Weekly Site Roundup (10/25/04)
ARTICLE SPOTLIGHT
Kiss Technology DP-470 DVD Receiver - Product Review
The Kiss Technology DP-470 DVD Receiver is an innovative home theater component that incorporates a standard DVD/CD player with some additional, practical, features, such as a built-in 5-channel surround sound amplifier, AM/FM tuner, and Divx file compatibility. To find out more, check out my review of the DP-470.
HOME ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY NEWS HEADLINES
Retailers Brace for Flat-Screen TV Price War (Reuters)
13 Sentenced To Jail Over Porn DVDs (People's Daily Online)
Digital Cable High-Def Ready Recorders (Home Theater Magazine)
Cellphone Addition: High-Definition TV (International Herald Tribune)
DTV Switch-Over To Be Delayed Until 2009? (Aduio/Video Revolution)
Toshiba Corp To Launch HD-DVD Laptop (The Hindustan Times)
Dell Unveils Holiday Lineup, Including New Plasma TVs (Computer World)
PRODUCT OF THE WEEK
Toshiba SD-4960 DVD/SACD/DVD-Audio Player
The Toshiba SD4960 DVD Player is one of the latest in the current trend of moderately-priced DVD players that also play SACDs and DVD-Audio discs. In addition, this unit also features Progressive Scan Component Video outputs with 3:2 pulldown detection. Also featured are Video Black Level Expansion circuitry, 10-bit/54MHz Video Digital-Analog converter, and a complete set of video and audio output options.
FEATURED LINKS THIS WEEK
DirecTV/Dish Network/Satellite TV
Information and sales promotions on satellite TV systems. This site also includes some resources on satellite basics.
Featured in the Satellite Systems Category Page.
York Sales
Online shopping site featuring a variety of home and mobile eletronics products, including radar detectors, satellite radio components, and more...
Featured in the Shopping T - Z Category Page.
FROM THE HOME THEATER FORUM
Entry Level DVD Recorders
From DVDRYET:
Not all DVD recorders record the video time stamp from a MiniDV camera. Unless you label each day's recording session in the title you will not see a time stamp when playing back the DVD. The Akai does not record time stamp. You would think this is a big deal (it is to me!!!) but it is next to impossible to find this out unless you try out the one you are thinking of buying. Good Luck.
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ELSEWHERE ON ABOUT.COM
Creative Hunts Apple With New MP3 Player Offering
The Apple iPOD is dominating the portable digital audio player market, but Creative is counter attacking with a flexible unit of its own. For all the details, check out the abov above report from Nino Marchetti, About Guide To Portable Entertainment.
FROM THE MAILBOX
From ST:
...Do video projectors work with cable or satelite?
From Your Guide:
Video projectors do not have RF cable or antenna connections, however,
if your cable or satellite box has either S-Video, component, and/or DVI
connections you would be able to hook them up to a video projector.
However, one word of caution, as outlined in my article, video projectors have a very limited bulb life (in other words, if you are watching TV on your video projector about 3 hours every night, you would have to replace the light source bulb about once a year at 200-400 dollars a pop).
In addition, due to very large screen size, standard TV or satellite does not look as good as on a standard large screen television. In addition, VHS looks very poor, due to its low resolution.. If you have HDTV-cable or HDTV-satellite , you would get much better results.
Ideally, video projection really best for viewing DVD movies and, if you desire longer bulb life, limit your viewing to about 10 hours a week and your projection bulb will last about two years.
Basically, if you are looking for a replacement for nightly TV watching, you would be more cost effective to buy a large screen rear projection television rather than a video projector.
FINAL WORDS
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