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The TV & Home Theatre Test

This test will see how much you know about television and home theatre. Please don't critisize my spelling of Theatreter, it changes throughout the test. People who live outside Australia need not take this test, owing to significant regionalization of some questions.


1) Okay, an easy one to start off with. Who won the 2008 ratings war?

Seven
Nine
Ten
Foxtel, Austar and Optus

2) In what state would you be if the callsign NEW was being used?

New South Wales
Western Australia
Queensland
South Australia

3) Speaking of NEW, what network is it affiliated with?

Seven
Nine
Ten
SBS

4) Which of these uses the least amount of cables for audio and video combined (Assume Red and White audio cables)?

S-Video
Super-Dooper Wireless Thingy For Connecting Things To Other Thingies
Component
They all use the same amount of cables: 3

5) In Australia and Western Europe, we use PAL. In North America, NTSC is used. What is used in Eastern Europe?

CTVTS
NTSC
PAL
SECAM

6) Who owns NWS9?

PBL, duh!
WIN Corporation
Seven Media Group, in an extremely ironic twist!
Queen Of France Media Limited

7) How many individual pixels are there in one frame of 1080p video?

Thirty Seven Million, Two Thousand, Six Hundred
Two Million, Thrity Seven Thousand, Six Hundred
Two Million, Seventy Three Thousand, Six Hundred
Ten Thousand and Eighty Million, One Hundred and Twenty Eight Hundred

8) Which of these has a "green" connector end (i.e. the colour of the cable tip)?

Composite
Component
RF
HDMI

9) Which of these is the largest television broadcaster (areawise) in the world?

NBN
CBS
WIN
ABC

10) Which of these are you least likely not to get in Australia?

Nine
Seven
Ten
Death By The British Prime Minister

11) GTS-BKN?

Seven
ABC
Nine
WTF?

12) What is the maximum audio channels supported by standard DVD?

Seven
Six
Five
Negative Six

13) These next couple of questions require you to click linkies, determine what product(s) would suit someone, or solve problems.

A mate of yours is looking at a HD Plasma television. He's looking at the one at this site: http://tinyurl.com/6qrmeh and the one at this site: http://tinyurl.com/6pwsmv . He wants a Full HD experience, and, of course, is a bit hopeless at this kind of thing, so he's asked you to choose one for him. Which should he choose?

The LG!
The Panasonic!

14) Your friend has a DVD that will not play in surround sound. Other DVD's do so fine. What is the most probable cause?

(S)He's screwed up hisher DVD player
The DVD is from the US, where a different surround sound specification exists, totally incompatible with ours.
The DVD is from France, where surround sound is not used
The DVD requires you to choose an option from the menu to enable surround sound

15) Your friend is looking for a PVR to replace her VCR that died recently. She has a CRT TV with a free component input, and doesn't want anything fancy, just something that records. She also wants to be able to store as much as possible on it. She lives in an area where no HD is broadcast.

Here are three to choose from:
http://tinyurl.com/6hd2dt (Teac)
http://tinyurl.com/5dqr9x (Topfield)
http://tinyurl.com/5u5kz2 (Grundig)

Which one in your opinion is right for her?

The Teac!
The Toppy!
The Grundig!

16) True or False: Most WIN Television stations do not possess Digital TV filming equipment.

True.
False

17) (Not Scored) Will you, perchance, visit my website at http://douglas.axspace.com/ to see the answers, and explanations behind them?

Yes
No

18) (Not Scored) Were you sent here from my post on the DTVForum.info Forum Site Thingy?

Yes
No

19) (Not Scored) Did you enjoy this test?

Yes
No

20) (Not Scored) Will you share your nifty graphic with everyone?

Yes
No
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