RECORDABLE DVDS

Apr 10, 2002 | hardware

Most consumers have stayed away from recordable DVDs, since there’s a blizzard of competing acronyms representing different, incompatible media and disk formats. DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-RAM – it’s a mess, and it’s long overdue for one of the...

NEW STANDARD FOR RECORDABLE DVDS

Feb 18, 2002 | hardware

Recordable DVDs are available right now, but it’s a complete mess – DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and other “standards,” using different media, playing on different machines. It’s the same tangle of competing business interests that delayed the entire...

HOME ENTERTAINMENT HUBS

Jan 16, 2002 | audio, hardware, video

The home entertainment devices that will be hot next Christmas are taking shape. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, a new company demonstrated the MoxiMedia Center, which combines a cable or satellite TV receiver, a personal video recorder (like Tivo or Replay),...

FLAT PANEL MONITOR PRICES ON THE RISE

Jan 14, 2002 | hardware

According to this article, prices for flat panel LCD monitors were in free fall last year because of an oversupply of glass. The factories have caught up, demand is skyrocketing to match production, and prices are expected to start climbing back up again in the next...

ONLINE SHOPPING

Jan 9, 2002 | Amazon, hardware

I went shopping for a new monitor tonight and wound up buying it from an unexpected source. After checking Amazon, Buy.com, CDW, Microwarehouse, Insight, and a few others, I stopped by Dell. I was fascinated to find the same monitor was about $40 cheaper from Dell...

TURTLE BEACH AUDIOTRON

Dec 20, 2001 | audio, hardware

An interesting toy for music buffs. If you’ve been a Napster or MusicCity or AudioGalaxy user, you’ve probably assembled a sizable library of music on your hard drive. The Turtle Beach Audiotron is set up with your hi-fi equipment to play through your home...