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September 2008 From Product Reviews
In the criminally-underrated Get Shorty, a rental car company gives Chili Palmer (John Travolta) an Oldsmobile Silhouette instead of the Cadillac he requested. “Well, this is the Cadillac of mini-vans” is what he’s told to help ease the pain. For a lot of people – and sadly myself included – a mini-van is a useful, practical and necessary component of daily life, but it’s not something you like to talk about at parties. I would put the clock radio in that same category. A table radio usually does little more than tell time and attempt to fill your room with background music that sounds
August 2008 From News
Polk Audio will soon commence shipment of its SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater, a two-piece surround system it demonstrated in prototype form at the January CES. The system, which will retail for $1,195.95, consists of a single, 44-1/2-inch-wide multi-channel eight-driver speaker and a separate electronics console housing an upconverting DVD player, SDA signal-processing amplifier, AM/FM radio and numerous inputs. It uses a new, active version of Polk’s proprietary SDA (Stereo Dimension Array) technology that creates a 360-degree surround field from the SurroundBar. The company’s Power Port Bass Venting system adds to the performance quotient, supplying bass with no need for an outboard subwoofer. According
CEDIA Episode II: Attack of the iPhones
September 7, 2007 From Greg Robinson
I find it telling that the hottest gadget I see everywhere at CEDIA Expo is one that’s not even on formal display. You have to hand it to Apple. Their (newly less expensive) iPhone is definitely the must-have gadget of the year for many folks out there. Our own Audrey Gray has one and she let me play so I could see what all the fuss is about. There’s no denying its cool factor, that’s for sure. I guess I just didn’t expect to see one everywhere I went at the Expo. I’ll just have to keep my boring Verizon LG phone
September 7, 2007 From Greg Robinson
I find it telling that the hottest gadget I see everywhere at CEDIA Expo is one that’s not even on formal display. You have to hand it to Apple. Their (newly less expensive) iPhone is definitely the must-have gadget of the year for many folks out there. Our own Audrey Gray has one and she let me play so I could see what all the fuss is about. There’s no denying its cool factor, that’s for sure. I guess I just didn’t expect to see one everywhere I went at the Expo. I’ll just have to keep my boring Verizon LG phone
Polk Audio I-Sonic
December 2006 From Product Reviews
Polk Audio apparently set out to create the Swiss Army knife of tabletop radio’s when it designed its new I-Sonic. In addition to standard tabletop radio fare—AM, FM, CD, of course, an alarm clock—the I-Sonic is the first to spin DVDs, meaning it can hook to a TV in the bedroom. And it’s one of only two tabletops that can tune in HD Radio and satellite radio, in this case XM. It also has more speakers (four) than any of its competitors, but it also has the highest price, by at least $40. And it’s the biggest and heaviest of the tabletops. That’s not
December 2006 From Product Reviews
Polk Audio apparently set out to create the Swiss Army knife of tabletop radio’s when it designed its new I-Sonic. In addition to standard tabletop radio fare—AM, FM, CD, of course, an alarm clock—the I-Sonic is the first to spin DVDs, meaning it can hook to a TV in the bedroom. And it’s one of only two tabletops that can tune in HD Radio and satellite radio, in this case XM. It also has more speakers (four) than any of its competitors, but it also has the highest price, by at least $40. And it’s the biggest and heaviest of the tabletops. That’s not
December 2006 From E-Gear
Tired of the same old boring radio stations and CDs on your daily commute? Kids in the backseat driving you nuts on long trips? Too proud to ask for directions so you wander around lost? Barely able to hear your tunes over all of the engine and road noise? Fear not, there’s a simple and inexpensive mobile electronics upgrade that can cure any of the ills that make modern day drive time monotonous, frustrating or just plain dangerous. Below we’ve put together a list of the top 10 car tech upgrades for your car. The best part is you can easily add any one
October 2006 From E-Gear
More people want to hear surround than simply look at it. To get 5.1–channel surround in my TV room, for example, I not only needed the usual three speakers in front but two on the side walls, plus wires from those two to the gear in front. Not that big a problem if the room’s a big, featureless box like the ones you see in speaker setup programs – but in real rooms, those added wires usually cross doorways, which leave you the problem of running them over the doorframe (ugly), laying them on the floor by the doorways (where people may trip) or
Simplifying Home Theater
April 2006 From Product Reviews
Multiple speakers and wires are the first thing you have to deal with when setting up a surround sound system. It can be a real pain in the butt, especially when you are dealing with an oddly shaped room or you don’t have any way to hide the wires. If you’ve seen the nice marketing brochures the speaker companies produce, you’ll notice the speakers hanging on the wall aren’t actually connected to the amplifiers—It would just be too hard to make the photograph look nice with unsightly wires hanging about. Sure, you could drill holes in the wall and run wire, but that option
April 2006 From Product Reviews
Multiple speakers and wires are the first thing you have to deal with when setting up a surround sound system. It can be a real pain in the butt, especially when you are dealing with an oddly shaped room or you don’t have any way to hide the wires. If you’ve seen the nice marketing brochures the speaker companies produce, you’ll notice the speakers hanging on the wall aren’t actually connected to the amplifiers—It would just be too hard to make the photograph look nice with unsightly wires hanging about. Sure, you could drill holes in the wall and run wire, but that option
New Gear
September 2003 From E-Gear
Check out these and other gear goodies in the new issue of E-Gear, available on newsstands now: • InFocus' budget-friendly DLP projector • Blaupunkt's Phoenix MP3/CD receiver • Fossil's latest PDA/watch • Polk Audio's RTi Series of speakers • Sony's slim VAIO PCG-TR1A notebook • Nokia's multimedia picture phone, the 7650
September 2003 From E-Gear
Check out these and other gear goodies in the new issue of E-Gear, available on newsstands now: • InFocus' budget-friendly DLP projector • Blaupunkt's Phoenix MP3/CD receiver • Fossil's latest PDA/watch • Polk Audio's RTi Series of speakers • Sony's slim VAIO PCG-TR1A notebook • Nokia's multimedia picture phone, the 7650
HP zt1190 Notebook
July 2002 From Product Reviews
A Workhorse with or without Wires By Eric Bass At a time when portable computing more often means handhelds or pocket computers, Hewlett-Packard has come out with a line of notebook PCs that are light enough to schlep around from planes to trains yet are packed enough with features to be desktop replacements. We got a hold of a zt1190, the most stuffed of the new zt line. The zt1190's got high productivity as well as a touch of high- tech entertainment built in. Its prime features are the luxurious 15-inch SXGA LCD, 1.2 GHz Pentium III, 40 GB hard drive, DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive
July 2002 From Product Reviews
A Workhorse with or without Wires By Eric Bass At a time when portable computing more often means handhelds or pocket computers, Hewlett-Packard has come out with a line of notebook PCs that are light enough to schlep around from planes to trains yet are packed enough with features to be desktop replacements. We got a hold of a zt1190, the most stuffed of the new zt line. The zt1190's got high productivity as well as a touch of high- tech entertainment built in. Its prime features are the luxurious 15-inch SXGA LCD, 1.2 GHz Pentium III, 40 GB hard drive, DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive
New Gear
July 2002 From E-Gear
Big Tabletop TV Get out the big table. The new Mitsubishi WT-42311 HD-upgradeable table-top PTV (projection television) is a 42-inch widescreen set. To make it truly a tabletop model, the company redesigned the internal schematic to make the CRTs point straight upward rather than diagonally. It displays HD signals through component video inputs at 1080i. It comes with an illuminated remote control and a ColorTuned Diamond screen shield. Price: $2,199. www.mitsubishi.com Best of Both Worlds To dipole or bipole, that is the surround sound question. Some say dipole is better for mounting surround sound speakers on side walls, while bipoles are better for rear-wall
July 2002 From E-Gear
Big Tabletop TV Get out the big table. The new Mitsubishi WT-42311 HD-upgradeable table-top PTV (projection television) is a 42-inch widescreen set. To make it truly a tabletop model, the company redesigned the internal schematic to make the CRTs point straight upward rather than diagonally. It displays HD signals through component video inputs at 1080i. It comes with an illuminated remote control and a ColorTuned Diamond screen shield. Price: $2,199. www.mitsubishi.com Best of Both Worlds To dipole or bipole, that is the surround sound question. Some say dipole is better for mounting surround sound speakers on side walls, while bipoles are better for rear-wall
