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To do with optimum quality movies at home, it’s good to think that TV is the perfect complement to its Blu Ray.

Although the new DVD format, Blu-ray Disc, has not mass sales on the market yet, it is important to begin thinking about a good companion to maximize its best image and sound.

Here are some very good advice when choosing a television suitable for this new technology:

The TV optimum resolution and adequate size

The Blu-ray Disc format provides a picture quality that so far no other digital technology has succeeded in equalizing produce quality, even the format film. For this reason, when buying a television is important to pay attention to the following characteristics.

First, you must have an influx of high definition and that supports 1080P resolutions. The tickets are more popular HDMI and component, with HDMI cable that transmits digital audio and video in its native digital format.

For its part, is a component cable that divides the analog video signal in three colors: red, blue and green, with the disadvantage of the latter converting to digital format similar format and the lack of digital sound.

As for the size of the screen, it must be at least 42 “if we are to build better benefits that confers a Blu-ray Disc.

Getting Blu-ray on a monitor

The monitors have been able to reproduce high-resolution images since the creation of CAD / CAM software and other programs that allow graphically intensive applications.

In the case of a PC or notebook is important to ensure that not only is compatible with Blu-ray monitor, but the video card, memory and operating system as Windows Vista, since it supports high definition applications. It is worth noting that all new monitors with digital input can reproduce images of Blu-ray Disc.

What happens if you do not have access to many titles in Blu-ray Disc format, but you do have the technology?

There are Blu-ray players that expand the capacity of a DVD to an almost normal quality of HD. The technology was created to better take advantage of the ability of LCD televisions.

The increase in resolution of a DVD means that the sharpness and image quality reaches the potential of what can reproduce a television with Blu-ray Disc.

The sound, the best marriage with the image

Most televisions offer some sound in Dolby Digital format, but the best way to harness the digital sound of a Blu-ray Disc is a system that reproduces several additional sound formats distributed between five to seven speakers, another term for this is “surround sound”.

This means that the sound was heard from several points in the fourth and not just from the front of a television.

The game unit of Japanese company Sony announced it would delay until October the launch of “Home,” its online 3D platform for the PlayStation 3.Sony already postponed last year the launch of this platform, which aims to give players a space in which to interact with other users of the PS3.

The company, plunged into a war with Microsoft and Nintendo in the videogame industry worldwide, attributed the second delay in the launch to improvements in product quality, citing the same reason as last year.

“We understand we are asking for actual and potential users of the PS3 to wait a little longer,” said Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, said in a statement.

“But we concluded that we need more time to refine the service, to ensure a more focused entertainment experience in the game than it is today,” he added.

Provide an innovative online service is important for the PS3, que ha ido losing ground to the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, Microsoft in total sales of consoles.

Microsoft has lifted the lid on a new web service called Live Mesh, designed to connect a multiplicity of devices and applications online.

The service is seen by many as a key plank in the company’s vision for the future of the web.

Live Mesh is designed to blur the lines between running software and storing data on a desktop and “in the cloud”.

Microsoft’s Amit Mital said Live Mesh would “connect and bring devices together… to work in concert”.

Live Mesh pits Microsoft against companies like Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com which are already offering different varieties of so-called software-as-a-service systems.

It comes as Microsoft is engaged in a bid to buy rival Yahoo and emphasizes just how important the web has become to the firm.

“We may be seeing signs of a Microsoft that is newly focused,” Jonathan Yarmis, a vice president and analyst at AMR Research, told Reuters news agency.

He added: “This is exciting because it has as much to do with who is doing it as what Microsoft is doing.”

Microsoft has long been criticized for its unfocused efforts in the online space and for attempting to tie the use of Windows to the web.

While initially offered for Windows XP and Vista users, Microsoft has said Live Mesh will also be rolled out to Apple Macs and other platforms.

Mr Mital, general manager of Live Mesh, said: “Devices are how we interact in this new “web-connected” world and we use a variety of them, including PCs, laptops, media devices, phones, digital picture frames, game consoles, music players and the list grows at every CES.

“However, as we discover, adopt and use more of these digital devices, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep the people, information and applications we depend on in sync.”

Microsoft says Live Mesh can be used to create an online network of devices, from your PC to your mobile phone.

Files and folders, such as documents, music and photos, on those devices can be synchronized online and accessed via a web browser.

Live Mesh is also designed to facilitate the sharing of media online between different users.

“This new software-plus-services platform enables PCs and other devices to ‘come alive’ by making them aware of each other through the internet,” said Mr Mital.

“We aspire to bring together Windows, Windows Live, and Windows Mobile by creating seamless experiences that span these offerings,” Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, wrote in a memo to staff this week.

Users will have 5GB of personal online storage and unlimited peer-to-peer data, for synchronising information between devices.