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How to Calibrate Your HDTV and Boost Your Video Quality in 30 Minutes or Less

How to Calibrate Your HDTV and Boost Your Video Quality in 30 Minutes or Less
Don't know about you... but TVs I've owned have Store and Home modes, Store is horribly bright, high contrast, Home is sensibly done. Last time this article came around it only needed a DVD player. Now you've made it even harder to do. You *can* use a DVD player, but considering no DVD player is capable of 1080p/i display, it wouldn't make much sense. That said, "Store" or "Cinema" or "Vivid" is the mode warned against in the open.

How to Build a Computer from Scratch, Lesson 4: Installing Your Operating System Ah, good eye! So, generally, your motherboard runs all RAM at the lowest speed (correct me if I'm wrong on any nuance of that particular fact, guys). As I mentioned in part 2, RAM speeds don't really matter. You're not going to get any noticeable difference from 300MHz in your RAM. However, where those RAM speeds DO come in useful is if you overclock your processor. Many of today's processors are tightly linked with the RAM, meaning that if you raise the clock speed of your processor, you also raise the clock speed of your RAM. So in the end? RAM speed do provide performance increase, visible in memory intensive task, such as photo editing, CAD or gaming. Your problem is easy to solve. Hope this helps. :) (please keep posted) I had this problem with my new build I bought some 1600 ram but it was running at 1333 on auto. Also, if I recall correctly, there are dividers associated with the bus speed and memory speed so it's still possible to overclock the CPU and keep the RAM in spec.

Selections! The Best PCs You Can Build for $600 and $1200 Optimum HDTV viewing distance Home Theater oriented room Background[edit] Presence[edit] The concept of presence has been defined as the “sensation of reality”, of “being there” and as “an illusion of nonmediation”.[6] The concept of presence originated and was studied with regard to Virtual Reality (VR) and other 3D environments. Visual angle[edit] The ideal optimum viewing distance is affected by the horizontal angle viewed by the camera capturing the image. If the angle captured by the camera was always the same, an optimal viewing distance could be easily calculated. The more distant position demanded by a telephoto view would negate the reason for a telephoto image in the first place, to see more detail of a distant object, or perhaps minimize the distortion in facial images, for example. One compromise assumes that the lens is "standard", a 50mm focal length in the case of a standard 35mm format. Horizontal, vertical and diagonal field of view. Angular resolution[edit] Recommendations[edit] Fixed distance[edit]

Stream Your Music Online From Wired How-To Wiki Vintage radio photo by monogatari via Flickr You've spent a lot of time and money collecting digital music. But let's say you want to take that library to go? This article is a wiki. Step 1: Host it somewhere Most web hosts offer data plans around $10 per month that come with plenty of storage and bandwidth to hold and serve your music. Besides the cost, you trade off a good deal of control over the data because it resides on some machine out there in the ether. Hosting music on your own computer using a broadband connection is a preferable option, especially since you know exactly where it is and there's is no need to transfer your music anywhere. Tip: Webmonkey.com has an excellent introduction to using Dynamic DNS.Tip: Dan Hilgert also has an explanation of his Dynamic DNS setup and streaming music guide. Step 2: Create a playlist Perhaps the easiest way to get your music online is to use your favorite music player. Extended M3U The XSPF format is below. <?

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