With the introduction of the new gorgeous “unibody” all aluminum 13″ and 15″ MacBooks, Apple made the move to DisplayPort in favour of DVI. What gives?
Despite the generic sounding name, DisplayPort is a new standardized connector and protocol designed to connect computers to digital displays. It was developed by VESA, a group of companies working [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HDMI’
Apple to embrace DisplayPort, now what?
Posted in Mac, tagged Cinema Display, DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI on Thursday October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The wide screen saga
Posted in Consumer Tech, tagged DVD, HDMI, Widescreen, Wii on Sunday October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wide screen television sets were introduced in Europe around 1992. At that time, there were hardly any wide screen broadcasts, so in order to move these new wide TV sets, manufacturers included all kinds of artificial picture scaling technologies into their products, stretching out the image just so that the screen is “filled”, and no [...]
A degree in picture management
Posted in Consumer Tech, tagged Blu-ray Disc, HDMI, HDTV, Philips, Sony on Saturday October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Only recently, I took the plunge and bought myself my first Blu-ray Disc player, a Sony BDP-S350. I waited specifically for this model, for two reasons. One, I wanted the player to be BD-Live (or Profile 2.0) compliant, meaning that it is equiped with a network-connector allowing certain BD titles to access the Internet and [...]
