Archive for the 'Technical Information' Category

Progressive Scan Applications

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Presented by HDTV Shop
Progressive Scan vs Line Doubling
With the advent of large screen, HD, and flat panel televisions, the resolution produced by traditional television, VCR, and DVD sources are not reproduced very well by the interlaced scanning method. To compensate for this problem, television makers began to introduce the concept of Line Doubling.
Although there are [...]

Progressive Scan – What You Need To Know

Monday, February 8th, 2010

by Robert Silva, presented by HDTV Shop
DVD is the core of the home theater revolution. With its outstanding image quality and versatile hardware, the DVD phenomenon is unprecedented in home entertainment. One of the main contributions of DVD is the employment of the progressive scan option for television viewing. Progressive scan pushes the limits of [...]

1080p/60 vs 1080p/24

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Presented by HDTV Shop
Access to 1080p is not only determined by whether your HDTV has the ability to access a 1080p signal directly, but also what format of 1080p your HDTV will accept.
Almost all HDTVs that accept a 1080p input signal directly can accept what is known as 1080p/60. 1080p/60 represents a 1080p signal transferred [...]