How to Pick a Home Theater Room
February 22, 2007
AVSForum.com - Whether you’re building a home theater from scratch or transforming an old room, use these tips to find the perfect theater space.
Your New iTunes PC! Listen and Share your Apple iTunes Music from ANYWHERE!
January 26, 2007
www.avvenu.com - The “beta” version of the Avvenu Music Player lets you share up to 250 songs. When you choose playlists from your PC to share, the playlists and songs are automatically copied to Avvenu’s secure media center for reliable, streaming playback. Once your songs and playlists are copied to Avvenu
’s media center, you don’t even have to leave your PC powe
Blu-Ray Encryption
January 25, 2007
dailytech.com - Nice story on the defeat of Blu-Ray encryption.
“Total Hi Def” DVDs feature HD DVD on one side, Blu-ray on the other
January 10, 2007
crave.cnet.com - Warner Brothers will be making some of its films available on “Total Hi Def” DVDs, the company announced at a CES presentation on Tuesday. The discs are, ingeniously, HD DVD on one side and Blu-ray on the other.
The combo discs are the same size as always, but contain both single and dual layers for both formats.
NEC dual-mode chip can power both Blu-ray, HD DVD at no extra cost
October 11, 2006
arstechnica.com - NEC Electronics has started shipping a single decoder chip that can handle both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats, all at about the same price as the company’s single-format solutions.
Dolby Headphone Demo
October 11, 2006
Check out this demo of Dolby Headphone done by the HTGuys. This was released in a previous podcast and I was blown away. I had to share it with the rest of you.
Make sure you have your headphones on while listening. The good thing is you don’t need any special headphones.
Post Processing with FFDSHOW
October 10, 2006
HTPCNews.com - No need to rush to buy that new Blu-ray or HDDVD player, and upgrade all those DVD’s you’ve bought. This is a (somewhat dated but still very useful) starter guide for setting up FFDSHOW to do post processing to squeeze HD quality out of all those standard DVD’s you have laying around. I’ve been using this well over a year and am very pleased with the results.
Big-Screen TV Price War on the Horizon
October 6, 2006
Businessweek.com - Christmas is coming, and that means war. “The only ones making money in the TV business this year will be the guys who deliver the sets and the people who sell the stands and the mounting brackets,” says analyst Rosemary Abowd of Pacific Media Associates in Menlo Park, Calif.
New Audio/Video Topic Added
October 5, 2006
We’ve added a new topic entitled Audio/Video for all you A/V HDTV enthusiast. Check this section for all the latest news and info related to Audio, Video, HDTV, Tivo and DVRs, Media Center, and all other Home Theater topics.
