ is going for = $5,000 !
Sony XBR 8 55″ is going for = $7,000 !
Sony has announced a new size for the XBR 7 […]

As I said earlier last week about a post being done on issues associated with TVs, It’s coming. I really want to put something together that extensive and covers everything out there. You’ll be surprised how much people will spend on a television and not even realize that the set is not preforming the way […]