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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is there a big difference between 1080 and 768 resolutions for LCD TVs? I am trying to decide between two Sony TVs -- the KDL-40X2000 and the KDL-40V2000. I was told that the key is to find out if the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a 55 inch Mitsubishi HDTV, and I have to say, that the progressive versus non progressive scan modes of the Xbox make a big difference. Progressive is much cleaner and less grainy and jaggy. As ...

A simple explanation for how TV works is that a transmission signal sends information to your TV. The information tells the TV what the picture is supposed to look like. Once received, the TV paints ...

Table 1. Several different numerical values have been reported for the Kell factor — variations probably caused by differences in picture display systems, and subjective picture quality appreciation.