MediaDefender Attacks Revision3, Illuminates Legal Grey Area
MediaDefender is paid by the motion picture and recording industry to defend clients’ intellectual property by going on the offensive. But last Memorial Day weekend it may have gone too far as the…
Technology Allergy or just Crazy?
A group has banned together to try to stop Wi-Fi in public buildings because they experience negative physical symptoms they attribute to the electromagnetic field. The group is claiming that they…
Flexplay Self-Destructing DVDs - Take Two
Resurrecting a format that already died a quick death, Staples will begin carrying Flexplay Entertainment’s self-destructing DVD movies next month. These are the discs which, once removed from a…
Harman Kardon Introduces New HDMI 1.3a Receivers
Harman Kardon has finally released a new series of AV receivers which feature three HDMI 1.3a inputs and one output, allowing native internal decoding of all the new high definition audio formats…
Sharp LCDs - Plotting World Domination?
When we spot trends we like to point them out - especially when it's something that gradually occurs over time and might be missed as part of "the bigger picture" by consumers. Well, this week…
Sony Tube Speaker
Sony is targeting the high end professional setting with their new Sountina speaker. Standing about 3.3 feet high, the Sountina (a combination of "sound" and "fountain") is an transparent acrylic…
AV Rant #72: Measuring your worth
On this episode, Dina defies Newton and pays the price. Tom is like his mom. Do you turn movies off or walk out of theaters? Why is audio such an afterthought in movies? Tom and Dina discuss the use…
Get Ready for High-Res Blu-ray Audio
High Resolution audio goodness only came in two competing flavors before Blu-ray came along. You had to pick between competing formats DVD-Audio which was built to be the successor to the CD and…
Two-way Cable Cards Ushered in by Sony
This just in from the "better-late-than-never" department: Sony has negotiated a deal to allow for itself and other television manufacturers to integrate two-way CableCARD technology into television…
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