Today, at the Electronic House Expo (EHX) Fall 2006 trade show, Embedded Automation announced its upcoming release of mControl v2 (Home Edition) for Windows Vista. mControl is software for controlling the “digital home” and supports leading home management technologies like Z-Wave and INSTEON. The new release will be previewed within the Windows Media Center Pavilion at EHX (Booth #1317F). In […]
Read moreEngadget gets their hands on the newest TiVo features, which not being a TiVo user, I gotta say look very cool. Think of it like Transcode360 for your TiVo. Very neat…too bad they just mentioned they're going to be raising prices again. :-/ What we found much more exciting was the new PC-to-TiVo functionality being rolled out the TiVo Desktop […]
Read moreSome pretty cool pricing comparisons if you're curious as to why those companies are trying to take so much of your hard earned cash for those gorgeous displays. The material costs for a 1080p 52-inch DLP (digital light processing) rear-projection TV (RPTV) are about US$807.52, nearly half of that from a 1080p 52-inch LCD TV and a PDP (plasma display […]
Read moreNot the cheapest display on the market, but these guys still seem to like it. They also offer a 1080p version in the Elite version of it. Pioneer’s 7th generation plasma, the PDP-5070HD makes strides over last years offering, the 5060HD with improved black levels and color decoding. Pioneer has also ditched their media box receiver in favor of an […]
Read moreBoy, the Blu Ray & HD-DVD guys sure do try to shoot themselves in the foot as much as possible now don't they? This time in the UK, with some not-so-cheerful news. Toshiba’s launch of HD DVD in the UK has been delayed. Its entry-level HD-E1 model is now not expected to ship until mid December, a month later than […]
Read moreYowsa, Creston has a big bad boy of a multi-room A/V distribution system. The Adagio Media system pretty much does it all including surround processing, video switching and processing, sat radio support and much much much more. Out of the box it has support for 4 to 6 rooms and you can additional equiment to expand that up to 24 […]
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I will follow this article with a bit more about wireless the wireless HDMI specification sometime tomorrow (check the comments). In the mean time, check out CE Pro's coverage of one of the first multi-cast wireless (and wired) HD distribution system from Avocent. You stream content to 8 devices if need be and it supports 72p/1080i, music and control data. […]
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Not wanting to be outdone by Sony with delay madness, Toshiba has delayed its second generation of HD DVD players. The second gen player was set to come out with HDMI 1.3, 1080p and sport a price tage of $999. That price sounds familiar . From the article: From AVS Forum: In Europe Toshiba has officially announced the delay, now […]
Read moreSome good news for you TiVo owners, as they're making some changes to their software which will allow you to view non-copyrighted video on your TiVos, as well as make it easy to share video you make with other TiVo users. Shame that movies you download still won't be able to be streamed, but this is another step for TiVo […]
Read moreI think it's great to see the people behind the products we use just show how true fans they are of what they're doing. It definitely instills confidence within customers & improves the relationship of the community. So, if you're in the market for a new PVR & doing some research, check this out. So this weekend, as an experiment, […]
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