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Digital TVs
Digital Televisions are TVs that are digital cable ready. Television manufacturers have been selling digital ready TVs since cable stations began transmitting free digital signals over the air in the late 90s. Digital TV is available through many cable companies, as well as digital satellite television providers such as Direct TV. For a fee, customers can subscribe to a number of cable or satellite TV packages and receive all of their favorite programs and shows digitally.
Advantages:
- Improved picture/quality resolution
- Enhanced sound/audio
- Better overall viewing experience
- no cable box needed to receive digital channels
- less electronic equipment/wires, less clutter
- technology that aims to eliminate the need for cable boxes by providing
a way to receive digital cable broadcasts through a cable card built in to the TV
- TV watchers can view all of their favorite digital cable channels without having
to use a set-top cable box
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Digital Light Processing (DLP) TVs
DLP Televisions are among the most sophisticated and technologically advanced TVs on the market today. DLP TVs use a technology called Digital Light Processing to produce vividly clear pictures. Each DLP television uses a DMD (Digital Micromirror Device) to project pixels onto a screen. This is done when more than one million micro mirrors are tilted forward or away from their light source. The micro mirrors then filter the light to a color wheel, which spins at 120 RPS to produce the exact color needed for a crystal clear image.
Advantages:
- Often much brighter than other display technologies
- Performs well under almost any lighting condition
- Available in sizes up to 70 inches
- With an HD ready version, you will have the option of taking advantage of high
definition channels currently being offered by many cable service providers
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High Definition (HD) TVs
HiDef TVs have up to six times the picture detail of conventional
televisions. For this reason, most cable service providers now offer high definition service to their customers. Viewers can watch about 1000 HD channels in several hundred cities across the U.S. Over 97% of households in the United States can receive high definition signals, and this number is expected to increase in the coming years. Many televisions currently being sold are HD-ready.This means that they can be hooked up to a cable service or satellite that broadcasts HD channels and receive high quality programming right "out of the box." Consumers do not need to do anything other than subscribe to a High Definition service, which most digital or satellite cable providers now offer.
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LED/Triluminos® LED TVs
Light-Emitting Diode (LED) technology has been around since the 1960s, but has only been used in recent years in televisions. LED lights are typically used in High Definition TVs and beam red, green and blue light. Beams are emitted in a narrow band of wavelengths very close to those of single, pure colors, which allows the TV to display brilliant, saturated colors that are available in a much wider array of hues compared to non LED TVs
Triluminos® RGB LED backlight technology is a type of LED technology used by Sony, which aligns individual clusters of red, green, and blue LEDs to produce a significantly higher purity of primary colors than single white LED backlights, resulting in more accurate color reproduction.
Advantages:
- lower-energy consumption
- longer lifetime
- wider array of color hues that can be displayed
- faster response and light up time
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Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) TVs
LCD Televisions use a technology that has been around since the 1970s. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) uses viscous crystal to display images. The crystals are placed between two panels and the liquid is moved by a network of transistors which control pixels. When faced at exact angles, the crystals filter light to create beautiful images which are displayed on the screen.
Advantages:
- light weight
- thinner than many CRT and projection type TVs
- no risk of "burn in" from images left on the screen
- available in both small and large screen sizes
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Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS)
Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) is a hybrid that combines the technology of LCD and DLP. LCOS
is a reflective technology that uses liquid crystals instead of individual mirrors. In LCOS, liquid crystals are applied to a reflective mirror substrate. As the liquid crystals open and close, the light is either reflected from the mirror below, or blocked. This modulates the light, which creates the image that is projected on-screen.
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Multi-Zone Audio/Video
Imagine being able to listen to high fidelity audio in every room of the house, or entertaining family and friends and enjoying your favorite music in the living room, family room, kitchen, patio, pool – anywhere – without having additional stereo components all over the house. With a multi-zone audio system you can control your music from multiple locations without having to run back to the main system. With a multi-zone video system, you can view the front door, check the baby's room, or keep an eye on the kids, all while watching the ballgame in surround sound in the family room. All of this can be done simply by flipping the TV channel. Audio Video Intelligence specializes in the installation of Crestron and Control 4 mutli-zone audio and video systems.
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Organic light emitting diode (OLED)
Organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology is an innovation first developed by Kodak in the late 1980s. The technology involves placing a series of organic thin films between two conductors. When electrical current is applied, a bright light is emitted. The OLED materials emit light and do not require a backlight unlike some display technologies, such as LCD displays.
Advantages:
- brighter than most back-lit display technologies
- faster reaction to changes in signal
- less power consumption
- light-weight and thinner than almost any other display
- very durable; nearly impervious to shock or tosional forces
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Plasma TVs
Perhaps the most technologically advanced of all TVs are plasma televisions. Plasma televisions
display some of the best pictures imaginable and can fit virtually anywhere. Plasma screen technology involves plasma gas pixels, which are forced to glow by a series of electrodes, producing vividly clear and truly astonishing images on the screen. Plasma TVs are very lightweight and compact. Most can be hung on a wall or placed on top of an entertainment center.
Advantages:
- excellent picture quality
- light, compact
- can be viewed at a greater number of angles than LCD screens
- available in sizes up to 70+ inches
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SXRD
SXRD technology employs three Silicon X-tal Reflective Display panels that assist in the response time of image changes and movement. Each one of these panels is assigned to a primary color – red, blue, or green. These panels combine their monochromatic colors into one, creating a single, full-color image that is displayed onto the screen via an energy-efficient high output lamp. SXRD delivers high-level resolution, greater contrast ratio, faster response speed and film-like reproduction
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