Showing posts with label Digital Tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Tv. Show all posts
Saturday, August 1, 2009
LCD-DTV221 XBR PC Monitor Features DTV Tuner, HDMI
The 22-inch LCD-DTV221 XBR PC monitor, from Japan's I-O Data, is the latest addition to a growing trend of PC displays with integrated digital TV tuners. With a digital TV tuner, 1680x1080 pixel WSXGA+ resolution, a 1000:1 contrast ratio and a 300cd/m2 brightness level, the DTV 221 is the equivalent of many popular second-tier HDTV brands on the market currently. Other features include picture-in-picture, D5 compression, DVI HDPC, and even an HDMI port. Sound is pumped through two 2.5W integrated speakers, rounding up your home theater PC experience.
Digital TV converter boxes: What to look for, what to avoid
We've been anticipating this day for years. February 17, 2009 was supposed to be the day when all analog TV broadcasting ceased, meaning anyone who gets TV over the air would need to have a digital tuner by now. Otherwise, dead air.But thanks to the procrastinators in Washington and 5.8 million U.S. households across the U.S., some of you are getting a reprieve. While 641 TV stations will shut off their analog transmitters today (or have already done so), the cutoff date for all analog transmission was pushed back to June 12, giving everyone a few more months to get their digital ducks in a row.
If you have an old TV with rabbit ears, you still have time to get a converter box for it, and we've singled out the best ones from the hundreds available. We also warn you to steer clear of a few stinkers. Hit the jump for the list
Tech Digest
Tech Digest Nokia took the wraps off its first phone with an integrated digital TV decoder today at its annual Mobility Conference in Barcelona.
Set to launch in Q2 2006, the N92, which runs using Nokia's Series 60 interface, features a DVB-H TV tuner that in the future will be able to receive as many as fifty TV channels. DVB-H is a variant of the digital TV standard as used in the UK by Freeview, which has been optimised for mobile devices. It is set to launch in Italy in time for the 2006 World Cup with other European countries following later in the year. There's no official UK launch for the service, but it could theoretically arrive as early as 2007. Nokia, along with O2 and NTL, recently conducted a DVB-H trial in the Oxford area.
Similar to other N Series phones, the N92 runs using Nokia's Series 60 interface and features a suite of high-end facilities. The clamshell-style device includes integrated Wi-Fi, web browsing and music playback. Its 2.8-inch 16 million-colour screen can be flipped round so that it looks like a tiny DVD player making it ideal for TV viewing on the go. The handset can also record TV programmes on to an SD card and deliver an on-screen electronic programme guide. Some innovative interactive facilities are also in the pipelines, allowing you to cast votes on live TV shows, for example.
In Barcelona Nokia also unveiled two other N series phones. Also set to launch in Q2, the N71 features the N series signature facilities of 3G connectivity, web browsing and PDA-style applications. Its headline feature is a unique web browser that Nokia calls minimap. This delivers two screens on the device, the main close-up screen and a second transparent navigation screen that provides a snapshot of the entire page the user is seeing. This lets you quickly access and scroll around various parts of the page. The browser is also compatible RSS and XML feeds and has up to two Gigabytes of storage via a miniSD card.
Completing the line up is the Nokia N80, a slider handset and the first mobile phone to feature Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) so that it can network wirelessly with any device in the home. For example, users will be able to stream MP3 tracks wirelessly from the handset to a hi-fi system. The phone is also the first quad band phone with dual band 3G
Portable Multimedia Player with Digital TV
On the off-chance you tire of its amazing Freeview channels, this beautifully engineered bit of kit also acts as an MP4 video player, audio player and picture viewer. Simply pop in your media (using the Mini SD Card slot or the USB port) and you can gawp at your favourite movies and holiday snaps and listen to your latest tunes. It even acts as an FM radio.Touch sensitive buttons give this chic travelling companion a classy designer edge, whilst the rechargeable battery gives up to 3.5 hours viewing time in TV mode or 7.5 hours in video mode. Listen to your MP3s and you’ll get a whopping 42.5 hours of sonic pleasure.
As well as all the relevant leads and doodahs, the Portable Digital TV comes complete with quality earphones and a soft carry case. And to think the only thing that used to come with a portable telly was backache, interference and a whopping great bill for the batteries.
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