There is a buzz about new smart televisions and Blu-ray players that can connect to the Web. The list of selling points is long and the applications available are among the reasons that will push you to buy a “smart” product. But watch out, the most advertised applications are also the least interesting. Based on [...]

For several months now, we have known that Thursday, September 1, 2011 marks the disappearance of the analogue signal. Now, a digital signal takes over. What do you do if you have lost the signal from your antenna? If your TV is new, there’s a good chance that it already has an integrated digital decoder. [...]

The convergence of audiovisual and information technology has been a very strong trend in recent years. Most new TVs can access information from the Internet or a computer with various connections. Widgets New Smart TVs centralize your entertainment by offering applications similar to smartphones like those on Apple’s iPhone. These widgets usually offer a cleaner [...]

Shedding Light on LEDs (Part 5): Conclusion In this series, we explained what LEDs are and described Edge-LED, Local Dimming and RGB LED technology. Although the use of LED is still new in the manufacture of televisions, something new is looming on the horizon: Organic LED or OLED. The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is more [...]

It is almost officially summer.  At the moment, many people are still making their final preparations: enlarging the deck, repairing the shed, completing planting in the flower beds, installing a lighting system, etc. This summer, why not have high quality sound outdoors? For the number of hours that you will spend outdoors, external speakers are [...]

We explained what light-emitting diodes are (see here) and described Edge LED (see here) and Local Dimming (see here). In both cases, these are white LEDs. Another way to use LEDs in a flat screen TV is to use coloured LEDs. Red, green and blue are in the spotlight. Instead of having only white LEDs, [...]

We explained what LED is (see here) and described one type of device that is equipped with Edge LED technology (see here). Unlike Edge, where the diodes are placed in the frame of the screen, Local Dimming models have a panel filled with white LEDs. How does this effect the picture quality? Placing the LEDs [...]

After explaining what LED is (see here), it is time to look at the first type of LCD LED: Edge LED. With this technology, the diodes are placed on the sides of the device, not on the entire surface. As mentioned in the previous article, with a regular LCD screen neon cathodes (CCFL) provide the [...]

LCD televisions with LED are becoming more popular. Although they remain more expensive than a conventional LCD or plasma, the arrival of LED displays marks a new stage in the production of TVs. So here is a 4 part series of articles on the subject, to help you understand a technology that is becoming more [...]

Wadia is a company that specializes in high-end audio equipment such as CD players, transports, DACs (digital-to-analog converters) and ADCs (analog-to-digital converters). They’ve just put out their latest creation, the 170iTransport. It’s a transport that was developed in collaboration with Apple that enables direct reading of the information contained in any generation iPod. This technology [...]