Upconverting a DVD consists of taking a standard-definition DVD and "upsampling" it to appear to be at a higher resolution. Despite the labels that they are "1080i" or "1080p" DVD upconverters, they are not the same as watching your DVDs in true high definition, since the source content is still limited by the content on [...]
Ah, the numbers and letters. We’re trained to think that larger numbers are always better, and they are–sometimes. We’ll come back to that in a second. First, let’s start with the basics. When you watch television, the picture you see is made up of many scanned lines that compose the image on the screen. Lines [...]
There are several to choose from. The main three are LCD, plasma, and DLP. LCD and plasma offer "true" flat panel displays–thin enough to hang on your wall. DLP refers to the "digital light processing" technology that’s inside rear-projection TVs. Unlike the rear projection TVs of a few years ago, the new DLP TVs are [...]
Anyone who has experienced an HDTV playing high-def content knows how amazing it looks. But standard-definition content (such as cable, satellite, or broadcast TV–NTSC) doesn’t take advantage of HDTV’s full potential–it’s displayed at a lower resolution of 480 lines of resolution and uses a 4:3 (non-widescreen) aspect ratio.
Before taking your HDTV back and demanding a [...]
DVD players show movies and other content at standard definition resolutions, while Blu-ray players show content at much higher resolutions. At a mechanical level, all DVD players use red lasers to read the information on the disc, while all high-def players use blue lasers. The blue lasers can read more information on each disc, and [...]
High definition (high-def) is the highest resolution offered within the digital television category. As television programming and TV sets themselves are moving from analog to digital, it’s easier to deliver movies and programming in higher resolutions. High-def content is also more often displayed in widescreen, which is similar to how it looks in the movie [...]
If, like me, you live in a medium-fringe TV area, and you are going to be using the supplied (or other external) antenna, one of the first things to do when you receive this cute little TV is to connect it to the best antenna available to do your auto-scan. That’s easy because it has [...]
The server that hosts your website knows exactly how many pages it served, when they were served and many details about the person that requested them. The web server can save this kind of data in a what is commonly known as a raw logs file. The data in these logs files is written in [...]
The great thing about getting a hosting account is that in perhaps 99.9% of cases it comes with email capabilities. That means you can setup a certain number of email accounts. Each such account can have a certain size, meaning it can hold X MB of data.
Web based email is email capability, but with [...]
Once you have added the domain name in the Addon Domains section inside your cpanel. A directory will automatically be created inside of your /public_html directory.
Ex. The Addon domain is test123.com. When you add it, it will show up as /public_html/test123. Everything should now be uploaded inside this directory for that addon domain name [...]