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Soundbar Reviews
Budget Bars: Soundbars from Vizio, Samsung, LG, and Harman Kardon
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Aug 13, 2012  |  0 comments
TVs are lonely. A beer-soaked barstool at 2 a.m. kind of lonely. They cry out for companionship, their tinny, bass-less voices difficult to hear, even harder to enjoy. When they were young, they held so much promise: high definition, good times, low cost. How quickly came the onset of disappointment?
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Tech2
Building a Better Wi-Fi Audio System
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Mar 12, 2012  |  0 comments

A few weeks ago I reviewed the Altec Lansing inAir 5000. It wasn't bad, but for $500 I would have hoped for more. That seems to be the case with many Wi-Fi audio systems these days, and that got me thinking:

For the same amount of money, could I build an audio system with similar functionality, similar footprint - and that actually sounds good?

Challenge accepted.

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Bundling the Awesome: Volume Deals from StoryBundle, Humble Bundle, Amazon, and More
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Aug 10, 2012  |  0 comments

The Internet has allowed millions of creative people to offer their works to the world, without the gatekeeper of traditional publishing.

This can be good and bad. There’s good in that there are fewer roadblocks for creative people. The bad in that without that gatekeeper, there’s no “pre-check” of quality. Not to say that everything from a publisher is good, just that the assumption is that somebody looked at the thing before it went out. Without this initial eyeballing, how do you sort through the slag to find the gems?

Enter: Bundles.

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Projector Tech
Calculating Projector Brightness for Your Screen
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Feb 19, 2013  |  1 comments

Every once and a while I get an email questioning our choice of using a 100-inch screen to measure projectors. I feel this size is the best way to judge the performance of a projector, while at the same time offering you, our fair readers, a way to judge how bright the projector will be on your own screen.

This is easy to do, but it involves the maths.

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Call Me Jaded
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Dec 21, 2005  |  7 comments
Sorry, but I just can't get excited about the Xbox 360. I know many of you lump gamers together in some sort of homogenous, pasty, bunch, but in fact there are many sub-categories. In my mind, there are two main genera in the gamer family; console, and computer. I, am one of the latter.
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Car Parks You
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Nov 15, 2006  |  3 comments
Check out the my new review of the $1000 720p Optoma here.
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CEATEC 2006
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  1 comments
CEATEC is an interesting show. The portion that deals with the stuff we cover is rather small. The rest of the show tends to be manufacturers that make the parts of the stuff we cover. I’ll take some pictures of those bits tomorrow.
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CEATEC 2006 - JVC HD-ILA Front Projector
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  1 comments
Like I mentioned in my CEDIA report, JVC has a new front projector. It will be around $7000. In demo here at the show, they showed it beside their old $30,000 projector. No contest. It wasn’t even close. The $7k projector blew the old model away. Better blacks, better contrast ratio, better color, better detail. That’s twice I’ve seen this projector look good, and I can’t wait to get a hold of one (they’re saying early next year).
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CEATEC 2006 - Pioneer’s Next-Gen Plasma
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  32 comments
The most surprising demo at the show was a demo of a next generation Pioneer plasma that stole quite a bit of SED’s thunder. It had legitimate blacks (seemingly as good as SED). They’re claiming a 20,000:1 contrast ratio, and from the demo it sure looked like it could be close to that. I’d love to tell you more, but the entire presentation was in Japanese. I’ll put up some photos later of the Powerpoint, and you can try to translate them. At the earliest, it may be a model for next year. I’m sure we’ll hear more at CES.
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CEATEC 2006 - SED Lives! Sort of…
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 03, 2006  |  2 comments
As rumored, Toshiba/Canon showed off three 55-inch SED displays, proving without a doubt that they can make at least three SED panels. They looked as impressive as the oft-seen 37-inch, with a mix of pre-recorded (and motion filled) colorful images, and even a live action scene (with a camera on a person and puppet that was in sight of the audience). Here’s the bad news: They’re now saying the end of 2007, but with no definite pricing or quantity.
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