It’s long been the writing on the walls.  When will we be able to just download the movies we want?  Of course the studios aren’t going to make it any easier.  It’s their job to ride the packaged silver disc gravy train for as long as possible.  A download business model would benefit indie film labels and ...

It’s an historic event, the release of a movie that involves a major Hollywood name like Steven Soderbergh.  His latest film Bubble is being released to three different formats all at the same time.  It might have happened with some little known indie flick already but never one that went into nationwide release like ...

Mood sensing gimmicks are nothing new, they date back to the ancient Phoenicians.  Disney just patented a media player that is supposed to playback music based on your mood.  Mood sensing is done via a strap around your wrist that picks up your heart rate, temp, perspiration and translates it into a musical selection.  An ...

Cisco Systems looks to expand into consumer electronics with items from phones, radios to home theater equipment.  Cisco made its mark with routers aimed at enterprise traffic volumes and have been a mainstay of the new internet economy.  The router company expanded into consumer markets with smaller routers for the home and ...

Samsung announced an April ’06 release for the first retail Blu-Ray player.  The BD-P1000 was unveiled at CES and will retail for $1000.  It’ll play BD discs at 720P or 1080i through its HDMI interface.     Also at CES ’06 Toshiba unveiled its early starter.  A March ’06 release is ...

iPod video opens a new era not only for the 5th generation iPod's evolution but more importantly in Apple’s retail arm iTunes.   The iPod Video is certainly another great device by Apple a worthy descendant of the iPod pedigree.  Now we can add Vid-Casting to the bag of iPod tricks.  Keep up with your favorite ...

It’s time for an Xbox 360 update.  It looks like stock is about to re-hit shelves at stores near you in big numbers.  A leaked Best Buy/Xbox 360 distribution list appeared on Kotaku.com today.  It shows all the number of units that will make it to exactly which BB stores apparently sometime before Christmas.  Now, ...

It’s not home theater but it is acoustic news.  I found this an interesting tidbit that speaks to the degradation of our ears as we age.  I’ve long held that many of the so called golden ear audiophiles are delusional and imagine many of the qualities they associate with high end audio gear.  Here is further ...

It seems like only a month ago that HP announced plans to back Blu-Ray as the next generation optical storage format with some reservations of course.  For more details on what the a Blu-Ray (or an HD DVD is for that matter) click here and read this fascinating article that will keep you riveted.  In fact it was only a month ago that ...

By now if you haven’t heard of the new storage medium that is going to blow away Blu-Ray and HD DVD, we’ll go over a refresher here.  It’s called Holographic-memory discs and they were developed by a firm in Colorado called InPhase Technologies.  The discs are about the size of a DVD and can hold 60 times the data ...