An enormous wide-screen TV is aglow with, simultaneously, CNBC, ESPN and the NFL Network.
It includes a reclining bed, sound-absorbent walls and somniferous sights and sounds from a wide-screen TV.
Its sleek wide-screen display--uncluttered by an ugly chiclet-style keyboard--is ideal for surfing the Web or watching videos.
" Adds Wolff: "With products like laptop PCs, DVDs, wide-screen TVs and huge profits from semiconductors, Toshiba is very well positioned.
Worse, using the high-definition wide-screen mode puts black bars at the top and bottom of the viewfinder, reducing the effective pixel count by 25%.
Apple makes all sorts of prototypes, so even if the rumor is true, it does not mean that the next iPad will be wide-screen.
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It also offers a progressive-scan, wide-screen, 60-frame-per-second MPEG-2 format that delivers far less resolution than full-fledged HD, but may work well when transferred to DVD.
The external LCD screen has 200, 000 pixels, but that's about 20%fewer than what some standard-video competition offers, and for wide-screen mode a mere 150, 000 light up.
The prevalence of wide-screen televisions, fancy stereos and home-karaoke machines in Shanghai apartments suggests that this new upper-middle class has more money than it admits to.
During the exam CHLI dental director Stanley Golden, who was working in his Brentwood office, chatted with me via videoconference on the wide-screen TV in front of me.
There are, in fact, some good reasons for a wide-screen iPad, but I am suspicious of the timing of this rumor, coming in the midst of the iOS Maps debacle.
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The early wide-screen technologies, like CinemaScope and Cinerama, used huge screens to immerse the audience, and even with today's smaller multiplex screens, I can recover something like that sense of being snugly wrapped in the movie's world.
During the exam CHLI dental director Stanley (nyse: SXE - news - people ) Golden, who was working in his Brentwood office, chatted with me via videoconference on the wide-screen TV in front of me.
You only spend a small portion of your life in your car (although I know it seems like more) so why not splurge on something for the house instead, like a good wide-screen TV and a recliner with a fridge in the arm?
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It's not incredibly subtle in the way that a piano can be, but by god, it's good for impressive, wide-screen baroque, as Brian Aldiss once described it, and I think there's still that feeling of the epic that's easier to get in science fiction.
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Mossberg will often be the first critic to get an advance copy of an Apple product, as in March, when he was the first to receive and write about Apple TV, which allows downloaded movies and programs to be viewed on wide-screen TV sets.
And the Wi-Fi-only version lacks GPS. Also, videophiles may dislike the fact that the iPad's screen lacks wide-screen dimensions, so you either get black bars above or below wide-screen videos, or, if you choose an option to fill the screen, some of the picture may get cut off.
As his wife shopped, two boys in the back seat strained to see a popular Japanese cartoon show about a bean-paste-filled superhero on the 6-inch-wide screen.
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Microsoft has shown off a wide range of two-screen scenarios, including GamePad-like touchscreen maneuvers (albeit without the GamePad's physical joysticks and buttons), the old standby of resuming a movie watched on a tablet or smartphone up on a TV, enabling controls for its forthcoming Internet Explorer for Xbox, and second-screen video programming.
Imagine an iPhone for a giant: Jeff Han, a research scientist, has built an amazing interactive touch-screen wall, eight feet wide and three feet high.
SmartGlass is a generalized second-screen technology that can support a wide array of second screens, including smartphones that run Windows Phone, iOS and Android and tablets that support Windows 8, iOS and Android.
Of course, watching non-HD programming is not acceptable in full wide screen mode.
By special arrangement, a digital wonder plays Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith 78 feet wide on the screen.
The matte finish and IPS technology lend the machine very wide viewing angles as well -- you can tip the screen a ways forward before images start to wash out, and watching Netflix with friends shouldn't be an issue, as we had no problem viewing the action even at extreme off-angles.
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The LUMIX GH2 combines the easy-to-see free-angle Intelligent LCD with the newly developed Multi Aspect Wide Screen LVF (Live View Finder) for more comfortable shooting from any angle.
The screen's viewing angles are wide and have very little glare -- perfect for viewing in a group setting.
With its large, bright screen and Wide Angle Viewing (IPS Display), Stellar Pinnacle Mi -530 is the perfect device to watch movies and play games on the go.
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The company also promises that a case with a built-in stand is coming, so you can take full advantage of that wide screen when watching longer videos on Netflix or Hulu Plus.
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The screen, in particular, is ringed with a wide band of shiny stuff -- it has a subtle metallic sheen if you look closely, but from afar it just looks plain and tacky.
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These machines use technology similar to videogame consoles of five years ago but have full-sized keyboards, display Chinese characters on a TV screen and can run a wide variety of educational and entertainment software.
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