Cable Tips

Whether you’ve spent hundreds on your personal home entertainment room with surround sound, big screens and reclining chairs, or you have access to the office big screen for presentations, you have one unique opportunity: The Marathon TV Event.

Before the new season of your favorite show begins, hold a marathon of last season to refresh, get caught up, or introduce the new guy in the office to the series.

What you need:

• A large monitor, personal or permission to utilize the office screen. Remember this can be a great team building activity!
• Last season (at least!) on DVD or an online subscription. See if anyone in the office has online access to the last season of Parks and Recreation or How I Met Your Mother through any of these services:
• HuluPlus
• HBO GO
• Netflix
• Amazon Prime
• A laptop and one of the appropriate USB converters to connect to the big screen.
• Lots of popcorn and themed snacks!
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Which TV shows are you looking forward to returning? We’ve included the premiere dates for some of last season’s big shows:

Sundays

9/16 at 9pm – Boardwalk Empire

9/30 at 8pm  – Once Upon a Time

9/30 at 9pm – Revenge

9/30 at 9pm – Dexter

10/14 at 9pm  - The Walking Dead

Mondays

9/24 at 8pm – How I Met Your Mother

9/17 at 8pm – Bones

9/24 at 10pm – Castle

Tuesdays

10/2 at 8pm  – Hart of Dixie

10/23 at 9pm  – Happy Endings

10/23 at 9:30pm  – Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23

Wednesdays

10/3 at 9pm Supernatural

10/17 at 10pm American Horror Story: Asylum

9/26 at 10pm South Park

Thursdays

10/4 at 8pm 30 Rock

10/11 at 8pm The Vampire Diaries

9/27 at 9pm Grey’s Anatomy

9/27 at 9pm Person of Interest

9/20 at 9:30pm Parks and Recreation

Friday

10/19 at 8:30pm – Community

9/28 at 9pm – Fringe

9/21 at 10pm – Haven

If you’re a DISH Network or DirecTV subscriber who enjoys a little MadMen, The Walking Dead, or Breaking Bad, you’re probably more than a little frustrated. While it’s not farfegnugen, a pleasurable drive, to getting your favorite shows back on TV we can offer these tips to bidding your time and making your displeasure known.

Rewatch the Series – Can’t watch your favorite series, but can’t switch providers either? Make your support known by making an oath to keep watching – whether by iTunes, Netflix or DVD until things change. Besides, there’s always the HD, BluRay, and commentary version to watch, right?

Protest in style. Hold a huge viewing of your favorite AMC show in your fully outfitted entertainment room. Have everyone who attends sign a video petition by recording a message to send to the networks as to why you miss your favorite AMC shows. 

Drop the TIVO – One reason that cable companies are squabbling over the rights to air popular shows and stations is the lack of advertising when people don’t even see the commercials. Give the commercials a chance to help out MadMen. If you’re still a video cable junkie and gotta have your shows taped, just promise to not skip the commercials.

Join the Mass Protests – From zombie hoards in New York City to video spoofs there are thousands out there ready to protest with you!

There’s no need to cut the video cables and take to pirating, hold out there! TriangleCables.com is waiting for the return of vintage ad men, zombie attacks and with you!

Whether you’re an end-consumer or project lead, HDMI connections are often confusing and downright complex. Confusion is unfortunate since HDMI applications have radically altered the home/office/security/entertainment interface. Connections are possible in ways you only dreamed about a few short years ago, but making the connections requires a lot more than an HDMI coupler or two.

President of DPL Labs Jeffrey Boccaccio brings HDMI to a level anyone can understand it with the help of Derek R. Flickinger from Interactive Homes, Inc. in “HDMI Uncensored.” You’ll soon have your colleagues and clients impressed with your ease of speech on the mysterious applications of HDMI female to female connections, CEC, TMDS functionality, EDID, HEAC attributes, and the entire reasoning behind the analog to HDMI switch.

If it sounds intense, end-use readers need not be concerned. Boccaccio writes for the layman even while introducing new terms and commands. Even if you’ve previously confused an HDMI coupler, for a Chinese finger trap, you’ll catch on fast and have fun doing it. When you are ready to take integration to the next level, unlock the secrets of HDMI female to female and other strange interactions take a read through “HDMI Uncensored.” We sure have enjoyed it!

Whether you are a ham radio operator or establishing a closed-circuit video surveillance system, chances are your wiring needs go further than the reach of standard coaxial cables. A BNC connector is useful in any analog communication and audio-video networking application. As a replacement for traditional coaxial connectors, the Bayonet Neill-Concelman connector allows a wider frequency range with degradation of signal and is a standard choice for cable termination.

The benefit of a tighter connection makes BNC connectors a good choice in other applications with more exacting needs. High-tech video networks benefit from their use. Other applications include testing equipment for electronics, commercial and military aviation electronics, and serial analog interface.

The primary difference between BNC and other connectors is the tightness of connection. Instead of providing a cross-sections of wire, BNC uses a pin to enter the conducting wire for maximum area. The external ring locks into place with a quarter turn. A more recent version of the connector is threaded for attachment and deeper penetration, which extends frequency capacity above 3 Gigahertz.

Establishing a network requires the best equipment. You don’t want to lose power due to sub-standard connectors. The BNC connector is graded for most coaxial cables under 500 volts.

Diagnosing an internal phone problem is not easy, but there is a method for isolating damaged equipment. 

The rapid rate of technological advances in both video and sound makes amazing things possible with home theaters. These advances come at a cost. It is often difficult to find the right connections and interfaces for different brands. A few standards do exist, such as HDMI. For high-definition applications, you need HDMI cables, and an HDMI coupler comes in handy in many situations.

With only one standard and many retailers, some try to make their cables sound better than others. Also, many cables and HDMI female to female couplers are made overseas, which leads to misleading descriptions of the product. 

Tying your shoes, boiling an egg, and connecting your device to your TV? It really is the simplest things in life that are the most valuable to know. That’s why we’re breaking down the many devices you may want to connect to your big screen TV for you, or a friend to easily follow. This week, let’s connect a laptop!

Cables to Connect Computer Laptops to TV

Most of your laptops will have an HDMI output, which can handle both audio and video. If you’re connecting to a new TV, it should also have an HDMI input, which means you only need the one HDMI cable to provide your connection. If not, see if there is an adapter that can provide an HDMI end, so you don’t need a second cable for your audio connection as well.

• Apple Outputs – Those with an Apple device will likely need a display port adapter, which will allow it to connect to an HDMI cable.
• Working with an older model TV? – You may need a RCA or HMDI to DVI adapter to connect. But trust us, HDMI is the way to go.

Getting it Just Right

Once you have chosen the correct cable for both audio and video, and connected the devices, you will have to select your input. Some monitors will pick it up automatically, others you will have to change your Source, Input, or Channel until you have chosen this new device. On your computer, you can go into your display settings, found in the Control Panel, to then mirror what is seen on your computer. You can also choose to extend your laptop display onto the TV, making it an added space. 

Think of what your life would be like without technology. You panic when you misplace your mobile phone, the batteries are running low or are even dead, or the power cable for your digital television is not working properly. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier and it does. But along with satellite televisions and computers, you need to have proper and reliable cable testers, cable adapters and similar products to keep all your technological products operating smoothly.

Technology has made our world smaller and more accessible. 

Think of what the world was like in 1937 when aviatrix Amelia Earhart attempted to fly around the world. Earhart was often out of range of radio communications during her flight. Researchers theorize that she survived the crash of her Lockheed Electra airplane in the South Pacific, possibly on an uninhabited island of Nikumaroro, part of the Pacific archipelago Republic of Kiribati.

If Earhart would have carried equipment such as a cable tester or extra power cables she may have been able to avert doom.

Other technological items such as GPS, an operating mobile phone and cable adapters to keep it all working would have allowed researchers to locate and rescue her.

Multimedia broadcasting and recording have really exploded for the amateur that wants to explore these areas. It is no longer an exclusively professional endeavor to create your own album or music video, nor do you have to wait to be discovered before you produce your own comedy show. YouTube videos receive viral status based on viewer interest, not executive approval, and summer is the ideal time for a teen with time on his hands to try those hands at media endeavors. 

So what do you need to get started?

Proper equipment can help in the process, as audio adapters and stereo adapters provide the connections needed to make the equipment you have work for the purposes you have in mind. Find a good source for your stereo adapters so that you will have clear sound. Audio adapters allow you to connect your electronic instruments to your own speaker system, creating the audio you need. Whether you are working with your smartphone or your parents’ camcorder, you can work with a trial and error approach in order to create interesting audio and visual effects.

As you find interesting ways to create the multimedia production of your choice, you may just become an overnight sensation. One viral hit is all it takes!

A big hurrah and congrats to all of the 2012 graduates out there! There’s so much to be proud of, from working hard in classes to all of the hard work that so many graduates are doing after classes as well to expand their high school resume. There are so many classes to prepare a high school graduate for college classes, but few really touch on what’s needed for the college life.

From Ethernet cables to shower caddies, the shopping list for college can seem endless. That’s why we’ve put together a perfect Triangle Cables ‘off to college’ gift list for the grad in your life.

- Spare roll of duck tape and electrical tape for an emergencies that might crop up.

- A long and short length of Ethernet cables. One for the dorm and a spare one is handy for hooking up to the internet in the study hall or library if there’s no wireless.

- Expect your new grads to be printing lots of papers, so load them up with printer ink cartridges.

- USB cables are essential to so many devices, a spare USB for charging the cell phone or transferring files for a presentation can be a lifesaver!

Catch us next week as we go over the top tips for college graduates as they move into off campus housing and great ideas for a graduate’s first apartment!