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14 « The OakviHe Beaver Weekend. Saturday January 21, 2006 Get an iLife! Burn your home movies to DVD with iMovie on a Mac. Shooting a hom e m ovie is a fun and easy w ay to preserve m em ories for years to com e. W ith today's video cam corders the quality o f your average hom e video is better than ever before. After taking som e video, you'll soon discover that the more videos you have, the harder' it is to organize them in som e m ean in gfu l way. W hat about the video where Dad was experim enting w ith the camera? O r the one where w e forgot to turn it o ff and it took som e great pictures o f the back seat o f the car? H ow do w e remove the boring parts and condense it dow n to the highlights for fam ily viewing? H o w do w e · share the In focus: High-definition television Som e answers to the m ost frequently asked HDTV questions (NC)-- If you read the headlines or listen to the hom e-theatre guru at your local elec tronics store, high-definition (HD) television is all the rage. Given th a t over one million Canadians currently have an HD television, they're probably right. W ith m ore broadcasters rolling o u t HD content - and networks launching 24-hour HD channels - it's hard to ignore the grow ing high-definition trend. Here are th e answers to the m ost fre quently asked questions, courtesy of The Movie Network. What exactly is HD? High definition television has to do with the dim ensions of your television viewing experience. W ith the widescreen ratio HD offers,, the quality of the picture is increased dram ati cally, enabling you to see all of the action from your favourite movies or series, ju st as they were m eant to be seen. The key difference between HDTV and regular analog TV however, is th at the pro gram s are delivered digitally - by cable, satel lite, o r over-the air transm ission - at over five tim es th e picture resolution. In addition, th e CD-quality sound in stereo and full 5.1 surround sound creates a tru e at-hom e theatre experience. wedding video w ith a distant relative that w asn't able to m ake it? iM ovie gives you the tools to edit, rearrange and publish your videos. S im p ly plug in any `d ig ita l' cam corder and you 'll have the opportunity to browse through the footage w hile im porting the video into the computer. It autom atically cuts the video into scenes w hich can then be placed into a tim eline at the bottom o f the screen. W ant to give it that `professional' look? Add som e transition effects between scenes, text or titles, and som e m usic in the background. It w ill even let you include regular photos you took w ith your digital camera! Sim ply select the photo from your collection and choose the desired effect and it autom atically pans and zoom s in on the picture, creating an effect that brings the picture to life. W h en you're done, sim ply export the fin ish ed vid eo back to the camera for archival or burn it to a D V D that can be played o n a regular D V D player. iM ovie is included as a part o f the iLife suite o f programs and com es free w ith every new A pple computer. Sadly, it only works on a Mac but more and more people are m aking the sw itch because o f the fantastic value provided by software like iM ovie. High-definition television is changing the landscape of home entertainment and with more and more 24-hour HD channels being launched it looks as thought the trend isn't going to end in the near future. satellite provider. · Tune your television to an HD channel such as The Movie Network HD, CBC HD, City TV HD, Discovery HD, Sportsnet HD or TSN HD. What do you need to do to g et HD? · Purchase an "HD-ready" television set to receive th e HD signal. · Buy or ren t an HD set-top box which you can order through your local cable or What type o f programming can you watch in HD? Broadcasters in Canada are making HD a priority, w orking to ensure th at a variety of HD content is available to viewers. While Canadians are increasingly able to access a selection of HD program m ing from dram a and comedy to sports and news, a study conducted by Lyra Research in July 2004 found th at consum ers are m ost inter ested in movies in HD. There are m any dif ferent options available. 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