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CES 2008

February 4th, 2008

This post is a little overdue, so since I’m sure many of you have already visited sites like Engadget for CES coverage, I’ll keep this short. There are three areas that I thought there was a lot of focus which we’ll be hearing a lot more about this year.
HD Proliferation
Well, it looks like Blu-ray [...]

CES 2007

January 15th, 2007

Another year begins and to kick it off, I usually start out by attending the Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s a look at what the expect this year in tech.
Audio
Last year Dolby introduced its True HD sound and this year it was DTS’s turn to release their HD surround sound, DTS-HD. While Dolby offers one standard [...]

HD-DVD Blu-ray format war

July 18th, 2006

Now that the Blu-ray has been released, here is a good article that gives us a current outlook on the format war:
They say the outcome of a war is not determined on the battlefield, but rather in the strategy rooms long before the first shot is fired. And so it is with the great “format [...]

Quick Review: First HD-DVD player

May 15th, 2006

The first HD DVD player, the Toshiba HD-A1, is now more widely available and we just got ours last week. We ended up getting a defective unit initially, so things didn’t look so good initially. We replaced it a couple days later though I was pleasantly surprised.
If you’ve seen any initial reviews, you would know [...]

The tech of 2006 and beyond

January 11th, 2006

Every year, the Consumer Electronics Show defines what kind of technology we should expect within the next 1-2 years. It’s been my fifth year at the show and I’ve gotten pretty good at checking out everything that I’m particularly interested in. Some of these have been the primary focus of the show these last few [...]