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Poll: Did you like the new show V? {Engadget HD}
Nov 5th 2009 12:43PM Awful.
10 minutes in, I was longing to watch "Mars Attacks" again.
20 minutes in, I was longing for "They Live".
After that, I was just annoyed by this miserable failure.
Nielsen reports the effects of the digital transition {Engadget HD}
Nov 3rd 2009 2:31PM What about people who transitioned by getting a new TV, with a DTV tuner? Are those included in the blue section?
Ready or not, the latest 3D technology is coming home {Engadget}
Oct 26th 2009 3:48PM Actually, the Blu-ray content will go from one 1080p24 stream to two 1080p24 streams, with the second one being differentially encoded from the first one.
The HDMI link will go from 1920x1080p24 (pixel clock 74.25 MHz) to 1920x2205p24 (pixel clock 148.5 MHz), so the bandwidth requirement will not be more than 1920x1080p60 (also 148.5 MHz pixel clock)
Engadget HD giveaway: win a copy of Coraline on Blu-ray! {Engadget HD}
Jul 20th 2009 12:23PM I'd like one. By the way, do we know if this will be the Red/Turquoise, Red/Green or Amber/Blue kind of anaglyph?
Sharp's 20-inch AQUOS DX LCD HDTV has a built-in Blu-ray player, no 1080p panel {Engadget HD}
May 22nd 2009 11:11AM It's actually a DVD and BluRay *recorder*, not a player. And 1366x768 is plenty for a 20", how close do you need to sit?
Philips gives Cinema 21:9 HDTV a price and release date {Engadget HD}
Feb 21st 2009 10:17AM The screen has a native resolution of 2560x1080, which means you can watch your 16:9 and 1.85:1 1080p content without scaling. For 2.35:1 content at 1080p, it currently needs to upscale from about 1920x810 to 2560x1080.
Hopefully there will some day be a 64:27 aspect ratio extension to encode movies anamorphically on 1080p, then it would only have to be horizontally upscaled from 1920x1080 to 2560x1080.
HD 101: Why there are black bars on HDTVs {Engadget HD}
Feb 19th 2009 6:17PM No, the movie on a blu-ray is stored in a 16:9 1080p frame, with the black bars.
And, yes, it would be a great idea to allow 1080p frames in anamorphic 4:3 and 64:27 aspect ratios as well. This would allow to store 1.33:1 and 2.40:1 movies in more pixels than with the current 16:9 frame.
Philips' 56-inch Cinema 21:9 HDTV: not for Americans {Engadget HD}
Feb 2nd 2009 1:11PM I think it's a decent size for a normal living room. With it's 56" diagonal at 64:27(erm, "21:9"), it shows a 44" picture at 16:9 and 36" picture at 4:3, when set to pillarbox (as it should be).
Anything larger, and you get into home theater room territory, where most people would install an constant height projector system.
SoBe's 3D Super Bowl commercial available now on YouTube HD {Engadget HD}
Feb 2nd 2009 11:46AM Same here in San Francisco. I went to several super markets, convenience stores and walgreens (where they carried Sobe), and all I got was blank stares when I asked.
Philips' 56-inch Cinema 21:9 HDTV gets showcased on video {Engadget HD}
Jan 30th 2009 11:23AM True, the black bars will never go away, but that is not sad, it is simple math.
While the TV is not the biggest, it certainly has a place in smaller living room home theaters.
Also, it will be essential in convincing media producers to provide movies encoded in the 64:27 aspect ratio, maybe even with the native 2560X1080 resolution of this TV, on the next Blu-Ray spec. And to convince equipment manufacturers to support these formats in their devices and the next HDMI version.
So far all disc formats (DVD, Blu-Ray) and digital interfaces such as HDMI support only two native aspect ratios, 4:3 [(4/3)^1] and 16:9 [(4/3)^2]. It is high time to also support 64:27 [(4/3)^3], even as anamorphic format on a 1920x1080 frame, to increase the number of used pixels in a frame.
This would be a transition like the one from letterboxed non-anamorphic DVDs to the anamorphic ones. That made a huge difference for scope movies.
