Home Theater

Harmony SST-659 Review

Harmony calls the SST-659 a "Family Remote". But don't be fooled by the name. It is still packed with features for the hardcore hobb

Toshiba Uses Maxtor HDD’s In Video Recorder

Maxtor's QuickView consumer electronics (CE) hard drives have been selected for Toshiba's HDD & DVD video recorder series - RD-XS32, RD-XS35 and RD-X4.

DVD Player Sales Increase 216%

In November, factory-to-dealer sales of TV/DVD combinations reached more than 180,000 units, a 216 percent increase over November 2002.

FCC To Approve News Corp/DirecTV Deal

Reports are surfacing that say the FCC will be approving the pending deal that News Corp (owners of Fox network stations) will be purchasing DirecTV.

Canon, Toshiba Seed Venture For SED Flat TV

Canon and Toshiba are finalizing preparations for a venture that would produce flat-panel televisions based on surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) technology.

New Rotel DVD-Audio Player and DVD Receiver

Rotel has just introduced two new products – a DVD Receiver and an affordable DVD-Audio player.

RIAA sues 5 Washington residents

The long arm of the recording industry reached into Washington yesterday as five residents were sued in federal court for allegedly distributing music from their computers illegally

New Rotel RSDX-02 introduced

Rotel has introduced the RSDX-02 which combines a DVD player with a powerful 5.1 channel amplifier.

Lite-On LVD-2002 DVD player review

Only a handful of hardware manufacturers have actually offered support for DivX/XviD in home DVD systems and with the LVD-2002, Lite-On joined the rank and file.

ATI debuts Theater 313 HDTV chip

ATI's new Theater 313 chip offers advanced functionality and high performance for HDTV receivers.

New Gryphon CD player

The Gryphon Mikado CD player features a heavily modified Philips CD-Pro 2 top-loading floating-suspension transport with die-cast all-metal frame.

Toshiba, NEC rally support for HD-DVD

Toshiba and NEC gave members of the press a demonstration of a new and improved version of their proposal at a recent press conference here.

NextBase Tablet DVD Player (SDV17-A)

The importance of the VCR can never be overstated when we take a look at the evolution of home and personal entertainment, however it appears that it is now time for a change.

DVD Forum approves portion of new format

HD DVD format proposed by Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. as the next-generation DVD format was finally approved by the DVD Forum's steering committee during recent meetings in New York

JVC to use Maxtor HDD in new DVD recorder

JVC has selected Maxtor QuickView consumer electronics (CE) hard disk drives for its DR-MH5, HDD & DVD video recorder.