High Definition Hardware

Evesham DVD1000 - Upscaling DVD player

If you’re anything like me you have probably spent the last few years building an extensive DVD collection full of all your favourite movies. With all this talk of new HD formats such as Blu-ray and HD DVD it’s easy to think that those DVDs might soon end up in a box in the loft next to the Videos!

With more and more people rushing out to buy HD Ready LCDs and Plasmas it is only natural that consumers want to get the best from their new equipment. However, according to Evesham there is still plenty of life in those DVDs yet.

Acer Aspire 9800 - HD DVD laptop

If you’re looking for a laptop with the potential to fulfill all your multimedia needs, then look no further than the new Acer Aspire 9800.

This new Acer offers a massive 20.1 inch widescreen with a native resolution of 1,680 x 1,050 along with CrystalBrite high-contrast technology and an 8 millisecond response time. To make the most of this, Acer has chosen the popular 256 Meg version of Nvidia’s GeForce Go 7600 graphics card which should have plenty of puff for both games and multimedia tasks.

What is HDMI?

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the first industry-supported, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface. HDMI provides an interface between any audio/video source, such as a set-top box, DVD player, and A/V receiver and an audio and/or video monitor, such as a High definition digital television (HDTV).