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JVC HD-58S998

It doesn't take a genius to realize that, all things considered, most TV shoppers would rather have a flat-panel television than one that takes up more than a few inches in the depth dimension. That simple fact will probably lead to the eventual extinction of rear-projection HDTVs, but for now...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, JVC HD-58S998, JVC, TV

Product reviews 2007-04-18

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Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow

Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., broadband cap, broadband, stat

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?

Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?It is an apt comparison>Your Ubunutu/Vista comparison doesn't pass the common sense test. Think about what you can get with Ubuntu-- Compiz Fusion for eye candy, drive encryption, MythTV DVR app, OpenOffice.org, ect. You have to get Ultimate Windows to get all...

Tags: Construction, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pricing strategy, window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

ZeeVee ZvBox Zv-100

These days, there's a wide range of products that will stream on-demand movies from the Internet to your living room (Apple TV, Vudu, Xbox 360, TiVo, PS3, and Roku's Netflix Player). The ability to access YouTube videos, video podcasts, and other online content is built into some of those products...

Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, ZvBox, video, PC, TV

Product reviews 2008-08-27

AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.8 downclocks GPU on detecting FurMark

Interesting piece over on Geeks3D - it seems that the latest Catalyst 8.8 drivers released a few days ago by AMD have a built-in feature that detects when the user has the FurMark OpenGL benchmark running and downclocks the GPU on the Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 to...

Tags: Cisco Catalyst, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Radeon, GPU, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Toki LineTest HD (zip)

Toki LineTest HD is a pencil test software for the professionals in animation, students, or amateurs. With Toki LineTest HD, the animators have everything to carry out their pencil tests: digitizing of the drawings taken with a video camera (DV camera, and Web cam) or imported from a scanner, digital...

Tags: Camera, Digital Salade, Toki LineTest HD, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-08-26

Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP

The $2,000 Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP is a beautiful-looking display with a ton of features. Because of its 117 percent NTSC color gamut, however, we encountered many more color problems than we expected during DVD and Blu-ray playback. Be prepared to do a lot of color tweaking if you plan to...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell UltraSharp, display, Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP

Product reviews 2008-08-25

Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move

Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and MoveWow, just wowSo, a party supposed to govern USA can be bought out by Microsoft to support a flash wannabe plugin.I am speechless. Will they make Windows only policy in Govt. agencies too? Perhaps they should use "OOXML" instead of PDF too?What???The liberals...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Office Open XML, Active-X, Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services

Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...

Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-25

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the WallInteresting proposalI like your idea. some thoughts:First: two separate approaches 1) a media center PC to output to the TV & 2) use consolesSecond: Allow for user created chat rooms (audio/text) like IRC channels with audio. That allows the end user...

Tags: Olympic Games, Webcam, Phelp

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall

The organizers of the Olympics really blew it this time. Not showing the unbelievable comeback of Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly race, which he won by one-hundredth of a second, is evidence of cowardice. And a total lack of commercial savvy, in the digital age. Can...

Tags: Olympic Games, Webcam, Video, Athlete, Camera, Wall, Sport, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Vizio SV470XVT

Budget flat-panel powerhouse Vizio is breaking into the lucrative realm of high-end HDTVs with its XVT line, comprised of a 50-inch plasma we detailed at CES and a pair of LCDs, including the model reviewed here, the 47-inch SV470XVT. Equipped with a lot of glossy black, a slicker menu system,...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, button layout, Vizio, Vizio SV470XVT

Product reviews 2008-08-21

News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid...."[B]But - it does show that maybe we're a bit too dependent on our devices and that we can be a bit too caught up in the technology of the day.[/B]"That's part of the lesson and the rest of your post is dead...

Tags: Engineering, MAKE SURE, phone book, Zapped off-the-grid, Third World, phone, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

IDF video: Intel demos quad-core notebooks

Intel's David Perlmutter showed the company's new quad-core laptop computers at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco. He demonstrated how video conferencing can be done in HD--even with other applications running in the background--without sacrificing power and performance. Also see all IDF posts. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Notebook, Quad-core, Video, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Intel demos quad-core notebooks

Intel's David Perlmutter showed the company's new quad-core laptop computers at the Intel Developer Conference in San Francisco. He demonstrated how video conferencing can be done in HD--even with other applications running in the background--without sacrificing power and performance.

Tags: Notebook, Quad-core, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Intel

Videos 2008-08-20

HD and region-specific encodings

HD and region-specific encodingsPlay the DVD on your computer(?)And Amazon has branches in other countries.Might not work, but I can appreciate not wanting to miss out on past episodes of a newly discovered series. Though be wary of rentals in which the set of DVDs are rented separately. ...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

HD and region-specific encodings

Difficulties in getting NTSC versions of a British comedy series led to an investigation of region-specific incompatibilities in the HD world. Though the situation is considerably improved in HD, there are still region-specific pitfalls that one needs to avoid when buying hardware for the home. by John Carroll

Tags: HDTV, Broadcasting, PAL, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-08-20

News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Phantom Drive Starter (exe)

Phantom Drive installs a virtual recorder in your system that can record all types of virtual CD, DVD, and HD media. Create virtual CDs, DVDs, HD DVDs, and Blu-ray discs from any application that provides a recording command, whether or not you have an optical recorder in the system. You...

Tags: Recorder, CD, Media, H+H Software, Phantom Drive, DVD, Hd Dvd, Consumer Electronics, Blu-Ray, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-20