The resolution of the Toshiba cam is 1920 x 1080 at 30 fps. It uses a 3CCD (charge-coupled device) using Toshiba’s prism block technology. Outputs that come standard are HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M), analog RGB, or Y/Pb/Pr.

For tight studio shots, reality television or hi def surveillance this tiny monster will be a perfect solution. Toshiba, its great to see your doing hi def stuff post HD DVD.

Source: hd-report.com

The Samsung FP-T5084 offers pleasing colours and sharp picture detail in a sleekly designed cabinet. Moreover, this 50in plasma HDTV has an affordable price.

Colours in high-definition scenes were luxuriously rich. An HD scene revealed bright, natural colours and realistic skin tones. Jurors watching ‘Corpse Bride’, a colourfully macabre animated film, gave the Samsung FP-T5084 a high score for the vivid tones and detail that it repro­duced. Standard-definition quality was slightly above average; a standard-definition baseball game had well-saturated oranges and turf greens, with fine detail in dark areas and minimal pixelation.

The Samsung FP-T5084 offers a slew of adjustable settings, including RGB gain and offset controls in the White Balance section of the OSD menu (for fine colour temperature controls), and separate pink, green, blue, and white settings in My Colour Control.

Link to the review: pcadvisor.co.uk

The specs of this screen are as follows: 

52in Widescreen TFT active matrix;
1920 x 1080 resolution;
1080p (FullHD) display format;
16:9 image aspect ratio;
120Hz; progressive scanning (line doubling);
4D digital;
Color Temperature Control;
DeepField, SharpEdge, X.v.Color, Deep Color, PerfecTint, Plush1080p, PerfectColor, Full Spectrum Color, Tru1080p Processing, NetCommand Home Network Control System;
DVR1x;
analog/digital combo tuner;
HDMI, S-Video, Component, Composite; HDCP Compatible;
Dimensions: 1,219 x 145 x 772 mm;
Weight: 34kg

If one would judge TV just by it’s specs, it would be very hard to find any flaw: fullHD resolution, big, 52-inch screenm 120 Hz progressive scanning and a whole bunch of various technologies for perfecting image and enhancing sound. But, the review at PC Advisor showed many faults and oversaturated colours was the most easier to see.  “Watching both high-definition and standard-definition shows on the Mitsubishi LT-52244, jurors saw images with lurid tones and some background pixelation. High-definition movies such as ‘Corpse Bride’ and ‘Mission Impossible III’ exhibited garish colours. You also get shimmery wood grain and fabric, and orange skin tones.”

Second minus goes to the OSD that despite many adjustments that offers has one problem: each time you change any setting, the menu goes right back to the top one, so you have to step through the whole OSD again to get to the next setting.
The remote is fully backlit when you press any of it’s buttons which is a definite plus.

The speaker’s are below the expected quality of this class – it’s lack of fullnes and narrow range isn’t something one would expect after unloading rather big amount of money in the store. “Background audio and orchestral music for ‘Phantom of the Opera’ sounded shrill.”

“The built-in USB port works well for displaying photos, but the Mitsubishi LT-52244 loaded pictures slowly. The TV automatically switched to photo display mode when we connected a flash-card reader, and it allowed us to view a slideshow of our pictures from a memory card.”

Read the full review here.

Most 6-12-megapixel cameras capture images that contain far more pixels and detail than you need for even the most colossal HDTVs, which have 1920×1080-pixel resolutions (approximately 2 megapixels). Those images also have a different shape: Most compacts, as well as Olympus and Panasonic DSLRs, shoot photos with a 4:3 aspect ratio; other DSLRs capture 3:2 images. But HDTV screens have a 16:9 aspect ratio and display uncropped photos with wide bars on either side. So start by cropping your images to 16:9 at a resolution of approximately 2MP.

Another problem? Most HDTVs are optimized for the color and image quality of video and TV signals from HD-enabled cable or satellite boxes and DVD players. (Only the latest Blu-ray and HD-DVD players can display still images in true HD resolution.) These signals typically look better with higher color saturation, contrast, and sharpness — all of which you’ll find as HDTV default settings.

Unless you change the settings in the TV menus, print-optimized photos from a digital camera will appear too washed out or contrasty. Luckily, you only have to change the settings once and save the new ones for slide shows. Saving your images in the sRGB color space will minimize the color difference.

Only a few HDTVs have built-in card readers — and they’re slow, take only SD cards or Memory Sticks, and don’t optimize image size and color. Most cameras have video output, but it’s usually limited to VGA (640×480-pixel) resolution, which looks horrible on an HDTV.

Fortunately, several inexpensive devices, such as the Kodak EasyShare HDTV dock ($100, street) and the Sony Cyber-shot Station CSS-HD1 ($70, street), can be attached to your HDTV and enable slide shows at 720p, 1080i, or 1080p resolutions. These docks also charge compatible cameras and include remote controls, but neither provides sophisticated transitions or plays multimedia slide shows with music.

Source: popphoto.com