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A Home Theatre Projector
By C R Ellsworth

This has some handy features compared to the older technology of Giant Screen Plasma or rear projection systems. Cost alone is worth considering. A 'Big Screen', whether Plasma, LCD or Rear Projection can easily cost thousands of dollars, the larger, the higher cost. Even at 6 or 7 thousand dollars you may be restricted to 70 inch diagonal width. It projects images up to 120 inches is affordable at starting prices under $1500.

New generation of projectors are compact and light. New projector technologies such as LCD projectors or DLP projectors which utilize compact digital image chips which have brighter light output than CRT technologies. Now there's no need to completely see your movie in total darkness. A dimly lit room will do just as fine.

Remember having to arrange a party at your house for 'The Big Game' if you owned a 'Big Screen'. Now with a Projector, there's no need to rush somewhere, or the same spot every week, you can move the party around sort of sharing the load. Think of having the 'Super Bowl Party' or other event at a venue that can be picked by the size of the group invited instead of the location of the 'Big Screen'. You could even move to rented space if you expected a large enough showing. Now imagine the same scenario with an online presentation, or Power Point Presentation. See, this is starting to show some possibilities.

You can setup on a table. It's also light enough that it could be ceiling mounted without extra bracing as long as you mount to an upper floor joist or rafter.

Don't tell anyone I said this, but this is also a possibility when you go on vacation, although if camping some may feel the 'Big Screen' is inappropriate. I know someone that might shoot me if I suggested camping with any form of TV.

A wide range of connectivity options is available. Imagine your PC display that large. Games become more engrossing or you can run your digital photos as the ultimate slide show.

For Display output you can use...

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HDTV - Deja Vu All over Again

HDTV will be a greater leap in the quality of the home entertainment experience than even the change from black-and-white TV to color, or Hi-Fi to Stereo, or AM to FM. HDTV, in addition to picture and sound will also deliver data services, such as electronic program guides or information related to the programs you watch. Local broadcast stations broadcasting in HD will be able to broadcast one extra high quality picture, or several separate camera angles equal to today's pictures. HDTV will offer the opportunity to develop sophisticated services that meet consumer demand for flexibility and convenience.

HD will be presented in a 16:9 format and will allow resolutions up to 1940x1080 plus provide you with twice the amount of picture information both vertically and horizontally. It will not work on regular analog televisions since these sets don't support the interfaces required for HDTV signals.
After February 17th of 2009 local analog TV channels will stop transmitting, everything else connected to your analog TV will continue to work.

DVD

By the time HDTV is wide spread, high-definition movies will be on the shelves, playable on Blu-ray, HD DVD or both, depending on which way the format wars go. When you switch over to HD, you may need to connect your HD set-top box, Blu-ray or HD DVD player to your TV using a HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) cable. Both Blu-ray and HD DVD are compatible with existing standard DVD, so you can play your current discs on a next-gen player, but the two competing formats are not compatible with each other. It's a bit of a laugh if you are old enough to remember the 'Beta-Max VHS Wars', Beta you say?

Technology

What problems are facing the early adopters of this new technology and what caveats remain for it to become mainstream? The people buying HDTV units today are known as "early adopters".

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Is Blu-Ray Just More Planned Obsolescence

Planned obsolescence, or built-in obsolescence if you are in the UK, is the decision by a manufacturer to purposely design, manufacture and distribute a consumer product to become obsolete or non-functional specifically to force the customer to buy the next generation of the product. This plan will be implemented before the 'Next Generation' is even off the drawing board. Planned obsolescence is of course, very beneficial for a manufacturer because it means a customer can't just buy a product once and have it last for many years thereby never having to buy again - the life of the product's usefulness or functionality is fixed, so that at regular intervals the customer must pay money again and again, and yet again to either the original manufacturer for newer junk, or buy from the competition who probably also uses planned obsolescence.

I can't believe we are still using motors and movable parts that wear out. The technological advances of the last few years have led to media that can hold Giga bytes of data in volatile and non volatile storage with no moving parts.

So, does Blu-Ray fit into this scenario? That remains to be seen because the new technology is so fresh.

The most intense competition in the next-gen optical video disc format wars is between HD-DVDs and Blu-ray. Blu-ray is backed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, of which Sony is a member. Not only a format for HD video and audio, Blu-Ray is a higher-capacity storage format. HD DVD at this point is being out sold by Blu-ray. Blu-ray has sold 500,000 more discs.

Is this just a case of 'The Newest Toy' or 'Grass is Greener'? You can expect Blu-Ray to parallel the rising popularity of HDTV and it may replace legacy systems unless the onrush of other new toys overtakes Blu-Ray. If you are an audiophile you may remember when DAT (Digital Audio Tape) was anticipated as the be all, end all of sound. Today DAT is used in some tape backup situations and not much else.

If a 10-year life span for the Blu-ray format is projected, what comes next? Very likely another phase of planned obsolescence.

SSD is the future...

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