Recently, the large ISP Comcast began sacrificing quality for quantity in their broadcasts by degrading the quality of their HD video to make room for more channels.
Beginning on April 9th, Rogers Cable, of Canada will follow suit and will begin compressing 15 of its HD channels. The channels affected by the new announcement, according to Digital Home Canada, are as follows:
* HD PBS Buffalo
* HD WGN
* HD The Score
* HD Showcase
* HD National Geographic
* HD Mpix
* HD Discovery
* HD MORE
* HD TMN
* HD NBC Seattle
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Following last month’s launch of a 19-inch 10,000:1 Digital Fine Contrast ratio display, LG has announced the launch of the W2252TQ 22-inch Widescreen monitor with the same contrast ratio.
Like its smaller brother, the display is “powered by LG’s picture enhancing Chipset, F-Engine,” and LG claims the latest display has the “best image definition and colour reproduction available today.”
Among the other notable specifications, according to the source article, are:
- 10,000:1 DFC (when in F-Engine “Movie Mode”)
- 2ms response time (grey-to-grey)
- 1680 x 1050 resolution
- 300 nits brightness/16.7cd/m2
- 170 degree viewing angle
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The PlayStation 3 has surpassed another milestone in Japan, passing the 2 million units sold mark after a strong sales week.
Sony’s popular handheld, the PSP, had a very strong week as well in the territory and sold 121,000 units for the week ended April 6th. The Nintendo DS sold under half of the PSP, with 55,000 units for the week. The usually strong Wii sold a little less than usual at 44,600.
The PS3 sold 11,000 units as of April 6th to hit the 2 million sold milestone in Sony’s home territory.
The rest of the list, courtesy of the source article are as follows:
* 1. PlayStation Portable (120,964)
* 2. Nintendo DS (55,190)
* 3. Nintendo Wii (44,618)
* 4. PlayStation 3 (11,303)
* 5. PlayStation 2 (10,423)
* 6. Xbox 360 (1452)
