Weighing in at a little over 120 lbs and sporting a price tag of just under $5,000, you certainly expect pretty good sound from a sub-woofer in this price range. It is the first time, granted I don't look at a lot of expensive subs, that I have seen an on screen display for setting up your sub. Certainly it […]
Read moreThe next frontier for my digital home will no doubt be home automation. Sorry honey, I meant our house. At any rate, I am always looking for ideas on how to implement a quality HA solution. Link Your House won the first contest due to their fine work installing HA packages in new homes. Perhaps next year mControl will have […]
Read moreI was surprised to read the first part of the article that suggested 720p could be better then 1080p. Perhaps because of chased after the holy grail of resolutions for so many years that it is inconceivable to my ears that anyone could suggest such a notion. Then I saw, the interview was with a marketing manager. From the article: […]
Read moreWho wants to pay retail prices? Well who really wants to pay for anything? Ars has the scoop on what on how much you can expect to pay for an OEM copy of Windows. The big savings come into play with Vista Business and Ultimate where you can shave off over 50 dollars from the retail upgrade price. From the […]
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Looking to jazz up your BTV interface? Well the in your luck, The Snapstream Blog is showing off a few of the community made skins to help improve the look. You can check out all the pic by following this link. Update: I deleted a portion of my post here. As was pointed out to me, BTV has a very […]
Read moreI am still waiting for the perfect name suggestion for our new daily news round up feature. So feel free to give your name suggestions and comments about our new feature. CPU review: E6600 review at HardwareLogic Motherboard review: Asus P5B-E review at PCStats CES 2007 article: Zalman Booth article at techPowerUp! Vista article: Vista version comparo at Techgage […]
Read moreWe saw an unboxing yesterday and today we get to see an actual review of the new LG BH100 dual player. I am not sure how you can do a review in a day, I guess those crazy bloggers get things done quicker. The downside to getting this player is that you do not get the HDi (interactive features) of […]
Read moreWhy would you want to do this? I had to go back to a previous blog, but, here's what he said about WiX v. 3.0: One of the biggest additions in WiX v3.0 is MSBuild integration for the Votive Visual Studio add-in for WiX. This means you can create a Visual Studio project (named a .wixproj), add it to the […]
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Personally, I prefer building systems myself, or if I have to buy a system, going from smaller vendors like PC Alchemy, Niveus, Vidabox, etc., since I've always felt you get more attention from those guys since their customers are more important to their success since they're smaller. But, there's something to be said about the big boys, and being able […]
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Quite a price drop for Sony, their firs SXRD projector was $30,000….this one comes in at around $5000…yeah….I'd say that might help sales a bit. Some moments I had with the Sony VPL-VW50 1080p SXRD front projector rivaled my experience with much costlier projectors. Granted, the uniformity problem I encountered with black-and-white and (to a much lesser extent) some color […]
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