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Holiday Sales Frenzy - HD-DVD Players as low as $99 Over the last week or so, reports that Wal-Mart was stocking the Toshiba HD-A2 just below the sub $200 mark tricked in, spurred by blurry photos of said stock in various A/V forums. More recently,…

DVD Burning Kiosks a Thing of the Past When Reuters put out a story this weekend that Walgreens were going to start providing DVD burning kiosks in their stores, my reaction wasn't, "Wow that's cool!" as much as it was, "Um… why haven't…

One HTPC... Very Cheap... Best Offer I tried... real hard. The idea of an HTPC is incredible. It's a stupendous idea. I mean, take an ATSC HDTV tuner, an HD-DVR, a DVD player, your entire DVD and CD collection, Internet music, your…

2007 State of the CE Union RBH Sound Interview Gene DellaSala interviews Shane Rich, Technical Director of RBH Sound, about the new and improved T-2SE/R loudspeakers. These are essentially a two-piece, modular version of the T-30LSE which allows…

2007 State of the CE Union Epson Interview Kevin Miller, independent consultant for Epson America and President of ISFTV, sat with us and discussed the newest 1080p projector from Epson. Epson was showing of its brand new PowerLite Pro Cinema…

AVRant #25: Yee Haw Dina has a fan and someone thinks that Tom is a corporate polo-wearing type. The world is just topsy-turvy. A new music challenge is issued. Tom will discuss this more on the next podcast. Jarret has…

Circuit City Testing New 'The City' Concept Stores Electronics retailer Circuit City is testing new concept stores dubbed "The City," with a new look and interactive layout in an attempt to give customers a new shopping experience. The stores include…

Runco Outdoor WP-42HD LCD Planar Systems today announced the first flat-panel LCD display designed specifically for outdoor living, under its Runco custom home theater brand. The debut of the new Runco Climate Portfolio and…

Audio Equipment Reviews: Should You Trust the Pros or Your Own Ears? Are you an audio Objectivist or Subjectivist? Many of us here probably have stories of the days when we were hi-fi 'Subjectivists'. There were days when I bought into the whole perfect sound…

New Sony Players Cheat Blu-ray Specification Deadline In the market for a new profile 1.1 Blu-ray disc player to make sure that the player has all the latest features such as picture in picture commentary? Sony doesn’t have it covered. Beware of any…