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Archive for May, 2005

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Posted: Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 @ 7:22 am in General chatter | Comments Off

rss feeds fixed in wordpress blog software!

Plasma’s are crap!

Posted: Thursday, May 19th, 2005 @ 7:58 am in General chatter | Comments Off

Well, maybe not plasma’s, but the confusion swirling around High Def TV’s in general.

I’m here to say - with the right stuff, we are most definitely on the next wave of high quality couch-potato crops. The essence of the problems are this: The TV’s out there (plasma’s, rear projection, front projection) have MUCH […]

What’s the story with remote controls?

Posted: Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 @ 8:43 am in General chatter | Comments Off

I think I understand now - there are really only two ways to use an A/V system in your house - either know how everything is connected and understand how to tell it to do every little thing to make it work, or get a remote control that’s completely programmable and doesn’t require you to […]

It’s FCC Spanking time!!

Posted: Monday, May 9th, 2005 @ 10:03 am in General chatter | Comments Off

The FCC has been trying to mandate that all High Def TV’s and programming have a “broadcast flag” in the future - this would keep people from copying High Def content once they received it.

There are tons of precedent for consumers allowed to make a copy of just about anything for their own use. […]

Hazardous technology!

Posted: Monday, May 9th, 2005 @ 5:36 am in General chatter | Comments Off

Heavy equipment, dark room, fast walking = broken toe.

Dell 24″ LCD

Posted: Thursday, May 5th, 2005 @ 10:20 am in Gadgets | Comments Off

Saweet… Large screen LCD monitor with a great price and only one complaint!

Bluetooth headsets

Posted: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 @ 8:54 am in Gadgets | Comments Off

I’ve played with a number of Bluetooth headsets for cel phones the last few months, and thought it was high time I wrote about my experiences. There are a few types of headsets - they almost all are single-ear headsets, some jam into your ear canal and some sit on top of your ear. […]

Post-show traumatic convergence syndrome

Posted: Monday, May 2nd, 2005 @ 9:55 am in General chatter | Comments Off

Ramblings about the Home Entertainment Show in Manhattan 2005