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Stories on
standards
CNET.co.uk has 6 stories on standards
Leaving Las Vegas
Digital Living However, this one isn't over yet, and real hardware from both camps is only just becoming available, so we'll be able to enjoy this standards ding-dong for a good while yet. The fortunes of both standards are also now inextricably linked to the...
11 January 2006, 15:45
Get the most out of Wi-Fi
Digital Living Connect your home PCs and peripherals In case you've been hiding under a rock for the past few years, Wi-Fi, short for wireless fidelity, is a term used to describe wireless local area networks (WLANs) that confirm to a particular set of standards...
4 May 2006, 16:30
CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?
Digital Living The battleground is the living room, and it's all about setting the standards and building the products that will create control of future markets, and it's being going on for years, the computer industry versus the electronics players.
4 January 2006, 11:43
What is Dolby TrueHD?
Digital Living Pro Logic was the first generation, and is, by modern standards, pretty crude. I've heard a lot about Dolby TrueHD recently. What is it, and is it worth a costly upgrade to my AV system to get the best out of it?
11 July 2007, 15:15
The digital won't let me go
Digital Living I bored my friends with breathless talk of LimeWire, CD burners, compression standards. What does it mean to live a digital life? I know I spend an enormous amount of time quarelling with computing and electronics equipment.
16 May 2005, 12:40
Blu-ray and HD DVD: The facts
Digital Living Both support the MPEG-2, VC-1 and AVC (also called H.264) video-compression standards, although which one is actually used depends on the individual movie disc, so quality can vary. The simple answer is that these two optical disc formats are the...
1 June 2007, 17:40
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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