What you should be looking for your ?

    There are many digital video formats, but what you should consider before buying your equipment lately, is to make sure that they support HDMI, AVCHD, if you are looking for equipment to last for the next decade.

Digital Video ?

    Simply at the start we have to know that there are many digital video formats and for each format there is a standard. Hence for each standard there is a media that supports such a standard. But because of compression, most of the Digital Video formats cause a signal loss or loss of information. Like pixels in photos of Digital Cameras VS film Camera.

    But lately digital video and good home cinema equipment can take you to a next level, here you can see most of the recent digital video formats that have its great direct impact on digital video viewing.

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DIVX

DivX is the video compression codec developed by DivX Networks and based on the MPEG-4 compression format. Its balance of high video quality and low bit rate has made it very popular and quickly established it as the best home video format thus far. The ability to play it on newer DVD models continues to add to its popularity as DivX Networks advances its support to many new household products. This compression technology has the potential for expanding the ways we view video media in much the way MP3 has given us many new ways to listen to music.

NATURAL BLACK CONCEPT

To provide superior contrast, Yamaha developed the Natural Black concept, combining advanced technologies, parts and functions to achieve truer, deeper levels of black than ever before.

Yamaha Natural Black makes subtle degrees of black in textures, shadows and so on stand out more clearly.

With other projectors, black contrast may be soft and fuzzy rather than sharp and clear.

Black reproduction by DPX-1100 and conventional projectors.

AVCHD

The "AVCHD" is an HD digital video camera recorder format recording 1080i*1 and 720p*2 signals onto certain media by using highly efficient codec technologies. The "AVCHD" is jointly established by Panasonic, the brand name for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known and Sony Corporation.

*1 :1080i one of HD specifications that has 1080 efficient scanning lines by interlace method

*2 :720p one of HD specifications that has 720 efficient scanning lines by progressive method

HDMI

High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is the first and only digital interface to combine uncompressed high-definition video, multi-channel audio and intelligent format and command data in a single digital interface. HDMI switching, providing the most advanced method of delivering high quality video signals to a home theater system to enable the reproduction of DVD and satellite TV sources with HD quality. HDMI can also send the digital audio signals from sources such as DVD Audio, CD, Dolby Digital and DTS to provide simple components connections.