Blockbuster Unveils Online/In-Store Rental Program, Will Offer High-Def Discs

Blockbuster Video this week announced two significant upgrades to its rental programs. First, Blockbuster Online users are now allowed to return movies either through the mail or into a Blockbuster store. The "Total Access" service includes one free in-store rental per month, but customers are awarded an additional free in-store rental for each movie returned to a Blockbuster store. Also […]

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RAW Acoustics HT8 Floor-Standing Speakers

If you are more of the adventurous type, like John, you could always build your own speakers. Secrets has a review up of a speaker set that can be bought in the kit form or for twice the dollar amount a finished set. The RAW Acoustics HT8 set is a very attractive look speaker that is built around a 3-way […]

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ProCinema 800 Home Theater Speaker System

Definitive Technology's ProCinema 800 Speaker system review by S&V should have a few people interested. It comes in at a very attractive $1000 price tag, much more accessible to the general public then some of the much more expensive units reviewed at audiophile magazines. I will be looking this setup to audition in the future. From the article: The little […]

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HDTV Basics

Still don't know much about High Definition TV? Well, apparently there are still a few out there 😛 so DenGuru takes the guessing out of it. I say if you have questions you should just ask in our forums, some of these guys have more knowledge about this stuff than they know what to do with (not me though, I […]

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Term of the Week – PCM

About.com's Home Theater section has their term of the week up again. This week they talk about PCM or Pulse Code Modulation. PCM is the method in which audio signals are transferred to digital audio data. The data is then transmitted via digital or optical S/PDIF. From the article: PCM stands for Pulse Code Modulation. PCM technology is a means […]

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Songbird: The Firefox of Media Players

A part of the digital home is getting music playback whilst browsing the world wide web. Making its way into the crowded media playing market is a FF add-in named Songbird. The developers claim to have some old winamp crew on their team so it should be a decent product. Currently version .2 is shipping. It ships with all the […]

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Next-Gen DVD War Averted?

The signing of the peace treaty could soon be at hand! Sometime in 2007, a dual format player could be introduced! It is announcements like this that will keep me on the fence until an affordable universal player comes out! From the article: Broadcom Corp. has already shipped the industry's first dual HD/BD decoder chip, designed into the first-generation Toshiba […]

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NVIDIA snaps up PortalPlayer

Rather then take you right to the press release on this one, I will link Ars' take on Nvidia's purchase of PortalPlayer. It seems that this purchase is a bit outside of Nvidia's sweetspot. It looks like Nvidia wants to expand into the portable market now. From the article: PortalPlayer will give NVIDIA access to two markets it currently does […]

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