The journey in upgrading to HD tv

On Saturday night out 10 to 15 year old tv died. So we went out and bought a new one. I have been keeping up with the technology because that part of my job so I knew what I wanted.  This was the easy part.

I am now the happy owner of a HD tv. Getting it home was not fun. And setting it up was not hard. Right now I am  just using an up convert DVD player until blu-ray prices come down. And our old SD DVD collection dose look great upconverted.

But I do have to say where is all the HD content?
Our cable company offers a whopping 19 channels of HD content.
Direct Tv offers the most HD content but it’s pricy.

For HD video rentals you have Netflicks blu-ray disc sent to you, or Apple TV downloads. Apple TV is not full res HD and more pricy than renting from Netflicks.

So what is one to do?

Will Adobe CS4 really bring anything new to Photoshop? That’s the question we all face when we start to hear rumblings about new software.

What we have been shown is selection refinement for the lasso tool, making it easer to remove elements with hair and fur. They have also talked about a new 3D canvas. You will now be able to turn your whole canvas to work on it at any angle you want.

But some of the bigger news to me being a windows user is the fact that many of the graphic processes are being sent off to the graphics card instead of being solely handled by the CPU. The other big news to me is that it will finally be 64 bit. Both of these should really make Photoshop a speed demon.  Sorry mac users you won’t have these speed boosts until CS5.

What I hope they final give us is all the filters working with CMYK colors. All the filters working in smart mode would also be nice.

Expected to be out this October we will have to see what they give us, and will it be worth upgrading.

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