With the launch of Omaura coming just days away, I am happy to announce we will be teaming up with them to have a kick ass contest where we will be giving away over a thousand dollars worth of cases! Ahead of their official launch, Omaura has put up their webpage to get things going. You can check out their […]
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The Tivo HD reviews are starting to pop up. I hijacked the links from over at Engadget. I’m really looking forward to the ARS review, since they tend to look at things pretty intensively. PC World Review CNET Review PC Magazine Review
Read moreTalk about a battle to the death! Here I thought that lower prices would be a GOOD thing for Netflix! But, analysts and Wall Street disagree, so into the depths goes the Netflix stock price. Long term, I think they’re doing the right thing in their battle with Blockbuster, but all investors care about are earnings outlooks. MSNBC To make […]
Read moreAnand has published an HD video comparison between AMD and Nvidia, which includes the HQV tests. In the AMD corner: the 2400, 2600, and 2900 and in the Nvidia corner: the 8600 and 8800. My only complaint at the moment is regarding a comment about the 8500 and HD video and the fact that the 8500 wasn’t even in the […]
Read moreEngadget managed to get a brief Q&A session with one of Tivo’s people and brought back some decent information, such as why it’s not THX certified, as well as a fairly long list of features that will be disabled at launch. Engadget Unlike the Series3, the HD will have out of the box M-Card (multi-stream CableCARD) compatibility.
Read moreTerracode has a review of WHS for his home server project. The site’s a little slow at the moment, probably due to it being referenced over at Engadget. A very screenshot intensive review, so hopefully it’ll give people a good idea of what to expect. Terracode] }Only one network card is supported per Microsoft since Network Load Balancing using multiple […]
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We are almost 6 months into Vista being released to the public, and if you look around forums across the web, users are still not exactly sold on upgrading. There are many reasons that could be attributed to this: cost of Vista, not supported hardware, etc. But, I think the #1 reason is that people just don’t see the worth […]
Read moreS&V mag has a great shootout with five different mid-priced subs. Its good to see a sight focus on what most consumers are going to buy. Nothing pisses me off more then to see an article exlaim a 10,000 dollar set of speakers are the best thing since sliced bread knowing only .001% of the population would get that style […]
Read moreIt looks like next generation optical discs are getting closer and closer for the HTPC masses. At B&H Photo, you can get a Pioneer BD-ROM for $299. It reads single layer discs at 5X and double layer discs at 2X. It does NOT support writing to Blu-ray discs, but will burn standard DVDs. B&H The BDC-220B 5x BD-ROM SATA Drive from Pioneer […]
Read moreLet’s see if I get this: XM and Sirius are contractually forbidden to merge. XM and Sirius agreed to those terms. XM and Sirius now want to merge. So, they’re willing to offer more options to their customers if they’re granted a complete monopoly on satellite radio? Somehow, I just don’t see how the two can even… umm… remotely… be […]
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