The Bose Wave Radio may have met its match in the form of Polk Audio's I-Sonic. Perhaps not in the name category but in the function category it clearly shines. It supports HD Radio, XM, and of course CDs. It apparently does very well in the WAF department; any comment like that makes it worth checking out. From the article: […]
Read moreIf you need something to hold you over until the HD discs come down in price, it might be worth looking into the Helios H4000. With support for every format under the moon including DVD, CD, MP3, WMA, MPEG4 and DivX, the H4000 is worth its price tag. Also worth noting, it can output 11 different resolutions (including 1080p) over […]
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Is it me? Or do I post a lot of next gen DVD stuff? At any rate, a few more titles by the Wubya Bee will be hitting the streets in short order. WB has chosen to remain on the fence and will be offering thier next seven movies on HD DVD and Blu-ray. From the article: Warner Home Video […]
Read moreMatt, our resident Media Center expert, spotted a beauty of a story today. In an effort to make the format war more like a little girl's tea part, NEC has shipped a chipset that will work with Blu-ray and HD DVD. See? If Sony and Toshiba could just get together and sing cumbaya, we would be a lot better off […]
Read moreIts not a secret that Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity have the worlds longest name, however, they do put together a pretty good review that isn't smattered with advertising. If you need a little bit of music while BBqing or while swimming, take a gander at Paradigm's Stylus 370 outdoor speakers. Not exactly sexy looking speakers, but then […]
Read moreEngadget has the skinny on the Slingbox Pro. The Pro features HD streaming through analog component out, which is not a deal breaker for me. However, they do want you to spend another $50 on the component input dongle, which is kind of silly. In typical blog fashion, the review is somewhat short and smarmy but it does get the […]
Read moreAdrian Kingsley-Hughes enlightens us to the latest technological breakthrough from those wonderful folks at the movie industry. "The upshot of this is that if you have a DVD disc protected by Protect DVD-Video and you try to play the disc in a PC-based system using, say, Windows Media Player, the process will fail. Now, lets be clear here, we are […]
Read more"Say you have yourself a video at low-resolution, and want to upconvert it to a higher resolution for display on a higher-resolution television or monitor. That’s not hypothetical at all – it happens all the time when you display anything except HD on your HDTV. When you watch regular SD cable programming on your HDTV, your television (or maybe some […]
Read moreMagnolia Home Entertainment has announced its first wave of high-definition titles. The distributor will bow six Blu-ray Disc releases Oct. 10. I studied the titles carefully, and can already see the one that will out-sell Titanic: "Bikini Destinations: Triple Fantasy." I love you Movie Industry Read the rest & see all the other SIX titles coming out here.
Read moreStewart Filmscreen Corporation(r) (Booth 350)-the industry leader in precision projection screen technology in the home cinema and commercial markets-introduced its new FireHawk G3 1080p screen material today at CEDIA Expo 2006. FireHawk G3 1080p-the next generation of Stewart's most popular home cinema projection screen-is the first screen specifically designed for 1080p projectors and source material. FireHawk G3 1080p is aimed […]
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