What's more, the Digital Entertainment Center , protects customers' existing technologies from obsolescence by supporting current video formats up to 1080p, and all major color and encoding standards including Mpeg2, Mpeg4, H.264, and VC1, and up-converting these to bit-rates as much as triple conventional HD rates, while incorporating full image and device security.

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The current popularity of the style is making more homeowners consider richer color schemes for their homes.

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In the first section, history paintings documenting the familiar events of 18th-century Venice, such as masked carnival-goers at the Ridotto, the state-run gambling house, are executed in precise detail, according to the canons of the neoclassical current of the day, with none of the fanciful splashes of color in the artist's later work.

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Current LCDs are limited to displaying 35 percent or less of the visible color spectrum.

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Anodizing involves dipping the aluminum into a bath of chemicals and running an electric current through it, which helps to protect the metal against corrosion and makes it easier to adhere color.

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The Windows-specific model is all-black with a glossy finish, while the Mac version unsurprisingly sports a silver and black color scheme (and a matte finish) that keeps things in line with Apple's current status quo -- albeit with less of a premium feel in terms of construction.

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