Vogels Hides Your Unsightly Wires The Vogel’s Hide-a-Wire is a do-it-yourself solution to organize and conceal your loose A/V cables.
Pioneer To Finally Launch Blu-ray Recorders According to Reuters, Pioneer plans to launch Blu-ray DVD recorders by the end of the year, taking aim at a rapidly growing market after the end of a bitter format battle.
IDT Rolls Out IMD Panels Image Design Technology (IDT) has introduced of the industry's first full line-up of LCD panels with In-Monitor Display (IMD) functionality from Marshall Electronics.
UK Government Hands Out Free Sat TV The UK government is planning to give free satellite TV to anyone who wants it over the next few years. Freesat, a joint venture between the BBC and ITV, has been launched to bring free programs to UK homes without a subscription. This may also include High Definition programs.
Monster Delivers Scart To Component Video Cable Convoy International, the Australian Distributor for Monster Cable, will be releasing a Scart to Component Video Cable that is compatible with both High Definition (HD) and Standard Definition (SD).
Smart TV Remote For Visually Impaired An Australian inventor has come up with a new universal TV remote control with its own phone built-in designed for those with declining eyesight or disabilities.
Get A Better TV Picture With HDMI The big buzz with sellers of HD TV is the need for HDMI .The High Definition TV “experience” they claim is better by using HDMI cables. But the problem is that a lot of devices only come with one HDMI input and the cables are expensive, however HDMI connectivity is getting cheaper.
One Cable For PC And TV Coming Soon Fed up of having to handle cable calls where the question is which cable goes in which hole? At the recent CES Expo the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) intoduced a single-cable solution designed to replace a variety of standard connectors on PC monitors and flat panels.
Logitech Unveils Flagship Universal Remote Logitech has unveiled its newest flagship universal remote control in the Harmony range. The 1000i uses infrared to control devices such as VCRs, DVRs and TVs.
Universal Remotes Buyer’s Guide Forget using an array of different remotes to get what you want. You can operate your entire home theatre with just a few well-placed buttons. We show you what to look for.
Calibrate Your TV Professionally Cable manufacturer Monster and the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) have joined forces to release a DVD wizard for calibrating high-def TVs to professional ISF standards.
Digital TV On The Go Micro-Star International (MSI) has released a $399 pocket-sized Digital TV, the D310.
HDMI 1.3 Connectors Due Soon CE products with new HDMI 1.3 connectors will be available in stores before Christmas now that the 1.3 standard is days away from approval and Silicon Image is sampling HDMI 1.3 chips, said Silicon Image marketing director Joe Lee.
Neat Belkin Cable Idea Neat Cabling ideas can save time and money and Belkin has come up with a good one. When it will be available in Australia is unknown.
Tweak Your TV With Digital Video Essentials People spend plenty of money trying to get the best possible picture quality but very few realise that your existing set is most likely falling well short of its potential. Potential that can be easily realised with a tuning device such as Digital Video Essentials (DVE), a video calibration solution that costs $69.
Silversmith Audio Silver Cables The Silversmith cables are expensive. The interconnect costs $1400 for a 3 inch unbalanced pair (add $50 for balanced), the speaker cable $2950 for an 8 inch pair. So how good are they?
Hi Fi & Home Cinema Cables Set To Be Killed Off A team of I.B.M. researchers claim that have used standard chip-making materials to develop a high-speed wireless technology that do away with the bulky cables that now connect electronic devices in the living room.
Boxes That Record TV Shows To Help Seagate Seagate Technology the world's largest maker of computer hard-disk drives and the Company that recently aquired Maxtor, said its biggest revenue driver in the next 18 months would be digital set-top boxes that record television shows, chief executive Bill Watkins has said.
Dramatically Improve Your LCD or Plasma TV Image Belkin has launched a brand new cable that incorporates a processor inside the cable that significantly enhances the image on an LCD or Plasma TV.
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