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Xbox 360 Elite's beauty is skin deep

HDMI is a video output that gives you a crisper high-definition image quality through a single cable that you plug into most modern televisions. What’s puzzling about this feature is that Microsoft spent the better part of last year reassuring Xbox ...

Bill Clinton uses diplomatic skills on Africa trip

... listening to a farmer discussing problems facing subsistence peasants in Malawi, one of the poorest southern African countries. “When a farmer speaks as well as you have done, he quits and joins politics,” he grinned. In Malawi, where televisions ...

Cruise lines scramble to keep fuel costs down

And all new-built and recently refurbished ships are equipped with flat-screen televisions, which save a lot of energy. At Celebrity Cruises, President Dan Hanrahan says the company is looking at all conservation ideas, right down to replacing many ...

What do Michigan hockey moms think of '08?

The televisions are crammed with ads touting the Republican and Democratic candidates, the phone lines overheat with solicitations to vote for either one, and doorbells ring out with canvassers’ calls. “The economy is really bad here,” says one ...

Probe: U.S. does little to police electronic trash

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is doing little to protect against the potential dangers of obsolete televisions, computers and other devices sent abroad for reuse or disposal, congressional investigators reported Wednesday. People in the U.S. threw away 330 ...

Will Tina Fey do an encore as Sarah Palin?

The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.) With the Alaska governor poised to be a prominent part of the political race through Election Day as Sen. John McCain's running mate, and possibly serving as vice president ...

How cruise lines weather tropical storms

Inside the situation room are multiple large-screen televisions with information from the National Hurricane Center, NOAA, satellite weather information, and a map showing the locations of various ships. Additionally, there are multiple computer ...

Old-fashioned rabbit ears trip up TV test

Viewers who did not have digital-ready televisions were greeted after noon Monday by a screen crawl that included a phone number to call if they had questions. Late yesterday the FCC reported it had received "several hundred" calls. All four of the ...

FCC plans DTV test in N.C.

Even with the necessary TV converter equipment, viewers using battery-operated televisions in areas that lose electricity during the storms won't be able to watch TV broadcasts because the converters themselves require power. There were early concerns ...

Prisons scramble to make digital TV switch

When the nation's broadcasters make the switch from analog to digital signals next Feb. 17, televisions that aren't hooked up to cable, satellite or a converter box will be reduced to static. While TV might seem like an undeserved luxury for inmates ...