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Parent Company PML of Paradigm, MartinLogan Buys GoldenEar From Audioquest
PML Sound International, parent of Paradigm, Anthem, and MartinLogan, acquired GoldenEar from The Quest Group. Will engineering-focused leadership unlock GoldenEar's full potential post-AudioQuest?
New Technology to Push 40Mbps DSL over Existing Copper Wire
Rim Semiconductor Company may breathe new life into the existing copper wire infrastructure, allowing phone companies that offer Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) to significantly boost speeds. Rim …
Microsoft Ends HD‑DVD Sales
From the Department of Obvious comes a report that, gasp, Microsoft is ceasing all manufacture of external HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 console. This came just days after Toshiba conceded defeat …
Sony Buys LCD Panels from Sharp
In a move designed to give Sony the ability to meet increased LCD television production, the TV giant is going to begin purchasing larger LCD panels (40-inch and up) from Sharp as early as April of …
Pioneer Exiting 42‑inch Plasma Market
According to a report by Reuters, Pioneer is ceasing the production of 42-inch plasma TV panels by March of 2009. It will continue to market and sell panels of that size by obtaining them from …
Polaroid Ends Production of Instant Film ‑ End of an Era
After polarized film was first patented back in 1929, the Polaroid company opened its doors just a scant 8 years later. 11 years later, the first instant cameras hit the market in full force and …
Onkyo Discontinues HD DVD Players
Onkyo Corporation has decided that Onkyo will discontinue the development and production of HD DVD players. Onkyo has distributed and sold approximately 2000 units of the HD DVD players in the …
Video Gaming Posts Record Sales in 2007
Good news for the video gaming industry 2007 was a banner year according to sales numbers from NPD. Overall, the industry posted a 43% revenue gain from 2006, earning $17.94 billion in 2007 verses …
Global LCD and Plasma Sales to Double by 2012
According to the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association (JEITA), a Japanese industry group that tracks these things, flat panel television sales (both LCD and plasma) are expected …
The Brain‑Scanning Game Controller
Not content with motion tracking, eye-tracking or even full body suits of motion-control devices, one gaming accessory developer, Emotiv Systems, is bringing us the EPOC neuroheadset. It reads your …
Impact Acoustics Praises Success of Audiogurus
After a mere 45 days of partnering with the e-store, Impact Acoustics is enjoying great success. "For a website to be live for such a short time and already drive so many orders for us, is quite …
No More Analogue Cell Phones
In all the talk about how analogue television is being phased out, it's easy to miss a milestone in the history of cellular phone service which is passing this week. As of today, analogue phone …
Nintendo Wii Fit Excercise System Due in May
In May Nintendo will be releasing its new Wii Fit Excersise system that will incorporate a weight and motion-sensing device dubbed the Wii Balance Board, a low, flat device that looks remarkably like …
Use Your Shirt to Charge Your iPod?
iPod or cell phone running low on juice? What if you could plug it into your shirt to recharge the batteries! According to a report on Reuters, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have …
Sony Becomes Largest LCD Supplier
DisplaySearch released a report today that indicates Sony took a commanding lead in LCD TV sales last quarter - jumping from fourth position to first. According to their Global TV Shipment and …
Universal Studios Announces It's Now Blu‑ray
As expected, Universal Studios, one of the two major studios that was putting out HD DVDs, will now switch its manufacturing, marketing and distribution efforts to the rival Blu-ray high definition …
Toshiba announces HD DVD surrender: War is finally over!
The high definition disc format war that has raged for the last two years ended in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Toshiba announced it would stop development, manufacturing and marketing HD DVD …
HD DVD Conceding Defeat This Week?
Strong industry rumors are leading many editors to believe that this week will mark the end of the high definition DVD format war. If things go as suspected, and industry insiders are correct, then …
Blu‑ray Lawsuit vs Samsung
A consumer group charges that Samsung has knowingly sold defective Blu-ray players since June 2006 and is looking for $5 million in compensation. Samsung sold lead plaintiff Bob McGovern a BD-P1200 …
The Hobbit Scrapped?
New Line Cinema is again finding itself on the wrong side of a lawsuit involving the lucrative Lord of the Rings trilogy. It seems that the Tolkien estate is alleging that the studio hasn't paid them …
Call of Duty 4 Triggers Iraq Flashback in Marine Veteran
It was the movie Rambo that may have drawn our popular culture's attention to post-traumatic stress disorder. It was also widely reported that certain dark, realistic films like Apocalypse Now and …
Netflix goes Blu‑ray Eliminates HD DVD Titles
Reuters is reporting today that the online DVD rental company Netflix has announced that they will only stock Blu-ray discs. Until now, Netflix has supported both high definition formats. With four …
New Right‑Angle Connectors from Impact Acoustics
Cables To Go (with its Impact Acoustics audio/video line) has just released new "port savers". With right-angle or rotating connectors, these cables, adapters and connectors will protect those …
Addicted to video games, it’s all in your brain
According to recently published research in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, male brains exhibit functional differences that appear to account for the predisposition to video gaming in the …
Miller & Kreisel Loudspeaker Brand Revived
It seems the recently defunct Miller & Kreisel Sound Corporation (M&K) has a new lease on life after a group of Danish audio veterans invested in the brand according British AV news site AV Zombie. …
Mitsubishi trademarks ‑ LAZRTV, LOL
Mitsubishi unveiled its Laser HDTV at CES last month and we have a good idea what the company is going to call its new line. Taking a nod from the text messaging dialect known as L33T SPEAK, Mits has …
Apple Bumps iPod Touch, iPhone
Apple doubled the memory capacity of both the iPhone and iPod Touch models Tuesday. Rather than take advantage of dropping memory prices, to lower the cost of entry for the new phones, Apple simply …
Oscar Nominees ‑ DVD, HD DVD, Blu‑ray Release List
Trying to catch the movies that are up for Oscars is a chore. When the Oscar nominations are out most of the movies haven’t been released to DVD yet. A few are still loitering in theaters but most …
What It Takes to put Super Bowl XLII in High Definition
So what does it take to successfully pull off a Super Bowl in high definition? We emailed Fox Sports requesting some info on the game and what would be involved and also dug up some information form …