Wii and PlayStation3: The Latest Battle of the Gaming Consoles by Madison Lockwood
It seems almost like a Christmas ritual: there's a Next Big Thing in the video game world almost every holiday season. Last year featured a particularly interesting competition between the new gaming hardware put on the market by Nintendo and their prime competitor, Sony with its PlayStation... The graphics on the PS3 are state of the art 1080p high-definition and present a new level of quality for gamers. ... It includes high-definition graphics, a hard disk, and a Blu-ray Disc drive that delivers great image quality.

It Is A Great Time To Be One Who Plays Video Games by Michael Connelly
There is something special about the video games of today. The people who enjoy playing them are living in a very exiting time. With the recent releases of Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 (and Xbox 360 a little while back) the gaming experience has been raised to a whole new level. ... The new features that these new systems offer such as Motion-Sensitive Remotes, Online Gaming, Wi-Fi Support and High Definition Game Support have customers fighting to be the first ones to have them. ... Things like next generation motion capture, high definition graphics and motion-sensitive remote controls...

Home Theatre Buying Guide by Jeffrey Lawrence
Planning Watching a movie in your own home theater is a great way to escape reality without leaving the house. But before forging ahead with a home theater construction project, you’ll need to put serious time into planning the system. The biggest decision will be what room to put your home... Next, we’ll get into some of the finer points of the various decks used for watching movie discs — a group that includes regular DVD players, high-definition disc players, and a special category of players that process regular video signals on DVD to help them look like high-definition TV.

The Xbox 360 - a Gamer's Dream Machine by Paul W Wilson
The Xbox360 is a video game console that is visionary. It competes with the Sony Play Station 3 and Nintendo Revolution. A gamers’ dream machine, the Xbox 360 is sold in two versions a premium edition that has a hard drive, a wireless controller, headset, Ethernet cable, a HD AV cable, and an... It is not just a gaming machine it is a media center that allows you to play games, network with other gamers around 360 of them, rip, stream, and download high definition movies, music, digital pictures, games, music, and play DVDs and CDs.

What Apple Could Learn from Microsoft: Front Row Versus Windows Media Center by Daniel Dwase
While the iMac G5's software interface for multimedia – Front Row – is new to the Mac platform. Windows users have had similar tools – in Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition – for a couple of years now. Is it possible that, as Front Row matures, it could learn a thing or two from Windows? ... Straight to video Front Row gives you easy access to movie files and video podcasts stored on your iMac, and to movie trailers stored on Apple's servers. ... Currently, you can view over-the-air High-Definition (HD) broadcasts only with Media Center, and then only if the PC's TV and supports...

Which Version of PlayStation 3 Should you Buy? by Mohd Fairuz
With the long awaited release of the Playstation 3, it’s sure to have gamers all around scrambling to purchase this new system. There are two different consoles and prices of the PlayStation 3: the 20GB version and the 60GB version. Each console will have something different to offer and... This disc can hold up to 54GB and can play games and movie discs. ... The Playstation Portable will be able to connect to the new console. ... The wireless controller will operate with a Bluetooth 2.0 EDR that can transmit data at the rate of up to 3.0Mbps.

Toshiba Has HD-DVD-R Ready for Mass Production by Cole Figgins
The time has come for Toshiba and Nec, the main backers of HD-DVD format to announce they're ready for write-once HD-DVD-R disc mass production. Their discs can store 15 GB of data, and should be available for the consumers in the first half of the next year, by the same time that HD-DVD... Similar blue laser technology stays at the core of both formats, as the blue laser has a shorter wavelength than the red lasers used in current DVD equipment, allowing discs to store data at higher densities needed for high-definition TV and movies.

HDTV is What Technology is All About by Scott Bianchi
If you have not yet watched TV on an HDTV you do not know what you are missing. When they promote high definition they aren’t kidding. When my daughter was born I knew I’d be spending a lot of time at home so I invested in an HDTV and two years later I still think it was an excellent purchase. ... Without that the sound would not be good enough to compare to a movie theater. ... I think the biggest I have seen is 36 inches. ... Because they are so much cheaper than the other two styles that is all I could think of as problems for the tube style TV.

All About DVD Part 3: Blue-Ray and HD-DVD by Artem Chlegov
New storage formats: DVD-HD and Blue-Ray On the first glance, DVDs have just finished becoming common and are the best option available. But developers do not agree, trying to invent new needs for poor users. This time HDTV (High Definition Television) is considered to be the new technology... Besides, it is still not clear whether or not consumers actually need high definition image. ... HD-DVD HD-DVD (High Definition DVD) , as clearly visible from its name, is official heir to the DVD format, approved by DVD Forum.

What is HDTV? by Kamal Kannan
"High Definition Television" is an international digital TV standard aired in 16:9 format (4:3 for normal TVs) and in Dolby Digital surround sound.Viewers get clear contoured shows with vibrant colors and a wider depth-of-field compared to normal systems.HDTV has up to five times the number of... There's no doubt that HDTV would be replacing PAL.It's only a matter of time before that happens.Prices are now still steep with equipment costing up to thousands of dollars just for a standard display and reciever.However,manufacturers are introducing newer models by the month,therefore providing...