- Top 5 Ways to Enjoy Your Gadgets More
- TechLore - September 11, 2007
- 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: Hip or Hype?
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - August 19, 2007
- 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...
- Transferring Audio Tapes or LPs to CD or MP3
- TechLore - July 11, 2007
- 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...
- What is the Intel Viiv?
- TechLore - June 26, 2007
- (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...
- Managing Your HD
- TechLore - May 22, 2007
- 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...
- 10 Ways to Come Home to Music
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - April 16, 2007
- 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...
- 2007 Sony Line Show
- Digital Trends Features - March 12, 2007
- 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...
- Tech Predictions for 2007
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - January 10, 2007
- 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...
- WHDI: The New Wireless HDMI Frontier?
- Digital Trends Features - January 5, 2007
- Wouldn’t the world be a better wireless place if we could enjoy high definition audio and video without cluttering the home media room with yards of cable? It certainly would be nice to be able to relax and not stare at the rat’s nest sit...
- Hooking Up an Aftermarket Car Head Unit In Your House
- TechLore - August 12, 2006
- This has two very useful purposes: 1) It can possibly provide a cheaper
way of getting audio into your room and 2) Testing a head unit to be
sure it works, and possibly even taking pics to post on ebay (I've
found my head units sell better when the c...
- Ask The Experts: Winding Your Cables
- TechLore - June 7, 2006
- I recently tried to upgrade my audio on my satellite box by switching
to an optical audio connection. However, I couldn't seem to get it to
work. The cord that I used was rather long, so I wound it up with a
twist tie so the cord wasn't all over my...
Home-theater basics- CNET Videos: Insider Secrets - April 21, 2006
- Get an overview of everything from the definition of home theater to the differences between plasma, LCD, and rear-projection TVs. Plus, how to get HDTV programming and install audio components.
- Use a Powerline Adapter for Devices Requiring Wired Internet Connectivity
- TechLore - February 12, 2006
- I was so excited. I bought this new device that would allow me to watch my TV from anywhere in the world. A Slingbox, from Sling Media, plugs into my TiVo (or any other video source) and transmits the video and audio over the Internet, so no matte...
- Using Headphones on TVs with Broken or Without Jacks
- TechLore - December 8, 2005
- The RCA jacks in the back of the TV work wonders. As I mentioned in the previous article, my headphone jack is broken and I get no sound in the speakers, as a result. I already bought the box which has three sets of RCA jack (red, white, yellow), so...
- What Does 1080p Do For Me?
- TechLore - October 6, 2005
- At this year's CEDIA Expo, an industry trade show devoted to home audio, video, and distributed A/V products, I saw the same recurring theme at every TV manufacturer's booth... 1080p is a reality. TV makers will be releasing tons of new 1080p...