Looking at the title and judging by Tower Records departure from the retail world, I would guess price is more of an issue then anything. The article does make an excellent point, removing confusion caused by DRM and competing technologies will only increase the available market. A bigger pie so to speak. From the article: As digital music becomes more […]
Read moreGoing head to head with Verizon's multi-billion dollar fiber rollout takes some serious guts. It looks like AT&T is putting an honest effort forward with their U-verse rollout. However, when you hear that they will not be rolling out fiber to your home, instead using VDSL on the last stretch, it does make one worry that they will take short […]
Read moreHDTV Podcast #11 is up for your listening pleasure. THe main focus on today's podcast is HD Camcorders and some of the terminology consumers need to know. Its bad enough everyone's sec video makes it on the net, do we really need to see this stuff in high def now? They even have an interesting history on Sony's display and […]
Read moreYou know you are a Home Automation junkie when you go out an buy a X-10 based alarm clock. The idea is pretty intriguing; being able to program other devices upon your wake up or other events during the day. From the article: What makes the timer pretty powerful though is the ability to program up to 64 events that […]
Read moreThe Westinghouse LVM-47w1 is a 1080p LCD TV devoid of a lot of features you would find on high end TVs. In fact you can really only count on the input connections as features for this set. If you think about it, it should be fine for most owners as a lot of people us a cable box, or MEdia […]
Read moreThe Sony BDP-S1 has your usual array of option you would expect from a next generation DVD player. Options like 1080p over HDMI, support for the new HD audio CODECS, and the ability to upconvert SD DVDs are all present and accounted for. With a MRSP of $999, it is very very very surprising to see the BDP-S1 not have […]
Read moreMore then one or two owners have been denied CableCards for their series 3 TiVos. Zatz talks about their frustration in dealing with Cable companies and also posts a letter that TiVo sent to the FCC. It seems to be a mixed bag of results when trying to get a CableCard for a 3rd party device, I guess it depends […]
Read moreI am not sure I have heard of a 1440p resolution before. Not letting standard step in the way of progress, CMO is releasing a 2560X1440 47" Quad HD LCD TV. Slated for production in Q2 of '07, CMO's QHD will have a brightness of 450 nits, a contrast ration of 1500:1 and a response time of 6.5ms. From the […]
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HomeSeer’s New Z-Troller™ Revolutionizes Z-Wave Network Setup Bedford, NH – HomeSeer Technologies announces its new “Z-Troller” PC/Z-Wave® computer interface. The new interface revolutionizes HomeSeer Z-Wave network setup by dramatically simplifying the process. With Z-Troller, you need only press one button to add, delete or identify any Z-Wave device (light switch, lamp module, motion sensor, thermostat, etc) in your HomeSeer PC […]
Read moreAs the quality and quantity of 'net video increases, its only a matter of time before standard definition TV becomes passe. DirectTV feels the solution to this impending paradigm shift is a swifter move to HDTV. It would certainly solve the problem of find better quality video on the 'net. However, I think they are discounting the fact that the […]
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