Yep, picked myself up a 46" Samsung Full HD LCD 100hz motion-flow TV. I've been saving up all of my blu-ray purchases for when I bought a new TV. Watching them on my old plasma was nice, definitely a nice upgrade from DVD, but to really get that 1080p kick, I had to get into the NOW. Wow, it looks good. For those who might not get the lingo, DVD is a Digital 'Versatile' Disc, and can hold 4.7 gigabytes per layer. A movie held on a DVD usually uses what's called 'dual layer' technology. A dual layer DVD can hold 8.54 gigs. Enough to hold a standard definition movie. High definition movies are a lot larger in size and therefore cannot fit on DVDs. This is where Blu-ray fits the mould. DVD lasers are red and read information at a 650 nanometer wavelength (a nanometer is one billionth of a meter, cool huh?) while Blu-ray uses a blue laser and reads at around a 405 nanometer wavelength which simply means more data can fit on the disc. A blu-ray dual layer disc can hold around 50 gigabytes. Quite a difference. So now we have the capacity for High Definition movies... but we also need a TV capable of watching FULL high definition movies. While a lot of cheaper plasma and LCD tv's advertise High definition tuners in them, the resolution of the screen is probably not full HD. only if you see '1080p' does it mean full HD. To explain, '1080' means there's 1,080 vertical lines of resolution, and the 'p' means progressive scan. Do you remember when a your home video camera would look at a TV and and it would do that weird flicking thing? Yeah well that was called 'interlacing'. Progressive scan eliminates this. Just a side note. The motion flow thing adds extra frames into movies to give an over-all smoothness. It's really pretty cool. Takes a little while to get used to the difference, movies look more real as opposed to the 'flicking' of the 24 frames a second we've been watching all our lives. Did you follow all of that? It doesn't matter in the end, but seriously, if you are in the market for a new TV and have no idea what you're looking for; ask me... I'm such a nerd when it comes to tech. I love it. I'm watching the James Bond film 'Live and Let Die'. Due to the exhaustive remastering of the original film negative known as 'The Lowry Process', http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/assets/download/Videofuturelowryprocess.pdf The film looks better than it did in 1973. It looks like it was filmed yesterday. I'm so blown away by what is capable with technology now, and that it is available to me in my lounge room. Sorry this was such a boring blog, I guess I'm just a little excited about the $3000 I spent today. Love Court.
Posted: 2009-02-26 04:17:06Author:admin