We saw an unboxing yesterday and today we get to see an actual review of the new LG BH100 dual player. I am not sure how you can do a review in a day, I guess those crazy bloggers get things done quicker. The downside to getting this player is that you do not get the HDi (interactive features) of […]
Read moreWhy would you want to do this? I had to go back to a previous blog, but, here's what he said about WiX v. 3.0: One of the biggest additions in WiX v3.0 is MSBuild integration for the Votive Visual Studio add-in for WiX. This means you can create a Visual Studio project (named a .wixproj), add it to the […]
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Personally, I prefer building systems myself, or if I have to buy a system, going from smaller vendors like PC Alchemy, Niveus, Vidabox, etc., since I've always felt you get more attention from those guys since their customers are more important to their success since they're smaller. But, there's something to be said about the big boys, and being able […]
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Quite a price drop for Sony, their firs SXRD projector was $30,000….this one comes in at around $5000…yeah….I'd say that might help sales a bit. Some moments I had with the Sony VPL-VW50 1080p SXRD front projector rivaled my experience with much costlier projectors. Granted, the uniformity problem I encountered with black-and-white and (to a much lesser extent) some color […]
Read moreNothing revolutionary here, but a great example of how a family is utilizing home automation to do pretty much everything. Let's just hope HAL..err….Rosie…doesn't get mad & try to kill them all, eh? 😛 Rosie has control of lights, the garage door, the thermostat and fans. She can also play MP3s, monitor the stock market, provide the weather forecast and […]
Read moreI don't know about you guys, but my STB is no where near as loud as my 360, even when it's just doing basic extender functions. Plus the fact that it'll then compete with it's own MCE boxes makes no sense to me (why no mention of IPTV for Vista MCE?!?!). But hey…I just work here 😛 With its software […]
Read moreThis can only mean one thing…..lower prices on better technology! In the end, the consumer wins…we hope. LG Electronics (LGE) recently said shipments of its PDPs (plasma display panels) dropped 36% sequentially to 580,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2006 due to sever competition from LCD technology in the worldwide 40-inch-class TV market. Read the rest here.
Read moreWhilst browsing over at PVRWire, I came across this story about HAVA releasing a Slingbox competitor. It performs much like a Slinbox by allowing the streaming of Mpeg-2 and Mpeg-4 video to multiple PCs and it can be used as a TV tuner by Vista. The big question that I never see answered is how the GUI is. There is […]
Read moreIn the not so distant past, a 1Ghz PC was all that was needed to keep your HTPC chuggin along. However, next gen DVD playback, HDTV, and Vista are set to change those rules. You can count on seeing dual core CPUs and 2GB of ram to ensure smooth playback. Hardware Zone takes a look at AVIVO and PureVideo and […]
Read morePanasonic has made a few comments indicating they are throwing their corporate weight behind plasma. As the article starts out, its not hard to see this in action with the amount of Panasonic ads and other marketing efforts. They talk the talk but do the walk the walk? Well Ultimate A/V certainly thinks they are not up to the quality […]
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