All right, all this talk about progressive scan broke me down. Recently, I picked up a Samsung TXM3096WHF TV and upgraded to a Toshiba SD-5700 DVD player all for the purpose of checking out ...

Is there a big difference between 1080 and 768 resolutions for LCD TVs? I am trying to decide between two Sony TVs -- the KDL-40X2000 and the KDL-40V2000. I was told that the key is to find out if the ...

Although European terrestrial broadcasters, cable operaters, and satellite broadcasters have been broadcasting DTV for several years, they have, until recently, largely avoided HDTV. Probably in part ...

Chroma subsampling compresses the color components, while the bit rate determines how much data is encoded in each frame. See chroma subsampling and bit rate. Resolution, Frame Rate and ...

A simple explanation for how TV works is that a transmission signal sends information to your TV. The information tells the TV what the picture is supposed to look like. Once received, the TV paints ...

Black and white NTSC is simple – it can, and was, done with vacuum tubes for a long, long time. Color is just weird, though. It runs at 29.976 frames per second, uses different phases of the carrier ...

Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...

The STV108 family of 3-D video processors convert interlaced TV video streams to high-resolution, progressive-scan video up to wide-XGA resolution (1,280 x 768) at 60Hz. Suitable for TV tuner boxes, ...