Matt, our resident Media Center expert, spotted a beauty of a story today. In an effort to make the format war more like a little girl's tea part, NEC has shipped a chipset that will work with Blu-ray and HD DVD. See? If Sony and Toshiba could just get together and sing cumbaya, we would be a lot better off […]
Read moreIts not a secret that Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity have the worlds longest name, however, they do put together a pretty good review that isn't smattered with advertising. If you need a little bit of music while BBqing or while swimming, take a gander at Paradigm's Stylus 370 outdoor speakers. Not exactly sexy looking speakers, but then […]
Read moreEngadget has the skinny on the Slingbox Pro. The Pro features HD streaming through analog component out, which is not a deal breaker for me. However, they do want you to spend another $50 on the component input dongle, which is kind of silly. In typical blog fashion, the review is somewhat short and smarmy but it does get the […]
Read moreAdrian Kingsley-Hughes enlightens us to the latest technological breakthrough from those wonderful folks at the movie industry. "The upshot of this is that if you have a DVD disc protected by Protect DVD-Video and you try to play the disc in a PC-based system using, say, Windows Media Player, the process will fail. Now, lets be clear here, we are […]
Read more"Say you have yourself a video at low-resolution, and want to upconvert it to a higher resolution for display on a higher-resolution television or monitor. That’s not hypothetical at all – it happens all the time when you display anything except HD on your HDTV. When you watch regular SD cable programming on your HDTV, your television (or maybe some […]
Read moreMagnolia Home Entertainment has announced its first wave of high-definition titles. The distributor will bow six Blu-ray Disc releases Oct. 10. I studied the titles carefully, and can already see the one that will out-sell Titanic: "Bikini Destinations: Triple Fantasy." I love you Movie Industry Read the rest & see all the other SIX titles coming out here.
Read moreStewart Filmscreen Corporation(r) (Booth 350)-the industry leader in precision projection screen technology in the home cinema and commercial markets-introduced its new FireHawk G3 1080p screen material today at CEDIA Expo 2006. FireHawk G3 1080p-the next generation of Stewart's most popular home cinema projection screen-is the first screen specifically designed for 1080p projectors and source material. FireHawk G3 1080p is aimed […]
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PVRBlog doesn't like the new TiVo Series 3 Remotes, and they're not afraid to say so. At least they do give an explanation why they hate it so…unlike my last girlfriend. "With the new remote, it's taking a long time to learn how to jump over those thumbs up/down buttons without looking. Now, maybe it's my muscle memory here that […]
Read moreFREMONT, Calif. — Oct. 10, 2006 — Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) today introduced the mid-range Harmony® 670 advanced universal remote, which builds on the features of the company´s popular Harmony® 659 remote, with enhancements that make controlling today´s complex home-entertainment systems even easier. The new remote features improved one-touch activity buttons and a button layout optimized to control digital […]
Read moreJust curious to see how long they'll continue IPTV so distant from Media Center, even though I can see useful features from both. PARIS — Oct. 10, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. and leading set-top box manufacturers Cisco Systems Inc., Motorola Inc., Philips and Tatung Co. today announced at Broadband World Forum Europe that advanced system-on-a-chip (SoC) set-tops, which will greatly […]
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