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• Monday Night Football Buys First 103” Plasma

  Remember the monster sized man-eating HDTV ? It was Panasonic’s 103” inch plasma the largest production plasma screen made to date. The cost is outrageous, get ready to pay some $70K for the devil’s HDTV. That’s almost as much Read More... Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 10:10 AM by | 1 Comments Filed under: News

• EISA Awards for Electronics Excellence

  EISA or European Imaging and Sound Association gives out awards every year for excellence in consumer electronics products. Like many awards they announce the winners before the actual event which seems a bit anti-climatic. EISA is a collective of Editors-in-Chiefs Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:16 PM by | 1 Comments Filed under: News

• AMD Buys ATI

  Advanced Micro Devices, AMD the world's second largest microprocessor developer and bane of Intel announced that it agreed to buy ATI for $5.4 Billion dollars. ATI Tech is a Canadian graphics processor (GPU) manufacturer who makes many of the world's Read More... Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 2:41 PM by | 8 Comments Filed under: News

• Panasonic 103in Maneater Devours Girl: Are You Next?

  "The poor girl didn't stand a chance." Witnesses said at the scene. Panasonic unleashed a monster when it unveiled its world record breaking 103 inch plasma HDTV. Crowds gasped when the monstrosity was first unleashed at a public display. The crowd was Read More... Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 10:59 AM by | 7 Comments Filed under: News

• You can Download - Burn and Watch on TV

  Hollywood is slowly coming to grips with new economic opportunities to sell content over the internet. Movie and TV studios are actively seeking out contracts to distribute media files through the web. Both download to burn and media files that are playable Read More... Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:50 AM by | 1 Comments Filed under: News

• Circuit City Goes hi-fi with D&M Holdings

  D&M Holdings is the hi-fi collective that owns names like Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics. Their products by Denon and Boston Acoustics have been picked up by Circuit City . D&M Holdings is originally a Japanese corporation that formed with Read More... Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 4:47 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Xbox Live Retro Summer Games

  Well, tie my mullet with a bandana! Xbox Live is throwing an 80s Arcade game revival . I don't know about where you are right now but it's very hot and humid outside over here in HomeTheaterFocus land. Generally sitting around indoors playing video games Read More... Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 12:15 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Envisioneering Pronounces CableCard Dead

  A story about CableCard technology ran in the New York Times this month that quotes Richard Doherty of the market research firm Envisioneering Group saying: "The CableCard is essentially dead, It will go down in history like the Edsel." Heralded as successor Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:37 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Microsoft Media Player, DRM10 Goes WiFi

  The NY Times put out a convincing rumor yesterday about Microsoft's plans to get into the MP3 player business . The Times says they received information about a Microsoft digital media player that would be launched by Christmas from: “… entertainment Read More... Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 10:44 AM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Was the PS3 CPU Built for Gamers?

  It comes as no shock that most people employed by Microsoft believe the Xbox 360 is the superior console to the upcoming PS3. But Matt Lee engineer with Microsoft's Game Technology Group digs a little deeper than the average Microsoft artillery lobbed Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:57 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Philips Rushes to Wi-Fi with Draft-N

  Royal Philips Electronics just announced what might be a royal blunder for consumers. The Dutch electronics company cut a deal with French semiconductor manufacturer Metalink Ltd. The deal will give Philips access to Metalink's 802.11 draft-N chipsets Read More... Posted Monday, June 19, 2006 4:26 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Samsung Blu-ray Players Ship

  Samsung Electronics America Inc shipped North America 's first consumer Blu-ray disk player to retailers today. The playback device is scheduled to be sold to the US market on June 25th, that’s about the same day as the first Blu-ray movies. Samsung's Read More... Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:04 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• Top Home Theater Websites Announce: "Its show time!"

  It's the biggest union of Home Theater on the web since the Home Theater Alliance opened the balcony doors on its A-list of HT. Two Home Theater websites dedicated to consumer help have formed an uncommon bond that makes both bigger and better than ever. Read More... Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 3:34 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News

• TiVoCasting is Here; Is Anyone Impressed?

  TiVo, that little PVR service that keeps on ticking after repeated beatings is continuing to find new services for its customers. TiVoCasting is the new name of the feature unveiled yesterday by TiVo that will allow online content providers to send video Read More... Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 3:31 PM by | 2 Comments Filed under: News

• Circuit City Home Theater Support Forum Hacked

  Learn to protect yourself from the latest wave of Russian hackers! Mega-store Circuit City was unwittingly distributing a virus for the past two weeks before it was discovered and cleaned up yesterday. Circuit City 's Home Theater message boards were Read More... Posted Friday, June 02, 2006 6:50 PM by | 0 Comments Filed under: News