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
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).
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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 ‘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 [...]
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Costco Revises Return Policy
February 27, 2007
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Not Enough Hours in the day
February 8, 2007
Just wanted to check in to say that I’m toiling away on a few reviews, so think of this as a post about an up-coming post… First up will be a review of Carada’s Precesion Series Projection Screens followed shortly (hopefully) thereafter by a review of the Mitsubishi HC5000 1080p projector. Yeah it took me [...]
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The Day After
December 26, 2006
Well it’s December 26th and undoubtedly many of you received new additions to your home theater systems yesterday. So what was it? a new HDTV, high definition DVD player, standard-def player, A/V receiver or even one of the next-generation gaming systems? Have you had time to clear the wrapping paper away and install it yet? [...]
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Wii Component Cables
December 5, 2006
Just another quick update on the Wii, if you have the chance grab the component cables for your system, it makes a considerable difference. I looked all over for a Wii component cable, Amazon, Gamestop, Walmart etc. but eventually the good ol’ Nintendo store delivered. (literally) The differences might appear subtle if you’re judging by [...]
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Nintendo Wii + Home Theater = Massive Fun
December 1, 2006
This evening we opened up an early Christmas gift, no it doesn’t output HD resolutions or even Dolby digital surround sound for that matter, but it had the both of us enthralled from the moment we hooked it up to our home theater system. The Nintendo Wii may very well wind up being the most [...]
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