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Learn how to tweak your LCD TV resolution for optimum picture quality.
In this course, you’ll learn how to properly set the basic picture controls available on most LCD sets to maximize your home-theater viewing pleasure.
In this course, you’ll learn how to:

• Create proper room lighting.
• Dim the TV’s backlight.
• Control the brightness and contrast.
• Set up your color correctly.
• Further fine-tune your TV settings.
• Have your TV professionally calibrated.

Begin to explore how to calibrate your LCD TV to get the best possible results.

So you’ve finally stepped up and ditched your bulky tube television for a sleek new flat-panel LCD set. Problem is, like most televisions, LCDs are preconfigured to make an impact on the sales floor of your local electronics superstore, not in your living room. These default settings are usually way too bright and garish to accurately represent real life. Here’s how to properly set the basic picture controls available on most LCD sets to maximize your home-theater viewing pleasure.

• To get started with this project, we recommend that you have the following:
  An LCD flat-panel TV
• A “daylight” lightbulb (which glows at about 6,500 degrees Kelvin)
• A home-theater setup DVD, such as Sound & Vision Home Theater Tune-Up or Digital Video Essentials
• Take stock of what you already have and what you need to get. To shop now, click here to print your shopping list.

Learn how to set the proper lighting for your TV room.
Because most people turn down the lights to watch a movie, our recommendations are designed to deliver a better DVD picture in rooms with controlled lighting. Unless you’re sitting at the minimum viewing distance for your LCD television’s size (see the chart), you shouldn’t watch movies in complete darkness because it can cause eyestrain. The ideal setup is to place a dim light directly behind the television and leave the rest of the room dark. You should also try to prevent any light in the room from reflecting off the LCD screen, as glare will hamper image fidelity

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Thanks to PS3, Sony enjoys spoils of HD fracas

Tuesday's announcement from Toshiba that it is pulling its support of the HD DVD format and ceasing production of the video players effectively stamps Sony as the new standard bearer of high-definition video.
Sony has long been associated with the Blu-ray Disc format, but HD DVD's demise brings new opportunity for the Japanese electronics maker to effectively take control of the future of high-definition in consumers' living rooms.
The fall of HD DVD gives Sony a chance to really extend its high-definition strategy with the pieces it already has in place: It's the only major consumer electronics player with a real presence in every high-profile consumer market: HDTVs, cameras, notebook PCs, gaming, and even a film studio that creates high-definition content. It has positioned itself so well that it would have to really screw up to not seamlessly ascend the throne as king of HD.
It's a change in fortune for the company whose gaming and electronics divisions were struggling throughout the past year. Suddenly the company's PlayStation 3 strategy appears smarter than previously thought.
One of the key's to Sony's success is undoubtedly the royalty structure--Sony, Philips, Panasonic, and Warner Bros. all own patents on Blu-ray technology and they get paid when anyone manufactures a Blu-ray player or disc. But it's not the only thing. The company's brand legacy and the most important weapon in its HD arsenal, the PlayStation 3, mean Sony has a leg up on all other participants in the world of high definition.
Sony already owns the largest chunk of market share of Blu-ray devices, but it's not because millions of people are buying Blu-ray Disc players as replacements for standard DVD players.
"The majority of Sony's success in the Blu-ray Disc market hasn't been because of their standalone player business--it's been the PlayStation 3," noted Paul Erickson, director of DVD and HD market research for DisplaySearch.
Sony's strategy of seeding the market with PlayStation 3 game consoles that came with Blu-ray Discs playback ability looks fairly prescient now, though it didn't at the time.
After a boffo market entrance--fans queuing up for days to buy the next-generation consoles--in late 2006, Sony had to deal with a lot of bad press for product shortages and the success of the Xbox 360, and the sudden popularity of the Wii from Nintendo. Blu-ray's inclusion in the PS3 was a major reason for product shortages and was responsible for the high price of the console.
Sony was able to claim in January 2007 that it had 1 million Blu-ray players sold. But those were largely PS3 sales. At the time, since the battle with HD DVD was still in full swing, it wasn't clear that Sony's strategy on Blu-ray had worked.
HD DVD's demise gives new perspective. Sony doesn't break out how many standalone players it has sold from the number of PS3s, but according to DisplaySearch shipment estimates, in the third quarter of 2007, Sony accounted for nearly 96 percent of Blu-ray devices worldwide. In conjunction with point-of-sale data collected by the NPD Group that shows Sony and Samsung collectively accounted for 87 percent of Blu-ray Disc standalone player sales in December alone, Sony is already the dominant player. Samsung is its closest competitor, but the royalties earned on manufacture of the discs and players give Sony much more room to be competitive.
Sony won't comment on any future business plans for the company, but it can now move full-speed ahead on its HD strategy in the living room, which it's been laying out over the last year or so.
It said as much in this statement it issued Tuesday: "We believe that a single format will benefit both consumers and the industry, and will accelerate the expansion of the market.
"Blu-ray has been and will continue to be a core part of Sony's HD strategy. We will continue to promote the benefits of HD throughout the value chain including Blu-ray products, Bravia LCD TVs, PlayStation 3, Vaio PCs, camcorders, entertainment content, and broadcast and professional."
Pricing of Blu-ray players is what is most up in the air. So far, it's the biggest reason that most consumers have not purchased high-definition video players.
Toshiba had a lot of success last fall lowering its prices dramatically on HD DVD players, but Sony faces different challenges. Unlike Toshiba, which was the sole producer of standalone players in its format, Sony is not the only producer of standalone Blu-ray Disc players. Samsung, Philips, Panasonic, and others will now begin to compete with Sony, and each other, over features and pricing of Blu-ray players.
But just because HD DVD is dead does not mean Sony will automatically make its standalone player prices more competitive, said DisplaySearch's Erickson.
"I'm not sure Sony is going to be as aggressive on player prices because they're attacking the market on two fronts (PS3 and standalone players)," he said. "PS3 pricing is not going to be governed by Blu-ray Disc (player) prices; it's judged by competitiveness with Xbox 360...There's not as much impetus for them to be hyper-competitive on standalone player prices."
Whether they will do that or not remains to be seen. Now with HD DVD out of the way and Sony's game console strategy vindicated, what will be interesting in the months to come is where it goes with standalone players.
Ross Rubin, an analyst with the NPD Group, doesn't anticipate any major moves by Sony quite yet. "I don't suspect we'll see any imminent price drops, but there could be this holiday season."

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

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Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords delivers classic puzzle-game action backed with an epic story of good vs. evil. Challenge your skills in single-player campaign mode, or battle your friends via multiplayer. Embark on an epic single-player campaign comprising of more than 150 challenging quests, and build your empire as you capture cities; earn money with each gold title to buy helms, weapons, armor and and other items.

This trial provides 60 minutes of gameplay from the full version of Puzzle Quest.

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Speed Up Windows XP Tricks & Tips

Does your Windows XP PC run too slow?

Learn how to speed up your Windows XP PC in this free, online course.

Learn easy tricks to adjust Windows XP settings for better performance and stability, how to free up resources that waste your Windows XP PC’s processing power and how to optimize your Internet connnection, and more. Other Windows XP speed tricks in the course include:

Add memory to your Windows XP PC for more stability and speed.
Adjust Windows XP settings for maximum efficiency.
Reduce the number of programs that start automatically (and slow your system down) in Windows XP.
Windows XP Registry tweaks that can improve speed.
Hidden ways to improve your Internet connection on a Windows XP PC.

LESSON 1

In this lesson we’ll look at a couple of simple and relatively quick things you can do to speed up your computer.




In this course, we’ll zero in on some key ways you can make your PC run faster. Really. When you first take a new PC out of the box, Windows comes with many “default settings” that can significantly slow down your system. Fortunately there are many ways you can adjust those settings to get more performance out of your machine. Sometimes you’ll have to strike a balance between speed and looks, but in most cases there’s no tradeoff — you simply need to change the way Windows works with your hardware and software.

Of course, making adjustments in Windows can be intimidating. But that’s why you’re here. We’ll try to make this a simple, step-by-step process that anyone can do.


ALERT:

This course only offers recommendations for speeding up the performance of your Windows XP PC. Before you do any troubleshooting or changing to your PC settings, we recommend that you do a full back-up of all your files.



Memory boost

To start off, the single most important thing you can do to increase your computer’s speed is to add RAM--random access memory. It’s also the one thing in this course that will cost you money (but it’s worth it).

Think of your hard drive as a big box full of puzzles and games, and your RAM is like a table where you can assemble puzzles and play games. The bigger the table, the more puzzles and games you can play with at once. Conversely, when you have a small table (limited memory), your hard disk is forced to serve as an “artificial table” (or virtual memory). This fake memory trick works fine, but it causes the computer to slow way down. So it’s far better to have enough RAM so that your PC isn’t forced to use its hard drive for virtual memory.

The price of memory has dropped dramatically in the last few years, making an upgrade an inexpensive way to get a big boost in performance.Adding or replacing RAM is relatively simple to do: You simply plug some chips into sockets on your computer’s motherboard.

The challenge, however, is getting the correct memory module for your PC. Just about every computer is different. Some are already equipped with plenty of memory, while others have very little. And there are a lot of different types of memory, so you need to be sure to get the exact right module for your system.

A good reference on this topic can be found at CNET Labs’ guide to buying RAM. This guide explains what RAM is and how to install it. There’s also an online tool called a memory configurator that tells you exactly what kind of memory your computer make and model uses.

Cut the graphics

Whether or not you choose to add memory, another easy way to speed up Windows XP is to change your graphics settings. The more gratuitous effects you use, the slower your computer will work. So let’s reduce or eliminate them.

If you’ve used other versions of Windows, you know that XP has a very different look. Unfortunately, that look comes at the expense of some speed because it uses more graphics. So if you don’t mind a simpler, no-nonsense interface, dump it and reclaim the power.

Here’s how:

Go to Control Panel and choose Display (you may have to click Appearance and Themes first).
On the Themes tab, change your current theme to Windows Classic, which uses fewer resources than the new look does. You can then click the Appearance tab and change that look to suit yourself.
We’re not finished. Windows also uses its graphics power to provide all sorts of special effects — menus that fade, shadows under the mouse cursor, and so on. All of these effects sap performance. So:

Go into Control Panel and choose System (you may have to click Performance and Maintenance first).
Click the Advanced tab.
In the Performance box, click Settings.
You can now select Adjust for best performance, or you can choose Custom and play around with the settings. The more you uncheck, the less work your computer will have to do.
Browse files faster
Finally, a useful change to speed up your file browsing. When you open a folder or run Windows Explorer, Windows will automatically search your network for folders and printers you might want to access. That takes time, and is especially annoying if you don’t need to access one at the time.

So let’s tell Windows not to search for them unless you ask it to. Here’s how:

Open My Computer.
Click the Tools menu.
Choose Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Uncheck “Automatically search for network folders and printers.”
Click OK.
The next time you reboot your computer, browsing your folders should be a little faster.
We’ll make them faster still in the next lesson, when we do some spring cleaning of your hard drive.

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