Audio Video News

In the March 2003 issue, Pete Putnam discusses the ways to receive HDTV and refers to station allocation tables on various websites. These tables are admittedly difficult to find on these sites.

Don't be surprised if it's not Excel your co-workers are watching on their PCs over the next few days. A survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association and the Sports Video Group shows that 38 percent of sports fans expect to download and...

DVD recorders should eventually surpass the popularity of VCRs. Manufacturers who understand this are making great strides in affordability and user friendliness of new models.

Complain all you want about the lack of new material on Palladia, MTV's HD offering, but this weekend, they're stepping it up. Starting Friday night at 9pm until the start of Sunday night's broadcast of the Grammy's, Palladia HD...

Why do the Japanese get all the good stuff first? Godzilla destroyed Tokyo (1954) a full 44 years before he was unleashed on New York (1998). (And the original was much better than the schlock Hollywood tried to foist on us as a "modern" version.) Not to mention they've got gobs more camera phones than we do. And now, Sharp - part of the global powerhouse of top-shelf consumer electronics companies plugging the Blu-ray Disc format - is introducing a new Blu-ray Disc recorder that includes a built-in hard drive and a standard DVD recorder. The new gizmo is claimed by Sharp to be the first high-definition recorder in the world to combine three recording disc drives.