Tag: General Home Theater News

Are they allowed to release these type of articles before Thanksgiving. I really don't want to think about gift buying until I have digested my turkey and at least two days worth of left overs. Thats right! I said it. If you are one of the crazy ones buying gifts for the tech in your family, you will want to […]

Keeping with our back to basics type articles, about.com teaches us about dynamic compression! From the article: In other words, if you find that the explosions or other loud parts are too loud and things such as dialog is too soft, by changing the dynamic compression setting, you can make it so the sounds of the explosions are not quite […]

Given the media capabilities of the PS3 and the fun factor of the Wii, I should at least spend a little time posting news about whats going on in the console wars. Ignoring the over hype and nonsense of late, Sci-fi gets some hands on action with the Wii and PS3. Whats the verdict? Same ole same ole… PS3 is […]

Monster, best known for their retail marketing prowess" have jumped onto the HDTV calibration scene. In conjunction with the ISF, Monster has devloped a "wizard style calibration DVD for you to balance black levels and colors. No word yet on how it compares to the other well known calibration discs out there. From the article: “This is the one DVD […]

Well it's about friggin time now isn't it?!?? After seeing how long it took to get cablecard in Vista, I'm terrified to ask about this type of cablecard for any PVR.  CableLabs said it will begin offering verification testing of plug-and-play devices like digital-video recorders with the multistream interface beginning in January as part of CableLabs Certification Wave 49. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]