While millions of people watch television each day, many of them are not quite sure how the technology works. Television has been around for many decades and although some of its components have changed over the years, the way in which television broadcasts work is pretty much the same. Elements of Broadcast Television There are a several major parts that are required in order to receive television broadcasts. They include an image source, a sound source, a transmitter, a receiver, a display device, and a sound device. Image Source The Read More

TVRO stands for "TV Receive Only", but that really does not give you a good sense of what TVRO is. The term TVRO is used to describe both Free To Air satellite and paid programming over similar equipment. Free To Air satellite is unencrypted. TVRO premium analog channels are encrypted using VideoCipher II RS. TVRO premium digital channels are encrypted using Digicipher II. TVRO programming is encoded with MPEG-2. TVRO Programming For free TVRO programming, see What is Free To Air? Paid TVRO programming is available from National Programming Service Read More

A satellite finder is a specialized signal-strength meter used to point satellite dishes and LNBs. There are two general classes of satellite finders: analog and digital satellite finders. Analog Satellite Finder Most analog satellite finders are inexpensive devices which simply display the strength of the received signal. To use an analog satellite finder, you point the satellite dish and LNB to where you believe the satellite to be. You then take a reading on the satellite finder and adjust the satellite dish and LNB until you get the strongest reading Read More

What is VGA? The Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a type of display hardware. The VGA connector is a 15 pin connection which relays all of the visual data to be shown to the computer screen. Each pin corresponds to a color, ground or placement information for the display. This has been in use ever since the 1990s and has improved in quality of the display as well. It is now most commonly found on most built in computer hardware accelerators, video cards as well as high definition televisions. The High Density Video Graphics Array Read More

With the increased use of applications featuring live video chat options such as Google Talk, Skype, and Yahoo IM, setting up a PC microphone is now an essential task to ensure the highest quality of service while using these and other related products. Although most versions of the Windows OS are designed to automatically detect and auto-configure a microphone, to ensure optimum performance the device must be configured to minimize the effects of background noise on the quality of sound transmission. How to Set Up a PC Microphone Step 1 Read More

Projectors have quite a variety of uses these days, whether in the boardroom or classroom to give a presentation, or the home to project digital, high definition TV and video to a screen. While there are many aspects that determine whether a projector will project high quality images (e.g. resolution, contrast, etc.), one type of measurement that users should be aware of is Lumens. What are Lumens? Lumens are a unit of measurement of the total brightness that comes from a light source, in this case, a projector. One may Read More

The UltraViolet system is an online digital rights management and licensing system built to allow consumers of movies and TV shows to buy their entertainment content once and be able to play it anywhere. Purchased UltraViolet movies and TV shows are added to an UltraViolet account and can then be streamed to TVs, computers, tablets, and smartphones or downloaded to DVDs or Blu-Ray discs for offline viewing. The system is developed by the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a consortium of over 70 members including film studios, retailers, cable TV Read More

A remix is an audio clip that is made by combining multiple songs together and/or adding special effects. Remixes are very common in the rap and R&B genres, but are also found in other types of music such as country and rock, and have existed since music was first recorded on vinyl records. While DJs, radio hosts, and famous musicians, create remixes, anyone who has a decent audio editing software can also make them. To make the search for free audio editors easier, several have been listed below: WavePad WavePad Read More

As it sounds, a projection television, or more commonly a "rear-projection" TV work by projecting an image from behind the screen itself. Currently, there are three main types of technology used in rear-projection TV's: CRT, LCD, and DLP. Each uses a combination of projection devices, magnification lenses, mirrors, and screens to produce the image seen. However, each takes an alternate approach and each has its own sets of advantages and disadvantages. CRT CRT, or Cathode Ray Tube, technology is the most basic and has been around the longest of rear-projection Read More

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open source audio file format that is royalty free and supported by a number of multi-media playback programs. The FLAC format; however, is not widely usable in popular MP3 players and gaming consoles that support music playback. As a result, a common task that arises for end-users is to convert FLAC to MP3 in order to use the music on the iPhone, Zune player, iPad, and iPod devices. Steps to Convert FLAC to MP3 Using Bigasoft One of the popular third party applications Read More