Everyone with a digital music collection of any size has this problem: their music tags are far from perfect. Maybe it's because you ripped the songs from a CD before it was in cddb or one of the other directories, maybe there was no cddb back when y...
Home Theater is, in its most basic terms, a dedicated space in which to enjoy audio and video. From there, the definition becomes far more personal, so to help you make the right choices, you need to ask three questions:“What do you want?&rdquo...
Remember back in the 1980s when you purchased your first CD? Whether it was Billy Idol or The Psychedelic Furs, imagine if you had gone home and placed the Sony-manufactured CD in your Panasonic CD player, only to find out that it didn’t work. ...
Looking for an easy way to take videos from your computer and watch them on your TV? There are certainly a variety of solutions to that problem available today, whether you decide to burn a DVD, build a media PC, or use one of the myriad of wireless ...
I notice lots of little annoying things about the audio and video products that traipse through my work space in a constant procession. Over time I’ve noticed they’re the same little annoying things all the time—the same trifling mi...
Are you getting the most out of your gadgets? With so many products and information out there, it's hard to keep up with the useful items that any average person would buy. Sure, there are plenty of products for owners of specific devices (i.e., seem...
Full HD is the latest buzzphrase in television marketing. If we want the latest and greatest in HDTV, we want Full HD—or so we’re told. But is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Full HD is marketing-ese for 1080p. Since al...
Got old audio tapes that you'd like to convert to digital (MP3 or CD)? Got an ancient LP collection that you'd like to listen to on your iPod? Community member Jeff Block shares his experience converting audio tapes and old v...
(Syndicated from MyDigitalEntertainer.com ) You’ve probably seen the commercials and heard the hype. But what exactly is Microsoft’s Intel Viiv? Simply put, Intel Viiv (rhymes with “five”) is a catch-all for the latest i...
From HD cables to HD discs to HD audio, discover how to get a deeper high-definition experience. When building (or adapting) a home theater for high-definition viewing, it’s best to start with the basics. In this case, the TV is the first thing...
Audio equipment is a crock of pretentious technical jargon, a pile of useless black boxes, a plague of blinking lights, a waste of space, a needless drain on your household income—unless it brings you closer to music. Then it’s form of nu...
Sony recently hosted their annual line show in Las Vegas to showcase their new 2007 product lines. The company, struggling to keep top tier market share as it battles the likes of Apple and Microsoft in various vertical CE spaces, had some flair goin...
Having written about video and audio technology since—gulp!—1980, let me tell you, there have been some mighty dull years. When I started out, big-screen TVs existed, but were based on analog technology and looked awful. The notion of com...