AMX Implicated in Corporate Espionage

March 28, 2008

Before I even get started I want to of course remind everyone (Just as Gary Kayye did with his rAVe HomeAV Breaking News alert) that the accused are of course innocent until proven guilty. I’ve taken particular care not to let my dealings with two of the three companies named in this story, color my [...]

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Home Theater Blog 2.0

March 27, 2008

Ok 1.5 but who’s counting. In case you were wondering why something seemed a little different around here today, we’ve overhauled the site a bit. Long (really long) story short I was using a content management system I’d grown tired of on a webhost I could no longer tolerate. It may not look like a [...]

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CE Products and the Stimulus Package

March 13, 2008

Hear that off in the distance? It’s the sound of cash registers going *ka-ching*. According to research conducted by the CEA one in five tax-payers will cumulatively spend up to five billion dollars on consumer electronics; as a direct result of the economic stimulus package signed by President Bush last February.So what type of items [...]

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Summer Movies 08

March 8, 2008

The summer movie season is right around the corner and for most of us here that’s prime time to get our fill of super-heroes, science fiction, fantasy, and super-heroes I know I said super-heroes twice but this year there’s twice as many to go around. Out of this year’s crop of summer blockbusters, I already [...]

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Happy New Year

January 1, 2008

With 2007 behind us I wanted to take a look back at some of the events of last year and look forward to what 2008 has in store. Without a doubt the most important A/V trend of 2007 continued to be 1080p. Whether it was sources or displays, 1080p was everywhere and by the end [...]

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3D Revisited

November 28, 2007

Last year I made light of James Cameron’s comments about 3D “saving” the film industry, in short I was of the opinion the film industry was doing just fine and hardly needed saving. I argued that what we needed were better films, better theaters and an overall higher quality movie-going experience, not 3D to convince [...]

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Out of Town

October 3, 2007

I’m out of town this week for some training, I guess there are worse places they could have sent me.

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Hardly Fair Use

August 9, 2007

I suppose on the surface we could thank people like Michael Wen and Kevin He of Union City California for excessive DRM in our music and movie formats, but honesty all the DRM in the world apparently wouldn’t have stopped

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In The Works

July 27, 2007

I wanted to give you guys (and gals) a heads-up on a few reviews we’re working on, to allow some questions ahead of time, before we shuffle the gear off to its final destination. The first piece up for review will be Pioneer Elite’s new BDP-94HD Blu-ray player, with its 1080p24 output, internal TrueHD decoding, [...]

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Transformers

July 5, 2007

Being pleasantly surprised with a summer “blockbuster” is a rare occurrence for me these days but that’s exactly what happened last night during ‘

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