An HDTV receiver is essentially a device that receives and decodes high definition TV signals. HDTV receivers are needed along with a High Definition Ready TV set to view high definition programming. Sometimes an HDTV receiver is also referred to as an HDTV tuner or HDTV decoder. One of the first questions that should be asked before purchasing an HDTV receiver is whether the HDTV already has a receiver built in. Usually, the TV states that it has a built-in receiver or tuner. If the HDTV does not have a Read More

The Nintendo Wii has a very sleek and compact look. The console’s physical dimension is 8.5″ x 6″ x 2″. It has a disc drive that can support either single or dual layer optical discs and that is backward compatible with GameCube-format discs. The Wii also has average seek times that are much faster than DVD drives. The Wii is equipped with a CMOS processor capable of 729,000 cycles per second, an ATI Hollywood GPU that works at around 243,000 Hz, 88MB RAM, 512MB flash memory, an SD card slot Read More

Ellipsometry is an optical technique used to investigate thin films’ dielectric properties (complex refractive index or dielectric function). Ellipsometry has many different applications. It can be used in semiconductor physics, microelectronics, biology, basic research, and industrial applications. This measurement technique’s sensitivity gives it an unequaled ability for measuring thin film. When analyzing the polarization of light, ellipsometry provides information about layers that are much thinner than probing light’s wavelength. It can even go down to a single atomic layer and can also probe the refractive index and/or dielectric function tensor. Read More

A new trend now-a-days is to connect your TV to your PC and record television shows directly to your computer. This may have seemed like an insane dream a decade ago but believe it or not, there are many methods that exist today that allow you to record television shows to your computer to watch at a later time. In this article, we have laid out some of the easiest and most reliable methods that allow you to record shows on your PC. DVR For those of you have not Read More

Sometimes referred to as a sub-miniature connector, the SMB Connector is one member of the family of radio frequency (RF) connectors developed during the decade of the 1960’s. As is true of all RF connectors, the SMB connector is manufactured to work within a wide band of frequencies. What does the SMB Connector do? Designed to work with coaxial cables, the SMB connector acts as an interface between the cable and the electronic device. One of the main advantages of this type of connector is that it does not require Read More

One of the great things about a laptop and a TV is that, with the right cables, you can connect the two together. This gives you the option to work from your television or you can download video onto your laptop and then have it play on the much larger screen of the TV. Regardless, there are really only two steps that go into connecting a laptop to a TV. The first is to get the right cable that works with your laptop and your TV. The second is to Read More

If you have a site, you might want customize your website a little more by adding music. One particularly popular way is to add a music playlist, a streaming device that allows users to upload music from their desktop to their chosen host so that it can be played from their site. A common playlist is the XSPF (XML Shareable Playlist Format) player. A talented programmer named Fabricio Zuardi invented this player with a very basic, rudimentary flash interface and Actionscript 2. It plays the mp3s in the lists by Read More

Making a music video can be broken up into three steps. The planning, the filming and the producing. Each step is important. Some would think that the filming takes the most time, but in actuality, planning is the most time costly step because every little detail has to be ready. If there is something missing, the music video might be lacking and that wouldn’t be beneficial. Creating the Music Video Determine what song you’re going to be using and what set you want. There are pluses and minuses to all Read More

A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is one that attempts to prevent the victim from being able to use all or part of his/her network connection. A denial of service attack may target a user to prevent him/her from making outgoing connections on the network. It may also target an entire organization to either prevent outgoing traffic or to prevent incoming traffic to certain network services, such as the organizations web page. Denial of service attacks are much easier to accomplish than remotely gaining administrative access to a target system. Read More

Homepage of your web browser is commonly the webpage that first opens upon launch. It is convenient to set the homepage to a webpage that you frequently use. Many a times, malicious software or creepy websites tend to change your homepage setting within your web browser. You can easily reset it to avoid inconvenience every time you open your web browser. Change Homepage in Internet Explorer Open Internet Explorer. In IE9, click the Gear-shaped icon in the top-right corner. In older versions, click Tools and select Internet Options. Under the Read More