Tag Archive for 'home-entertainment'
OpenFrame is a home phone and information center developed by OpenPeak that’s meant to make the experience of talking on your house phone a much more twenty-first century experience. And if there’s one area that’s been left behind, it’s the home phone!
High-end AV specialists Parasound have announced their latest preamp, the Halo P 7, which is intended to cater to multichannel music and surround sound from Blu-ray, DVD-Audio, and SACD players as well as to traditional stereo sources. To do so, it incorporates both 2-channel and 7.1-channel analog preamps, with a range of balanced XLR and RCA [...]
Boston Acoustics is at it again, this time serving up an all-in-one iPod speaker dock that brings high power and sleek design together in a somewhat affordable package. Acting as a follow up to the Horizon Duo-i, the iDS2 is all speaker.
Universal Remote Controls have announced their entry-level MX-450, intended for custom installers and - unusual for the segment - capable of macro programming directly from the device itself, rather than requiring connection to a PC. The system, called MacroEdit, gives a graphical illustration of each step in the macro, making it straightforward to tweak and [...]
We’re finding out more details about the Sony DMX-WL1t, the companies first WHDI device to transmit video wirelessly in your home. The device first showed up in January at CES, and is making another appearance now, but now with more details.
While speaker-bars aren’t particularly new - they sit underneath your TV and aim to create pseudo surround-sound from an array of angled cones - they’re usually marketed as convenience tech rather than something for audiophiles. In fact it’s taken an ex-NASA scientist to make that claim, with the soundmatters SLIMstage40: 170 Watts from eight internal [...]
Gefen have unveiled three new component video distributors, intended to make connecting multi-room A/V straightforward. First, the 4×4 Component Audio over CAT5 Matrix enables a direct connection between any four component video sources and four displays while supporting digital and analog audio inputs and outputs. Meanwhile, the two new distribution amplifiers from Gefen enable A/V systems [...]
People interested in technology and home entertainment like to get their hands on the latest, greatest products. Before, it was all about having the top of the line DVD player, receiver and speaker system. And though those things still hold serious importance, there’s one product type that seems destined to swoop in on the home [...]
Case manufacturer Antec has taken the wraps off of its latest HTPC case, together with a new range of “Multimedia Station” add-ons to make existing computers more home-entertainment friendly. The Micro Fusion Remote 350 is compact 4.5 x 15.1 x 16.1-inches and includes an aluminium front panel with IR receiver, remote control and LCD display. [...]
High-end home entertainment manufacturer Xperinet has shut up shop, blaming the US economic downturn and the fragile housing market. We only wrote about the company once before here at SlashGear, at the launch of its clever but indecently-expensive Xperinet RAIDsync system that promised to synchronise various media servers whether in the same or spread across [...]
