A nice rant over at HD Blog addresses the predicted decline in DVD sales in 2007. Gee Whiz, you think? What could be the reason… mmm Here are a few with out much effort: 15 different editions of movies (as pointed out in the article) Format wars… DRM – No legal way to rip DVDs for personal use Price How […]
Read moreLooking 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 morePCMag has a very comprehensive photo blog from Digital Life last week. It looks like they took 1000 pictures, but if you're bored at work, there's some neat things mentioned & shown. Take a look here.
Read moreHome Theater HiFi stays true to their name with a fairly comprehensive comparison/benchmark of 6 DVD Players & 2 Video Processors. Very informative if you're in the market, they lost me after the first sentance though….I just can't keep my attention when I have to scroll 50 pages down & there's no "conclusion" 🙂 I have no quote from the […]
Read moreAudioholics reviews this 1080p projector which comes in at just under $1000 (and when I say JUST, I mean JUST, the thing costs $999). But hey, still better than most with the same features, so yeah, go get one of these too while you're at it. For $2999 this projector would have a TON of competition and would be difficult […]
Read moreSound & Vision Magazine review a droolworthy 50" Plasma from Pioneer's Elite series. No surprise that they love it, but of course, it aint cheap! But we know you all have the money anyways, so go get one! You expect a very crisp high-def picture from a 1080p TV, and the Pioneer Elite PRO-FHD1 definitely delivered. Watching another scene from […]
Read moreEngadget pointed out this clever mod from a member of the TIVO community. Seems he just didn't have enough storage…so he did the reasonable thing: Upgrade to 1 friggin terabyte! …expanding the capacity of his Series3 TiVo from the standard 250GB to a whole terabyte, which takes the S3's total recording capacity up to a possible 131 hours of HD […]
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