General Home Theater News
The migration of the PC in your home theater continues, yet in a different fashion. I still love it. The fact that HDTV Magazine has a podcast that is covering the latest Windows Home Server offering from HP just shows how the convergence of technologies has continued and evolved. HDTV Mag Imagine with me, if you will, a day when […]
Read moreGood lineup of content covering the last week over at Engadget. Show notes below. Listen to the show here . Program 00:00:50 – Comments from Engadget HD Podcast 148 – 07.29.2009 The Moxi Summer update brings the Moxi Mate, SDV support and more RCN making cobranded TiVO boxes its ‘primary DVR platform’ in 2010 Poll: Do you / will you […]
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This post from Gizmodo was just too funny not to pass up. I know my cables are not the most organized in the world (the nature of the beast when you’re constantly plugging and unplugging devices every week), but it’s nowhere near as bad as any of these.
Read moreI really don’t understand how HDMI cables have existed this long without having any sort of locking mechanism, which is on the only reason I’m posting this press release. It’s just so easy for cables to come loose…but what do I know, since even the new display port also isn’t locking by design. Bring me back my good ol VGA […]
Read moreHigh Def Digest takes in some reader questions on some high definition types of questions. Their first answer covers the differences between PCM and the lossless compression formats, a topic which I have heard many times since they were released. Since HDMI 1.3 is currently a big pain on the PC, it’s been a difficult time to educate people on […]
Read moreThis is a pretty basic summary of the various options out there besides your standard set top box from your cable company, but I’m sure some people will appreciate the summary . Should be noted this video is from C|Net, so without suprise the first 2 options they mention are TiVo and AppleTV…but fear not, they do eventually break down […]
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I think we’ve seen a couple of these before, but I think even if we’ve seen them 50 times I still can’t get sick of being jeal…err…admiring these amazing home theaters. Guess I’ll keep playing the lotto! HGTV The challenge for this home theater was to create a world-class screening room in a neighborhood where high-end theaters are standard… […]
Read moreA great article by the HDGuru gang, and unfortunately it’s not a clean cut yes or no as I’m sure many of you would love to see. The truth is stated in every Extended Warranty article there is–it really depends. I used to work at Best Buy as a technician (before Geek Squad–yes I’m that old), and I can say […]
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With a caveat though, this discussion will definitely NOT be Sonos stepping into the video streaming, so if that’s what you were thinking (like me). But how cool would that be?!?! Oh well, in the meantime it’s good to see Sonos continuing to evolve their product and brand. Hopefully they maintain the same methods which brought them success in the […]
Read moreAnother week, another reliable release from the HD Nation gang from Revision 3. Some interesting topics up for discussion today, including covering my favorite–THX Certified LCD’s! Click play below or you can download higher resolution formats from HD Nation’s Website .
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