Entertainment
New Samsung and LG Designs Push LCD Market Forward
Based on Samsung and LG TV introduction over the past two weeks, the future of HDTV will be about a lot more than just pixels, frame rates, and response...
Entertainment
Audio
Focus On Residential AV: Smart Choices for a Smart Home
With the ready availability of powerful control systems, it's no surprise to learn that today's dream home is, almost inevitably, a smart home. On the recommendation of their builder,...
Entertainment
Electronics Recycling Catches On
With Earth Day just around the corner and the analog shutoff looming on the horizon, efforts to create coordinated recycling plans prior to February’s TV digital TV conversion appear...
Entertainment
Ziszor Your Way to Identity Security
Perhaps one of the biggest security threats you face these days is that sneaky stranger who rifles through your garbage can in search of sensitive documents
Entertainment
Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 6
As I’ve discussed in this series before, Microsoft designed
Entertainment
Manufacturers Concentrate on Developing LCD Technology
The latest TV sales figures released by NPD Group—for the week preceding Super Bowl 2008—show LCD outselling plasma TV by well more than three to one with LCD taking...
Corporate
Oppo Digital DV-983H
Affordable reference DVD player provides multiple output resolutions.
Digital Signage
What’s New: Video Technology
The Hitachi CP-X450 projector offers 3500 lumens of brightness, and it weighs just 7.7lbs. Striving for less-frequent maintenance, it features
Audio
What’s New: Residential Technology
The Canton Movie 80 CX and Movie 120 MX systems round out the company's small home-theater loudspeaker packages. Both
Entertainment
Listen to Your Vinyl on Your iPod
If you’re like me, you cherish your vinyl record collection for its nostalgia and for its high-quality non-digital sound
Entertainment
Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 5
WHS File-Corruption Problem: Why the Long Wait for the Fix?
Entertainment
Web Content Makes Advances Into Television Market
The blurring of the lines between Internet-based content and network TV continues as TiVo announced this week that it has added do-it-yourself video broadcaster YouTube to its stable of...
Entertainment
Pinnacle ShowCenter 250HD
At less than $200, the Pinnacle ShowCenter 250HD is one of the lowest-priced HD media players I could find.
Entertainment
Pre-wired Home Control System Expands Future of Custom Market
Sony and Control4 have taken their relationship to the next level, offering custom installation dealers a pre-wired integrated home control and entertainment system. Last year at CEDIA Expo, the...
Entertainment
Picture This: HD DVD is Dead, Long Live HD
Blu-ray officially takes the title in the HD-format wars.
Entertainment
Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 4
When Microsoft devised a server for the home, the company hit a two-run homer: It created a robust server full of useful features, but it also made the server...
Entertainment
Changing TV-Viewing Landscape Brings New Partnerships
The days of watching a TV show at its scheduled time may soon be as dated as black-and-white film and variety shows. The one-two punch of DVRs and Internet...
Entertainment
CES 2008 Sees More Convergence of Web and TV Content
The convergence of the Internet and television took another step forward at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show where Samsung and Sharp added Internet feeds to specially equipped TVs and...
Entertainment
Dark Clouds Ahead for HD DVD
What custom installer didn’t see this one coming? Two disc formats hit the market promising to be the sole proprietor of the high-definition video disc, and only one, presumably,...
Entertainment
Coming Home to Windows Home Server, Part 3
You know what you’ll find when you search the Internet for information about Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS)?
Entertainment
Turn Any HDTV into a Connected TV
HP will be adding the HP MediaSmart Receiver, a new wireless digital media receiver (DMR)
Entertainment
Sharp LC-52SE94U Aquos LCD TV
The LC-52SE94U is part of Sharp’s Special Edition SE94 series of LCD TVs. Offering 1080p resolution, the series includes Sharp’s Aquos Net technology, which enables consumers to receive realtime...
Entertainment
Chief PACPC1 Power Filter Kit
Chief Manufacturing has released a power filter that’s designed to protect flatpanel displays from spikes in electrical current. The PACPC1 integrates with Chief's flatpanel wall mounts, extension columns, pre-installation...
Entertainment
LCD TV Makes Technical and Market Advances
As the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show opens this week in Las Vegas, the digital TV landscape is shifting by the hour, with LCD continuing its drive toward market...
Entertainment
Leviton IP Quad Module Monitoring System
The Leviton IP Quad Module enables homeowners to view high-quality color output from a Leviton Video Monitoring System on any TV in the home or via a PC and...
Entertainment
Peerless PRG Precision Gear Projector Mount
The Peerless PRG Precision Gear Projector Mount has a patent-pending gear design that allows exact tilt and roll image positioning by the turning of two adjustment knobs using a...
Entertainment
Definitive Technology Mythos SSA Surround Loudpeaker Systems
Available in 42in. and 50in. versions, Definitive Technology’s Mythos SSA Surround loudspeakers incorporate patented technology that creates the illusion that listeners are surrounded by five separate speakers.
Entertainment
LG LG71 Wireless LCD HDTV
LG’s LG71 series of wireless LCD TVs comes in 47in. and 52in. screen sizes and is designed to simplify installation by eliminating wires between source devices and the display...
Entertainment
New HDMI Technology Solutions Become Available
HDMI may be the next-generation connector for full-bandwidth HDTV and lossless audio, but getting it to perform reliably and over long distances has been a major challenge for custom...
Entertainment
HDMI 1.3 Cables – A Look Under the Hood
HDMI Licensing issued a major extension of its HDMI standard, known popularly as HDMI v1.3. Few times in the history of the consumer-electronics industry has the introduction of a...
Entertainment
High-End Companies Up Ante on Luxury Loudspeakers
These same companies—MartinLogan, KEF and others—may be bending to market trends elsewhere in their product lines, but they’re making brash-style statements at the high end, hoping to tap into...
Entertainment
Runco WP-42HD Weatherproof Display
Planar Systems has introduced a weatherproof display under its Runco home theater brand. Designed specifically for use outdoors, the WP-42HD combines Runco’s luxury video heritage with Planar’s history of...
Entertainment
Tributaries HXC5 HDMI Solution
Tributaries’ HXC5 sends an HDMI signal up to 50m. (or 164 ft.) virtually loss-free, according to the manufacturer, over a dual run of standard CAT5/5e/6 network cable.
Entertainment
Chief Manufacturing Automated Ceiling Lift
The Chief Manufacturing CM2C40 Automated Ceiling Lift raises and lowers a flatpanel screen from the ceiling at the press of a button, making it well suited to disguise LCD...
Entertainment
Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin
B&W’s Zeppelin sets a new mark for iPod playback units. The one-piece amplified speaker system and docking station is designed to transform an iPod into a sophisticated compact stereo...
