http://www.ecoustics.com/latest/news Latest news, updated every five minutes http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/20258 Sure, home video might be all the craze now, but it was also the rage back in the Dark Ages, when everyday folks would go around with camcorders loaded with (shudder) videotape and attempt to record important events in their lives for posterity. The systems might have been limited to simple play and record buttons, but sometimes the devices even worked!The problem, of course, is that most people's VCRs have now slipped off their mortal coils and have journeyed to the electronics recycling center in the sky…and dozens, hundreds, even thousands of hours of memories are moldering and decaying on VHS tape that, lets face it, isn't going to last forever (if it's still playable at all). PeripheRead | Permalink | Linking Blogs Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:45:00 -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/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/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://news.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/208227.html Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:28:00 -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://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/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