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Editor's HDTV Pick

HP 47 inch MediaSmart 1080p LCD HDTV "Out of the box" digital media platform. Enjoy videos, pictures and music from home network + digital media delivered over your broadband Internet connection + 3 x HDMI

We all like things to be simple. Even a basic task like loading a DVD into a DVD players tray requires multiple remotes and key pressing before the TV is on, the correct video source selected and appropriate video and audio modes enabled.

A little know facility of HDMI, Consumer Electronics Control (CEC), can provide a vastly simplified global level of remote control. Getting a DVD up and playing can be as simple as a single button press.

With its roots coming from the SCART interface, the HDMI-CEC allows up to ten AV devices to discover and communicate with one another over a HDMI connected system. Around since HDMI version 1, HDMI-CEC was updated with version 1.3 of HDMI with the addition of timer and audio commands. CEC consists of a single wire bus within standard HDMI cabling. It is mandatory to have the CEC cabling but, not to implement it. However, with CEC compliance test equipment having become available recently, audio visual manufacturers are moving to implement CEC in their consumer products.

HDMI-CEC also allows for global commands with individual CEC enabled AV devices able to command and control each other without user intervention. In the case of loading a DVD, closing the DVD tray could trigger the DVD player to command the TV to switch on, select the DVD player HDMI cable as the video source and set the appropriate video and audio modes for playback.

So remember, if you want a CEC functional system make sure the audio visual device you are purchasing is compliant as it is optional and not all manufacturers have implemented it.

Samsung is in a good position having captured the number one market share position for digital TVs in the USA in 2006. Samsung markets the four most important digital TV technologies - LCD, Rear Projection, Plasma, and Flat Tube.

The Samsung LN-T5265F is a 52 inch, 1080p format (1920(H) x 1080(V) pixels) LCD flat panel television. It has a slim, black bezel, twin hidden side speakers and is suitable to wall mount. It’s swivel stand allows +/-15° of movement providing set-up flexibility. Its made even easier by the wide viewing angle of 178º(H) / 178º(V) (courtesy of Samsung’s S-PVA display technology.).

A separate set-top box is not required as the LN-T5265F comes with a built-in digital ATSC high definition TV tuner. ATSC refers to the Advanced Television Systems Committee which sets the sensitivity specification for digital televisions and is the result of a collaboration of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and other ATSC member’s recommendations.

Important elements of picture quality are color, contrast ratio and resolution. Aiming to be the best LCD TV, the Samsung LN-T5265F LCD high definition television scores well in all three areas.

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Already having developed a 21 inch OLED display prototype, Toshiba and Matsushita have now announced that they will release via their joint venture, Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Company, an OLED television, probably 30 inch, by 2009.

Some Quick facts on OLED displays

• OLED substances are electroluminescent – they emit light when a current is applied
• do not require a backlight
• greater color gamut possible
• require far less energy than LCD or Plasma displays
• panels can be very thin
• OLED films can be deposited on a display substrate by a process similar to ink-jet printing promising lower manufacturing costs
• provide very wide viewing angles
• excellent contrast – unlike LCD displays with a backlight OLED films emit no light when off
• the display technology and the manufacturing process do not present limits to possible screen sizes or resolutions
• flexible displays are possible by printing OLED films onto flexible display substrate

Some of the lifetime issues of OLED organic material seem to have been resolved with discoveries like that of blue PHOLED which has a 20,000 hour lifetime. However, displays will have to be well sealed or protected otherwise as moisture can damage organic display materials.

It seems that Toshiba and Matsushita are being realistic about the difficulties of bringing a new technology to the consumer market. ToshibaToshiba’s President and CEO Atsutoshi Nishida has commented that, “We don’t expect that the organic EL can compete from the beginning on the equal footing with the LCD TV, which is released from many manufacturers across the world, but we believe its superiority will be recognized as production volume rises.”

Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Company won’t be alone in bringing OLED technology to the television market as Sony has already manufactured OLED display prototypes and is also developing OLED displays for televisions.

The Samsung LN-T2642H is a 32 inch, 720p high definition format (1366(H) x 768(V) pixels) LCD flat panel TV. It has an attractive, slim, black bezel, twin hidden bottom speakers holes in the rear matching VESA standards for wall mounting. The swivel stand allows +/-15° of movement providing set-up flexibility. The wide viewing angle of 178º(H) / 178º(V) combines to make it even easier.

S-PVA (Super Patterned-ITO Vertical Alignment)

Samsung’s S-PVA (super patterned vertical alignment) technology is used for its larger flat panel TVs as its alternative to twisted-nematic used by other manufacturers. S-PVA provides very wide 179 degree viewing angles due to the electrodes inside the panel being calibrated at regular intervals to adjust the alignment direction of its liquid crystal molecules.

Built-in Digital HDTV Tuner

The LN-T2642H comes with a built-in digital ATSC HDTV tuner - so a separate set-top box is not required. Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) sensitivity specifications for digital television are established as the result of a collaboration of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers and semiconductor manufacturers.

The Samsung LN-T2642H scores well in the important picture quality areas of color, contrast ratio. Aiming to be the best LCD TV, the Samsung LN-T2642H LCD high definition television scores well in all three areas.

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According to the NPD Group’s retail tracking service, Samsung captured the number one market share position for digital televisions in the United States in 2006. It’s also the only manufacturer to produce all four major digital television technologies; LCD, Microdisplay, Plasma, and Flat Tube.

The Samsung LN-T3242H is a 32 inch, 720p format (1366(H) x 768(V) pixels) LCD flat panel television. It has a slim, black bezel, hidden bottom speakers and is suitable to wall mount. It’s swivel stand allows +/-15° of movement providing set-up flexibility. The wide viewing angle of 178º(H) / 178º(V) combines to make it even easier.

Super Patterned-ITO Vertical Alignment (S-PVA)

Samsungs LN-T3242H display is based on its S-PVA (super patterned vertical alignment) technology. This technology is used by Samsung on its larger flat panel TVs as its alternative to twisted-nematic used by other manufacturers. S-PVA provides very wide 179 degree viewing angles due to the electrodes inside the panel being calibrated at regular intervals to adjust the alignment direction of its liquid crystal molecules.

Built-in Digital HDTV Tuner

The LN-T3242H comes with a built-in digital ATSC HDTV tuner - so a separate set-top box is not required. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) sets the sensitivity specification for digital television and is the result of a collaboration of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and other ATSC member’s recommendations.

Color, contrast ratio and resolution are important elements of picture quality. Aiming to be the best LCD TV, the Samsung LN-T3242H LCD high definition television scores well in all three areas.

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According to the NPD Group’s retail tracking service, Samsung captured the number one market share position for digital televisions in the United States in 2006. It’s also the only manufacturer to produce all four major digital television technologies; LCD, Microdisplay, Plasma, and Flat Tube.

The Samsung LN-T4042H is a 40 inch, 720p format (1366(H) x 768(V) pixels) LCD flat panel television. It has a slim, black bezel, hidden bottom speakers and is suitable to wall mount. It’s swivel stand allows +/-15° of movement providing set-up flexibility. The wide viewing angle of 178º(H) / 178º(V) combines to make it even easier.

Super Patterned-ITO Vertical Alignment (S-PVA)

Samsungs LN-T4042H display is based on its S-PVA (super patterned vertical alignment) technology. This technology is used by Samsung on its larger flat panel TVs as its alternative to twisted-nematic used by other manufacturers. S-PVA provides very wide 179 degree viewing angles due to the electrodes inside the panel being calibrated at regular intervals to adjust the alignment direction of its liquid crystal molecules.

Built-in Digital HDTV Tuner

The LN-T4042H comes with a built-in digital ATSC HDTV tuner - so a separate set-top box is not required. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) sets the sensitivity specification for digital television and is the result of a collaboration of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and other ATSC member’s recommendations.

Color, contrast ratio and resolution are important elements of picture quality. Aiming to be the best LCD TV, the Samsung LN-T4042H LCD high definition television scores well in all three areas.

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According to the NPD Group’s retail tracking service, Samsung captured the number one market share position for digital televisions in the United States in 2006. It’s also the only manufacturer to produce all four major digital television technologies; LCD, Microdisplay, Plasma, and Flat Tube.

The Samsung LN-T4642H is a 46 inch, 720p format (1366(H) x 768(V) pixels) LCD flat panel television. It has a slim, black bezel, hidden bottom speakers and is suitable to wall mount. It’s swivel stand allows +/-15° of movement providing set-up flexibility. The wide viewing angle of 178º(H) / 178º(V) combines to make it even easier.

Super Patterned-ITO Vertical Alignment (S-PVA)

Samsungs LN-T4642H display is based on its S-PVA (super patterned vertical alignment) technology. This technology is used by Samsung on its larger flat panel TVs as its alternative to twisted-nematic used by other manufacturers. S-PVA provides very wide 179 degree viewing angles due to the electrodes inside the panel being calibrated at regular intervals to adjust the alignment direction of its liquid crystal molecules.

Built-in Digital HDTV Tuner

The LN-T4642H comes with a built-in digital ATSC HDTV tuner - so a separate set-top box is not required. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) sets the sensitivity specification for digital television and is the result of a collaboration of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and other ATSC member’s recommendations.

Color, contrast ratio and resolution are important elements of picture quality. Aiming to be the best LCD TV, the Samsung LN-T4642H LCD high definition television scores well in all three areas.

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It sounds too good to be true - a large flat panel display technology which is; comparatively simple to manufacture, has a switching speed thousands to millions of times faster, improved gray levels and brilliant colors. But, true it is. Panorama Labs Pty. Ltd. from Perth, Western Australia is the company has developed just such a technology. The technology is a product of the company’s research, development and commercialization of breakthroughs in magneto-photonic technologies.

Panorama Lab’s Magneto Photonic Crystal (MPC) technology for flat panel displays integrates magneto-photonics and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the manipulation of materials in the 100 nanometer range. To appreciate the scale, compare it to the width of a human hair at about 50,000 nanometers.

In the simplest terms, MPC involves polarized colored light from a laser passing through a Magneto Photonic Crystal. The polarization of the light is rotated by an amount proportional to a controlling magnetic coil embedded in the MPC block. The rotated beam of polarized light then passes through a laser polarizer. As the amount of light which can pass through the polarizer depends on its angle of polarization, the magnetic coil is in fact controlling light throughput like a throttle.

According to Panorama an MPC block is capable of:

• RGB color filtering
• Bandwidth control
• Polarization amplification through nano-stacking schemes
• Optical switching speeds in the 20nsec range – a thousands to millions of times improvement to contemporary technologies (compare to LCOS at 10 ms)
• Digital control providing more than 1024 gray levels
• Very low power requirements

Panorama is expecting very high resolutions of the order of 4,000 x 2,000 to be possible using MPC. MPC technology sounds set to take on the higher resolution standards 1440p and 2160p sometime in the near future. Better yet - there doesn’t appear to be a screen size limit to the technology.

According to John Sweller, of the University of New South Wales School of Education, we are being taught the wrong way as teaching methods do not take into account the way in which we think and learn. The basis for John Sweller’s assertion is his Cognitive Load Theory which was the subject of a recent, March 2007, international conference in Sydney, Australia.

The central premise of the theory is the limitations of the brain’s temporary storage of information necessary to perform complex cognitive tasks such as language, mathematics, learning and reasoning.

Working memory, which utilizes our limited temporary storage, is limited when we are learning new information. Learning and solving problems require different cognitive process which compete for temporary storage. Similarly, visual and auditory processing require different cognitive processing. Splitting a students attention between verbalized and PowerPoint presentations of the same content overtaxes short term memory - hindering learning.

Mr Sweller believes that teachers are better off giving students solved problems so they have the learning to take home. Once information is in long-term memory, it can be brought back to working memory in very large amounts.

The take home message is that teaching content and style, including integration of PowerPoint presentations, should be tailored to take account of the brains processing limitations in order to make it much easier to understand.

According to the NPD Group’s retail tracking service, Samsung captured the number one market share position for digital televisions in the United States in 2006. It’s also the only manufacturer to produce all four major digital television technologies; LCD, Microdisplay, Plasma, and Flat Tube.

The Samsung LN-S5797D is a 57 inch, 1080p format (1920(H) x 1080(V) pixels) LCD flat panel television. It has the largest screen size of the entire Samsung LCD wide screen TV range. It has a slim, black bezel, hidden bottom speakers and is suitable to wall mount. It’s swivel stand allows +/-15° of movement providing set-up flexibility. The wide viewing angle of 178º(H) / 178º(V) combines to make it even easier.

The LN-S5797D comes with a built-in digital ATSC HDTV tuner - so a separate set-top box is not required. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) sets the sensitivity specification for digital television and is the result of a collaboration of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers and other ATSC member’s recommendations. The LN-S5797D LCD TV is also digital cable ready with a DCR tuner and a CableCARD slot. CableCARD means that one can connect the TV directly to you cable signal without a separate cable box.

Color, contrast ratio and resolution are important elements of picture quality. Aiming to be the best LCD TV, the Samsung LN-S5797D LCD high definition television scores well in all three areas.

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