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 [...]

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 [...]

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, was held a couple of weeks ago. What was presented this year shows how serious the gaming industry has become. The media coverage itself was pretty impressive. Gaming news websites had extensive content. The G4 cable channel turned into all E3 channel all week long with correspondents everywhere on [...]

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 [...]

A Google Image Search has sent me into the future of NEC technologies. Upon closer examination, the Internet Archive shows this area of the NEC Design Japanese website was originally launched in 2003 to show “Near-Future Ubiquitous Networking Devices Visualized by Designers.” Some of the potential products described are pretty interesting. The mobile phone and [...]