Michael Antonoff

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Quick Takes: Digisette Duo-Aria MP3 Player
Michael Antonoff  |  Jun 11, 2001

Backward-compatibility can come at the expense of innovation, as we learned from the failure of the Digital Compact Cassette in the early '90s. The DCC format enabled a new generation of hardware both to record digital tape cassettes and to play standard analog cassettes.

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Bose Wave/PC Interactive Music System
Michael Antonoff  |  Aug 05, 2001

When Dr. Amar Bose visited the magazine where I worked in the early 1990s, he teased staffers by hiding under a cloth the source of the luxurious-sounding music filling the room. Moments later he revealed that it was actually emanating from an unassuming clock radio. Since then, the Bose Wave radio has landed on countless tabletops and nightstands.

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Archos 605 WiFi
Michael Antonoff  |  Dec 05, 2007

Portable media players with touchscreens have been captivating users ever since Apple's introduction this summer of the iPhone. No need to wonder why: Imagine all your music, videos, and photos stored in a device slim enough for your pocket and available for playback at, literally, the touch of a finger.

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Western Digital WG1S5000 My DVR Expander Hard Drive
Michael Antonoff  |  Jan 05, 2008

With a digital video recorder, you're master of the HDTV universe today, but brought to your knees tomorrow when your DVR fills up and automatically deletes the penultimate episode of Dancing with the Stars before you've witnessed the duel play-out.

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Custom Installation How-To
Doing The DVD Combo
Michael Antonoff  |  Dec 21, 2001

A DVD player is already a terrific bargain - an inexpensive black box that can play discs full of razor-sharp images, immersive surround sound, and fascinating extras. But what if you could wed a DVD player with another popular entertainment device like, say, a TV, VCR, or game console? Well, it's already being done.

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DVD Combo - In The Lab
Michael Antonoff  |  Dec 21, 2001
Go-Video DVR4000
DIMENSIONS 17 inches wide, 4 inches high, 14 inches deep WEIGHT 11 5/8 pounds PRICE $349 MANUFACTURER Sensory Science, Dept. S&V, 7835 E.
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Logitech Squeezebox Duet Digital Audio Receiver
Michael Antonoff  |  Jun 15, 2008
Music Box Theater 97855048929 Longitech 930000033 Ever since the first digital media receiver delivered music from a computer to a stereo system over a home network, it's been a challenge to figure out where to
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Mighty Cam
Michael Antonoff  |  Jul 09, 2002
Photos by Tony Cordoza The launch of a new cassette format in 2002 made me wonder whether those who invented the Walkman were back in charge at Sony. The payoff is that the tape cassettes, so tiny they could be mistaken for audio microcassettes, are for high-quality video recording in Sony's new MicroMV camcorders.
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Roku Netflix Player
Michael Antonoff  |  Jul 31, 2008
Roku Netflix Player 320303002088 Roku Netflix Player Until now, there have been plenty of reasons why Internet-delivered movie services have barely made a dent in public awareness: not enough titles, too many restr
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Video Killed the MP3 Star?
Michael Antonoff  |  Nov 03, 2002
Palm-size jukeboxes that hold hundreds of hours of MP3 music on an embedded hard drive are no longer a novelty. Now Archos has taken the category to the next level by adding a 1 1/2-inch color LCD, the ability to store and play photo slideshows or highly compressed but full-motion video, and direct A/V output to a TV.
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