Set Size: Both LCD TVs and Plasma TVs are very thin. Plasma TVs tend to be quite a bit heavier though, because of the use of two glass panels. The added weight can create a need for reinforcing walls to which they are mounted. Screen size: Plasma TVs tend to be the larger of the two. This is wh

What's that on your wall! Along with Plasma screens, LCDs offer quite a few advantages over traditional televisions. They are usually sharper, brighter, and less harmful to your eyes than that old console TV you grew up with. Lets run down a list of reasons why a flat panel LCD TV might be your best

An LCD TV is a new type of television that uses LCD technology, which stands for "Liquid Crystal Display." LCD TVs have several advantages over traditional TV sets. For starters, they are unbelievably thin. LCD TVs feature such a slim profile that they can easily be mounted on a living roo

The following glossary is to help the rest of us understand the techies when they start to talk. The alphabet soup can make you feel like you just entered a government building, but don't worry; once you read a little, it all starts to make sense. ATSCThis is the Advanced Television Standards C

Why HDTV, and why now?Lets keep it simple, HDTV is movie theater quality brought into the living room. Originally, television used the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' standardized screen size. This appeared as square, although it was really about a third wider than tall. This size

HDTV is a relatively new advancement in viewing technology. HDTV, or "High-Definition TV," allows viewers to watch TV at resolutions that were unheard of only a few years ago. HDTV displays 1080 active lines, which is a resolution much higher than conventional TV. The picture is crisp, bri

ModemA modem is a device that modulates and demodulates data. Data is modulated by the modem on the sending end and then sent via telephone line, cable, or radio frequency to a receiving modem that demodulates the data. BPSBPS, or bits per second, is the speed at which a modem transmits and rec

A brief history of the modemThe word modem originates from its use: the modulation and demodulation of information. A typical modem modulates or changes data using the 1s and 0s of computer language into a signal that can be sent across a phone line and demodulated by a modem on the other end. The b

Modems are the devices that allow computers to communicate with a phone line or network. Technically speaking, a modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. Ultimately, a signal

Most PDAs have a power management routine built into the OS so that the CPU is actually sleeping most of the time, even when the device is on. The system wakes up long enough to process screen presses and display the next screen. If your PDA is set up with this type of sleep system, the batteries wi