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Which TV Character Would You Want to Be Stranded With On a Desert Island?

Would it be Homer Simpson? Jack Bauer? Put on your thinking cap and get creative!
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The Digital SLR camera has been plagued in its evolutionary awareness. Nikon’s earlier digital SLR cameras (DSLR) used a DX format. The advantage of changing lenses (while attempting some compatibility with earlier lens formats) confounded the best positioning of the digital sensor behind the lens. Imaging was based on a 24 x 16mm frame. A full frame is considered to be 36 x 24mm, nearly double the surface area. That translated to lower resolution, reduced light sensitivity, and some parallax differentiation. While those DX cameras were still benchmarks of its time. Critical professional photographers were sensitive about these drawbacks. So Nikon revised and corrected these (and other complaints) and produced the FX-series DSLR.
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Buying a new HDTV should be a very thorough process. You must first decide on how much you are willing to spend. Once you have a realistic budget, then you can proceed from there.

If shopping for a plasma panel, the first thing you need to be aware of is the lighting in the store. Is it bright? You should know that a typical store with industrial fluorescent lights is the last place you would want to judge the picture quality of a plasma. Many reputable stores counter this by only displaying their HDTVs in a darkened room, or in a room with soft lights comparable to the lighting in most people’s homes. However, I have been to many stores that clearly don’t know what they are doing. They have plasma displays front and center, under harsh, bright fluorescent lights. Those are conditions in which no one watches a TV, so do not make a judgment under those circumstances. Ask the manager or an employee to see if they can dim the lights, if they can’t, then go to another store. It may seem a bit melodramatic, but if you are going to spend your hard earned money, then the store should accommodate you if they are not displaying their wares in an optimal environment.
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While the chills of autumn bring folk inside, fantasies re-ignite with a variety of games to enjoy indoors. Then when you tire of games, sit back and let your HDTV and Blu-ray player open up Star Trek as you’ve never seen before.

Say hello to Halo 3. Developed exclusively for Xbox 360, Halo 3: ODST is a new, stand-alone expansion to the Halo saga that lets players experience the events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an entirely new character the ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant’s invasion of New Mombasa. Continue Reading »

Fox 5 stopped by J&R recently and filmed this bit about how the changeover to digital will affect you. Check it out.