After years of consumer-targeting lawsuits and a constant decline in the levels of CD sales, the music industry has switched tactics and decided that all music downloads should be FREE and LEGAL. This is not a joke. Qtrax, a subsidiary of Brilliant Technologies Corporation (oddly enough a technolo...
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Fox News has challenged Electronic Arts to an on-air monkey court in efforts to expose the naked truth about Mass Effect’s in-game sexual content. ?Don’t light that cigarette just yet, the controversy over the new hit Xbox 360 game hasn’t yet reached its climax. It started with a conservative blogg...
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Warner's CES announcement of Blu-ray exclusivity has createdquite an uproar in the media. Many claim that the HD war has been won bythe Blu-ray camp. Does Warner reallybelieve that Blu-ray is the consumer's real choice for high definition, discbased media? Do they think we wanthigher priced hardw...
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Audio Junkies: Audio Cubes has the new Bird-Electron EZ17-B iPod Recycling Speaker. This speaker is a bit different because it uses the factory iPod Nano (1G & 2G) and iPod Shuffle (2G & 3G) plastic packaging case as the enclosure. The speaker is powered by the headphone jack on t...
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Audio Junkies: Energy speakers has released a new model in their popular series of “Take” compact home theater speaker packages, called the Take Classic. The new Take Classic 5.1 speaker set builds on the success of Energy’s acclaimed Take 5. The five magnetically-shielded satellites stand less than...
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It’s possibly the biggest story of Macworld and it has little to do with Apple - Fox is expanding Digital Copy. Since the inception of DVD, the MPAA has been fighting your right to digitally copy movies. The MPAA’s ethic is simple: you don’t deserve to copy the DVD you purchased - fair use be damne...
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Audio Junkies: Germany’s Lansche Audio uses one of the most technically and sonically impressive tweeters ever created in their speakers, the Corona ion plasma tweeter. The Corona has more ultra high frequency range than any diamond dome, ribbon, or planar driver because it’s not really a driver at ...
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Steve Jobs called it the world’s thinnest notebook in his keynote today. It’s a 3-pound laptop and the Apple Chief demonstrated just how thin in true showman fashion by pulling it from a manila envelope. At less than one inch thick, MacBook Air has a 13-inch screen and is made from a recyclable sil...
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After justfinishing at CES with the apparent win over rival physical format HD DVD,Blu-ray will again be challenged for title home video successor to the DVD. The latest threat is from Apple’s iTunes: BetaNews:Apple announces iTunes movie rentals with every major studioArsTechnica: Apple announce...
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Audio Junkies: The Wallpaper Design Awards have named a speaker as the Best Domestic Appliance. The Katamari 01′ speaker by Giyanze is a forged aluminum block that houses two small drivers and an internal 15 watts per channel digital amplifier. The unit powers itself on when it senses an i...
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Toshiba today announced that it is stepping up its successful marketing campaign for HD DVD as it experienced record-breaking unit sales in the fourth quarter of 2007. Major initiatives, include joint advertising campaigns with studios and drastic price cuts which will begin in mid- January. HD DVD ...
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Steve Jobs shall take the stage tomorrow and deliver unto his children of Mac - his keynote address. And Jobs shall hold aloft his latest offering from the Kingdom of Apple wherein his children shall rejoice in a single nerdgasm that shall shake the heaven and the Earth. ?And it will be good. Admi...
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EchoStar made its name in satellite receivers for Dish Network, but the company is doing a good job at reinventing itself as an everyman’s set-top-box company. It recently bought Sling Media, makers of the award winning Slingbox. The company has also just received recognition from CNET, winning its ...
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It’s been a busy week for high def disc formats and it’s only Tuesday night! Soon after the Warner / Blu-ray announcement, Toshiba told the press that HD DVD wasn’t out of this format war just yet. Just a flesh wound, indeed Toshiba better have something big up its sleeve! The popular opinion of ...
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We got our first look at the SlingCatcher back at CES 2007. It’s the Wi-Fi enabled set-top box that streams web-based media, PC or Slingbox content to your TV. We were told SlingCatcher would be released sometime in the middle of last year, but Sling Media went through a lot in 2007. Among other ...
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Just when you thought that Audioholics' coverage of CEScouldn't get more complete - we take it a step further. We're broadcasting livefrom our hotel room as much as possible. Visit our page on AVRant to see whatwe're doing at any given time. We will be taking questions and interacting withyou starti...
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As expected, and according to a report at Variety, New Line Cinema has confirmed it will follow Warner Bros. lead in becoming Blu-ray only this year. New Line Cinema is a sister company to Warner and had indicated earlier that it would follow whatever lead Warner took in the format war. At this poin...
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A couple of things passed our desk which made us wonder what might be in store at this year's CES regarding DVD storage. From media servers to? hard disk storage devices, several manufacturers seem to be building up the systems that will facilitate copying your entire DVD collection to a hard drive...
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Audio Junkies: Rountree Acoustics out of Cambridge, England has released their new OmniMon Model 1 full-range floor standing two-way loudspeaker. The Model 1 is omni-directional as you probably guessed from the name and features a modified Scanspeak Revelator for the bass/midrange, and a true transf...
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The high definition disc format war just took a dramatic turn, as Warner Bros announced it would exclusively support Blu-ray. This is a significant blow for rival HD DVD as Warner is the single biggest DVD producer, selling from 18 to 20 percent of all US home movie sales. Warner has been making hi...
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