Optoma HD8300 3D DLP Front Projector Reviewed

Optoma may be best known for their low price HD20/HD180 1080p projector.  This has been a great value projector for many people.  They are now showing a performance projector, the HD8300.  It appears to be another projector to look at if you want a little more than the HD20 offers.   In terms of connection options the HD8300 is rather […]

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CyberLink PowerDVD 12

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When we were at CES, CyberLink was showing a beta version of PowerDVD 12.  There were some advancements in the product versus its predecessor, PowerDVD 11 – most notably automatic refresh rate switching, but the best part was that they gave me a copy to bring back and test on a variety of systems to provide a preview of what […]

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Sky Anytime+ Extends Reach, Adds iPlayer and ITV Player

Sky Anytime+

Sky has unleashed a torrent of announcements for fans of streaming media in the UK. First up, the company is expanding the availability of their Sky Anytime+ VOD service to all Sky+HD subscribers. The service had previously only been available to Sky Broadband subscribers, but the expansion of the service means that Anytime+ will be available to Sky+HD subscribers regardless […]

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SlingPlayer Comes to Kindle Fire

Sling Media Kindle Fire

Amazon has been always been cagey about providing Kindle sales numbers, but with estimates floating around that Amazon may have sold upwards of 6 million Kindle Fires since the tablet’s introduction late last year, you can bet that we will see more Android-friendly media apps and services working to bring their wares specifically to the Kindle Fire. How nice of […]

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Hitachi Takes 4TB Hard Drives to 7200rpm

Hitachi 4TB

Hitachi was the first hard drive manufacturer to ship internal 4TB hard drives, but those early drives were also 5400rpm drives. While this no doubt suits the needs of most folks building home servers and general purpose media servers, it did leave more performance-oriented enthusiasts feeling a bit underwhelmed. Fortunately, Hitachi is mindful of that segment of the market’s need […]

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