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This Week's Report: JVC SU-DH1 Headphone Surround Adapter
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Apr 27, 2006
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Report for 04/28/06:
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This Week's Report: HD Projector Shootout
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Apr 27, 2006
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Report for 04/28/06:
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Audio Video News
A Laptop Movie Stand for the Traveling Man
Darryl Wilkinson
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Apr 27, 2006
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Yeah, right, you
say
you brought your laptop on the plane so you could get some work done - but you and I know you really tucked it in your carry-on bag so you could watch
Breakfast on Pluto
without having to explain to your kids what a transvestite is. But, in addition to being a horrible place to type or do other computerized work, an airplane seat is not conducive to comfortable movie viewing, either. Thanks to the dude who has to recline all the way in the seat in front of me, I can never get the screen at the right angle to eliminate all the glare on the screen. As a result, most of the time I'm actually happy when the battery runs out before the movie ends.
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HD DVD Flaunts First Dual-Format Title
Mark Fleischmann
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Apr 27, 2006
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2 comments
As tired as I am of hyping HD DVD and, um, that other one, the Toshiba-championed format will take a huge step forward on May 9 with Warner's first dual-format title.
Rumor Has It
will have high-def HD DVD on one side and standard-def DVD-Video on the other. What's great about it is that you can start building your HD DVD library now without having to spring for first-generation hardware, which is both feature-light and probably destined for price drops before year-end. The backward-compatibility move is reminiscent of hybrid SACD, which includes high-res audio on one layer and standard CD audio on the other. That helped SACD trump DVD-Audio, and the horrible DualDisc hasn't done much to help DVD-A to catch up. Of course, the format war undermined both of those formats, and HD DVD and Blu-ray seem headed in the same downward direction. But I must add: Only one of my systems is SACD-compatible, so I play both layers of my dozens of SACDs quite often. So there!
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Other Tech
S&V Q&A — April 2006
Ian G. Masters
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Apr 26, 2006
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HDTV BORDER TOWN
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Geoffrey Morrison Blog
First Look: Toshiba HD-XA1
Geoffrey Morrison
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Apr 26, 2006
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4 comments
Contributor Gary Merson got his hands on an HD DVD player, so here’s your first scoop:
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Parent Group Decries Family Tiers
Mark Fleischmann
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Apr 26, 2006
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Family-tier cable packages are drawing fire from family activists—and regulators are listening. Brent L. Bozell of the Parents Television Council is an especially
loud complainer
. He dismisses Time Warner Cable's family tier as "a very bad joke.... It is perfectly obvious Time Warner is deliberately offering a product designed to fail. According to Time Warner, no family should want to watch sports. According to Time Warner, no family should want to receive any news channel other than Time Warner's CNN. According to Time Warner, classic movies are not appropriate for families. And neither is religious programming.... I bet you couldn't find five employees of Time Warner who would subscribe to this foolishness for their own families." Bozell bared his teeth in December but a recent echo by Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin Martin lent greater weight to his "legitimate concerns." Martin added that members of Congress are equally concerned. Both parent groups and the FCC appear to be moving toward their previously stated preference for letting consumers order cable and satellite service channel by channel, à la carte—or to use the PTC's resonant phrase, "cable choice."
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CEA Standardizes Subwoofer Specs
Mark Fleischmann
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Apr 25, 2006
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2 comments
Powered-subwoofer specifications have long been a minefield of inconsistency. How deep, how loud can they really play? Consumers may shop with greater confidence now that the Consumer Electronics Association has delivered its long-awaited sub specs. Given the catchy name CEA-2010, the document commands that subs be tested "in a calibrated anechoic [non-echoing] chamber, in a suitable ground plane environment, or in a large calibrated room." Test tones, with one-third octave spacing, are at these frequencies: 20, 25, 31.5, 40, 50, and 63 Hertz. The specs don't cover power ratings, but it will be great for consumers to get standardized information on the acoustic output of powered subs. The end result on spec sheets should look like this:
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Geoffrey Morrison Blog
Flood 2: The Revenge
Geoffrey Morrison
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Apr 24, 2006
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If you remember
this post
you’ll recall the flood our studio suffered 6 months ago. Well, it happened again. So forgive me if I don’t post for a while. In the mean time, please go
Vote
and post some pictures in the
Galleries
. Do check back later in the week though, as I’ll be posting a first look at Toshiba’s HD DVD player.
Ears On
Feds to Wield Copyright Bludgeon
Mark Fleischmann
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Apr 24, 2006
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Soon to be announced in Congress is new legislation that would strip the fair-use rights of consumers to the bone. And maybe beyond. c|net's
News.com
got a look at the draft bill crafted by the Bush administration and Congress and it's not pretty. Under the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006, just
trying
to infringe a copyright would become a federal crime. Existing law that makes it illegal to distribute hardware or software that circumvent anti-copy systems would expand to punish anyone who makes, exports, imports, obtains control of, or possesses such tools. Wiretaps, forfeitures, and seizure of records—including server logs—are part of the package. My favorite part is the provision that would permit copyright prosecutions
even in cases where the work is not registered with the U.S. copyright office
. The existing DMCA has had some
unintended consequences
but its successor promises to be far worse. This bill isn't about mass piracy, which is amply covered under existing law (and prosecutions). It's about you. The bill will first surface in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), though the official sponsor will be James Sensenbrenner (R-WI, pictured), chair of the Judiciary Committee. Does someone on
this list
represent your congressional district?
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