Break out a slice of that humble pie, I'm ready to take a bite. Last Friday I reported on a story about Circuit City forums being hacked. In that news item I made an offhand quote:   ''It's a good excuse to have better taste in forums.''   Comments by members of the HomeTheaterShack suggested I was being an elitist snob. So, I ...

Home Theater vs Movie Theater   I've never been one to promote the rivalry between the two as I think they both have their place. HD Beat ran its own ''Why Home Theaters Rock'' feature which is an interesting read. It's an interesting comparison to this list found on Cinemefusion which makes the mistake of not being content to ...

Less is more   Spring has returned.  Waking to the sounds of ever more species of birds as the frost-line makes its seasonal ascends up northerly parallels I am reminded again of my love of acoustics.  The world has a natural soundtrack that through mobile electronics is in jeopardy of being forgotten.  With ...

LG should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray, or at least making it irrelevant.  Last Tuesday the Korean electronics manufacturer made it official, they will try to begin manufacturing a combination player late in the year.  We can only say “try“ because it's ...

I don’t watch the Oscars.  I love movies but I don’t care for the elitism and fanfare so the whole Oscars thing makes me want to gag.  I would enjoy movies far less if I fully realized what pompous twits most people involved in movies are, so I spare myself the spectacle.   I love movies but I don’t consider ...

Lately there has been a lot of noise across the web about the recent revelations regarding the HDCP compliance in computer graphics cards and monitors.  Here’s a brief recap in case you haven’t been made aware, images below are stolen from a more technical article on the subject than you will find here.  If you’re ...

The popularity of Home Theater in Box (HTIB) systems never ceases to amaze me despite how  unanimously sub-standard they are.  But if you’ve got no audio system at all the prospect of buying every single component for a complete home theater system is a little daunting.    I bet at any given time I can piece ...

I read a lot of websites from companies that sell one kind of technology or another so I get to see a lot of slick marketing.  When it’s done well I don’t notice it, but when it’s over the top it’s sickening.  The over-cheery images marketers will use of people using a clients product or service is worse when ...

This is an interesting news article on Audioholics about the state of the entertainment industry, it illustrates the push / pull between media, content providers, hardware and operating systems.  All of these conditions are vying for influence, power and most of all their piece of the pie in this new world of digital ...

  Microsoft announced an HD DVD external drive for Xbox 360 at CES. I can just short of guarantee that by the time Microsoft gets around to releasing the external HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 we’ll have forgotten all about it.  Xbox’s HD DVD won’t do well on the market.  Why?  When was the last time ...