General Home Theater News
PVR Wire has a nice quick summary of some cool C|Net product videos from CES. My favorite is the Interlink Sideshow Vista Remote, which actually shows the guide on the little thing. The more I see it, the more I like them. Motorola Follow Me TV (video): The product for use with Motorola PVRs that lets you transfer recorded video […]
Read moreI wouldn't mind seeing more of these types of lists. If any members were at CES, let us know what you saw that you like. Mine's gotta probably be the Sideshow remotes, if only because they're most likely the only items to be affordable enough for me to own at some point. Man I wish I could have gone! HP […]
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engadget: New TI DLP Light Engine for slim HDTVs The most popular form factor is the flat panel TV so it stands to reason that everyone else would love to loose the thickness and Texas Instruments has a new solution for DLPs that will bring them a few inches closer to flat panel TVs. The new SLIM light engine has […]
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c|net: Media new and old merge at CBS One of those people is Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian, creator of the Slingbox place-shifting technology, who joined the CBS president onstage to unveil Sling's latest technology, called "Clip + Sling." It allows users to clip content from live or recorded TV and share it with anyone, including non-Slingbox owners. The clip […]
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gizmodo: Nextgen Home: Push Those Buttons, Never Get Up Again Connecting all your media, lighting, security systems and even your washing machine was the theme of this year's Nexgen Home, where the new addition is Windows Vista and Lifeware 2.0 software. The extra convenience is Vista's native support of WSD (Web Services for Devices), which amounts to USB on Ethernet […]
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See Day 1 coverage here. SciFiTech: Philips does single-speaker surround with SoundBar There have been plenty of options out there for people who want surround sound but not surround speakers, but we have to admit that Philips's SoundBar HTS8100 looks like a pretty slick new entry to the category. Using proprietary Ambisound technology and Smart Surround processing, it's meant to […]
Read moreAll of our CES coverage will be summarized into one news post each day. Starting with a few stories that are creeping out today. News.com – Getting Ready For CES Cranes, step ladders and boxes will soon be replaced by thousands of people as workers put on the finishing touches for Sunday's opening of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las […]
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 moreYet another cable standard to further confuse the average user. This one 10.8gbits/second, and of course has all the copy protection fun you love from HDCP. But the real news here is that the chips will support the DisplayPort 1.1 spec which was proposed in November and should be finalized by VESA in early 2007. The modified spec brings support […]
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I know I preach over & over again how your HTPC can be used as your one-stop upconverter, but figured this was worth a news posting for those sans-HTPC, since it does only cost $80, not a bad deal. On our test 46-inch DLP set, the upconverted DVDs looked noticeably better than standard DVDs, as you'd expect. However, even […]
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