By Roy Choi |
Last week we were able to meet with Eric Nielsen and Scott Fink from Sonos to get an overview of Sonos’ latest speaker system, the Sonos PLAYBAR. Scott told us that Sonos’ goal is to bring their products to every home in America. Having used…
By Todd Haselton |
Sonos on Tuesday officially introduced its Playbar speaker system. The device is essentially one long speaker that’s crafted out of aluminum and high-performance fabric and is built for sitting above or below a TV. The system is equipped with nine speakers, including six mid-woofers and…
By Sean P. Aune |
LoveFilm has signed a major deal with NBC Universal for television streaming rights in the U.K. Amazon’s streaming service throughout the United Kingdom, LoveFilm, announced a deal today that wil see it bringing NBC Universal shows over for users to enjoy on demand. Amongst the…
By Sean P. Aune |
LG’s new Hecto projector may be just the thing for folks who want a huge viewing space, but have a limited area in which to do it. High-end projectors have been around for some time now, but the big issue has been that you needed…
By Sean P. Aune |
In this day and age of walking into a Walmart and seeing bins filled with $5 DVDs, it may be hard to realize there was a time when buying pre-recorded media was treated as a special event. Ah, Time-Life, what would we have done without…
By Sean P. Aune |
When I got to work yesterday I remembered that I had forgotten to set my DirecTV DVR for a show. I fished my iPhone 4S out of my pocket, pulled up the DirecTV app, found the show and told it to record. I then sat…
By Sean P. Aune |
Hailing from 1983, we find this lengthy video sent out to RCA dealers to promote the upcoming line of Selectavision monitors. Even in the early 1980′s consumers were already getting to the point where they had more items to attach to their televisions than they…
By Sean P. Aune |
It’s amazing how actors like Leonard Nimoy will sometimes take any acting job, even if it means talking to a glowing rock. Think of this as a continuation from last week’s Flashback Friday about video discs. I made a brief mention of Magnavox’s entry into…
By Sean P. Aune |
Ah, the video disc. Yet another example of a failed format that companies tried to push on consumers. Often confused with the laser disc format, video discs came around in the very late 1970′s and early 1980′s as the next big thing in home entertainment.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Earlier this week we ran an article about the new TiVo Premiere Elite. This monstrosity of a DVR sports four tuners and enough recording space for 300 hours of HD programs. And that got me to thinking back to just how far this technology has…
By Sean P. Aune |
Earlier this week the Vintage Buffalo column talked about the wonders of the Series 1 TiVo, and that got me to thinking about the wonders of DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) in general. How in the world did people function without these miracles of modern television…
By Sean P. Aune |
If you thought the HD-DVD/Blu-ray was messy, you should have been around for Betamax/VHS! Launched May 10, 1975, Sony’s Betamax was the first affordable home recording system. VHS, which eventually won the format war despite its bulkier physical format, was introduced in Oct. 1977. Many people…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’ve all been in the theater and had that THX logo come up, followed by the tag line that says “The Audience Is Listening”, although it maybe should say “The Audience Is Now Deaf.” We’ve all dreamed of duplicating that theater experience in our homes,…
