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Analog television will be switching to digital television by June 12, 2009. In this category, you can talk about the requirements of digital television, converter boxes, and reception, just to name a few topics.

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How do you make a photo slideshow DVD and play on TV?

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Asked by Socube

You can just use the Windows DVD Maker, to help you make a DVD slideshow of your photos.

You can use Windows Movie Maker. Import the still pictures into it, arrange them on the time line and add any effects, like fades and wipes. When finished use the same software to burn it onto a DVD-r. Your computer will have to be equipped with a DVD writer optical drive.

What is best uhf antenna for tv reception?

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Store bought. They have many different varieties. The best come with internal signal amplifiers. You can recognize these easily cause they usually cost more and have to be plugged in to a 120volt outlet. Be sure that the channels you want are all in the UHF band, some HD TV stations are still in the VHF band (2-13). Some additional info, If you can see the transmitting tower from the roof or where your antenna is to be mounted, avoid the powered ones because the signal to the amplifier can be to strong for the it to handle.

How do you upgrade a Euromax digital receiver?

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open box and remove a black chip which is big squre looks then connect the cable it will automatically update

Can you use an indoor television outside?

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You can use a projection TV outside. In lieu of an actual screen, a light colored wall at night makes a perfectly good picture.

What is a block Diagram of Cable TV?

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Whether it is an analogue or a digital broadcast, a block diagram is the basic structure of a television broadcast. The is structure begins with the camera and mic, goes through the amplitude and frequency modulation phases, combines the video and audio, and transmits it out via a network tower or satellite.

Where can one purchase a Freeview Digital Box from?

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One can purchase a Freeview Digital Box directly from the manufacturer via telephone or website of the same name. One can also purchase the Freeview Digital Box websites run by companies such as NewEgg and Amazon.

What Comcast channel is ESPNU on?

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ESPNU on Comcast Cable airs on channel 32. ESPNU is the ESPN network's College Sports version.

How do you re-tune technika tv and save the settings?

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First click on the menu button.

The picture menu option is then shown on the screen'

Use left/right direction arrows to move from the picture option to the tuning option. The word tuning shown at the bottom of the display.

Using the downward direction arrow move through the options and select auto tuning

then yes/no select yes, after which it is automatic.

Can you use your old uhf antenna to pick digital signal on a digital t v?

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The answer to the questions depends on where you are. In the recent change to digital in the UK, many existing analog aerials work perfectly with the new service although others have had to be changed.

Generally, in areas where the digital terrestrial service is using similar frequencies to the analog service and where there is good signal strength, the old aerial is likely to work. The results will vary between countries and even between areas. Try it and see if your aerial still does the job.

Can one build a simple homemade TV antenna out of twisted wire?

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You can make a DB4 Digital TV Antenna out of a piece of wood and wire coat hangers. It works great and is very simple to make. It works better than rabbit ears! A free step by step tutorial can be found by using the link below. I have made 2 of them and they work great.

A simple yagi antenna can be made out of wire. Its impedance would be 300 ohms and this would have to be changed to 72 ohms to match the input of the TV set. This is done with a balun. Also the antenna should match the frequency that the channel you want to watch, this is done by 1/4 wavelengths.

You can always make one out of wire. It may not be (won't be) perfect, but perfection is not the goal. Functionality is. Simplicity is important. Depending on the wire you have, just do some experimenting to get something that work. You can rig up some "rabbit ears" or just try a simple "T" and see what happens. Impedances will not match, and lengths of the elements won't be spot on, but if you turn on your set and "play" with the thing, you'll get something that should allow you to at least watch some TV. What will be critical is which way the elements are oriented. You'll see big differences if you're holding the antenna and turning slowly around to reorient it; there will be one "best" direction, and one "worst" one. As long as your set is working properly and all you are doing is attaching some wire to the antenna jack, sticking it out into the air, and nothing else, you won't get electrocuted nor will you damage your set. Just be careful not to "mess up" your input jack on the unit. There are one or two spring loaded contacts in there to make contact with the center conductor on a piece of coaxial cable. Avoid jamming anything much thicker (and too long) into that type "F" connector (antenna connection) on the TV's back side.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of SD TV?

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Advantages of SD TV (Standard Definition TV)

  • Cost. Uses simpler technology so is cheaper to make
  • Backward compatible with older recording formats

Disadvantages of SD TV

  • It is being phased out and being replaced by HDTV (High Definition TV)
  • Uses more band width than HDTV
  • Images are less sharp with lower resolution when compared to HDTV

Where can you purchase digital tv boxes in Calgary?

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Digital television boxes will be sold in typically any electronic store in Calgary. For example, you can find some of these digital v boxes in Walmart.

What is the average price for a led lcd television?

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Compared to the screen resolution as led defines better pixels led tv is best for high definition and blu ray videos. But LCD is also good in performance and is better warranted. If u buy an led tv u will have to shell out more cash on its maintainence whereas LCD does not require so much

Digital tv converter box coupon expired?

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Call 'em and get another one. They know that messed up when they started and should be trying to make good with their coupons. You've got nothing to lose except a few minutes of your time.

Why should someone buy a plasma TV and not a LCD TV?

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CRT: Advantages: Cheap to buy, Cheap to fix, not too complicated to hook up peripherals (such as DVD players), Easy setup, when they go out just spend another $200 or so to buy a new one Disadvantages: Heavy to carry, bulky, picture quality not as good as a plasma HDTV, low resolution, low quality sound, small viewing area for widescreen DVD's, low picture quality for fullscreen DVD's, subject to glare PLASMA (HDTV) Advantages: Superior picture and sound, picture clarity equivalent to a computer monitor, light, easy to carry Disadvantages: Expensive to buy, expensive to fix, can be a complicated setup, accessories to go with the tv can get expensive, lots of options to consider when buying the tv

How do you convert from 480i to 1080i on a tv?

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You can't covert from one standard to the other. If the HDTV is a 1080 type, it will display that signal when present and display a 720 when it is present. A 720 HDTV will never display a 1080 resolution picture, it will show the picture in 720 resolution.

Who makes dynex televisions?

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Poster Below is wrong (or out of date ) Hisense makes Insignia ,Dynex and Best Buy Budjet 1080p Sharp product ( now) XOCECO used to make them .

Tier one is top like Sony and Samsung and LG with Vizio and others a 2nd tier and all the junk 3rd tier no such thing as five tiers outside of third world *maybe *

Dynex, along with Insignia, are house brands for Best Buy. You will Only find them there. The manufacturer is XOCECO, which stands for "Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronics Company." I know, because I did a lot of research on this unit, and even spoke with a rep from Xoceco, who verified that over 90% of Best Buy's Dynex brand TVs are made by Xoceco. They also make a portion of the Insignia lineup. They manufacture TVs for over 160 brands worldwide, 12 of which are U.S. brands. They manufacture products ranging from entry-level to fairly high-end. They manufacture over 5% of TVs worldwide. Cosidering the number of brands that exist, that's pretty impressive. They assured me, LG does NOT make any of the Dynex brand products. Xoceco has manufactured for SEC, Sanyo, Polaroid, and many others. At one time, they were sole manufacturers for Audiovox. The Dynex brand has, according to Xoceco, been a tier two out of five in regards to quality, competetive with other entry-level models on the market. The Dynex brand is now at about tier 3, marking a deliberate increase in product quality, and being about mid-level in quality. This denotes mainly the new Dynex products released this year.

below is an LGD panel size

I bought a 42" LCD TV last night and i heard the sales associate say that Samsung manufactures the Dynex so that is why i bought it. The picture looked great and it had all the inputs and the price was great.

both below could have the same Samsung Panel

My 2c: I looked at a 19" LCD Dynex side by side with a Samsung 19" and the pictures were identical and quite good. And Dynex is 30-40% less in price than Samsung. How long they last remains to be seen but they get good customer feedback. And yes, the salesman at Best Buy said Dynex is BB's house brand and they're made in China.

When will you be able to receive HD TV via an aerial?

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The answer to your question depends on where you live in the world!

Please ask this question again and be sure to say where you want to receive digital television: say in which country as well as in which city, town or village.

Who invented Cinema 3D?

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Asked by Rickmartin

"Nearly a century ago, in the 1920s, the great film director Sergei Eisenstein said that the future of cinematography was the 3d motion pictures. Many other cinema pioneers thought in the same way. Even the Lumière brothers experimented with three-dimensional (stereoscopic) images using two films painted in red and blue (or green) colors and projected simultaneously onto the screen. Viewers saw stereoscopic images through glasses, painted in the opposite colors. But the resulting image was black-and-white, like in the first feature stereoscopic film "Power of Love" (1922, USA, Dir. H. Fairhall).

The better stereoscopic films using the principle of light polarization were invented in 1930s and appeared to the public in the early 50s. After huge initial excitement, nevertheless, stereoscopic movies have not enjoyed broad application or great success. Though the polarization movie technology has been improved in every possible way (like in one of the best in the world system "Stereo 70", developed at NIKFI in Moscow) and in some variations has been used till now (for example, at the IMAX theaters), the stereoscopic cinema actually has no future. Put the reasons in simple terms, these stereo-films require wearing special polarized viewing glasses and they cause visual fatigue.

A talented inventor in the USSR, Semjon Ivanov, worked on eliminating the need for special glasses and developed a system of raster 3D motion pictures, which could be viewed without them. The only 3D movie theater in the world based on his system was constructed in Moscow in the 1941. In this theater the 3x4 meters mirror-raster screen created a 3d film "stereo-zone" for each and everyone of the 200 seats. Several documentary and short feature films were shot and shown there with long lines at the box office. Nonetheless, this system had a different technical flaw which was also a major inconvenience for viewers - the audience had to sit motionless in stereo-zones while watching these films. Ivanov's attempts to solve this problem were cut short by his death.

However in the middle of the century a new innovation in physics brought great optimism to many filmmakers - holography. Holography was "invented accidentally" in 1947 by the Hungarian scientist Dennis Gabor in Great Britain while he was working on an electron microscope. He coined the word and received a Nobel Prize for inventing holography in 1971. The holographic image is true three-dimensional: it can be viewed in different angles without glasses. This innovation could be a new revolution - a new era of holographic cinema and of holographic media in whole.

But the first holograms were of very poor quality. 3-D holograms of remarkable quality became possible only after invention of the laser and work done by Y. Denisyuk, E. Leith, S. Benton and other scientists during the 1960s and 1970s. The idea of holographic moviemaking began condensing in the air. The first holographic filming was made by M. Lehmann in the USA in 1966. Several holographic films were produced by a couple of French filmmakers C. Eizykman and G. Fihman, English sculptor Alexander, Japanese engineers and filmmakers J. Ishikawa, S. Hiyama, K. Higuchi and others.

But the scientists and artists soon realized that holographic films showed more the limitations than its potential, which was attributable to the immense technical difficulties involved in this technology. For example, in France the holographic movie must be seen inside an apparatus that was 7 feet high, 24 inches wide, and 28 inches deep. These holographic films were on lifeless objects, and they could be seen merely by one or two viewers simultaneously, which was not suitable for the public movie shows. That is why until recently, not many people have ever seen it and experienced the magic of a holographic movie.

Research in holographic cinematography was also started in the former Soviet Union in 1974 at the National Cinema and Photo Research Institute (NIKFI). It was funded by the State and led by Professor Victor Komar, the Director of this Institute, who developed the new principles of making holographic motion pictures, based on a totally innovative public-oriented approach. The major goal was: a holographic movie should be seen by the multiple viewers simultaneously in a movie theater without any inconvenient personal accessories, in full color and with better picture quality than the best current 35 mm films.

After extensive research and development the world's first true-public two-minute holographic film with a monochromatic image was produced by Komar's team in 1976 and it was shown in October 1976 at the XII congress of the International Cinematographic Associations Union (UNIATEC) in Moscow. The participants were amazed: the three-dimensional moving images could go out of a screen into any direction and even go around the screen.

The scientific community around the world responded to the Russian achievements in this area with high praise and splendid reviews. The eminent English scientist, Bernard Happe, editor of the British Encyclopedia of Television, who attended this congress, wrote: "delegates who saw the actual results were left with the sense of having been present at a historic occasion, comparable with the classic demonstrations of past pioneers in film and television and having equally vast and perhaps unrecognized potentialities".

The journal "Laser+Electrooptics" (November, 1978, Germany) analyzed the R&D in holographic cinematography which had been done by various researchers around the world (Hains, Brumm, Leith, Hsiao, Pole and Denisyuk). The journal noted that all this work had not yielded positive results and that "only V. Komar was able to demonstrate for the first time a short holographic film using his method in October 1976, and that this date now has become historical". And the American Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers conferred Prof. Komar its annual award for outstanding achievements in movies technology.

A few years later Komar's group solved the problem of color. And several short holographic films with color 3-D images were shot and projected in 1984. Now the holography had demonstrated its potential. It was unprecedented in public film and the effect it created upon those who saw it was absolutely stupendous. After this major achievement the idea of the holographic movies started becoming popular among filmmakers. Such as in a speech at a conference of Italian movie-makers in 1985, the renowned film director Andrei Tarkovsky said that "the most important thing for cinema is for it to become holographic".

In further pursing their research, Komar's group created a working experimental system of holographic motion pictures. In 1986, the Gorky Film Studio in Moscow started shooting the first 20-minute holographic movie. Simultaneously the USSR government approved plans for the construction of the first holographic movie theater with 50 seats.

But with the beginning of perestroika, state financing of holographic cinema R&D (as well as the majority of R&D in science and engineering fields in the USSR) was terminated.

Nevertheless, Komar's team didn't give up. Being cut financially from the holographic movie-making, they developed the technology of static holographic projection for multiple viewing zones, which opened up new means for advertising and show-making: new types of holographic advertising, presentations and holographic shows. Now such a rather simple and inexpensive static holographic projector can be used for advertising, exhibitions, show making, education and so on-just as usual slide-projectors are used-but thus we receive a 3d color image.

In 1991 the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded NIKFI an Oscar for Technical Achievements in the field of 3-dimentional filmmaking. It was stated in the Oscar diploma that "no other group or individual has shown such sustained dedication to the 3-D system". This Oscar certainly became one of the highest world's recognitions of the work of Victor Komar who headed all NIKFI's R&D in three-dimensional cinematography during several decades. "

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How do you hook up Wii to digital converter box to old TV?

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At the time of writing (2010), the Wii does not connect to an HDMI input. The Wii is currently limited to a variety of analog outputs including composite, S-video, RGB (Europe, 50Hz signals only) and component. Almost all televisions will have at least one suitable input. Select component or RGB if possible as these offer the best quality.

HDMI is a purely digital interface so none of the Wii outputs will drive it. Don't worry about it too much. Analog RGB or component out from the Wii provide the same resolution as an equivalent HDMI interface would and any difference in quality will not be noticeable.

What is the universal remote code for a Philco TB100HH9 digital converter box?

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Found a solution that works well...

I picked up a Sony RM-VL600 universal remote with learning capability. With this unit, I've been able to program all the functions of the TB100MW9 DTV Converter box.

I picked up this unit at Walmart for $25, but have seen it on Amazon for as little as $16.

This remote is a vast improvement over the remote that comes with the Magnavox DTV converter, and was easy to program.

Found another solution....

after tinkering with the Philips universal remote for an hour, i finally found a code that can control the magnavox converter. the code is 0759. the Philips remote i have is SRU3006/27 but it might work for any Philips universal remote. the remote itself cost me about 15 dollars. if you call Philips or magnavox they would say none of the remotes can operate the converter.they obviously didn't know their own product...

How you can see cable channels without a converter box?

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I'm having the same problem after buying another 46 in smart tv. I'm leaning towards learning the stock market and monitoring stocks on one, otherwise I might set it up to play download and manage music and photos from a pc or mac if could afford one.

If you have a digital tv and an outdoor antennae do you need a converter box?

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In the US the answer is probably not. Digital and analog TV broadcasts use the same frequencies and antennas. Digital TV is more fussy about signal quality than the older analog signals. So if you get marginal analog reception, figure on getting a new antenna for digital. The idea that there are special HDTV antennas is just marketing hype. Any antenna that gives you better digtial reception will also give you better digital reception.

How television viewing changed in last 5 years?

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Television viewing is on the decline as the major entertainment for most people. Recreational pursuits such as social media and video gaming are taking the place of TV in many persons lives.