I want to be a Newspaper Contributor because it sounds like fun. (Not just that though) I could do with the experience and I'd love to be able to help people. Although I have no experience, I'll take the job very seriously. I might be seen as inactive at times, but this is because I'm looking for something interesting to write about.
2. Desired section:
My desired section is in Technology.
3. My experience:
None
4. My example:
Here is one:
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High-definition Video
HD Explain
What is it? High-definition (HD) video is all about image/video quality. Basically, this is the amount of pixels that are crammed into a screen. The more pixels, the higher the quality.
Today’s standard-definition TVs displays 625 horizontal lines of pixels. The two most common HD versions can display 1080 (known as either 1080i or 1080p), or 720 horizontal pixels (720p or 720i). The p or i refers to how pictures are drawn on the screen, using progressive interlaced scanning. Progressive-scan screens (720p and 1080p) completely redraw each horizontal line of pixels, and interlaced screens (720i and 1080i) first redraw odd-numbered horizontal lines then even-numbered horizontal lines.
Next-generation DVDS
Until recently, there were only two competing next-generation DVD formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD.
The DVD format war is nearly over, with Toshiba and Microsoft both dumping the HD DVD recently. There are only a few Blu-ray movies around currently, but this will soon change, with more being made all the time.
There is a third alternative, in the form of upscaling DVD Players such as the Oppo 971 or the Play station 3. These take the standard-definition DVDs and use a clever process to display them as HD.
So which is better?
Some believe that the HD DVD is better, with it's low costs and that with it's headstart ahead of Blu-ray, but many others think that with Blu-ray's wider range of capabilities and it's wider support will prove it the best.
The better, more popular of the two will show within the next few years, and this may be the cause of a lot of unhappy consumers.
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HD Explain
What is it? High-definition (HD) video is all about image/video quality. Basically, this is the amount of pixels that are crammed into a screen. The more pixels, the higher the quality.
Today’s standard-definition TVs displays 625 horizontal lines of pixels. The two most common HD versions can display 1080 (known as either 1080i or 1080p), or 720 horizontal pixels (720p or 720i). The p or i refers to how pictures are drawn on the screen, using progressive interlaced scanning. Progressive-scan screens (720p and 1080p) completely redraw each horizontal line of pixels, and interlaced screens (720i and 1080i) first redraw odd-numbered horizontal lines then even-numbered horizontal lines.
Next-generation DVDS
Until recently, there were only two competing next-generation DVD formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD.
The DVD format war is nearly over, with Toshiba and Microsoft both dumping the HD DVD recently. There are only a few Blu-ray movies around currently, but this will soon change, with more being made all the time.
There is a third alternative, in the form of upscaling DVD Players such as the Oppo 971 or the Play station 3. These take the standard-definition DVDs and use a clever process to display them as HD.
So which is better?
Some believe that the HD DVD is better, with it's low costs and that with it's headstart ahead of Blu-ray, but many others think that with Blu-ray's wider range of capabilities and it's wider support will prove it the best.
The better, more popular of the two will show within the next few years, and this may be the cause of a lot of unhappy consumers.
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Thanks in advance, I hope you come to a decision soon.
~ Shrub/Kemosabe
! (I'm in the paper.)