Digital Rights Management (DRM) has long been a source of aggravation and confusion for digital music fans. The pesky layer on MP3 music files purchased from most online music vendors is designed to prevent you from distributing files – and thus potentially hurting sales.? The entertainment industr...
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Impact Acoustics tossed me a new product announcement the other day that really got my attention. They have a new line of rotating, swiveling HDMI adapters which finally solve that issue of connecting to various components which simply don't line up exactly as you'd want them. I don't know about the...
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Facebook-like social networking and full game downloads are among the items to be included in an Xbox Live Dashboard update tomorrow. It includes a few interesting items even if it fails to measure up to some of the creative rumors. Xbox Originals: The service that will let you download original Xb...
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AT&T Chief Exec, Randall Stephenson let some information slip about an upcoming 3G version of iPhone to arrive next year. Apple’s tactile media phone uses cutting edge technology in nearly every respect.? Yet, it’s saddled with a slower EDGE data transfer speeds. When iPhone was released Job...
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Looking for a new HD DVD player this Christmas? Remember the rumor of the cheap Chinese made player that would be coming out? Well, it's time to stop by your local Wal-Mart or Target and check out the Venturer SHD7000. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first non-Toshiba manufactured consu...
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Today 3LCD made an announcement that BenQ is releasing its new line of home theater projectors as 3LCD models. Now I understand that announcements like this may be a tad one-sided. They almost always are. But with recent lulls in advanced DLP technology, and LCD panel technology continuing to narrow...
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If you’ve got a lot more paraphernalia sitting around your home theater system lately, you might just be part of the growing trend in video games you have to play. The Guitar Hero franchise has given its publisher a giant boost, with the game’s third iteration blowing away even Activision’s own sun...
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A group inresearchers across several institutions has developed a motion capture suitusing off-the-shelf parts: Engadget:Cheap sensors could enable next-gen mo-cap gamesMIT:Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings (pdf)You Tube: Practical MotionCapture in Everyday Surroundings Forget th...
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That's right. IBM is seeking to turn the industry on its ear in an attempt to levy additional ways of bringing marketing and advertisements into the living (or better stated, theater) room. Not content with DVDs which flaunt unskippable French, English and Italian Interpol warnings, IBM has just sub...
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In what has only to be described as an, "Oh my GAWD!I've GOT to get me one of THOSE!" moments, we stumbled across a video ofthe new Sarcos' powered exoskeleton. Ofcourse, it probably costs millions to produce and won't ever see massproduction, but if there is a billionaire playboy at the h...
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Missed out on Black Friday? Maybe you just didn't want to fight the crowds for the substandard gear at the big box stores. Well, no worries, Emotiva Audio is back with a ton of sales for the holiday season. Call them Cyber Monday deals, call them holidays sales, call them whatever you want but just ...
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Prices on the hottest consumer electronics are shrinking faster than Tony Soprano’s second helping of pasta fazul. WOA! Economics experts are saying electronics are in - women’s handbags, jewelry and other luxury items are out. Merry Christmas guys! Sure, there’s plenty of economic bad news out t...
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Rival console game system Thanksgiving updates: One is a real update, the other a real turkey. Sony PlayStation3 has just received its firmware revision 2.01, and Xbox360 is rumored to receive a massive update to its dashboard. PlayStation3 Firmware 2.01 The PlayStation3 firmware revision is no rumo...
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In what isno stunner to anyone at Audioholics, Consumer Reports reviewed nine high definition opticaldisc players and guess what they concluded? There are no significant performancedifferences. HighDef Digest: Consumer Reports Rates Blu-ray, HD DVD PlayersEngadgetHD:Consumer Reports take on HD ...
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Welcome to South Korea, home of Kimchi, Bul Go Gi, and 250,000 Internet addicts as reported by The New York Times. Since Korea has nearly border to border Internet access apparently kids need to learn what it is to experience life without the Internet. In my day, they called that "recess" ...
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How we watch TV is in for a big change. You’d think the networks would rustle up downloadable programming by the dozen, eager to sell their wares to a growing tech-savvy consumer. Although the numbers of services playing in this game has grown sharply, a new service called SyncTV - a division of Pi...
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Beowulf, the splashy production starring Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich opens today in theaters across America. But this isn’t an ordinary movie. It’s the biggest 3D presentation yet with over 700 theaters across North America ready to show it in the full 3D animation format. Mov...
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Excessknows no bounds. We here atAudioholics are a practical lot. Afterhaving recently lambasted ridiculously overpriced speaker cables whoseattributes read like many warnings on the list of TopTen Signs an Audio Cable Vendor is Selling You Snake Oil and whosemanufacturers offer nothing but sc...
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In last week’s episode, PBS pop-science magazine show Wired Science covered the issue of analog vs digital sound – and predictably, the piece was highly compressed and lacked in dynamic range. The Wired piece opens with the promise of a competition between compressed mp3 file formats and audio engi...
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Just in time for the holiday season, Audioholics is giving away a Yamaha RX-V861 AV Receiver in our "We Review it, You Win it!" series. What do you need to do to get your hands on this sweet piece of holiday candy? Just be a reader of Audioholics (you're reading this so you qualify) and an...
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