Ambient light is your enemy. Well, when it comes to projectors anyway. If you can’t have total light control then a grey, high-gain, screen might be just the thing makes that 100″ movie cave a reality :). Reading through the review of the Visual Apex 5D, it looks like it does a decent job with that and at $566 is […]
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The ASUS Chromebit CS10 is unique from other devices based on Google’s ChromeOS because unlike these Chrombooks (aka laptops) it does it from a HDMI dongle. Besides the flexibility to BYOD[isplay], the form factor’s inherent price advantage ($85/£90) also makes it a relatively cheap way to play with ChromeOS, and test its unique approach to delivering a secure, low […]
Read moreLG announced their “Signature” OLED 4K displays at CES, and they are just starting to trickle out into a limited number of high-end showrooms. Until I get a chance to go have a look myself, I’ll be relying on others to tell us what they think. HDTVtest is very reliable when it comes to this sort of thing so, if […]
Read moreI would love to upgrade my A/V kit more often, but it’s difficult to know what it’s worth or where to start, and the thought of ending up with a bunch of surplus, depreciating equipment has put me off. Ran across the HTR guide today, and I’m curious if anyone has used these services (besides Ebay :)). If so, let […]
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I don’t care what you think. 3D creates a more immersive viewing experience. OK, the glasses aren’t awesome, but frankly the modern ones are light enough that it doesn’t bother me at all. Needing to use a standalone player, or commercial software with all the cruft it brings along for the ride has made it less enticing for me personally. […]
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I think we can all agree that Fractal Design makes a fantastic chassis. Whether its a full ATX or SFF, the design is always elegant and well thought out. At $60 this looks like a really nice value as well. Fractal is expanding their lineup continuously: small form chassis are becoming more and more popular as even the latest high […]
Read moreArs Techinca has a basic walkthrough of the “why not DIY” when it comes to NAS. I would be curious to see how Window Storage Spaces’ performance stacks up to what an off-the-shelf NAS can provide, but aside from that there’s little fault to find with the thought process and component selection (although the price is reasonably high-end for a […]
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The ASUSTOR AS5002T is the first Intel based network attached storage (NAS) device tested at Missing Remote. So, I was very curious to see how its dual-core 2.4GHz Celeron J1800 would stack up against the strong showing we’ve seen from ARM Cortex-A15 based systems recently. With two Gigabit network interface cards (NIC), two bays, 1GB RAM, and USB 3.0/eSATA support, […]
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As much as having yet another standard can cause overload, adding a “Premium” lable to UHD does add some value; potentially making it easier to select a display. The downside is that if you just bought a 2015 UHD display it’s quite likely that some, if not all, of the things that make a UHD Premium display better than [plain-ol’] […]
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming. It just makes sense to put the devices around us on a network. To make them “smarter”. To make the data they possess available to us, and other devices also on that network to use, consume, and react to. This is scary, but it’s also really, really cool. Of course some OEMs have […]
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