Time to Work on My Own System for a Change
November 21, 2006
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Blockbuster + Weinstein = Netflix left-out in the Cold
November 16, 2006
Exclusive video game titles are nothing new, we’ve even grown accustom (temporarily at least) to the idea of certain studios not supporting one of the two next-generation DVD formats, but I have to admit this bit of news leaves me a bit dumbfounded. According to The Weinstein Company’ (Scary Movie 4, Lucky Number Slevin, The [...]
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The Remote Control is 50 Years Young
October 30, 2006
We may take the unassuming remote control for granted today but imagine how un-relaxing the TV viewing experience would be without it; yikes after all the running around I do during the course of a normal day, the last thing I want to do is jump up to change the channel 20 times a night. [...]
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Electronics Prominent in Holiday Wish-lists
October 16, 2006
The Consumer Electronics Association estimates that consumers will spend roughly 21 billion dollars on an assortment electronic device(s) this holiday season. That number is up nearly 27 percent from last year, the CEA predicts consumers will spend $195 on average for CE gifts. The hot electronic wish-list items among those polled this year were: MP3 [...]
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30 Years of VHS
October 11, 2006
As you may have already awarded JVC the prestigious IEEE Milestone award, in recognition of their development of the VHS home video format.
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Home Theater for a Higher Cause
August 10, 2006
It’s easy to get wrapped up in our own wants and desires when it comes to home entertainment but I wanted to point out an organization whose primary goal is bringing the sights and sounds of home theater to a very special group of movie lovers. The donation to the Elf Foundation and help add [...]
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Beware of Grey-Market Goods
August 9, 2006
Bit a departure for today’s post but first some background. My goal from day one with this site has been to bring about a higher understanding of home theater related products, technology, implementation and overall knowledge for reader and writer alike. I sell no products here nor do I work for a company that does, [...]
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Cable & Satellite in the HD DVD Age
July 11, 2006
This post will ramble off a bit into personal observation but hopefully it will circle back around to relevance and maybe even spark a few good conversations. As someone who devours every bit of hi-def disc news I come across, I couldn’t help but think about the other two stalwarts of high definition content, namely [...]
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Calling all arm-chair movie reviewers
May 5, 2006
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DRM, HD and DVD
April 6, 2006
Buzzing around the web yesterday morning I couldn’t help but notice you can now pay to too worried about this, it would seem as if their not the only ones that realize that the average end user isn’t interested in paying that much of a premium for the ‘convenience’ of not having to return a [...]
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