Chris Knudsen blogged today about the More Good Foundation and what it is doing for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Here is a way to use technology.  There is so much in the media today about Mormons, how can one be sure what is correct or not?  Well with the More Good Foundation and LDSNewsWatch.com people will be able to understand more about what is right and what is wrong.

CopperRain talked and advised Richard Miller yesterday about getting some videos done and getting them up on YouTube and other viral video sharing sites.  I think this will do a good thing for the church and will help to clear up misconseptions.

Way to go Chris!

My husband and I were casually checking out some tvs while my sister and her husband bought one for their Christmas Present from my dad. Cammon explained a ton to me that I thought others might find useful. When looking at HD and Standard Definition, or SD there are two main things to keep in mind about the difference.

#1. The resolution. You know that HD has more detail, but how and why. Well when comparing HD to SD it is a bigger picture, but that doesn’t mean they just take the SD picture and stretch it, it means it is really bigger, covering a larger area. This means that there are more pixels-those tiny dots that make up the picture-and more pixels means a clearer, sharper image.

#2. Even if something is HD, you want to be careful because there are two ways a tv “writes” the picture. Interlaced, or progressive. Interlaced is the old way. What this means is that in one frame the tv writes every other horizontal line of the picture. In the next frame it writes all the other lines and so on. So you never actually get a whole picture in each frame. The reason why we don’t see this is because if you are watching 30 frames per second, thats a lot of frames going by! BUT, with better technology we get progressive. This means that in EVERY frame, the tv “writes” each and every line so you get a whole picture in each frame. Once again the frames are going by really fast, but a whole picture each frame compared to half a picture each frame still makes Progressive clearer. So when you’re shopping for that HD television, make sure you look for a P, it will usually be placed by the resolution like 720p, or ask the sales person if it is progressive. This will make sure you get the best picture for your money!

You can check out our podcast at www.copperrain.com/coppercast to find out about DTV and the regulation to make that mandatory in the year 2009!

Happy Shopping!

CopperRain is having another seminar on November 30th from 5-7pm. Check out the cool video we put together to promote this Seminar: PodcastYourself

We are very very busy at CopperRain and will wrap things up by this weekend so then I will be able to blog much more often.

This is not a political blog, but first I’ve got to mentioned something that has been bothering me. So far this morning I’ve heard a bunch of news reports stating good weather is good for Democracy. I do feel for those in Washington who are getting washed out. And those who are still hurting from Hurricane Katrina and still don’t have homes. But I got really upset hearing about how bad weather typically deters voters and if there is an overal good weather, more voters will head to the polls.

Now, I just keep thinking about the Iraq citizens who went and voted despite the threat of mass destruction at the polls and in the streets. There were explosions, there were deaths, and yet they came out in droves. I can’t believe a country like ours takes for granted the freedom of voting because of dreary weather…

Since this is a technology blog, I thought I’d better add a bit about technology too. There have been some who were worried about the electronic voting system. So far, there have been problems in Utah County where some in Spanish Fork have been turned away. It is because something is wrong with the electronic stations. And now some don’t have time to go back and they’ve lost their chance to vote.
Should the government embrace technology and use the electronic system, or continue using what has worked in the past?