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People are often surprised to learn that I don’t have a high-definition television system at home. Am I just not an avid TV watcher? On the contrary, I have two networked DVRs plus a Media Center TV PC. Oh, plus a portable media player. Oh, and a Slingbox. If anything, I push the limits of [...]

Benny was a really bad sport. Benny had a front porch that smelled of onions that his mother was storing for some inexplicable purpose. And his father toyed with taxidermy on the side and always had decaying animal parts in the garage. Nice place to visit, huh? Oh, and if you felt hot in the [...]

The Live 8 and Post Katrina phenomenons were wonderful displays of Hollywoodism. Take Brad Pitt, for example. This ageless wonder stands on a stage and tells us why it would be a good idea to donate our money to a cause. Why don’t he and his Beverly Hills pals donate their next movie paycheck entirely [...]

Every damned gym class circa 6th grade played kickball at some point. And every damned gym class had the kid who refused to give the ball a real kick and instead half stepped up to the ball and bunted.
The bunt was really a tap with the side of the foot and the ball would [...]

We’re sure each and every one of you have their own list of musicians who would qualify for this list. Here’s our list of two top offenders to date:
Ashlee Simpson - The crazy ho “cries” after the Super Bowl booing, and is relegated to blaming her band and formulating some preposterous reasons why she [...]

This column is dedicated to those thuggish gangstas who relocate from inner city schools to “country” schools much like mine in years past. “What up, yo!” Okay, some of these kids have roots in the city. But, we’re not going to go as far as to grant them total street cred since many are from [...]

Those taking the “hold” approach with respect to their baseball card collections are simply kidding themselves. Think of it in this perspective. The cards that you have from the 1980s and 1990s were once considered valuable… well, according to prices that you paid for the cards and quoted prices in publications like Beckett, they were. [...]

Every year, I still buy two or three packs just for the heck of it, just to see who I get,” says Dave Kelly, 51, a Library of Congress reference librarian who specializes in sports and recreation.”
“I still collect them like I did when I was 10,” says Baltimore Orioles pitcher Alan Mills, 34. [...]

Any male that grew up in the late 1980s - early 1990s knows all about the phenomenon known as “Baseball Card Death.” The problem is, he doesn’t know that he knows this. And who can blame one’s selective memory loss here? Think of the large percentage of your disposable income that you blew on baseball [...]

I watch a lot of TV. An obscene amount. I probably need therapy. I recently got a Slingbox, which affords me the ability to stream live and recorded video content to anywhere I have my laptop and a high-speed connection. But that wasn’t enough. Like any addiction, you constantly have to feed it. So my [...]

Recently, somebody asked me to make them a copy of a home movie that they had stored on DVD. I thought this to be simple enough, though. To my suprise it was not what I had expected. First round, I realised that in order for a DVD to play in a DVD player, you need [...]

Last January, at the Annual Las Vegas Consumer Electronics show, a handful of companies announced and displayed a variety of High Definition displays running at the once-futuristic native resolution of 1080p. They were not the first to do so; super-premium niche displays had been available at extreme prices for years, and Sharp Electronics had been [...]

Alienware - the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook, media center, server, and professional systems - has introduced the new Intel Pentium processor Extreme Edition 955, the latest dual-core processor from Intel with HyperThreading Technology, to the Area-51 7500 and ALX lines. Armed with the Pentium processor Extreme Edition, high-end gamers, creative professionals and [...]

In an earlier post, I’d mentioned my recent acquisition of a Slingbox from Sling Media. As promised, here is a more detailed account of my experience with this device.
I picked up the device at a nearby Circuit City. A $50 instant rebate promotion was about to run out, which was what prompted me to take [...]

Imation Corp (NYSE: IMN), a worldwide leader in removable data storage media, today announced it has begun its scale-up of manufacturing for HD DVD and Blu-ray optical recordable media in preparation for product introduction in early 2006. The company invested more than $10 million in 2005 in research, development and modular manufacturing capabilities to position [...]

ZTV beta has free and Pay ‘n’ Play download options for video lovers with ZVUEs; ZTV will expand in mid-2006 to include a video subscription service called ZVISION.
HandHeld Entertainment has announced the beta launch of ZTV, an online video download store designed specifically for users of the company’s ZVUE portable media players.
The beta version of [...]

Breakthrough 3-D Technology Looks to Revolutionize Gaming and Digital Entertainment Industries.
TDVision Systems, Inc., an emerging leader in the design and development of 3-D digital infrastructure and visualization systems, has unveiled the first-of-its-kind true 3-D technology that is fully compatible with current digital broadcast infrastructures.
TDVision developed the sophisticated 3-D technology to change the way we view [...]

It may not look like a computer, but Compucar LLC has created the world’s first and only mass produced mini-PC that resembles an actual car. Choose from over a dozen different models which include the Dodge Viper, Hummer H2, Escalade EXT, Corvette C6, and more. You can pimp these cars out by adding new wheels, [...]

“When music becomes the sound track for whatever activity you’re engaged in, the artist has succeeded in capturing the essence of life, touching the heart and soul. And Dross succeeds in admirable fashion.”
Read my review of The Age of Ignorance, Dross’s debut album, on Indie-Music.com.
Read more reviews by Kenny Hart on Indie-Music.com.
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LONGMONT, CO - InPhase Technologies, the leader in holographic data storage media and systems, today announced that it has developed and is shipping the first Holographic-ROM (H-ROM) media targeted for use in consumer devices. Data is recorded into the Tapestry HDS4000 media with the same wavelength red lasers used in CDs and DVDs. This [...]