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Asus revolutionized the laptop industry with the launch of its Eee PC netbooks roughly a year ago, and now it’s hoping to strike gold twice with a new low-priced media streamer that will be introduced at the massive Computex show this week. According to Hardware.info, Asus will debut the unfortunately named O!Play device (a.k.a. the [...]

Sam Raimi wants to scare you again. It's been nine long years since his last horror flick, 2000's The Gift. But while that film went for a brooding, gothic atmosphere wrapped around a murder mystery plot and featuring a cast of Oscar nominees and winners, Drag Me To Hell returns Raimi to the impish stylings [...]

Reputation often precedes any compliments that can be dished about OPPO as a company, largely in the realm of world cinema. Their 970 and 980 lines of DVD players handle just about anything thrown at them, all while upscaling standard-definition discs to impeccable quality. When word inked into the picture that OPPO would [...]

Mordaunt-Short has just unveiled its latest line, the Aviano speaker series, and has added the Performance 2 standmount stereo speakers to its Performance line. The Aviano line is a seven piece home stereo and hi-fi range. It includes bookshelf speakers, two subwoofers, standmount/floorstanding speakers and a center channel.
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113,085 people were in attendance at this past CES 2009, according to an audit by Veris Consulting. This number has confirmed that the CES is the industry’s largest trade-show and the largest trade-show in North America. However, the number of people in attendance this year was less than the previous two years, which [...]

HDMI LLC, the company which licenses HDMI standards has announced the features that HDMI 1.4 will include. The latest HDMI will sport an HDMI Ethernet Channel to provide data transfer of up to 100 Mbps. It also features a bi-directional connection, which creates compatibility between the Internet functions of a broadband TV and [...]

Panamax is targeting home theater owners with limited available space with their latest product. The MX5102 is designed to protect against power surges, powers down connected equipment safely during a power outage, features linear filtration, and two of the ten outlets include UPS functionality.
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I must admit, this is the first time that I have seen “Seabiscuit.” It just isn't high on my priority list. Sports film, particularly boxing and horseracing are not among my favorites. Still, I kept hearing so much praise for this film, that when it came my way I figured I would [...]

More people are buying 1080p HDTVs, but unless you’re playing a Blu-ray disc (or console videogames), you have to rely on a device that can upscale your other video sources to take advantage of that extra resolution. NEC Electronics have been working on improving the current technology used to perform that upscaling, and has just [...]

No studio in the history of Hollywood has had the track record of Pixar. Of course, no other movie studio releases so few films, but even so, it's remarkable that they have been able to retain such a consistently high level of quality amongst a series of feature and short films. The people at Pixar [...]