Tag: General Home Theater News

If you've been planning on buying an Xbox360 for your main DVD usage, you may want to check out this article. Not a very flattering article about it, but hopefully one that draws Microsoft's eyes to hopefully make improvements. To say that the Xbox 360 is a "decent" DVD player, as we have seen reported in so many places on […]

The HomeTheaterBlog has an interview with Ken Lowe, strategic marketing manager for Sigma Designs, who make the media processors for HD-DVD & BluRay DVD Players. A pretty politically-correct Q&A, but it does provide some nice information. HTB: What do you think the likelihood that dual-format players could become the norm rather than the exception as in LG’s case? Ken Lowe: […]

A little known fact: Electronic store sales BOOM during the weeks leading up to the SUPER BOWL. I can't tell you how many people would come into my store back in the day & buy a big screen only to return it the week after. Well, here's a guide for the items you'll be getting for an ideal Super Bowl, […]

About.com has a few things you should think about before you make the big equipment purchase. Surprisingly enough, they neglect THE most important factor when buying any home theater equipment…. getting your significant other's approval. Lets face it, if it does get past this point, there isn't much point in calculating viewing distant! Number three certainly has merit. I have […]

This next article is somewhat relevant, only because we are starting to dabble our feet into the home theater review pond. Even though Audioholics presents a holier then though attitude, in the end they do make a few valid points about some of the reviews we see around the net. What did you guys think of our first ht review? […]

Welcome to today's copy of The Daily Button! Many big thanks goes out to LehigBri for the suggestion! I think this deserves a round of applause. Now to try and spice things up a little to make it easier to read, always easier said than done :).   The Daily Button   Deal News: 500GB hard drive for $139.99 at […]

IPTV is a great thing and will hopefully just make the quality of entertainment that much better since there will finally be a true alternative to standard forced content. The key is just to increase the market that can obtain it, which for now is quite limited. At AT&T's fourth quarter earnings call today, chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre provided […]

If you've ever traveled to Europe & saw a great price on a DVD and bought it, only to be upset that it doesn't work on your DVD Player, then I guess you've never heard of Regions–That thing created strictly to make more money for movie studios. And you wonder why people pirate. The geographical regions are as follows: REGION […]

Welcome to today's edition of The Daily Button. What do you guys think of the name? Also feel free to suggest new features you would like to see.    Hard Drive News: Samsun introduces 60GB 1.8" HD article at Business Wire Motherboard News: MSI P965 Platinum review at Motherboards.org Console News: Wii review at 3DGameman Windows News: Microsoft extends Xp support article […]

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