About.com's Home Theater question of the week is – "Are the next gen formats region coded like the original DVD they are replacing?" The answer is yes for Blu-ray and no region coding for HD DVD. From the article: While the North America, Japan, and Latin America employ an NTSC-based 30 Frames-per-second video system, most of the rest of […]
Read moreI am always very skeptical when a company claims great networking performance over powerlines. As we have found out in the past, the only way to achieve these lofty goals is to have the components networked in the same room. The new spec is supposed to be much more resistant from interference from other household products. There is nothing worse […]
Read moreSlinbox recently introduced a new line up of tuners and placeshifters to the general public and now it looks they are going to release a client for Palm OS. With this final OS supported, you would be able to placeshift your content to just about any portable device out there. From the article: Right now, you can use a Silngbox […]
Read moreIn October's issue of CE Pro, they report on the history of Best Buy's effort as a home integration company. It really goes to show you how big companies take multiple years to get an initiative going. 6 years later, you still wouldn't know that Best Buy is interested in anything else but selling you boxed CE goods. From the […]
Read moreI didn't catch any great DVD releases this week, except for maybe X-Men 3: The Last Stand. As always, there are a few hundred titles that make it to DVD in a week, I try and pick the more popular ones. You can head over to movieweb.com for a complete listing. Also worth noting, there several concert DVDs hitting Blu-ray […]
Read moreHave a tub of popcorn and a barrel of soda for me when you go to these upcoming flicks in the theater. The title is a link to a trailer of the movie from Yahoo! Movies Week Of October 1st, 2006 Shortbus (Limited) – An urban dramedy that follows a varied group of seven people, among them a dominatrix and […]
Read moreI guess we know where HP stands in the next generation format wars. You can expect to find HP HD DVD drives in their m7600n desktop, the dv900t laptop and as an external drive. From the article: Press Release: We all know the story, HP went from being a "strong" Blu-ray supporter (like Samsung and LG) to pushing for changes […]
Read moreThe 800 and above series from Logitech are great universal remotes but suffer from the arm and leg syndrome. The 720 follows closely due to the technology creep that we have come to know and love in lower end models. The "activity" functions are the same but the looks and feel have changed quite a bit from the Harmony 880. […]
Read moreTaking a cue from PC's, the Niles IntelliControl Multiroom Audio system is a 12 channel/6 Zone expandable audio distribution system. It uses cards to expand its functionality. Of course an iPod expansion card is available and other systems such as XM, line level inputs and traditional FM/AM radio are all available. Wisely, Niles has chosen Cat-5 cable for signals and […]
Read moreYou can hardly walk five feet without finding something to stick your iPod into. This non-iPod news guy is simply amazed at the accessory love the iPod gets. I tried to find a FM transmitter for my generic DAP and everything I found had big bold iPod stickers all over it. Seeing reviews like the iGroove system does make me […]
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