- Camcorder Buying Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - November 11, 2008
- Whether you’re interested in recording seasonal holidays, birthdays or vacations, it’s a perfect time to invest in a camcorder to capture those once-in-a-lifetime get-togethers with family and friends.Sure, a digital camera can do the tri...
- Home Theater Basics
- Digital Trends Guides - November 6, 2008
- So you’ve already got the perfect design in mind and picked out one or two essential pieces of audiovisual hardware? Congratulations: The goal of enjoying a great home theater is almost in sight. Following are just a few crucial tips that can h...
- Home Theater Design Tips
- Digital Trends Guides - November 3, 2008
- The lights go down, the curtains part, the Blu-ray player starts to spin, and the speakers fire. Thus begins the total suspension of disbelief that results from a great home theater. To really pull it off, however, you must consider the entire experi...
- The Audiophile's Guide to Streaming Music
- PC World Articles - October 21, 2008
- Don't sacrifice sound quality in the name of convenience. With a lossless codec, a well-optimized streaming setup, and a few easy tricks, you can push phenomenal audio to every room in your house.
- Hey! I Can't Hear My Youtube!
- PC World Articles - October 6, 2008
- Joseph Schichtel wants to know why there's no sound when he plays Youtube videos.
- Review of the EyeTV 250 Plus From Elgato
- TechLore - September 29, 2008
- If you're looking for a svelte, effective, and fun solution for recording and watching television on your Mac, the Elgato EyeTV 250 is just the ticket.
- How To Combine MPG Video Files the Easy Way
- TechLore - September 15, 2008
- There comes times that you may want to combine a couple (or more) MPG video files into just one larger file. I had this case come up just recently. I needed to decompile a DVD that I wanted to watch using my thumb drive. Unfortunately, my thumb drive...
- A Wedding Reception - Sans DJ?
- TechLore - September 5, 2008
- Are you so in love with music you can't imagine life without your ten-thousand favorite songs? Are you a little bit of a control freak? Do you obsess over song order when composing your over-mulled playlists? Most importantly, are you getting married...
- Get a Portable Audio Boost with Boostaroo
- TechLore - August 29, 2008
- I travel some and have a hard time hearing my music and videos on the airplanes. What I have found is that with a simple Portable Audio Amplifier I can amplify and enhance the sound quality to a much better level. There are a couple of different opti...
- How to Calibrate Your HDTV
- PC World Articles - July 19, 2008
- If you haven't calibrated your HDTV, you're probably not seeing the picture you paid for. Here's how to get a near-perfect image on your high-def screen without breaking the bank.
- Top 5 Things That I Love About eMusic
- TechLore - July 10, 2008
- Jumping through hoops of fire just to play my own music, even after I paid almost "full price," just burned my chubby little biscuits. I then embarked on the quest to find my digital music mecca, and quickly found it.Enter eMusic: the...
- Stream Your Music Collection Over the Net
- PC World Articles - June 21, 2008
- Listen to your favorite tunes anywhere, anytime, by putting your entire music library online. It's easy, and we show you how.
- Circuits of the Basic TV and What They Do - Part 3
- TechLore - June 9, 2008
- In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we discussed many things: the standby power supply, main power supply, horizontal and vertical deflection circuits, degaussing, and tuners. In Part 3 of this series, we will discuss the IF (Intermediate Frequency), AG...
- Using Windows Media Player 11
- TechLore - May 16, 2008
- Windows Media Player is a media player for all your digital media (audio, photos and video) for computers running Windows XP and Vista. It is available as a downloadable application for Windows XP directly from Microsoft or via Windows Update and shi...
- I Want Wireless Entertainment, and I Want It Now
- PC World Articles - April 29, 2008
- Wireless, multiroom home audio is here, sort of. But wireless HD video is still mostly a pipe dream.