David Ranada

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Tech Talk: Laser-Driven DLP Projectors
David Ranada  |  Apr 04, 2006  |  0 comments

04/05/2006 On Monday I heard that later this week Mitsubishi will be showcasing some rear-projection TVs based on Texas Instruments' digital micromirror (DMD) DLP technology.

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Celestron’s Pocket Planetarium
David Ranada  |  Jan 08, 2006  |  0 comments

The Celestron SkyScout is a handheld device for locating stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies.

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SED: A New Player in the Flat-Panel Game
David Ranada  |  Jan 08, 2006  |  0 comments

Canon's prototype 36-inch, 720p SED panel.

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TV Tuner on a Chip
David Ranada  |  Jan 07, 2006  |  0 comments

A traditional "can" TV tuner next to its tiny Xceive chip replacement

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Burning Desire
David Ranada  |  Feb 03, 2006  |  0 comments

Like swimmers in some Darwinian gene pool, DVD recorders are quickly mutating to fill every possible niche. Yet as they evolve, you can count on finding a core set of features in most decks - a TV tuner, a VCR-style timer, and a handful of recording "modes" that let you trade picture quality for playback time.

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Big-League Receivers
David Ranada  |  Jul 21, 2002  |  0 comments
Photos by Tony Cordoza

There are high-priced major-league baseball players (is that redundant?), and then there are the Mark McGuires and Sammy Sosas - players whose abilities and accomplishments leave even their overpaid teammates in awe. The same holds true as you approach the stratospheric reaches of high-end A/V receivers.

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Bravo D1 Upconverting DVD Player
David Ranada  |  Apr 29, 2003  |  0 comments

Photos by Tony Cordoza Just when you thought you had mastered the intricacies of video connectivity-having sorted out composite video, S-video, and the two flavors of component video (interlaced and progressive-scan)-V Inc.'s Bravo D1 comes along to make life complicated again.

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Get 6.1 Channels Now!
David Ranada  |  Jan 31, 1999  |  0 comments
I felt as stupid as Dorothy must have felt near the end of The Wizard of Oz when Glinda, the Witch of the North, tells her that she always had the power to get back to Kansas.
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Samsung DVD-V2500 DVD Player/VCR
David Ranada  |  Mar 25, 2003  |  0 comments
Most of the Samsung DVD players we've tested have had something "different" about them. There were, for example, a couple of models with Nuon game-playing capability, and the last one we looked at could reproduce still pictures stored on Memory Stick flash-memory cards.
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Toshiba SD-4800 DVD-Audio/Video Player
David Ranada  |  Jan 13, 2003  |  0 comments
Finding a product that performs better than its price would lead you to expect is always a pleasure for a reviewer. Toshiba's SD-4800 is just such a product-a relatively inexpensive DVD player that's packed with all the latest features. For example, it plays DVD-Audio discs through its multichannel analog outputs, which also serve for Dolby Digital playback.
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