Royal Philips Electronics just announced what might be a royal blunder for consumers. The Dutch electronics company cut a deal with French semiconductor manufacturer Metalink Ltd. The deal will give Philips access to Metalink's 802.11 draft-N chipsets for wireless home theater devices. Philips plans to bring out a new line of wi-fi aware ...

Samsung Electronics America Inc shipped North America's first consumer Blu-ray disk player to retailers today. The playback device is scheduled to be sold to the US market on June 25th, that’s about the same day as the first Blu-ray movies. Samsung's Blu-ray disk player is the BD-P1000 and will retail at $999. Blu-ray will be the most ...

It's the biggest union of Home Theater on the web since the Home Theater Alliance opened the balcony doors on its A-list of HT. Two Home Theater websites dedicated to consumer help have formed an uncommon bond that makes both bigger and better than ever.   The HomeTheaterShack is the new kid on the web. It's a dedicated home theater and ...

TiVo, that little PVR service that keeps on ticking after repeated beatings is continuing to find new services for its customers. TiVoCasting is the new name of the feature unveiled yesterday by TiVo that will allow online content providers to send video feeds directly to your TV through TiVo. Funny thing about the name, it had been ...

Learn to protect yourself from the latest wave of Russian hackers!   Mega-store Circuit City was unwittingly distributing a virus for the past two weeks before it was discovered and cleaned up yesterday. Circuit City's Home Theater message boards were hacked and had been distributing a virus. It's a good excuse to have better taste in ...

Toshiba is investigating reports of premature lamp burn out in many of its DLP HDTVs. Certain customers who have purchased Toshiba's new DLP HDTVs have been reporting lamps burning out after as little as 300 hours of use.   DLP display technology uses a lamp similar to an LCD rear projector. The lamp is a powerful light that ...

A new portable XM radio / receiver was released a few weeks ago by Pioneer called the Inno. It's the most advanced portable satellite radio player yet and can receive XM broadcasts while on the go. It's the smallest satellite radio receiver made to date and sure to be boon for XM fans. But the legal strong arm of the recording industry ...

Never let it be said that the porn industry isn't on the cutting edge of technology. The genre may lag behind the rest of Hollywood in production value but it leads the way in forward thinking distribution methods. Films by Vivid Entertainment can now be downloaded to your PC in a file format that allows you to burn-it-yourself to a DVD for ...

The floor of this year’s E3 had a stark divide between the Sony and Microsoft camps. Some even reported on trenches, barbed wire and land mines in between. Okay I made up the last sentence for dramatic flair, but you get the idea.   Meanwhile Nintendo, #3 console’s manufacturer is deemed no threat to big boys and thus passes ...

PS3 Pricing presented with the “clear black“ Model The Electronics Entertainment Expo has begun and so have the PlayStation 3 concessions. I don't know about you but I've been waiting for them. The big news is the North American price per unit along with some other goodies was announced via Sony press release ...