Recent Home Theater Editorials

As the 2005 decline in film revenues continues, it is amusing to see the pontifications and proposals of Hollywood insiders regarding declining revenues. It's apparently up to them to attempt to …

We know people are waiting for the next great thing in storage and too many people have been convinced that...

There has to be some illegal copying in the video game industry - it's pervasive throughout the software industry and costs firms billions each year - but they still pump out and push stand-alone and …

Kids - The Multitaskers

CeBIT in Hanover is head and shoulders the world's largest tech toys show for business and consumer alike. They may have flopped in the U.S. but at home they are supreme even though it is nearly …

Right at the outset we'll note that it is Saturday and we are in the office writing this piece. That should give you a clue that we haven't achieved what most people might call a healthy work-life …

Isn't all the noise surrounding the beauty and consumer demand for high definition blue-ray storage fantastic? Consumers can't wait to get their hands on the camcorders... the burners... the media!

by Wayde Robson of Home Theater Focus Microsoft gave attendees of the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) a peek…

Would you believe it? A fantastic 12% of the American households are networked and that is going to drive home entertainment networks.

Planning a Super Bowl party for your friends is hard enough. There's plenty to worry about: food, drinks, food, seating, food - you…

If you read the press it is obvious that CD is long dead, DVD is rapidly dying and the consumer can't wait for Blue-ray technology to arrive. Unfortunately, no one has convinced the people who buy …

Everyone is now delivering 16x DVD burners at unbelievably low prices. Rushing to keep pace, the leading media manufacturers deliver the high-speed +/-R media as quickly as the formats and …

Understanding Your Listening Biases

Writing to keep you abreast of the DVD industry is tricky especially when we had to project what you will be seeing in the marketplace now. And we had to decipher all of the smoke/mirrors, …

PC makers see the big bucks in consumer electronics and have begun to morph their products into entertainment/home communications systems. PC makers branch out into mediocre cameras/camcorders and …

Marketing can sometimes be the most misleading source of propaganda about a particular product, especially when it is aimed at the average neophyte consumer…

Yes, it's true, marketing can even influence our own government. The following story will disclose this very fact. Nothing contained herein is considered classified information, but you can be …

DVD Industry Insider Report - August 20, 2004 The Scoop on Emerging DVD-R9 / DVD+R9 Hardware, Technologies and Standards Recently…

The Endless Trend to Upgrade Components and Ignore the Obvious

Ask anyone to define the word "Art" and you are guaranteed to not get the same answer twice. Definitions will be as broad as deeming art to be any human creation, from an oil painting to a chromed …

Walmart is now selling the world's first Progressive Scan DVD player that uses preprogrammed filters to seamlessly skip over passes in a movie that contain violence, sex, swearing, drug use, or …

"Those boys can get the ball in the hoop, but they can't play basketball."

It usually comes as a surprise to even the most sophisticated of moviegoers that the sound effects in the films they watch are usually recreated and added after the film has been shot.

Not unlike the home theater industry, there exist manufacturer and consumer perpetuated "equipment envy" in the world of pro audio for music or film. Shiny boxes with fancy specs and fancy wiring.

Editorial: Why I Hate Going to the Movies! by Toby Dalsgaard 03/24/2004 I hate the movies.…

Anxiety got the better of me. The other evening, I requested the company of some close friends to embark on a historic journey of epic proportions, to tap an extremely rare and hard to find, bottle …

If you are a Mead enthusiast, home brewer, wine lover or fellow beer drinker, then this article will help you learn to make and appreciate Meads. Anyone with the advanced savvy required to use a …

Due to the awesome generosity of Matt Glass at the Winter Park, Florida Hops, I was able to enrich my meager homebrewing skills by helping brew my first 3.5-barrel (99 gallon) batch of beer. In …