Home Theater
February 26, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
Ready to jump on the Blu-Ray bandwagon, but don't feel like peeling ten Franklins off that bankroll? Sony's preparing to launch a lower cost Blu-Ray player this summer: the BDP-S300. The S300's biggest selling point is its price: at $600,...
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February 20, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
The two giants of satellite radio have announced a love match: XM and Sirius will combine in a deal worth around $13 million. Neither company is buying the other; rather it's "a merger of equals" where the final breakdown of...
February 14, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
Despite being cracked open faster than an ice cold beverage on a hot day, it doesn't mean that the next generation optical formats are going to back down. Au contraire. In Japan, Sharp is rolling out the BD-HP1, a Blu-Ray...
February 5, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
What do you do when you want to put that new plasma TV you bought in your bedroom, but you just don't have anything to sit it on? You could mount it to the wall, but what if it doesn't...
January 27, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
On the off chance you've got more than one HDMI device sitting around and yet—horror of horrors!—you have but one HDMI input on your mega-monster HD display, relax. Evergreen's got an HDMI switch that should fix your problems all speedy...
January 24, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
We've been talking up the LG Hybrid Player, ever since we learned of the super secret project surrounding its construction, deep in the bowels of LG's mountain lair. But now that the official ship date is mere days away, a...
January 15, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
In case you haven't quite gotten the impression from my posts last week, CES is huge. For every gadget and gizmo I wrote up, there were a dozen or more that got left by the way side. In most cases,...
January 9, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
There's a whole lot of fighting to see who can make the biggest, bestest HD display. Among the contenders I've seen on the floor are offerings from Sharp, Panasonic, and LG, all of which are weighing it at over 100...
January 8, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
Word of LG's hybrid player first trickled down last week, but I got a chance to glance at it and talk to an LG rep last night. He answered one of my burning questions: what happens if you put one...
January 7, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
I just walked out of the Samsung press conference, having had so much information pushed down my throat that I'm actually suffering from indigestion. Sammy's president and CEO Gee Sung Choi (pictured) dragged out the pom-poms to cheer on Samsung's...
January 4, 2007
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
I'm not sure if I should be rechristening "Format War '06" to "Format War '07" or something more specific, like "High-Def Disc Format War." It just doesn't have the same ring to it. How about "Wars fought by big companies...
December 28, 2006
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
There has not yet been invented the copy protection system that dedicated hackers cannot break. The major reason for this, of course, is that you need to be able to decode the content to watch the video, and to do...
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Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
We bought my grandmother a small LCD screen for her kitchen for Christmas, a Sharp Aquos 13". It's a pretty nice TV, marred only by the fact that it's still relying on analog over-the-air reception. My parents confided that they've...
December 5, 2006
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
Congratulations, Sony! You finally got the BDP-S1 out the door. This calls for some sort of party. After all, you're the architect of the Blu-Ray format, and this should be your flagship player. It plays all formats of Blu-Ray discs,...
November 29, 2006
Authored by Dan Moren at 3:59 PM
I've yet to make the HD jump. The center of my home "theater" is a 27" Sony Trinitron that I inherited from my parents (which would make me exempt from the MPAA's home theater registration fee). It's a pretty nice...
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