Recent Home Theater Editorials
RIP Steve Feinstein 1954‑2024
It is with great sadness to inform you our dear friend and industry veteran Steve Feinstein has passed away on 4/19/24. His unique perspective and contributions to Audioholics will be greatly missed.
IPTV ‑ The Sky is Falling!
HD camcorders were beautiful and prices were heading in the right direction at NAB. Monitors were gorgeous and prices were heading in the right…
OPRA Tackles the Tough Questions ‑ April 2006
In the continuing tradition of staring unflinchingly into the face to the tough questions and just winging it, OPRA (that's me) once again pits his limited wits to the most vexing and immaterial …
iPod to Have Samsung Inside
On Wednesday April 26th Samsung Electronics Co. announced it was awarded a major contract with Apple Computer Inc . The South Korean consumer electronics firm won its bid to produce the chips that …
Matsushita Says NO to HD DVD‑BD Compromise
Matsushita (aka Panasonic in the US) is flat out removing any hope (as if there was any) of the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats coming together, saying: "The market will decide."
My First Audioholics Anonymous Meeting...
It was about time I attending my first meeting. Three interventions and an ultimatum from my wife finally convinced me to go. Held in a library (no loud noises allowed), the group was a hodgepodge of …
What? iPods and Massages Don't Mix?
Best Buy has closed its original eq-life store in Richfield, Minn., a suburb of the Twin Cities. The retailer is keeping…
Microsoft Commits to World Cyber Games through 2008
The World Cyber Games (WCG) is an international computer game festival held all over the world. The e-sports take place entirely within the medium of cyberspace as gamers compete in this …
Mitsubishi's Laser Rear Projector Display
Just two months after announcing the development of the first laser HDTV in February '06 the new display technology will be unveiled in a demonstration this week. Mitsubishi is set to show off a 52 …
Of Movie Theaters and Shrinking DVD Windows
Doug Shapiro of Bank of America Securities introduced Shari Redstone, President of National Amusements (a privately held chain of screen exhibitors). Of course, Shari is also in line to be a …
Manufacturers to Certify HDMI Products with SimplayHD
New Designation Ensures HDMI Sources Work with HDMI Displays, in Any Scenario, Including HDCP
Cablevision to Test Remote Storage Video Recorder
Cablevision Systems, a Cable TV provider that serves areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is working on a unique remote…
AT&T Says Get ready for IPTV
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is an idea that we've known is coming for a long time but looks like it might touch…
OPRA's First Review!
On the 17th of March, a day made famous by green beer and angry Irish men, an unfortunate event took place" OPRA's wife went into labor. Unfortunate only in that OPRA had big plans for the day that …
DRM Reduces MP3 Player Battery Life
A study recently demonstrated that playing back MP3 and WMA files encoded with DRM (digital rights management) copy protection can reduce battery life up to 25%.
Drug Bust Turns into DVD Bust
According to a Oregon's KPTV (a Fox Affiliate news agency), Deputies thought they were working a drug bust, but instead of a stash of drugs, they say they found a stash of stolen movies.
Toshiba and Canon set SED production to Q4 ‘07
Last week Canon and Toshiba jointly announced plans to begin mass production of SED displays in July 2007. This puts a…
Microsoft Unveils Ultra‑Mobile PC (UMPC)
After months of spurious word-of-mouth hype and clever marketing about Microsoft's Project Origami, the company finally showed off some products today from Samsung and ASUS.
LG May Develop HD‑DVD / Blu‑ray Combo Player
Fresh from the rumor mill: LG will drop production of the BD199 Blu-ray Disc player as it considers developing a combo HD DVD / Blu-ray player .
The Real World...OPRA!
My presence on Audioholics has been increasing for the last year or so... no more so than when I gave myself the title of OPRA.
Day and Date Releases Coming Soon
Reuters and The Hollywood Reporter are covering a controversial "day-and-date" film-release strategy. This is the second potential threat to theater owners in which movies…
HDCP‑Compliant Video Cards Elude the Market
Published specifications of HDCP compliance in many popular video cards aren't exactly what they appear. Since 2003, about the time HDCP picked up…
Defective Software in Sony LCD TVs
Remember Sony's new Bravia line of LCD and LCD rear projector TVs that launched late last year? These were the TVs marketed with ads…
HDMI Licensing Responds to Microsoft HD‑DVD 1080p Issue
In a recent article in this space, Microsoft's HD DVD program manager Sage Schreiner implied that the failure of many HD DVD…
Microsoft Windows Media Music Hits Cell Phones
Not wanting to appear biased in the "portable music via cell phone" trend, Motorola inked a deal today to use Windows Media technology from Microsoft in a new line of music phones that would sell …
Laser Projectors Coming to Cell Phones and PDAs
Light Blue Optics Demonstrates Matchbox-sized PVPro™ Projector Evaluation Kit
Movie Downloads Coming to Amazon.com
It had to happen sooner or later, downloadable movies accompanying the DVD release timeline is the future. The question was who could pull…
Super Bowl XL Party at Audioholics!
Last year we threw an incredibly fun Superbowl party and had over 25 people in attendance. This year we wanted to outdo ourselves - a challenge to say the least, but one that we felt we could …
Victory for the Video Down‑Rez Police
Analogue down-rezzing, or the down-converting of video signals through analogue outputs, has long been speculated among videophiles as the fate of the new optical storage…
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