Pinnacle just announced their foray into the Placeshifting market with the PCTV To Go. Somehow, I don't think Slingbox and company are worried right now but I will reserve judgement until I can get my hands on one. See the press release here: Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is expanding its […]
Read moreHAI's Omni and Lumina Controllers Now Offer Z-Wave Support Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), a leading manufacturer of home control products since 1985, announced that its award winning Omni and Lumina controllers support Z-Wave technology today at the Electronic House Expo held in Long Beach, California. Z-Wave is a wireless network protocol used in a wide variety of home automation devices […]
Read moreThis sounds too good to be true, and the article doesn't mention actually seeing it in person, so I'll withhold judgment until somebody does a legitimate review of this. The sunlight has plagued projection units as long as I can remember, and the promise of a cure might make enough people bite the bullet. NP of Denmark has announced its […]
Read moreI just realized these guys' office is right down the street from where I live, small world huh! So let me know if they mess with anyone here & I'll go kick down the door for ya! An award-winning designer and manufacturer of media servers based on the Windows Media Center platform, Niveus Media announces the company’s 2007 Pro Series […]
Read moreToday, at the Electronic House Expo (EHX) Fall 2006 trade show, Embedded Automation announced its upcoming release of mControl v2 (Home Edition) for Windows Vista. mControl is software for controlling the “digital home” and supports leading home management technologies like Z-Wave and INSTEON. The new release will be previewed within the Windows Media Center Pavilion at EHX (Booth #1317F). In […]
Read moreEngadget gets their hands on the newest TiVo features, which not being a TiVo user, I gotta say look very cool. Think of it like Transcode360 for your TiVo. Very neat…too bad they just mentioned they're going to be raising prices again. :-/ What we found much more exciting was the new PC-to-TiVo functionality being rolled out the TiVo Desktop […]
Read moreSome pretty cool pricing comparisons if you're curious as to why those companies are trying to take so much of your hard earned cash for those gorgeous displays. The material costs for a 1080p 52-inch DLP (digital light processing) rear-projection TV (RPTV) are about US$807.52, nearly half of that from a 1080p 52-inch LCD TV and a PDP (plasma display […]
Read moreNot the cheapest display on the market, but these guys still seem to like it. They also offer a 1080p version in the Elite version of it. Pioneer’s 7th generation plasma, the PDP-5070HD makes strides over last years offering, the 5060HD with improved black levels and color decoding. Pioneer has also ditched their media box receiver in favor of an […]
Read moreBoy, the Blu Ray & HD-DVD guys sure do try to shoot themselves in the foot as much as possible now don't they? This time in the UK, with some not-so-cheerful news. Toshiba’s launch of HD DVD in the UK has been delayed. Its entry-level HD-E1 model is now not expected to ship until mid December, a month later than […]
Read moreYowsa, Creston has a big bad boy of a multi-room A/V distribution system. The Adagio Media system pretty much does it all including surround processing, video switching and processing, sat radio support and much much much more. Out of the box it has support for 4 to 6 rooms and you can additional equiment to expand that up to 24 […]
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