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Twitter Roundup for the Week of 8/03/09

B.Greenway — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:26:35 +0000

So sad to hear John Hughes passed away, what a legacy though Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.. LG Electronics First to Bring VUDU HD Movie Service to Broadband HDTV’s http://cli.gs/n5dB1X Comcast Nears ‘Wideband’ Halfway Mark http://cli.gs/mMdyRt Saw 500 Days of Summer last night, good flick but they weren’t kidding [...]

Twitter Roundup for the Week of 8/03/09

Knocked out by Natal

B.Greenway — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:08:06 +0000

So again, what does Natal have to do with home theater? A better question might be, what doesn’t it have to do with home theater? Look past the gaming applications and think about the core technologies, voice recognition, this ones simple, “start movie”, “dim lights”, “next video”, so on and so on.

Knocked out by Natal

Twitter Roundup for the Week of 3/20/09

B.Greenway — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:55:10 +0000

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High-End Integrators: What Recession?

B.Greenway — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:17:07 +0000

some custom electronic integrators have actually seen growth throughout 2008 and well into 2009.

High-End Integrators: What Recession?

The Suspension of Disbelief

B.Greenway — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:06:25 +0000

This is a subject I’ve touched on before, but given the current state of the economy (rather our collective perception of the economy) and more specifically high fuel prices eating into disposable income, its one that’s worth exploring further. The “suspension of disbelief”, at least with regard to consumer electronics, is really just another way [...]

The Suspension of Disbelief

AMX Implicated in Corporate Espionage

B.Greenway — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:03:39 +0000

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 [...]

AMX Implicated in Corporate Espionage

Home Theater Blog 2.0

B.Greenway — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:40:18 +0000

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 [...]

Home Theater Blog 2.0

CE Products and the Stimulus Package

B.Greenway — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:20:37 +0000

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 [...]

CE Products and the Stimulus Package

Summer Movies 08

B.Greenway — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:06:25 +0000

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 [...]

Summer Movies 08

Happy New Year

B.Greenway — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:38:36 +0000

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 [...]

Happy New Year

3D Revisited

B.Greenway — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:53:44 +0000

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 [...]

3D Revisited

Out of Town

B.Greenway — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:26:26 +0000

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

Out of Town

Hardly Fair Use

B.Greenway — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:16:06 +0000

Sure piracy in general and DRM specifically are multifaceted issues but I’d like to see the consumer given a bit more leeway to playback our media across the growing number of network capable CE devices that are finding their way into our homes. As it stands now device (a) may be capable of playing back a file containing DRM (b) but only if it’s not connected to device type (c).

Hardly Fair Use

In The Works

B.Greenway — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:53:44 +0000

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, [...]

In The Works

Transformers

B.Greenway — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:50:29 +0000

Being pleasantly surprised with a summer “blockbuster” is a rare occurrence for me these days but that’s exactly what happened last night during ‘Michael Bay managed to bring these guys to life better than I ever expected. To be honest I don’t think I’ve had that much fun with a big summer blockbuster since ‘Independence [...]

Transformers