Rob Medich

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Installations: S.E.A.L. of Approval
Rob Medich  |  Oct 02, 2007  |  0 comments

Chris Wyllie has had his share of tough missions. As a Navy SEAL from 1994 to 2000, he was dispatched to the Persian Gulf, where he drove high-speed cigarette boats, supervised military electronics, and gathered photo intelligence.

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Installations: The Real King of All Media
Rob Medich  |  May 02, 2007  |  0 comments

"Oh God - how trite," Howard Stern once told him. "Every guy in radio collects old radios."

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It Streamed From Outer Space
Rob Medich  |  Feb 08, 2008  |  0 comments

Could this be the Blockbuster-buster? The Netflix-kiss-of-death? The gear that will make Blu-ray blue?

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Land of the Giants
Rob Medich  |  Feb 09, 2008  |  0 comments

Got a really big living room? Got a really big entrance to that really big living room? And is your electric bill no issue? Then somewhere at CES, there was an über-jumbo-sized TV for you.

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M-Card: Possible
Rob Medich  |  Feb 09, 2008  |  0 comments

I never meant to hold the cable guy hostage. But there he was sitting in my desk chair just a few feet away from my plasma, watching the little "preparing" prompt on my TiVo setup screen spin round and round and round . . . Then round some more . . .

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New Product: Crosley Explorer 1 AM/FM/XM Radio
Rob Medich  |  Apr 03, 2006  |  0 comments

Yes, it's two, two radios in one: the style is retro, but the technology is Space Age. Debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show and set for a spring launch, this tabletop model from Crosley offers AM and FM, but it's the company's first product equipped for XM satellite radio - hence its name, Explorer 1 ($250).

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Power Play
Rob Medich  |  May 01, 2006  |  0 comments

About six years ago, electronics-industry honchos started holding big powwows to discuss the feasibility of giving household power lines (the electrical wiring you plug all your stuff into) the ability to also carry communications signals - as in music, computer data, Internet access, episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Satellite Radio's Big Year
Rob Medich  |  Apr 06, 2006  |  0 comments

Thirty-six floors above Rockefeller Center - or Times Square, depending on which side of the building you're gawking from - Jim Collins is giving a tour of Sirius Satellite Radio's Manhattan headquarters. The VP of corporate communications points out a bunch of empty cardboard equipment boxes propped up against a glassed-in control room.

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Tech Trends '09: Special K
Rob Medich  |  Apr 06, 2009  |  0 comments

In a wintry scene on a certain Blu-ray Disc I'm watching, I can see subtle shadings in the whites of the snow-covered yards. All around, contrast is crisp, and color is stunning - such as the perfect-hued skin tones of the leading man's face. Not to mention the brilliant shade of azure in his matching scarf and hat. (Has such a tint ever appeared onscreen before?)

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The Dark Knight
Rob Medich  |  Feb 08, 2008  |  0 comments

It's the talk of the Strip.

Everyone at CES who's had the privilege of witnessing Pioneer Electronic's future generation Kuro plasma in action wants to tell someone. That's because it's been like no other experience they've had while watching TV.

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