Yamaha RX-V2700, 7.1 Surround Receiver

Home Theater Blog has a quick writeup on Yamaha's upcoming RX-V2700 receiver. With well over two paragraphs dedicated to the writeup, they do give you the main information you need to know on the receiver with a good detail on the video processing chipset from Anchor Bay Technologies. From the article: The Yamaha RX-V2700 7.1 surround receiver features 140 watts […]

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Term of the Week – EDTV

About.com's weekly feature is here again and they are talking about EDTV. EDTVs were big a couple of years ago in the plasma market when HD versions were considerably more expensive. With the price drops of HD plasmas and LCDs its hardly worth while to invest in an outdated technology such as EDTV. From the article: EDTV stands for Enhanced […]

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Homezone Takes A Step Forward

Homezone has taken a step forward with AT&T's recent announcement of a Sat and IPTV service combination. The PVR box will sport a 250 GB hard drive, WI-FI, remote schedule, and internet radio. It sounds like AT&T are on the right path. They are using the down path of the internet right, now lets up they use the up path […]

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Xbox360 HD DVD Playback

If there is a hack… there is a way. I wonder if companies actually think people won't find work around for getting non-pc parts to work on PCs. Latest on the hit list is the ability to use the $200 HD DVD add on with a XP enabled PC. As of right now, file browsing is confirmed and playback is […]

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Cortexa’s Vista-ready Home Control System

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CE Pro has a quick blurb on Cortexa's new Vista-ready Control System. Looking at the screenshot, it appears similar to other systems on the market. I am not familair with what type of hardware this system uses, if you know a bit more about Cortexa and their systems please comment. From the article: Cortexa Technology has launched a Windows Vista-ready […]

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RFID Digital Door Lock

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Keys? Who needs them! With a RFID lock, keys will be a thing of the past. You certainly won't have to worry about someone picking your lock because there is no keyhole. It also comes standard with a night mode that disables all external entry functions. From the article: With the PIN pad, you'll never lock yourself out ever again. […]

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Second generation Wii to offer DVD playback

An interesting tidbit from AVZombie says that the 2nd gen Wii will offer DVD playback   It won’t play them when it launches in the UK, but a second generation version of the Nintendo Wii games console will offer DVD playback, when it goes on sale in Japan late 2007. The feature is unlikely to stay a Japanese exclusive for […]

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UK to get 50Mb broadband in 2007

Looks like those in the UK might be getting some nice Fiber to the Neighborhood cable based Internet tech… Cable telecoms giant Telewest/NTL, to be rebranded as part of the Virgin empire next Spring, has confirmed that it is currently trialling 50Mb broadband technology. It expects to have the new service, which it says “blows our rivals out of the water” available to […]

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