Gadget-Minded

Nowadays, Toshiba with its HD DVD format is fighting against Sony and Philips with their Blu-ray. I've just thought that this oppositio...

Cool hardware things are my hobby, but my real work currently is software. As I have this blog mostly for fun (you may never know when your ...

Some may ask, why haven't I written anything to this blog for the whole month? There are two main reasons. First, when a blog is created...

That's a VHS cassete on the right! Can you imagine the size of that "floppy disk"? It was an unsuccessful format of rewritable...

I recently watched the James Bond movie Casino Royale in a movie theater (no, not in a digital move theater , but in an old fashioned anal...

Sony, Panasonic and some other companies recently introduced the AVCHD format, which records high definition H.264 -encoded video to tapele...

When googling in an attempt to find a good motion-compensated deinterlacing filter for VirtualDub (looks like it doesn't exist so far), ...

This blog is certainly not only about high tefinition video, I'm going to write about any interesting gadget-related topics, but it look...

It's time to stop the confusion that arises when people speak about progresssive video resolutions (such as 720p and 1080p). Here is an...

What I like in Xbox 360 (theoretically, so far, as I don't yet own one) is its ability to plug into a computer monitor, supporting also...

For people without advanced technical knowledge of HDTV it is hard to believe that the 720p format (720 progressive lines per frame at 50/60...

It is clear that "next generation" is not only about computing horsepower. Innovative gameplay, that's what [also] matters. Wi...