Recent Home Theater Editorials

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 principle shareholder of Viacom and CBS - giving her an interesting perspective as a person who sees some of the current issues of movie theaters and movie production from both sides of the fence.

New Designation Ensures HDMI Sources Work with HDMI Displays, in Any Scenario, Including HDCP

Cablevision Systems, a Cable TV provider that serves areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut is working on a unique remote…

Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is an idea that we've known is coming for a long time but looks like it might touch…

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 involved heavy drinking and a wife that was, by medical condition, the designated driver. Try as he might, he couldn't get her to agree that her "pain" was "all in her head" and that she should just "suck it up" and drive him to the nearest bar.

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%.

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.

Last week Canon and Toshiba jointly announced plans to begin mass production of SED displays in July 2007. This puts a…

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.

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 .

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.

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…

Published specifications of HDCP compliance in many popular video cards aren't exactly what they appear. Since 2003, about the time HDCP picked up…

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…