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 ...

Illuminating a screen by displaying lines sequentially from top to bottom. Also called "non-interlaced," all modern monitors and TVs support progressive scan. For example, the "p" in 1080p means that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Video frame rates would seem to be a static subject frozen in the various International Television Union (ITU) and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers standards (SMPTE). However, ...