http://www.ecoustics.com/latest/links Latest links, updated every five minutes http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/24013/ 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. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:06 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/video/n/2272230 (Los Angeles) A new box will deliver movies you missed at the theatre to your home. Is it a VCR? A DVR? A DVD? Nope, Vudu. Rich DeMuro reports. Tue, 06 May 2008 04:08:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/20064/ ...I wanted to give the Neuros OSD a spin. When I first heard about it last year, I knew it was a unique product, but it wasn't until I got my hands on one that I figured out how useful something like this can be. Don't get me wrong, it's not 100% innovation at its best, and while the execution of its secondary features is somewhat flawed, the core of the product can be extremely useful for those in the analog jam... Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:50:45 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/look/151 It’s time to take that old drawer full of VHS tapes out back and give it the proper burial it deserves. Analog is dead. But while the VCR’s successor, the DVR, offers a quick way to record media, one thing it doesn’t offer is much in the way of long term, archival storage. Great for taping last night’s episode of Lost, not so great for keeping baby’s first steps. And with the explosion of high-def media, anything that’s going to store it for a while is going to need a lot of storage. Fortunately, Sony’s got it covered with its latest entertainment system.The Sony HES-V1000 Home Entertainment Server is a library in a box. With a 500GB hard drive, plus room for over 200 B... Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:00:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/18817/ Call in the band and strike up the fanfare; there’s finally a high definition TiVo that doesn’t cost as much as one month's rent! In fact, at $299, you could call TiVo's newest addition, the TiVo HD DVR, affordable! If all you needed to hear was HD TiVo and $299 in the same sentence, then don't hesitate. Go get one while the getting is good. If you want to learn more, read on. Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:17:55 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/13509 AMD revealed the future of the ATI TV Wonder hardware line on Monday morning with the announcement of two new HDTV-capable tuners, the TV Wonder 600 USB and TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe.  Both products are intended to bring HDTV signals and DVR capabilities to notebook and desktop computers, respectively.The slim black ATI TV Wonder 600 USB features a single HDTV tuner, as well as an A/V input jack for capture directly from a camcorder or VCR. To give it functionality as a DVR, it includes a credit-card-sized inf Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:20:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/17973/ I'm sure you've been there; your son, daughter, husband, wife, etc. entered a code into the parental control setting and now can't remember, or you purchase something used that was locked with a code from a previous owner. Either way, now your device is locked down tight, and you need to guess the password in order to use your device. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:56:52 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/12778 Snip:"Believe it or not, not everyone knows how to use a cell phone, especially one gussied up with advanced multimedia frills. Among the most mystified and confused by cell phones are senior "don't call us old" citizens. Our grandparents, to whom "wireless" is another name for radio, were born in the age before the transistor radio, television, VCR, and personal computer, and therefore lack the second-nature technological intuition of today's high-tech generation, and born into an environment inundated by digitalia."Read the full Jitterbug review... Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:00:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/look/117 Pinnacle Systems, a maker of video editing solutions and consumer-focused digital media adapters, is betting on the fact you want to easily move over your tape-bound videos to the digital era via their Dazzle Video Creator Platinum package. This $90 collection includes a hardware video convertor and video editing/conversion software.The hardware side of the Dazzle Video Creator Platinum package consists of a USB 2.0 enabled device which you can connect to your desktop PC or laptop. Also built into the plug-and-play device are analog inputs which you can hook up to a VCR, camcorder or other video gear with analog outputs (composite and S-video). Video conversion is handled by an on-board hardware encoding chip which offer... Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:00:00 -0500 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/SanDisk_V_Mate/4505-6499_7-32104407.html?part=ecoustics-cnet Though its lacks CompactFlash support, the SanDisk V-Mate is ultimately a slicker and more feature-rich mini digital VCR than the similarly priced Neuros Recorder 2 Plus. Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:47:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/11949 New figures from Nielsen Media Research show that the number of U.S. households with DVD players has finally exceeded the number of U.S. households with VCRs—and, with some irony, the finding comes just as DVD players are themselves being made obsolete in the marketplace by "next-generation" Blu-ray and HD DVD systems.Nielsen's 3rd Quarter Home Technology Report sound 81.2 percent of U.S. households have DVD players, compared to 79.2 percent which have VCRs. The study also finds that ownership of most media technology is trending upward from previous years, and the current holiday season ought to give another upward nudge to those figures as home entertainment products fly... Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:30:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/11413 Snip from the review:"The Harmony 720 comes with a charging cradle, USB cord, software, and instruction manual. The remote itself sports a crisp, clear LCD screen surrounded by six silver hard buttons and two soft navigation buttons. Above the screen are the Power, Activities, Devices, and Help buttons. Below the screen are info and navigation buttons, followed by a shiny silver directional pad. A silver U-shaped bezel contains the Volume and Channel buttons. The bottom third of the remote contains the DVD/VCR controls (also called video transport controls) and number buttons. The top surface contains the USB port covered by a rubber flap and the IR transmitter. The bottom edge houses the IR receiver used for learning new c... Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:17:10 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/14879/ I have a 61" Hitachi Ultravision, circa 2000. The electricity went off the other day, and when it came back on, my television works as good as before except I do not receive any UHF channels. I have an outside antenna that is connected with a 75-ohm coaxial cable. On my Sharp LCD television, the UHF channels are working very well. Both are connected to the same antenna. I would like to know what I need to do to receive the UHF channels again. Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:56:36 -0400 http://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/208227.html Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:28:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/13384/ My mother has a Sylvania SSC192 TV/VCR combo. I bought her a DVD player for her birthday, and I can't help her connect it over the phone. Her TV/VCR unit only has a place for the white and yellow connectors, but not the red. Plus, her remote does not have a button to switch from TV to video. Help please!!! Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:23:33 -0500 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/2100-1041_3-6024750.html?part=ecoustics-cnet At CES, the Blu-Ray and HD DVD players on display were reminiscent of VCRs and CD players from earlier eras. Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:18:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/tl/12859/ 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 I can have my VCR and DVD hooked to my... Thu, 08 Dec 2005 17:36:45 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/reviews/123759 This reasonably priced unit has average image quality and limited editing tools, but its support for VCR Plus+ codes simplifies recording. Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:00:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/reviews/123753 This unit combines a DVD and a VCR in a single stylish device, with great image quality. Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:00:00 -0500 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/2100-1025_3-5977062.html?part=ecoustics-cnet Dutch company offers home media player designed to give Net users easy access to movies, TV shows from peer-to-peer networks. Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:14:00 -0500 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/Panasonic_DMR_ES40V/4505-6505_7-31570865.html?part=ecoustics-cnet While its inability to place chapter stops on DVDs is a bummer, the capable Panasonic DMR-ES40V dubbing deck shines in most other areas. Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:41:00 -0500 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/2100-1041_3-5913848.html?part=ecoustics-cnet Advent of DVR technology, along with the dominance of DVDs, has left VCRs as barely an afterthought. Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:00:00 -0400 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/2300-1041_3-5913876-1.html?part=ecoustics-cnet An English inventor turns his old VCR into an automatic cat feeder. Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:58:00 -0400 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/2100-1038_3-5895835.html?part=ecoustics-cnet The company offers free DVR boxes this weekend in exchange for videotapes and new subscriptions. Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:04:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/sv/869 Sound & Vision tests the LG LRY-517 universal DVD recorder/VCR Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0400