Category: VideoFX


LED TV, About LED TV, LED TV Technology

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September 12, 2010

I don’t own a LED TV yet, but I watched a few movies and I got to say that the image quality is excellent. But, of course there is a always a but.

I noticed that movies don’t look like they used to look on regular LCDs or CRTs. I have assisted to discussion among friends abut this phenomena and no one had an idea what it was. Well I am coming to demystify this matter.

Movies are usually viewed at 24p, this means that the movies instead of using the 29.97 fps they use 24 fps. But it seems that these new LED TVs somehow alter the fps and convert the signal to 29.97 fps. After a further discussion with my friends we ended up talking about the 120 Hz refresh rate, maybe that is the cause of this effect. In addition I noticed that at every cut scene the images flicker and the TV it seems to be buffering to adjust and playback at 29.97 fps. It seems that all movies look like the behind the scenes cut. The film look is lost, along with the “suspension of disbelieve”.  Now with these TVs I can actually leave the movie behind, and flip trough channels. It seems that the Film Look is not in effect and you can’t be suspended in time with the story. Also the acting seems a bit forced. Usually bad actors are more evident.

No matter what the real reason is behind this issue, these TVs are going to break the movie addiction. People are going to start reading books, the economy is going to be restored to complete harmony, wars will end. The food is going to be produced organically, cancer will disappear, and the society will revert to its true origin. Harmony!

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Slideshow DVD Authoring

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March 9, 2010

Usually after a vacation it takes me a while until I have all the footage and the pictures ready for viewing. Sometimes I just leave the footage there and I come back to it later or much later. So since I just was in Peru I wanted to process the footage from my Sanyo FH1. I have like 1500 photos and 4 hours of footage that I want to put on DVDs. So the first problem I ran into is the fact that I have no BluRay burner and all of my footage is 720p and 1080p. Too large for regular DVDs. So until then I decided to make a slide-show of the photos I have and send it to family and friends. I wanted to create the slide-show as a regular DVD to play it on the TV. I mean everyone has a DVD in their house, and they comfortably view it as a movie.
So the first try was Adobe DVD Encore, has all kinds of bells and whistles but when I tried to import the 15 hundred photos it took a long time. And I just preempted the task (Task manager End Task) ‘cause it was too much. Then I tried Adobe premiere to make the actual slide-show and the background sound. Premiere worked better but when I exported to a DV format the quality was terrible. So I tried Ulead Movie factory.

Ulead DVD Movie factory made it much easier for me to make my slide-show and it was quick about it. It also enables you to export the MPEG2 video as NTSC or as PAL, and then you can burn it with Adobe Encore or other burning software, or you just export as an ISO or burn it directly with Ulead. The quality was great. Also for 15 hundred pics it take you a while to make transitions pans and zooms but the DVD factory has that built in and it randomizes the movements, which is pretty cool.Now when it comes to the fine tuning is where this app is lacking. But it is really good because on high volumes no one goes through each transition pan and zoom. So it really did a good job.

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Highway driving, it’s just liberating

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March 8, 2010

Over the weekend we had some nice weather, and there is nothing greater than just jumping in the car and driving away. Crank up the music and just go. The sun smiling at you the throughout the entire trip, and no traffic. It’s just beautiful. This is what I did this past weekend, among other things.

I also broke the all time record for speeding on the highway. 500 MPH

Luckily no traffic officers were there to hand out their hot candy tickets. These last couple of years the policies have changed so drastically, that the ticketing has lost it’s purpose, of saving lives, it has just become another mean for income and saving the jobs of the  patrol officers.

Back in the day lets say hundreds of years ago, the role these protectors had was to protect the caravans and tourists from dangerous bandits. But now since thy have no competition at all, they just hand out tickets to the caravans directly. Basically a hidden fee lost somewhere in the grand scheme of the PMT formula. Or governmental extortion?

Pretty funny, I guess we the people, need to get fed up with this predatory enforcement of any kind of tickets.

Well anyway, I can’t turn this into a rant ’cause I had a good time and there were no hidden fees this time. But you can take a look at what I came up with from my travels.

Feel the speed, 500 MPH.


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