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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wii’
The wide screen saga
Posted in Consumer Tech, tagged DVD, HDMI, Widescreen, Wii on Sunday October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why the iPhone is not for everybody
Posted in iPhone, tagged itunes, Mac, Wii on Monday September 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I tend not to think of myself as one of those typical Apple-elitists. You know, the kind that hopes that Apple remains a marginal player in the worldwide market of computers, so that their choice for the brand remains a unique identifier for them. Instead, like many other Apple-fans, I would love to see the [...]
