Category: Home Theater

Reading Time: < 1 minute Earlier today, my wife asked me to look at the TiVo To Do List because it didn’t appear that the TiVo intended to record both hours of the finale episode of “Friends”. I strongly dislike this show, but I love my wife, so I took a shot at it. After…

Reading Time: < 1 minute PVRblog reports that Hughes has begun shipping an HDTV-compatible TiVo DVR for use with DirecTV. The retail price is about $1,000 at the resellers that have listed it on their sites already. In the article, Matt Haughey said, “Yesterday I heard that BestBuy put their first shipment of 200 units…

Reading Time: 2 minutes An article in the New York Times today documents the huge profits that movie studios are generating from the rental and sale of DVDs. According to the article: Not since the advent of the videocassette in the mid-1980’s has the movie industry enjoyed such a windfall from a new product. And…

Reading Time: 2 minutes My wife and I have been regular viewers of The Apprentice TV series since we heard about it, three weeks into its run. During that period, we noticed that the set designers had attached a very large flat panel display to the PC that the cast members use in the suite…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Stephen Manes writes the Digital Tools column for Forbes Magazine. In the April 19 issue he strongly suggests that it’s time to trade in VCRs for DVD recorders. Manes says: A dusty shelf of home videotapes of your child’s early years sparks an idea: If you transferred them to DVD,…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Amazon.com is running sales in its home theater-related departments until April 11, 2004. The deals include: up to $500 off flat panel and tube TVs, and up to $100 off DVD players, recorders, and combo units. Now might be the time to spring for the upgrade you’ve been thinking about.

Reading Time: 2 minutes PVRblog points out that the movie and television industry are fighting against deployment of DVD burners in cable and satellite settop boxes. Since they have already decided that resistance to any sort of DVD recording capability in settop boxes is futile, they are working to cripple any DVD burner that is…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Washington Post ran a great article on Friday about the Senate Commerce Committee hearing that took place on Cable TV channel selection and the technological and contractual obstacles to driving such decisions all the way down to the individual household. Imagine what true a la carte channel choice would mean…

Reading Time: < 1 minute DigiTimes.com appears to be the ultimate journalistic source of the report that Wal-Mart intends to sell a line of flat panel televisions (plasma display panels and LCDs) to be manufactured by Tatung. Here are a few examples Tatung’s their existing LCD TVs. It’s safe to assume that Tatung will make…