Stay the night in Obama’s backyard - canada.com
For 24 hours, U.S. President Barack obama and I were neighbours. Not that we talked through his wrought-iron fence, as Tim Allen’s character in Home Improvement did with his backyard buddy, Wilson. But from the rooftop terrace of the W Washington D.C

McDonald’s on Highland reopens today - Jackson Sun
McDonald’s red colored chairs at stainless steel bistro tables, gold-colored wooden dining booths, a two lane drive-through and a large-screen LCD television and electronic video games in the main dining area and children’s playground bring this

Home and garden news and notes - Rock Hill Herald
WHAT’S NEW: LCD CABINET HIDES TELEVISION Did Santa leave a TV under your tree? Here’s a way to hide that screen in style. The wall-mounted LCD Cabinet has a framed mirror on the front that separates into two sliding panels to reveal a flat-panel TV

Open Letter to the Hotel Industry: Time to Get Your Game On - Wired News
Hello there, Hotel Industry Person, I am one of your customers. In fact, I m a pretty good customer. I and my family have stayed in some of your hotels for weeks of total time in the last year on various vacations and business-related trips. I have

Help w/ pending monitor purchase for dual monitor use - Toms Hardware
This machine will drive my 40″ Samsung LCD (using boxee) and whatever new monitor i purchase for office needs. TV resolution is 1366×768. Am I best off buying a computer monitor w/ the same resolution? If I use the built in video card, the TV will

New Year’s Eve in Valley offers plenty of options - AZCentral.com
For New Year’s Eve in the East Valley, they’re “takin’ it to the streets,” and in the West Valley they’ll rock out. And Scottsdale claims to have the ultimate shindig. Valley residents will have their choice of three big bashes at the New Year’s Eve

Public Eye: Whistle-blowers, thanks for a job well done - Sacramento Bee
In May, a Department of General Services manager DGS officials won’t name him used $412 in state funds to order a 22-inch wide-screen LCD TV with a built-in DVD player for his office. Expedited shipping added $80 to the bill. Somebody

Electronics, jewelry taken in Callander break-in - North Bay Nugget
CALLANDER Thieves broke into a Main Street South home overnight Sunday and stole a variety of electronics. Among the items taken were a 17-inch black Acer monitor, two Acer computer towers, a 26-inch LCD television, a V-Teck cordless phone, an

Vaio Laptop to LCD via HDMI - Toms Hardware
Hello everyone. I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FW550F with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 and am connecting it to a Samsung P2370HD HDTV/Monitor. The picture did not fill the screen at first, but I was able to resolve this with the scaling feature in the CCC

HDTV HDMI - neowin.net
So I’ve got a Proscan 32″ 720p (which magically supports 1080i) and have hooked up my Xbox 360 and cable TV receiver via component. But from experience HDMI is MUCH better both performance-wise and quality-wise. However, I’m new to the HDMI industry

HDMI Licensing, LLC HDMI 1 - Businesswire.com
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Member review of Comcast - Broadband Dslreports
I subscribe to Comcasts Double play service. I have digital cable in one bedroom, along with HD in the living room (with standard box, no dvr), and a analog tv hooked directly. Plus the internet. When I came to Naples Florida in January of 2009, the

Many TV channels aren’t boxed in - Desert Sun
It would appear from recent letters to the editor that there is some confusion about programming changes that were recently made by Time Warner Cable. While a few of the channels on our Basic and Expanded Cable lineups now require a digital cable

You’ll pay more for cable TV: Time Warner customers will now fork out - TMCnet
Time Warner offers cable TV along with phone and Internet services. Those rates are going up as well. For instance, Digital Cable and Road Runner High Speed Online — a popular combination — are going up from $114.90 to $117.95 a month, an increase

Save money with free Digital TV - Examiner
of dollars a year in cable or satellite fees. For many years TV viewers have adopted cable and satellite TV for two reasons: the number of available channels and the quality of the video. Let s face it, even with a good antenna, image quality often

BRIEF: Insight cable rates going up - TMCnet
between Time Warner Cable and Fox, they will see rates rise in the new year from provider Insight Communications. Insight has announced it will raise prices on various packages between $3 and $6. Customers of one product — classic or digital

YOUR TECH: Wishes for 2010: Portable devices are key - TMCnet
I also can watch YouTube videos, hear my iTunes music and display digital photos in the ultimate slide show, complete with special effects. I can buy episodes of TV shows and rent or buy movies, all in HD. Couple that with another (rumored) Apple-run

Christmas gifts for the NFL’s naughty and nice - Reno Gazette
Notorious last-minute shopper that I am, there are just a few more names on my “virtual” Christmas list that must be addressed. You’ll probably recognize the names. They just happen to have NFL connections. Rule No. 1: The best presents are useful

Get Live TV Over The Internet - Gather.com
The TV industry has certainly come a long way. From CRT screen to LCD panel, RF analog to Satellite digital, black-and-white to hi-def color purposeful and targeted in when, where, which, why and how they watch television. The carriers have also

Vatican paper says ‘The Simpsons’ are okely dokely - Miami Herald
But Jim and Pam’s recent wedding on The Office was true hi-def bliss The paper credited “The Simpsons” - the longest-running American animated program - with opening up cartoons to an adult audience. The Fox show is based on “realistic and

Attack of the 3-D experience - Miami Herald
Blue fairies and giant flying lizards: This is, in a nutshell, what Avatar — James Cameron’s eagerly awaited, self-proclaimed cinematic game-changer, the supposed back audiences siphoned off by hi-def TV and video games. It’s not such good news

DirecTV will debut the nation’s first 3-D HDTV channel in - Tvweek.com
Wow! Report Says DirecTV Will Launch The First U.S. 3-D Hi-Def Channel Early in 2010 HDGuru DirecTV will debut the nation’s first 3-D HDTV channel in early 2010, according to a report by HDGuru. The reports says that last night, Dec. 28, a program

A decade in review - Courier-Journal
Seriously, it used to be so quiet back in the 1990s. There were plenty of places to hide sans updates, tweets or texts, and reality was something that happened with almost no help from television. Intimate details about Britney’s mental health, or

Your Tech: Wishes for 2010 - Washington Times
Right now, I can play Internet radio via the Apple TV and the Dolby sound system in my flat-panel New homes obviously will have the best performance - I’m told Verizon will bring fiber-optic wiring into new homes - but those who are in

BIG IN 2010 Apple Tablet - Stuff.tv
Unless you ve had your head buried under an X Factor contestant for the past six months, you ll have heard rumours of Apple s tablet . These mutterings are not new we scrawled the concept pictured back in 2007 but now, more details have

Mobile Phone Deals: Get Brilliant Services with Beneficial Offers - PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) Dec 30, 2009 There are a number of mobile phone deals available in UK market, but contract deals have gained a widespread popularity among them. Under these deals, users can get a handset, network services and a plenty

2009 Ends, Hard Times Continue for Consumer Electronics Brands - ClickZ
Nowhere is this truer than in the consumer electronics industry, where the sellers of smartphones and LCD screens are still advertising extent as big consumer electronics clients seek cheap alternatives to TV. “A lot of clients have been

POLICE BEAT - Daily Journal
All Items in Police Beat are based on official police reports of events. Reports are published by The Daily Journal as soon as they are made available. Dorothy Plummer, 61, of East Oak Street was arrested for two counts of aggravated assault on a

PSU players shop ’til they drop - Evening Sun
Penn State defensive tackle Jared Odrick takes a box of pizza along on his shopping spree at Best Buy Tuesday afternoon in Orlando, Fla. The Nittany Lions each received a $450 gift card for the shopping spree. (Evening Sun Photo by Christopher Glass

Millville Blotter She said, ‘My heart will not rest until I kill - Bridgeton News
* Priscilla Mae Armstead, 35, of North 4th Street, was charged Sunday with contempt on a warrant out of Millville Municipal Court and released on $250 bail. * David W. Burt Jr., 29, of Richard Drive, and Heath C. Harris, 33, of Louis Drive, were each

Fixed Mobile Convergence - TMCnet
SEOUL, Dec 29, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — South Korea’s LG Electronics Tuesday unveiled a new line of portable DVD players and cell phones with high-definition, digital TV capabilities aimed at tapping the United States mobile TV market. The new

The Decade in Technology - CBS News
(CBS) Some people say the first decade of the 21st century ends this week. Others say it extends until the end of 2010. Either way, the past 10 years were a momentous period for technology. Not only was there no iPhone a decade ago, there was hardly

When all the smoke clears - Democratic Underground.com
it is wrong for people to die for lack of resources. That means starving even if only by eating poorly and weakening resistance to disease because a balanced diet was too expensive. That means being killed by the elements when public buildings are

Intel’s Atom Microprocessor And Microsoft’s Xbox 360: PlayOn Meets 802 - EDN.com
My evaluation isn’t complete, since I don’t have access to ATSC-sourced high-def material coming from my Windows Media Center-cognizant system at the moment. But what I’ve uncovered so far is interesting (at least to me), as well as more than a bit

Viore LED24VF60 24-Inch LED 1080p HDTV Exclusive on Amazon - I4U
The ATSC TV tuner is integrated for over-the-air HDTV broadcast reception.

New ATSC certification program gives consumers confidence for Mobile - Broadcast Engineering
This new logo will soon appear on a wide array of wireless receiving products as well as professional broadcast equipment. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has launched a certification program to ensure that broadcast equipment and

HDMI or VGA/DVI Input for LCD Monitor - neowin.net
Sorry if this has been posted before, and sorry if you think this is a stupid question, but I just have to ask it to get a more clear answer than what googling and other searches gave me. Is there a difference between using HDMI or VGA/DVI input for

Latest HDMI 1.4 specification to add 3D support - Mac Central
HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) ports connect external devices like set-top boxes or gaming consoles to displays like TV sets. Many of the HDMI ports are based on the 1.3 specification that do not support TV, but the upcoming ports based

XFX 5870 - HDMI audio troubles - Toms Hardware
So I built a rig with the new 5870 and its worked like a charm, save one problem. When connected to my HDTV via HDMI i get audio scratching noises when the bass gets going and sometimes other times. It helped a bit when i cranked the volume on the PC

New Version of HDMI to Support Multiple Stereoscopic 3D Formats. - Xbitlabs.com
HDMI Licensing, the agent responsible for licensing the high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) specification, this week announced that the forthcoming HDMI version 1.4 will support additional stereoscopic 3D formats. It looks like shutter

In brief - Detroit News
Columbus, Ohio — Ohio has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review steps taken to stop Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray asked the court to examine measures taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and

Cable TV Fees to Rise - Investors Business Daily
BEIJING, Dec 21, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) — Broadcasting and TV operators are brewing a nationwide markup of cable digital services. So far, municipalities and provinces like Shanghai, Ningxia, Qinghai, Jiangxi, and Hunan, are

Cable customers need to heed the cards - The State-Journal
Frankfort Plant Board cable is giving customers 3, 2, 1 chances to order digital converters for televisions that are non-digital. While this conversion has been confusing to many, Cable Manager John Higginbotham said the first round has gone