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What's in the bag?
|In the run-up to the Bristol Sound & Vision show, I thought it would be a good idea to showcase precisely what equipment we might typically take to cover a show, and why. It also ...read more -
Requiem For Kodachrome
|As of 5:00 PM today Kodak will cease the processing Kodachrome. Many photographers will mourn it’s passing, but I’m not one of them. Kodachrome was slow (ASA 25) and expensive. In the days when I ...read more -
Computer Audio: Everything Makes A Difference
|As more audiophiles dip their toes into computer-based audio they discover, to their dismay, that it's far more complicated than conventional audio. In fact, the level of complexity involved in even a basic computer audio ...read more -
NEWS: VIZIO Announces New Content Partners for Internet-Connected TVs
|Irvine, CA-based HDTV maker VIZIO today announced new content partners who have agreed to participate in the firm’s VIA (VIZIO Internet Apps) program. Among those new partners are eBay, Facebook, Radiotime, Revision 3, Rallypoint Sports, ...read more -
JVC Debuts Full HD LCD Monitor Targeted Toward Digital SLR Users
|JVC today announced it’s Xiview LT-42WX70 ($2400)—a slim, lightweight, 42”-class, high-performance HD LCD monitor that incorporates numerous design feature designed to help accurately reproduce “the colors, detail and texture of high resolution still photos made ...read more -
MacSpeech 1.3 - Look Ma, No Hands for the MacIntosh, Speech Recognition Comes of Age
|List price $199, street price $160 Website: WWW.MacSpeech.com Any Trekkie worth their salt has probably fantasized about a speech program for their computer. Up until recently that’s all it could be was a fantasy. Sure, ...read more -
How To Blow Up Two Computers In Two Days
|It all started when my 14-year-old niece visited me in my home theater to tell me, “My computer isn’t working.” I’ve heard this more than once and usually it means the DSL line has gone ...read more -
Network and Music Server Products: CES 2009
|Network and Music Server Products (Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from SS's CES Report. The full report will appear in the upcoming issue of "The Absolute Sound.") Blue Smoke’s Black Box offers a different ...read more -
Casio Shows Compact High FPS Pocket Digicams
|Casio has pioneered ultra high speed still frame rates (up to 1000 frames per second). Related to this, Casio has been a leader in the integration of HD video with still cameras. Previous Casio models ...read more -
Fujitsu Shows Mini-Netbook
|Fujitsu showed a netbook that is smaller by far than the standard offering. Maybe too small. Hopefully this shot I took with a hand model will help give you an idea. Here is the rest ...read more -
Connected Home CES Preview: Web TV
|Even though the Consumer Electronics Show doesn't technically start until Thursday (or Tuesday or Wednesday depending on how you count), tradition has it that some of the big news comes out before the show. In ...read more -
Samsung, LG Web-On-TV Announcements
|Samsung, as indicated in an earlier blog post, is working with Yahoo on their widget approach to integrating the internet and television. One key to this is that these systems use the TV remote for ...read more -
Intel's Web On TV Demonstration
|Intel was pushing the widget-based web-on-tv model as hard as anyone. What they showed looked very similar to what Samsung had (Yahoo being at the center of both companies work). Widgets buttons run in a ...read more -
Cisco's Bid To Be A Player in Media
|Cisco is a huge player in networking equipment and software, both at the professional infrastructure level and the consumer infrastructure level. Now they're moving into consumer equipment for accessing and using media (particularly audio, but ...read more -
Samsung Long Zoom Wide Angle Digicam
|CES isn't much of a camera show, but you get to see some interesting things, partially by seeing what is emphasized in each booth. In keeping with the recognition that wide angle shots are important ...read more