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Thanks to Charbax at ARMdevices.net we finally know why ARCHOS decided to introduce the ARNOVA brand — our first ARNOVA sighting was the ARNOVA Web Radio & TV. It turns out ARNOVA is ARCHOS’ budget line of devices with slightly lesser specs than ARCHOS’ already competitively priced product line, which consists primarily of Android-based tablets. [...]

For those still nursing the whiplash of Intel’s Thunderbolt news, you’ll be happy to learn that Intel has just released their speediest SSD-based SATA drive to date [press release]. Unfortunately, it’s still a long ways from taking advantage of Thunderbolt’s bi-directional 10Gb/s transfer rates (effective: 1.25GB/s). The SSD 510, nonetheless, boasts an impressive 500MB/s read, 315MB/s [...]

It’s official. DirecTV has just unleashed their iPad DIRECTV experience controller app [iTunes]. Feature highlights include: customizable remote, 14-day EPG complete with show metadata, DVR programming / playlist, quick access to channel favorites and other customizable home screen modules, on-demand movie listings, and a pretty nifty sports scores and schedule pane that you can set [...]

After a 'video only' start, the DisplayPorts on most Apple machines have been carrying audio too, since 2010 (check compatibility with your individual model). Now there's an inexpensive and tidy solution to send that audio and video from your Mac to your HD TV via HDMI. The Apple Mini DisplayPort to [...]

With CES and the Super Bowl behind us, it’s now time for new HDTVs to hit the markets, including the latest Quattron HDTVs from Sharp. The company says its new series of Aquos LE835 3D LCDs will be “shipping soon,” and has provided pricing details.The four televisions in the series, which range in size from [...]

Bob Carver is a familiar name to home theater enthusiasts that have been in the game for a while. He's famous for - among other things - copying the sound
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Wow, apparently Google wants to turn Android into the ultimate entrainment platform — beyond supporting smartphone and tablet apps. The company has begun flipping the switch on some of its server configured Android Marketplace URLs for books (now live), movies, and music which were discovered last week. So what does this all mean? Google wants [...]

I’m reading Intel’s press release for their new Thunderbolt I/O data connection technology that boasts a bi-directional data transfer speed of 10Gb/s through a PCI Express interconnect — which is awesome. However, today’s hard drives can’t take advantage of those speeds because SATA drives — even the latest SATA 3.0 drives [PDF] — aren’t that [...]

Looks like Apple is moving past shared network folders for file transfer. Apple, in Mac OS X Lion, will provide users the ability to auto-detect and share files wirelessly, sans a local area network, with other Mac OS X Lion users using AirDrop (will be located in the Finder sidebar). Apple states: “…[users will] even see contact [...]

Michael Robertson, the founder and former CEO of MP3.com, announced yesterday at the Launch Conference that his next project will be a DVR-like service for Internet Radio called DAR.fm, which stands for Digital Audio Recorder. According to Robertson, the service provides a searchable list of talk and music stations that one selects to record (now [...]