Via Ars: US television network ABC is concerned about losing ad revenue to DVR-loving, ad-skipping consumers, and it has a plan to stem the bleeding—deactivate the DVR fast forward button. Yes, we just adore those annoying unskippable sections of DVD that prevent you from watching the part you actually want to watch until you’ve sat [...]

Bigpond Movies and Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) use the same genetic code, but don’t quite agree with each other.

SpongBo has written a number of posts about his search for the ultimate LCD TV. He finally bought the Sony Bravia. Good for him. He tells me that he enjoys his new TV. I have news that will end all that. At CES 2006, Toshiba unveiled working prototypes of their new SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) [...]

TV Connectors. Everybody loves ‘em. Personally, I never even bothered thinking about them. If you’re just interested in what connector gives you the best image quality, skip straight to the Cheat Sheet at the end of the article. But as it turns out, there are benefits to getting the type of connector configured optimally – [...]

WinDVD 7, on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Update Rollup 2 is applied, but everything applies pre-UR2 anyway. Using Australian Free-To-Air Digital TV via an Avermedia A16A. The Good Good de-interlacing, better than PureVideo Excellent image quality Supports HD without any noticeable problems so far Doesn’t stress the CPU too much (Radeon 9550 @ [...]

I know, I whined about the frame rate in store. Funny, isn’t it? Yep, I bought a BRAVIA V-Series 32-incher. Baseline: very happy with it. The 32 inch model is a perfect size replacement for the 68cm 4:3 TV with side speakers – it fits snugly into the same area, but provides a much wider [...]