Saturday, August 27, 2011
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TiVo is a consumer video device that allows end users to capture their favorite television programs to an internal hard drive. Since its introduction in 1999, TiVo has attracted an ever-growing number of clients. Although TiVo is, in fact, very similar to video recorders, the technologies it employs are complex and sophisticated, allowing more freedom of choice and better selections to be made by the user. The device not only records the programs that the user specifies but also presents other related material that is of potential interest.
All the information is stored on a non-removable hard drive, which offers plenty of space. You can record up to 140 hours on your TiVo, selecting the exact programs that you are interested in. The box then does its job recording everything you wanted...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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There are few more iconic characters in American movie history as Lois Lane, Clark Kent’s sidekick at the Daily Planet, and Superman’s romantic interest. But 23 year old Kate Bosworth’s performance has earned her a number of excellent reviews in the role in the latest film in the Superman series – ‘Superman Returns’.
Bosworth admits that she was unsure if any actor could pull of a convincing Superman/Clark Kent combination – she remembers the original film with great excitement. However, she is full of praise for Brandon Routh, the unknown actor who plays the title role. She realized how good Routh was going to be as early as an early screen test, before she had got the role, when she discovered she “had become totally lost in just reading with him, in a white, bare, sparse room with the...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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If you are a diehard follower of auto racing, you know everything about NASCAR and enjoy every bit of it. Even if you are a rookie, fill up your gas tank and get set, go, to the most exciting racing event on the planet. You can enjoy the game sitting at home, as NASCAR events are now available more than ever on screen.
A good number of shows, specifically about drivers, people related to this sport and the racing events are on air. Channels like Fox, Speed, XM144 and MRN are almost devoted to NASCAR racing. TNT, NBC, ESPN and ABC Sports with others too are following the line up.
Drivers, these days, are coming from Wisconsin, Kansas, Washington, Indiana, California, North Carolina and many other states.
They, more than ever before, are on talk shows in this channel and that.
This...
Saturday, August 20, 2011
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This year’s #1 featured furniture is the exciting designer’s choice, beautiful, breathtaking furniture married with a television lift to hide and protect your new LCD TV.
Whether in the bedroom at the foot of the bed, against a wall or as a room divider, there is an automated furniture design for everyone’s taste. Exquisite handcrafted buffets with plasma TV’s inside for the dining room. For the living room, tuck your TV away in a cabinet of true artistry, woven with state-of-the-art design to create a one-of-a-kind elegant piece to satisfy anyone’s special needs. For home theater there is no limit in design for this furniture and your experience can be like no other.
If you have a home office or work in the corporate world, you can incorporate your plasma lift cabinet to blend in with your...
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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The revolution that the Internet has brought opened up an entire new method of watching movies from your chair at home. Nowadays, not only you have the possibility to rent your favorite movies but you have the ability to watch them in a streaming format right onto your personal computer. There are plenty of sites on the Internet that offer links to online movies while other sites allow visitors to rent them and watch them directly on that site.
The major advantage a streaming movie has to offer is that you don’t have to download the movie so you don’t have to worry about viruses and other malicious issues that might occur when downloading a file from the Internet. On the above mentioned sites that offer links to sites on which you can view movies, most of them allow the visitor to search...
Monday, August 15, 2011
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Most people have a television set these days, but very few actually understand the process by which their favourite programmes are transmitted. Of course, you don’t have to know how to enjoy it, but it may help you appreciate the amount of effort that goes in to a transmission.
There are three basic steps involved in the transmission of a television programme. These are:
· Material – this is the programme itself
· Master control – this selects the programme to be transmitted
· Effects – this includes the network identifier
The programme itself can be in a number of different formats. A live transmission is where the material is coming directly from a live feed, such as a sports or news event. A second source of material is from a digital video server. This is basically a huge computer hard...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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If you enjoy watching movies or you just appreciate a well-made movie then it is a certainty that you are interested in a facility that allows you to watch your favorite movies anytime you want. Nowadays, this is a very easy thing to do as there are many of sites that offer such services. You can easily watch movies from your own room without having to spend a small fortune on renting the DVD or going to the cinema. This method allows fans to watch movies shortly after their release by downloading them or watching them streaming.
Speaking of movies, the fans can enjoy not only movies released in the United States but also from other countries at only a few clicks away. Locating movies is a very easy thing to do as the sites that provide the latest links to online movies and online television...
Saturday, August 06, 2011
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Imagine a family, all sitting around the TV, possibly the only TV in the house. Dad is holding the remote control, which everyone refers to as “the clicker.” The remote has only two functions. One of the functions turns the TV off and on. The other changes the channels, all 7 or 8 of them, with a click of a button. Now try to imagine what that family is watching. Are you imagining them watching one of the classic TV shows from the 1970’s?
In the 1970s most families had one, maybe two televisions in the house, and the second television was usually stashed away in mom and dad’s room where they could watch the classic shows that the kids couldn’t watch yet like Maude or Soap. The televisions in the house might have even shown the programs in black and white.
What kept families glued to these...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
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Introducing TV
Based on how engrained the television is in our society, one might think that it had been around for centuries. With the ubiquitous presence of TV’s in houses, schools, banks, cars, cell phones, and more, people wonder how they ever survived without their daily dose of Oprah and Monday Night Football.
Yet, television was not officially introduced to the world until in 1939 at the World’s Fair. At that time, many people did not think that families would have enough time or patience to sit down for long periods in front of a flickering screen. “The average American family hasn’t time for it,” said one commentator.
TV ownership explodes
World War II stalled the development of television. After the war though, TV sales took off faster than you could say “Hi Ho Silver, Away!”...
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
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There is a long history of movies that hit the silver screen diving into television sets in the forms of TV shows. Some were met with huge success and longevity, but the majority of them were virtual train wrecks.
On the surface it seems like a logically brilliant idea: take a film that audiences adored and extend it into a more digestible, bite-sized version that they could watch every week from the comfort of their homes. But carrying over the success of a movie into the television realm seems to involve a tricky and delicate science that no one seems to know the formulas to.
A television series adaptation of the Blade trilogy and the recent news of a live-action Star Wars television series coming to life near the end of this decade beg us to ask whether or not either will succeed. ...
