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 as the Lutz’s paid for that house in Amityville NY back in the 70s.   The first ...

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 from 52 electronics specialty magazines from 19 different nations in the EU. ...

  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 top rated video cards for PCs. ATI was also awarded the contract from Microsoft to develop ...

''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 horrified when the uncontrollable beast actually devoured the lovely demo model ...

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 in mobile media players are starting to crop at some of the big services such as iTunes ...

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 the merger of Denon and Marantz and has since picked up several audio / video technology ...

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 is the last thing I'm thinking of when summer arrives. After a long winter it's nice ...

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 to the Digital Cable TV set top box CableCard is a special plug-in card provided ...

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 industry executives briefed on the company's plans ... who ...

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 at the Sony camp. His recent expose of weaknesses in the PS3's Cell Processor for gaming are ...