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Electronics Retailer Tweeter Seeks Chapter 11 Protection Electronics Retailer Tweeter Seeks Chapter 11 Protection According to an article in the Associated Press (AP), Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. Officials say they took this measure to recover from…
Ask AVRant #1: Cats and Qualifications Ask AVRant #1: Cats and Qualifications AVRant has issued its first installment of Ask AVRant. J. Walker Clarke (a fellow reviewer and husband to the Podcasting phenomena that is our very own Dina) joins Tom in a more technical discussion.…
Sony to Launch VOD Service Abroad Sony to Launch VOD Service Abroad Sony Corp, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd and three other electronics firms will launch an Internet video-on-demand service for flat televisions in autumn, the Nikkei reported, without citing…
10 MORE Reasons Why HD-DVD Formats Have Already Failed 10 MORE Reasons Why HD-DVD Formats Have Already Failed OK, the the title is a tad-bit deceiving. It's been almost a year now since I wrote my popular yet controversial diatribe on the demise of the competing high definition DVD formats. I wrote the…
Sony Intros Proprietary VOD Device to Consumers Sony Intros Proprietary VOD Device to Consumers Sony, it seems, will never learn. Perhaps when one loses so many gambles on proprietary formats they adopt an attitude that "surely this one will work!" Who know, maybe this new product Sony is…
Comcast to Offer 800 HD Channels? Not. Comcast to Offer 800 HD Channels? Not. In response to the DirecTV announcement that it will have 100 HD channels by 2008, Comcast has retorted that it will have 400 "channels" in HD by 2008, and 800 by end of that year. While this all…
dnp Introduces Supernova Infinity Projector Screen dnp Introduces Supernova Infinity Projector Screen dnp is proud to introduce Supernova Infinity, the first commercial front- projection screen to allow viewing in brightly lit environments. Supernova Infinity is a modular screen system designed to…
AVRant #6: Circuit City Exposed! AVRant #6: Circuit City Exposed! AVRant gets interesting this week as Tom and Dina actually meet in person for the first time in beautiful (hot, sticky, humid, sweaty) South Carolina. This podcast was done in Dina’s recording room…
Separation of Church and Games? Separation of Church and Games? Not since the Opie and Anthony debacle has the church been so up in arms over an apparent desecration of it's buildings. The Church of England asked Sony to apologize and withdraw Resistance: Fall of…
CableCARD Deadline Imminent CableCARD Deadline Imminent CableCARD discussions have come and gone on this site, however there IS an actual deadline looming that is about to finally force the companies to split off the security features of cable from the…