Love em or hate em, Sony will always do great numbers selling overpriced TVs due to their name brand. But, they still make slick looking TV's, even if they're not the best (but just don't try telling my Father that :-P) With the new calibration settings in place, the picture quality really shined. 1080i cable feeds looked amazing, DVDs looked […]
Read moreI love technology. Who, 5 years ago, would have ever thought we'd have 1 friggin terabyte on a single hard drive. Absolutely amazing. And only $400! Just hope you can afford 2, because I wouldn't want that 1 drive to go down & lose 1,000,000mb of data! (and yes, I know that's not exact :-P) The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost […]
Read moreVizio, quickly becoming well known for value oriented LCD TVs, is set to release a 47" 1080p LCD for less then $2000 dollars. This of course will drag down prices on the 1080p premium LCDs, making it a win win for everyone. From the article: Set cosmetics feature a translucent black and silver cabinet, and touch-sensitive control keys. Brightness is […]
Read moreBig news in the CE world today, Audiovox will be acquiring Thomson and RCA. There are quite a few well known brand names included in the purchase including Jensen, Acoustic Research and a few others. From the article: In addition to the RCA brand, the acquisition includes the Recoton, Spikemaster, Ambico, Discwasher, Jensen, Advent, Acoustic Research and Road Gear product […]
Read moreUniversal Electronics Inc. (UEI) (NASDAQ: UEIC) today announced that it has been selected to develop advanced remote controls for new Denon receivers and home entertainment systems to be distributed in the United States, Europe and Asia in early 2007. The new remote control solution will utilize a new innovative design with a built-in monochrome display and the ZigBee™ open standard […]
Read moreIan Dixon continues his hard work on The Media Center Show podcast and takes us to number 89. This week's podcast is just catch up work from the past couple of weeks:). Listen to the podcast: Podcast summary:
Read moreAs technology moves on, it is often hard to change the mindset of the masses. A prime example of this is plasma burn in. In the past this was an issue, but recent generations of plasma TVs do not suffer these same problems. PVR Wire picked up on some handy tips to prevent burn of your new plasma even though […]
Read moreThis was really just a matter of time. If the technology can handle it, there's no reason to waste money making only one compatible version. Curious to see the quality on this disc versus a single true Blu-Ray or HD DVD. “The next best thing is to recognize that there will be two formats and to make that not a […]
Read moreBuy a new DVD burner & blank DVDs, just to be able to download & burn movies? Sure! Or how about going into a store, and waiting 15 minutes for one to burn from their kiosk? AWESOME! Way to go movie industry, you guys are so innovative & always have the consumer's satisfaction first on your list! With Qflix — […]
Read moreSteven Toub has a pretty cool hack for Windows Vista Media Center that will allow you to skip around your television recordings or any other file you play in MCE with numbers for how many seconds you want to go into it. As part of that article, I implementing an add-in that made it easy to jump around in a […]
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