If you sign up for TalkTalk or BT, you'll get a YouView box. What’s more, it also doubles as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR), enabling you to record live television. You can also watch all the major catch-up TV services, including BBC iPlayer, All 4, ITV Player and My5. What...
Best Freeview HD recorder, Awards 2013. If you want an easy way to watch on-demand TV, and you care about style, the Humax DTR-T1010 should be top of your shortlist Pros + Excellent catch-up offerings + Easy to use + Good picture quality + 500GB hard drive won’t fill up in ...
We could use a whole page outlining the Panasonic DMR-BWT700’s features and functionality. Here we have a 3D Blu-ray player that’s also a Blu-ray recorder, is fitted with a 320GB hard drive, includes web connectivity, media-streaming, twin Freeview HD tuners, and can be fitted with...
Multi-pass encoding, also known as 2-pass or 3-pass encoding, is a technique for encoding video into another format using multiple passes to keep the best quality. The video encoder analyzes the video many times from the beginning to the end before the actual encoding process. While ...
For DVD hardware to identify the type of disc that it is reading, it can check the Book Type Field located in the lead-in section of the disc. From here it can be determined if the media is DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, DVD+R etc. These few bits that help with the identification are known ...
For sampling 20kHz audio you'd need a sample frequency of better than 40kHz. Audio CDs are sampled at 44.1kHz. In reality it's best to get as many samples as possible because actual consumer equipment isn't capable of the precision required for correct Nyquist-Shannon sampling, and is ...
It’s a big leap from the Freeview HD on our reference Panasonic set. Colour is a little vivid, but it’s balanced by decent contrast and a nice line in skin-tones. Sound could be a little better (it has a slightly compressed feel) but it’s not a major gripe. The same is true...