Did you get yourself a new HDTV or Blu-ray/HD DVD player? Not sure if your components are living up to the manufacturer’s claims? Well now you can get check things out yourself by getting the Silicon Optix HD HQV Benchmark disc. The test disc is available in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats and provides an objective way for users to evaluate the picture quality of high definition products.

Jordan Du Val, VP of Marketing for Silicon Optix, says the following about the new HD HQV Benchmark:

“For the first time, consumers will be able to test the high-definition performance of their products to make sure they live up to the manufacturers’ claims”

The benchmark begins with a quick introduction, an overview of the tests, and an explanation into how to use the included scorecard to assess the product like a professional would. The benchmark comes with tests for noise, video resolution loss, “jaggies”, and film resolution loss - all recorded in 1080i video. The resolution test is used to determine whether your player or display properly deinterlaces 1080i input which is the most common video format used today on cable and broadcast HD programming.

You can order either the Blu-ray version of the HD DVD version on the HQV website here for $20 dollars. I think I’ll pick up both versions for my own testing needs. You can also pick up the standard definition version of the benchmark in DVD format for $20 dollars. Silicon Optix also sells bundles but the bundles are sold out right now.

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HBO subscribers with HDTV will love this news from last week. The chairman and CEO of HBO announced plans for the company to make all 26 of its HBO and Cinemax feeds available in high definition by the middle of next year. The transition has already begun now and will continue till that point - making all of HBO’s content at least in 1080i format.

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Folks in France will be happy to hear that Toshiba is now selling their inexpensive HD-EP10 HD DVD player there. Introduced at CeBIT earlier this year, the HD-EP10 is designed to be an inexpensive version of the HD-XE1. The player is capable of outputting 1080p video and supports the latest Dolby TrueHD and DST HD formats but it doesn’t come with analog 5.1 audio outputs. Of course - who really cares about those outputs if you already have a receiver that’s capable of decoding those audio formats right?

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Toshiba is currently working on a new wireless communications standard that will allow for wireless streaming of high definition content around the home. According to PCAdvisor.co.uk, the new wireless standard will operate on the 60GHz band and will deliver well over 1 gigabite per second of throughput. This wavelength is known as the ‘millimetre waveband’ and is deployed in Japan, Europe, and in the US.

The new Toshiba technology was unveiled last week at the 2007 Symposia on VLSI Circuits in Kyoto Japan. It’ll be an interesting market for wireless HD streaming technologies. There are a number of wireless standard coming out - all with varying degrees of support for HD streaming. The only problem with having too much choice is exactly that - too many different options that are not necessarily compatible with one another. Here’s hoping for a single wireless standard that’s capable of HD streaming. I’m sick of routing wires around the home folks!

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Hello and welcome to the all new KrunkerHD.com website! KrunkerHD is a spin off from Krunker.com and belongs to Krunker Media. Our goals are straightforward. We’re striving to deliver the very latest in news and content about all things High Definition. You can expect to find information here about:

• HD DVD
• Blu-ray
• HDTV
• Flat Panel Televisions
• HD content
• HD audio
• HD radio
• HD media players

You see the trend here? It’s all about high definition - whether it’s audio or video related. With HD making further inroads into everyday life, we realized there needed to be a separate blog to just cover this industry.

As you can tell, the site design has not been finalized yet - we’re simply using the standard WordPress template for now.. but just wait. We’ll get something going soon enough! In the meantime, please add us as a place to visit from time to time!

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