Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...

Although European terrestrial broadcasters, cable operaters, and satellite broadcasters have been broadcasting DTV for several years, they have, until recently, largely avoided HDTV. Probably in part ...

All right, all this talk about progressive scan broke me down. Recently, I picked up a Samsung TXM3096WHF TV and upgraded to a Toshiba SD-5700 DVD player all for the purpose of checking out ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Video frame rates would seem to be a static subject frozen in the various International ...

Black and white NTSC is simple – it can, and was, done with vacuum tubes for a long, long time. Color is just weird, though. It runs at 29.976 frames per second, uses different phases of the carrier ...

A simple explanation for how TV works is that a transmission signal sends information to your TV. The information tells the TV what the picture is supposed to look like. Once received, the TV paints ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the progressive-scan DVD feature will not be available in the final retail version of the Xbox console. The company would not elaborate on the specific reasons behind the ...