Full High Definition Television Explained

By Marshall Denyer

When buying a television, it is important to learn the difference between full High Definition, HD ready and analog sets with HD converters. Full HD is a term that refers only to sets designated as full HD LCD TV sets or full HD plasma sets.

Full HD - High Definition broadcasts can be received directly only by a set with 1080p pixels. Sometimes this is listed with another number, as in the numbers: 1920 x 1080p. If it is 1080p, then it is either a HD LCD TV set or a full HD plasma set. Unlike analog or HD ready sets, full High Definition LCD TV sets can receive actual high definition television signals at their normal 1080p rate. It can play HD DVDs and blu-ray disks as maximum quality. Like full HD LCD TV sets, full HD plasma sets are fully capable of receiving and displaying 1080p broadcasts.

For blu-ray technology, which is also filmed in this 1080p high definition, these sets are perfectly compatible. These sets reproduce blu-ray disks exactly as they were filmed. Other sets cannot claim quite this high a quality.

HD Ready - Full HD LCD TV sets and full High Definition plasma sets are different from those that are simply HD ready. HD ready is indicated by a 728i or 1080i pixel rate. HD-ready sets have tuners to adjust for the difference between their pixel rates and High Definition broadcasting. These sets are reported to have good pictures for their price range and compare favorably with full HD plasma sets and full High Definition LCD TV sets.

Set Sizes - HD ready and full HD LCD TV sets can come in smaller sizes. LCD sets actually come in small sizes such as 10 inches. Sizes used to stop as a 42 inch TV but now are as large as 60 inches. HD ready and full HD plasma sets come in 50 or 60 inch sizes usually. It is possible now to get a 42 inch TV plasma set from some manufacturers. Keep in mind that similar size does not mean the same picture quality.

HD Sets - All High Definition televisions are wide-screen. They have a ratio of 16:9 just as the HD broadcasts have a ratio of 16:9. This differs from the analog broadcast, which was a 4:3 ratio. LCDs are always widescreen due to either because they are HD ready sets or full HD LCD TV sets. Thinness is not an aspect of HD broadcast ability. It is simply a reflection of the technology used to make LCDs. Plasma sets are also widescreen, due to HD ready or full HD technology. Again, you cannot measure HD abilities by the thin size of many plasmas. This has little to do with whether or not a set is HD ready or a full HD plasma set.

HDTV Converters - High Definition TV converters can be used with analog televisions, also known as CRTs or crystal ray cathode sets. These HDTV converters are digital tuners that adjust for the switch-over to digital broadcasting. With an High Definition TV converter, an analog set can deliver superior pictures to its analog ones. An HDTV converter is essential to receive signals on analog sets now that almost all signals are digital.

HD Online - Many television shows are now offer HD broadcasting online. This may or may not be full HD internet by manufacturing standards. After all, your computer also has a tuner that will simply convert any 1080p HD online internet signals into a lower pixel rate as needed. - 23806

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Marshall Denyer contributes articles to the Full HD TV website including articles about thehdtv converter box

Steps to Becoming A Voice Actor - For Anime, Video Games and Original Animation

By Kristi Reed

This article is designed to help you lay the foundation for putting you on the path to voice actor stardom. If you're just starting out and looking for voice over work these simple steps will help you immensely.

Acting classes are a terrific place to begin. Understanding acting will create success in the voice over industry. Take a few classes and workshops to cover the basics, then take more to deepen your understanding.

You may think you are ready to take voice classes while training to be an actor: a voice actor is simply an actor as well. Like every rule, there can be exceptions. There's a rare voice talent who never trained to become an actor. He is able to make it seem simple. It's not simple. You really need the skills to make it. You don't have to trust me on this, but you'll realize the truth soon enough.

So you've done a bunch of training and are trying to figure out how to advance your career, including landing an audition and making an excellent reel. You need to start meeting people and find out how to get representation. Word of mouth is really the best way.

You need to spend some cash on making a good demo reel. Rather than making a CD, look into posting the samples online. Make sure the demo features what you are targeting, like voices for radio or TV spots. If you like cartoons, than you need an animation based demo. Many people like to showcase both, but its ok to make one demo now, and another one later on.

Network, network, network. If your instructor has any connections, that's the best route. If she thinks you have talent, she'll probably pull you aside and tell you, and help you get an agent or an audition. But don't be afraid to ask for help.

At our workshops, we've found a good bit of talented people. Some of this new talent gives their views on the industry in a DVD we produced, entitled "Adventures in Voice Acting". Review the casting directors, voice directors and agents. Do what you can to get your stuff to them without being too pushy. The best way to get someone to listen to your demo is to be nice and not too pesky. All that matters is for one person to believe.

Voice over work is plentiful - from being a spokesperson to a zany voice in an animation to a narrator. If you put everything into your work, there is a good chance we'll see you at our studios some day! - 23806

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Visit the Adventures in Voice Acting website to learn more about upcoming workshops, sign up for the AIVA newsletter and to read the latest blog entry. You can also purchase a copy of the Adventures in Voice Acting DVD, which contains over two hours of your favorite voice actors sharing their own stories and advice. Hear what Bob Papenbrook has to say about a career in voice acting!

The Best Blu Ray HD Players You Can Buy!

By Wayne Hice

I am one of those who was enthusiastically awaiting for this player after its bulletin, and quickly acquired one of the Blu Ray HD Players as quickly as I could. It is a fantastic unit, with accelerated load times and excellent video properties.

Grievously, it seemed to be a let-down in the audio dept, with dropouts and no support for sophisticated codecs. There was a promised update to be released in May, which back in February appeared to be a long wait.

When the last day of May arrived, Samsung eventually came out with the promised firmware 1.3 update for their Blu Ray HD Players. In addition to decoding multi-channel TrueHD, the BD-UP5000 can now bit-stream every codec to an HDMI 1.3 capable receiver. In addition, the player is now Blu-ray Profile 1.1.

Due to the most recent firmware up-grade on the Blu Ray HD Players, those original criticisms about the unit's audio constraints have been dissolved. Almost overnight, the BD-UP5000 has gone from an imperfect product, to one of the most outstanding Blu Ray HD Players you can get. It has always had a sharp picture, for both Blu Ray and HD DVD, but now handles the newest audio codecs as well.

With all the Blu Ray HD Players on the market, this device is now just about superb! The HQV Reon offers a fantastic improvement from your older DVD movies, and the player supports Blu-Ray and HD-DVD material at its native 1080p 24fps with advanced audio. Due to these advanced features it just can not get any advanced than that!

The price tag on Blu Ray HD Players was around $800 back in 2008, which was a fair price if you did not want to restrict your home movie collection to one side of the DVD war. When HD-DVD lost the war, the Blu Ray HD Players price dropped significantly and became competitively positioned even against basic Blu-ray units. However, the price could be rising back up since the audio issues are fixed.

If you're just entering the HD home movie market, these units are an excellent choice. If you already have an HD-DVD selection of movies, then Blu Ray HD Players is a must-have!

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Power Movies For The Guys

By Hollie Pugh

For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. High speed internet access has now made it possible to download movies right off a movie download site. Below, is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites.

The Abyss: A submarine has sunk. A nearby oil rig crew is sent down to rescue the sub if possible. Once down there they find that this in no normal situation. This film stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, and Leo Burmester. (1989 Sci-Fi)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes: This is an old cheesy horror flick with horror icon Vincent Price playing the eccentric Dr. Phibes. After losing his wife to an unsuccessful surgery, Dr. Phibes dies in a car wreck. Or does he? Everyone is baffled as the surgeons who fail to save Mrs. Phibes are all dying. Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Peter Jeffrey, and Hugh Griffith fill out the cast. (1971 Horror/Comedy)

Across the Pacific: This is a WWII spy film which leads us to Panama as two spies engage in a cat and mouse chase. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, and Victor Sen Y ung head the cast. (1942 Spy-Drama directed by John Huston)

Strange II1usion: Enthralling however unconvincing melodrama, a B-film update of Hamlet, with teenaged Lydon having questions in regards to slick-talker William who's wooing his widowed mom Eilers. Normally weird William feels in this low-spending limit quickie. Cast includes James Lydon, Sally Eilers, Warren William, and Regis Toomey. (80 minutes, 1945)

Fantasia: Walt Disney's 8-part matrimony of music and energized icons continues to be an astounding accomplishment; Taylor's narration times it more .than the content. "The Wizard's Apprentice" with Mickey Mouse, "The Dance of the Hours" with dancing hippos and alligators, "Rite of Spring" dinosaurs stalking the world, and "A Day on Hairless Hill" with Chemo-bog, the personification of sinister is so shocking that they make up for the less gripping patterns. Cast includes Leopold Stomwski and the Philadelphia Orchestra; depicted by Considered Taylor. (120 minutes, 1940)

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story: This film is a biography of the life of martial arts superstar, turned actor, Bruce Lee. We follow his life from childhood in Hong Kong, filled with demons, to his exodus to the US, as suggested by his father. In the US he opens a martial arts school, and pursues an acting career.

Alex and The Gypsy: Roaming tale of romance between bail bondsman Lemmon and gypsy Bujold who's implicated of tried murder. Some fascinating notions lost in the mess of an indecisive film. Cast includes Jack Lemmon, Genevieve Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt, and Titos Vandis. (99 minutes, 1976)

Big Trouble: Harried coverage sales associate Arkin needs money to send his 3 sons through Yale, so he gets to be engaged with ditsy D'Angelo in a plot to slaughter her loony spouse (Falk). This is pretty stupid stuff, albeit the sardine-flavored liqueur does grant a few giggles. Andrew Bergman wrote the script under the name Warren Bogle. Cast includes Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Robert Pile, Paul Dooley, Valerie Curtin, and Richard Libertini. (93 minutes, 1985)

Patriot Games: Retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in England when, by complete chance, he finds himself saving a significant member of the Royal Family from an assassination attempt. In the process Jack kills one of the key terrorists younger brothers. Now this faction of the IRA is out to get Jack and his family. Jack Ryan is now out of retirement.

A phrase like "Compare Movie Download Sites" might get a good result. Try a different search if the first one does not provide good information. See if "Download New Release Movies" gets a better result. - 23806

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Search "Movies On Line" and find sites about downloading films. Downloadable Online Movies At this point people still are used to buying DVDs rather than downloading movies. Find out how to get movies online with a search like "Movie Rentals Online".

Tips On Finding Movie Downloads Services

By Alan Reynolds

This is a question that is asked by many people. These days, lots of us have extremely fast Internet connections with no monthly download limits and the ability to ultimately download a single movie in as little as half an hour. Needless to say, to get the most out of our connections and to get movie downloads quickly, and get the ones we want, we want to be able to do this on the Internet.

You have no doubt heard of the peer to peer file sharing alternatives which many people use to download pirated videos. However, the quality is often very poor, and of course it is illegal, potentially leading you into a lot of trouble in the future. This is why it is essential that more legal movie download resources come into existence.

Your alternatives of course I'm going to the shop and buying movies yourself. However, this is not very convenient for a lot of people since the walk in stores will only have a certain number of movies and it is highly likely that you won't be able to find what you want, a specially if it is an altar movie was something that is lesser known anyway.

Many people do not want to have to go out to their nearest store and buy movies. Not only is it very expensive and often very inconvenient, but it can be very difficult to get what you want. You will find that most of the stores on the streets these days do not sell the specialist movies that you might be looking for an they might not sell older movies or lesser known movies that you particularly want to get your hands on.

A far better option than going to the high street stores, especially if you want something a little harder to get, is by using one of the online retailers. These retailers tend to have enormous databases of movies available which you can order and get sent you a few days. It is often cheaper as well since the companies in question do not have to maintain stores and often you can get third party sellers or second-hand sellers and save even more money.

However, many of us have very fast Internet connections where we can download movies in just half an hour. To get the most out of our fast Internet connections these days, downloading movies is one of the things we want to do most. Unfortunately, this is going to remain rather challenging until the movie companies get their acts together and start supplying such services.

Legal movie downloads a very hard to find for a number of reasons. If you have typed in any search terms relevant to the subject, you have no doubt seen many different results of sites which promised legal movie download for free or for a modest subscription fee. The fact is, this is simply impossible under most circumstances, especially if the site claims to offer free movie downloads with no subscription fee either.

If you can download videos and you have found a reliable and legal source, you can then burn them to DVD so you can watch them back when your normal DVD player. Also, they often come in a certain format, the most popular being DivX, which is very useful since they will play on just about anything. - 23806

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Many movie download services can be found on the internet. http://www.moviedownloadsites.net/Downloading_Videos.html These movie download services have many choices when it comes to the movies you can download. Your favorite flicks are available for easy legal movie downloads.