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Yamaha's MusicCast2 Fills a Whole House With Tunes

The MusicCast2 does a great job of letting you select and play tunes from a PC via your existing wireless network. You first have to install and configure the included DLNA-compatible media server, but after that you can select songs via artist, album, ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Carrot Top,  Sonos,  WIRED Magazine

Even the Oldest, Crappiest Video Can Shine (Just Be Ready to Pay)

When you watch an HDTV at the store, you can bet that you're watching perfectly clean, non-interlaced HD clips — in short, canned content designed to make your TV's picture look pristine. And chances are your HD channels at home will look similarly ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

B&W Panorama: A Beautiful Sight Producing Beautiful Sound

Let's be honest: Nothing can replace an eight-speaker 7.1 system blasting sound at you from all sides. But for a wall-mounted bar not much thicker than your HDTV, the B&W Panorama comes surprisingly close. Like all sound bars, the B&W fires audio from ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

iGo's Hyperviligant Power Strip Perhaps the Greenest of Them All

Most new "green" power strips help save electricity by shutting off printers and monitors after you switch off your computer. But the Power Tower takes the concept a step further. The Tower monitors how many amps your gadgets are drawing from its ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine

Kodak's Media-Streaming Master Does (Almost) Everything

This set-top box streams movies, music, and Web video, but its real focus is what made Kodak famous in the first place: pictures. The interface for Kodak's Theatre HD Media Streamer revolves around the photo experience. Consider this: Its Discovery ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Flickr,  WIRED Magazine

Survive the Setup, and You're Golden With Logitech's Universal Remote

There's nothing easy about configuring a complex universal remote control. Figuring out Logitech's flagship model is about as difficult as acing an advanced calculus class at MIT. To configure the 900, we had to not only install its control software on ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Logitech,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  WIRED Magazine,  Roku

Home A/V Gear Samsung UN46B7000 Television of the year

Think of Samsung's 46-inch 7000 as an aspiring model: impossibly thin, well put together, and connected to the Net 24/7. (It has a name you can't pronounce, too.) To attain the set's waifish profile, Samsung replaced the standard fluorescent backlight ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  WIRED Magazine,  Knight Rider,  Uwe Boll

Sony's TV Makes Even Web Video Look Good

Sony's 120-Hz television delivers terrific video and aces our video-processing tests. But what's more interesting is that Sony has finally integrated streaming video capability right into the set — while also expanding online content options. In ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sony,  Yahoo!,  WIRED Magazine

Mini Drills for the Big Boys

Once strictly kitchen-drawer dwellers, mini drills are swapping their quick-release bits for big-boy chucks and moving to the job site. Tight construction and a comfy grip engender confidence and make the PS30 seem even more powerful than its specs ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: WIRED Magazine,  Hitachi, Ltd.

Plug In and Pontificate Like You're on NPR

This microphone captures such sparkling highs and full lows that listeners might mistake you for Carl Kasell. But the Studio 1's hopped-up capsule (audio geek-speak for the part that converts sound to electrical signal) is so sensitive it picks up a ...

From CHUCK CAGE, Wired,  15 Jan 2009

Related Topics: NPR,  WIRED Magazine

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