- How To: The Perfect TV for Your Room
- TechLore - May 6, 2008
- Finding the right size TV for your room is easier than you might think. But picking the right resolution is just as important. Written by Dennis Burger - Maybe it’s due to my job, maybe it’s fate, or maybe I’m just being punished fo...
Oldest Recording Heard- Digital Trends News - March 31, 2008
- We all know that Edison invented the phonograph, but did you know that he didn’t make the first sound recording? His breakthrough came in 1877, but last week the first known recording, a 10-second clip of a French folk song, “Au Clair De ...
- Sound recording predates Edison's phonograph
- CNET News - March 27, 2008
- Also: A low-tech 2010 census? Read these stories and more at News.com Extra.
PS Audio GCPH (Gain Cell Phono Stage)- Secrets of Home Theater - March 23, 2008
- Vinyl is back!!! If you get a new turntable, you will likely need a nice phono stage to connect the cartridge to your preamplifier. PS Audio has a good one. Read our review to see what we found. Note that this will work to make excellent music files ...
Record Labels Go After Baidu- Digital Trends News - February 5, 2008
- Baidu.com is China's leading Internet search engine—and that, by sheer numbers, makes it one of the most-used search engines on the planet. Now, by way of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), music labels Warner Mus...
Music sales fall 10 pct in 2007- Video Picks - January 24, 2008
- The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a trade body which represents the recording industry worldwide, says the gatekeepers of the Web must act if the industry is to beat piracy. Global digital music sales were estimated t...
Music Sales Slipped by 10 Percent in 2007- Digital Trends News - January 24, 2008
- Despite a market for digital music that is finally picking up steam, global music sales suffered a significant overall decline in 2007. According to John Kennedy, chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), sa...
- Yahoo China slammed again for piracy
- CNET News - December 21, 2007
- The International Federation of Phonographic Industries said Thursday that Yahoo China lost its appeal in a piracy lawsuit the group filed against the company.
- British Arrest In Music Piracy Case
- Digital Trends News - October 24, 2007
- You’ve heard of lawsuits to close illegal download sites. But in raids in England and Holland, police arrested the man believed to be behind the file-sharing site site OiNK and closed down its servers. Don’t be surprised if you haven...
Internet Pirates Strike Back- Digital Trends News - October 17, 2007
- In a gesture worthy of Captain Jack Sparrow, Internet pirates have fired a broadside against the establishment. The Swedish site Pirate Bay, which specializes in file sharing, evidently had had enough of the International Federation of the Phono...
HP Licenses Cookie-Cutter Circuits- Digital Trends News - May 2, 2007
- Hewlett-Packard has an unlikely idea for mass-producing semiconductors the same way CDs and phonograph records are made: stamping them out. The company’s patented nanoimprint lithography (NIL) process literally stamps out patterns of wires less...
- Digital Music Sales Doubled in 2006?
- Digital Trends News - January 17, 2007
- The London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) (basically the U.K.'s equivalent of the RIAA) has published a new report in which is estimates that digital music sales accounted for about $2 billion in overall revenue fo...
New Onkyo Stereos Go for The Value- Digital Trends News - November 2, 2006
- Electronics maker Onkyo has rolled out two new stereo receivers and a countertop stereo system which put the emphasis on packing needed, high-quality features into systems which don't strain customers' wallets.Onkyo's new TX-8222 receiver pushes 50 w...
- How to Play an iPod or Similar MP3 Player Through a Stereo
- TechLore - December 14, 2004
- Connecting your iPod or other MP3 player to your home stereo gives you flexibility of not only finding songs and albums quickly and easily to play, but also allows you to play your favorite playlists through your stereo too! All you need to hook it u...