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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although European terrestrial broadcasters, cable operaters, and satellite broadcasters have been broadcasting DTV for several years, they have, until recently, largely avoided HDTV. Probably in part ...

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, ...

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I haven't seen this mentioned, and I know it's been brought up before.<BR><BR>If you've been on Live since Wednesday and gotten the recent update, and if you're using the advanced AV pack and an HDTV, ...

Sharp Corp says it has developed a pair of new 1/3-type progressive-scan CCDs for security cameras (520 kpixels and 610 kpixels) featuring the industry’s highest sensitivity of 1,900 mV and lowest ...

1. Progressive scanning (alternatively referred to as noninterlaced scanning) is a way of displaying, storing, or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each frame are drawn in ...

Television is part of a modern life. Almost all us has a television set at home. Television came from two words: “tele” which means distance or from afar, and “vision” which means sight or the ability ...