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My home began as a tiny two-room house on a hilltop in the middle of nowhere back in the late 1800s. A century later, I’m sitting in a cubbyhole office in the original upstairs section. Old and new sections butt up against one another. Some of the home’s old elements have been remade ...
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Again, the DPLII Music mode was the right choice, albeit a revisionist one. It de-emphasized the extreme isolation of instruments mixed solely into the left or right channels and pulled them slightly forward. Stereo, by comparison, was sterile. As side two (as I still think of it) drew to its ...
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Swap Warner DVDs for BDs Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 20, 2009 How would you like to swap your old DVDs for brand-new Blu-ray discs at fairly low cost? That's the offer Warner is making to videophiles. Mail your DVDs to the studio with prepaid postage ...
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California Adopts TV Energy Regs Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 19, 2009 California has become the first state in the nation to adopt energy efficiency requirements for TVs. The long-awaited move has been fiercely opposed by manufacturers and their ...
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BD Managed Copy Slowly Emerging Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 18, 2009 There's good news and bad news about Managed Copy for Blu-ray. The good news is that as of December 4, 2009, the ability to back up programming will be encoded into all disc releases. The ...
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Cartoon Net Offers Custom DVDs Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 17, 2009 Would you like to build a custom DVD with specific episodes from your favorite Cartoon Network shows? You can, thanks to a joint venture of Cartoon Network and its late-night program ...
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As you know from reading our book month in and month out, our focus is tight here at Home Theater . Our coverage sticks to the technology and gear that goes into your home theater or the dedicated theater spaces you create in your homes to watch movies, listen to music, and consume broadcast ...
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Here Comes YouTube 1080p Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 16, 2009 Online video is burgeoning but picture quality is lagging behind. Now YouTube is about to pass a milestone in its evolution by offering a 1080p video player. Co-founder Steve Chen ...
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Marantz Offers Blu-ray Rebate Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 13, 2009 With the slogan of "Get some green by going Blu," Marantz is offering a $100 rebate for its high-performance Blu-ray players. The mail-in rebate affects the BD7004 ($800) and BD5004 ...
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Blockbuster Rents Movies on SD Cards Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 12, 2009 Would you like to rent a movie on an SD Card? A Blockbuster experiment will let you do just that. Of course there's a DRM-related catch. The rental is good for 30 days from ...
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ATSC Takes Aim at Loud TV Ads Bookmark and Share By Mark Fleischmann November 11, 2009 Are those too-loud TV ads wearing you down? The standard-setting body for DTV is taking aim at the problem of blaring commercials by distributing new audio guidelines to broadcasters. ...
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With a long history in optical disc technology, Pioneer has been slow to develop new and innovative features in its Blu-ray players. While its previous offerings have been on the upper end of the pricing range, the company’s players have left a lot to be desired. Last fall, I reviewed the ...
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Back in 2006, Samsung was the first manufacturer to release a Blu-ray player to the masses. It contributed to the format’s less than stellar launch reportedly due to an incorrect default setting in the video processing chip set used in the player.
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Established in South Korea in 1958 under the name of Goldstar, LG Electronics has been manufacturing home appliances and electronics for more than 50 years. In 1995, it acquired Zenith (the company that invented the remote control) and started to gain market share in North America with cell ...
