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Best Buy’s September 11-17 ad has Xbox 360 and 3DS deals

by NEWS on Sep 10, 2011 at 05:28 PM

FROM GAMERTELL - Best Buy’s latest sale ad has deals for people looking for deals on Xbox 360 systems, accessories or games or 3DS games.
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Pioneer “Taps” into AirPlay

by NEWS on Sep 10, 2011 at 11:41 AM

FROM APPLETELL - With the Pioneer and Elite branded Music Tap music systems, users can access, control and play back their iTunes music library throughout their home or apartment regardless of how and where it’s stored.
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Top 10 Gamertell posts for the week of September 04, 2011

by NEWS on Sep 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM

FROM GAMERTELL - Haven’t caught all of the Gamertell news this week?  Here’s your chance to catch up on this week’s top 10 articles!
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CEDIA 2011: Legrand Introduces airQast Network Audio System

by Dennis Burger on Sep 9, 2011 at 01:43 PM

Legrand is demonstrating its new airQast network audio system at this year’s CEDIA Expo. In this video, Product Manager William Bruggemeier gives me a rundown of the system’s key points.Contact info: Legrand 877.295.3472 Continue Reading »

CEDIA 2011: SurgeX Demonstrates Why Your Current “Surge Protector” Probably Sucks

by Dennis Burger on Sep 8, 2011 at 10:00 PM

Finding the booth you’re looking for on the crowded CEDIA floor can be a booger even with smart phone apps and interactive maps. There’s one company you never have to look for, though. Finding SurgeX is always more a matter of closing your eyes and listening for the little explosions.… Continue Reading »

CEDIA 2011: Anthem Introduces Statement M1 Amplifier

by Michael Riesenbeck on Sep 8, 2011 at 03:15 PM

Anthem is exhibiting at the 2011 CEDIA Expo, showing off a new addition to the Statement Amplifier Series: the M1 mono amplifier. The M1 is capable of 2400 watts when connected to a 120-watt/15-amp line, only occupies one rack unit, and features a heat pipe cooling system that allows multiple… Continue Reading »

CEDIA 2011: OmniMount Demos Play 40 Interactive Full Motion Mount

by Dennis Burger on Sep 8, 2011 at 01:48 PM

TV mounts are kinda like girdles: most people don’t use them these days no matter how much they help, and even the people who really like them have to admit they’re best hidden and rarely sexy. Consider OmniMount’s new Play 40 the Victoria’s Secret of mounts, then. A prototype of… Continue Reading »

Spoilers Officially Not Harmful, and Actually Beneficial to Story Enjoyment; Purists Cry Foul

by Jeff Kleist on Sep 8, 2011 at 01:15 PM

When Fellowship of The Ring flickered its last frame onto the screen, a lady lamented behind me that she couldn’t believe she had to wait a year to find out what happens next. So I turned around and told her that these books had been out for 60 years, and… Continue Reading »

CEDIA 2011: InstaPrevue Puts PiP For Every Input on Your AVR or DTV

by Jeff Kleist on Sep 8, 2011 at 10:39 AM

Hardcore Home Theater Enthusiasts usually don’t have a lot of trouble remembering what’s hooked up where, and we catalog the myriad inputs and devices in our heads and never have a problem remembering that the PS3 is on Input 2 on the HDMI switchbox, which is plugged into #3 on… Continue Reading »

Tea Party Zombies Must Die combines satire and shooting

by NEWS on Sep 8, 2011 at 09:35 AM

FROM GAMERTELL - Tea Party Zombies Must Die asks players to shoot undead versions of real politicians. Many of them don’t think it’s too amusing.
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HBO requires a level of content protection that is not currently supported by Airplay/Apple TV. This is a capability that might be offered in the future as per HBO GO

kate on
HBO Debuts HBO GO App for Apple TV, iOS, and Android
September 12th 2011 9:42 AM

Way to go Aidan! Congratulations on your discovery and deserving award.

JimP on
13-Year-Old Prodigy Looks to Trees for Our Solar Future
September 01st 2011 3:53 AM

Is there anyone that has use this 3D adapter kit, How good or bad do this adapter do ?


Good points John.  For me it sort of helps to answer my question but for different reasons. That is: in those instances where i have a fully DDD recording on LP, the CD will probably serve me just as well.  I will note that many early CDs sounded bad because they were made from compressed-for-lp slave copies of master tapes or (in the case of some “twofers” (2 albums on one disc) a smaller size file was used to squeeze all the info on a single disc (zappa’s overnight sensation/apostrophe disc was way tinny sounding and fared much better—after complaints—breaking them out into two discs at fuller CD resolution

Regqrding the sound of vinyl vs CD and distortion “hidden” in the LP, more times than not I was amazed to find out that distortion I heard on vinyl—and which I attributed to my less than perfect condition pressings—were actually on the original recording. I was surprised hearing certain records by Zappa, The Velvet Underground, Dylan, The Moody Blues and others on CD for the first time and discovering that my LPs didnt sound so bad after all ... it was the way the recordings were made!

I do believe that analog masters contain more sonic info than 44.1/16-bit clones would be able to capture.  But I have to assume (unless someone explains otherwise) that for recordings made natively in the digital domain, then those recordings are what they are…. they’ll never be anything more than what the original was recorded at.

So there is probably no good reason to keep a digitally recorded LP if I can get it on CD these days… unless of course it contains a mix that was later changed/remixed

Mark Smotroff on
Love Hz: Does the Sound Remain the Same? (Digital LPs vs. CDs)
August 17th 2011 9:53 AM

Hi Mark,

This has been my life’s work since about 1978.  We had some of the first digital multitrack recorders that 3M ever built, and a huge part of my life was supervising the cutting of analog (and later digital) tape masters into vinyl, following those lacquers through electroplating, and then the actual pressing into vinyl.  We had our own pressing plant, so I got to see it all happen every day, from trombonists coming through the front door to record jacket fabrication and excess vinyl re-grinding to make audiophile records.

The bigger point is not which sounds “better”—it’s what sounds most like what the mixer heard when he was working on it in the control room.  If you had the privilege, as I did for years, of sitting beside a mixer listening to control room monitors and watching as he went for a particular “sound”, often worrying himself about the accuracy of the speakers and the room acoustics, you would understand that the whole goal was to try to replicate what he heard. 

Analog tape was very good at that, but always lost a bit of transients, and increased the noise floor a bit, simply because of the limitations of tape.  Indeed it was often quite difficult to tell whether you were listening to the console output or the one-second-delayed playback head of the 2-track master.

When digital mastering came on the scene, first on videotape (we used black and white U-matics, which is why the weird sample rate of 44,100 came to be—it’s a multiple of the horizontal sync frequency of black and white videotape) we were all amazed at the transparency.  What we heard coming back from the digital deck was an identical sonic clone to the console itself, indeed showing the limitations of the console electronics.

Many consumers, however, had grown accustomed to the tracking and tracing errors and distortions that vinyl records inherently have.  No vinyl record truly sounded like what we were hearing on the mix console; it was several layers of distortion removed, with the distortions coming from the cutting angle of the cutterhead, the “de-horning” process which cut off the bottom of the grooves so that the vinyl would release from the stamper, and the inherent noise of the vinyl medum itself.

A CD is a much, much closer replica of what the original mixer heard on his board than an LP could ever be.  Now does that mean that you would rather experience what the mixer heard or experience what an LP listener of the era heard?  That’s actually a very serious question.  Almost no one who didn’t work in recording studios heard “clean” audio, and it was a very foreign sound to consumers, resulting in a lot of reluctance to accept digital media.  Consumers simply didn’t understand that they were, for the first time, hearing what we had heard in the production control rooms.  In many cases, the noise floor and distortion of the vinyl helped to cover up the limitations of the original master—making the CD sound “worse”.

I hope this helps, but I fear it may only add to the confusion.

John Wheeler on
Love Hz: Does the Sound Remain the Same? (Digital LPs vs. CDs)
August 15th 2011 9:14 AM

NW. I bet a tactile transducer connected straight to the desk couldn’t even do that.

BB1 on
How Much Bass is Too Much Bass?
August 09th 2011 8:53 AM

I have the streaming-only service.  One thing that ticks me off is - I am using a web-based service, right - but there are no web-based methods of contact with Netflix - go ahead, try to find a “contact us” that isn’t a phone number!  No email, no chat, nothing!

I wanted to complain about how they had lured me into their service, only to start dropping some titles I had expected to be able to watch (such as all of the, admittedly limited, selection of James Bond flicks).

I also wanted to complain that for weeks, the “Recently Watched” listing was missing.

MikeG on
Netflix's Latest F-You Communiqué
August 02nd 2011 10:59 AM

Wow i would be pissed if i was a Netflix user pisssssed. Here is a secret people. Corporations only get away with what you let them get away with. Hit their pocket book and they will suddenly start whistling another tune.

Carmen on
Netflix's Latest F-You Communiqué
August 01st 2011 3:48 PM

I don’t work for Netflix and I think the author of this article is a huge baby-man with an entitlement complex.

HORTENSIO. on
Netflix's Latest F-You Communiqué
August 01st 2011 3:23 PM

If you don’t like it, then cancel your subscription. It’s their company and they can charge what they like. Get a life.

HORTENSIO. on
Netflix's Latest F-You Communiqué
August 01st 2011 3:18 PM