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Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review HBO has turned the Game of Thrones into a television drama masterpiece with as much care and attention to detail as the its finest work.

Spotify Upgrade Adds Gapless Playback, Crossfade This week, Spotify announced the launch of new gapless playback and crossfade features. Gapless playback lets songs flow seamlessly, one to the next, without any silent spaces in-between.

What Home Theater Can Learn from Apple if Apple had designed the home theater system, the first thing they would have done is sit down in front of a TV and said, "Now, how SHOULD this work?" They wouldn't be sitting in a lab somewhere.

AV Rant #273: Interview with PJ Pesce For this special episode of AV Rant, Tom welcomes Clint DeBoer, Editor in Chief of Audioholics and PJ Pesce. PJ is a writer, director, musician and more. Warning: mild use of language in this episode.

Comcast Streampix, No Threat To Netflix Comcast has announced the launch of a streaming media service called Xfinity Streampix that's positioned to compete directly with Netflix.

AV Rant #272: Badmouthing the Brits This week, Tom admits he was wrong (don’t tell his wife) about iCloud Match. Liz liked Tom’s article on Defining Confusing Audio Terms. Why aren’t we shooting video in 120Hz? Plus lots more!

Defining Confusing Audio Terms In any industry, you'll run into specific lexicons. These are words that may mean completely different things to different people. We've taken some and listed them, along with their definitions, here.

Enter to Win FREE Moshi Headphones by Showing off your Music Collection! Show off your music collection for a chance of winning a FREE pair of Moshi Vortex headphones.

MonoPrice RedMere Active HDMI Cables Preview MonoPrice's new cables are using the active amplification provided by RedMere for 10.2 Gbps HDMI data throughput up to 20 meters (65 feet) and at 6.75 Gbps, which is sufficient for 3D video and more.

Google Making Android Home Entertainment System What is Google up to? We've reviewed GoogleTV, even taking a look at several different iterations, including the Logitech Revue GoogleTV and the Sony Google. But apparently that's not the end.