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Bang & Olufsen Introduces 3D LCD TVs; BMW Surround Audio Systems
Brent Butterworth  |  Aug 26, 2011  | 

Bang & Olufsen knows its customers value style and ease of use more than being the first on the block with the latest thing, so the Danish company tends to wait for the bugs to be worked out of new technologies before it embraces them.

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Battlefield 1 Review
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Nov 12, 2016  | 
Battlefield is easily my favorite video game series. I think I’ve played every variation.

So keep that in mind when I say, this might be the best yet.

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Battlefield 3 Free Open Beta Wants You!
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Sep 30, 2011  | 

One of the most intensely anticipated games of the year, blah blah blah whatever...

GO DOWNLOAD THIS!!!

Battlefield 3 is in open beta until October 10th, which means you can play it in all its semi-buggy glory for free.

I'll help you sort through the hiccups after the jump.

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Battlefield 4 Free Beta
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 11, 2013  | 
Battlefield is back, though thanks to an endless supply of add-on packs, it doesn’t feel like it ever left. Right now you can play the upcoming BF4 for free, as part of an open beta. Is it worth checking out? What does the beta say about the new game? Will it be worth buying? I’ve been playing for many, many hours, so that should probably tell you the answer to at least one of those questions. The rest revealed after the jump.
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Battlefield 4 Review
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Nov 01, 2013  | 
As I expected, I’ve been playing a lot of Battlefield 4. In some ways, my initial thoughts were correct, this really is a polish of BF3.

However, what I didn't expect, is that in that polish, it’s actually a better game. A definite improvement over its predecessor. The little tweaks and changes combine to make something greater than the parts marginally improved.

Thoughts and such, after the jump.

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Battlefield Hardline Review
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Jun 06, 2015  | 
I’ve been playing Battlefield Hardline and for the first time in the Battlefield series, I’m not sure I can recommend it. Not to Battlefield fans like myself.

Battlefield fans not like myself, maybe.

Here’s why.

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Beating A Dead Horse: Why Test Standard Definition Anymore?
Geoffrey Morrison  |  May 02, 2012  | 

The ability of a display to upconvert standard definition content (like a DVD, or many cable/satellite channels) was once a key component of its overall performance.

But now, most TVs do a reasonable job, and more important, I don’t think most people actually have any SD content.

Should we bother to continue testing it?

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Better With Age: The Coolest Vintage Gear
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 24, 2012  | 

Every time I visit Vancouver vintage gear dealer Innovative Audio, I find it difficult to keep my mind focused on anything.

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Binge Watch This: Stranger Things
Lauren Dragan  |  Aug 26, 2016  | 
Do you like sci-fi? How about 80s horror films, a-la Stephen King? Are you a huge fan of the Goonies and Stand by Me? Did you play Dungeons and Dragons as a kid? If you answered yes to any of these questions and haven’t watched the Netflix original series Stranger Things, then stop everything right now and go watch this show. I’m serious. It’s that good. Binge-watching to avoid spoilers is worth clearing your schedule this weekend. Still not convinced? Here’s what you need to know (and why you need to watch this show)
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Bomb Squad Academy Review: A Puzzle Game and More
Geoffrey Morrison  |  May 05, 2017  | 
In this clever puzzle game you learn about how electronics work... and it's fun. No, seriously.
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Bon Iver “22, A Million” Review
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 08, 2016  | 
Wow. Album of the year?
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Bose @ 50: A Look at The Legacy, and What’s Next
Lauren Dragan  |  Oct 03, 2014  | 
This week, at a massive loft space in NYC, the people of Bose constructed a temporary museum of sorts: an impressive array of both consumer technology and fascinating prototypes, chronicling the company’s history. Bose is celebrating its50th anniversary, an accomplishment for any company, but especially in technology, a field where so many businesses launch with great fanfare only to sink into obscurity. Built on the shoulders of engineer, MIT professor, inventor, and entrepreneur Dr. Amar Bose, the Bose corporation began with a single product, the pod-looking Bose 2201. The 2201 screams 1960s design aesthetic. With its burlap-esque fabric and wooden housing, it’s fun to imagine what stereophiles thought of this unique and bizarre design in a sea of rectangle and square speakers.
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Building a Better Wi-Fi Audio System
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Mar 12, 2012  | 

A few weeks ago I reviewed the Altec Lansing inAir 5000. It wasn't bad, but for $500 I would have hoped for more. That seems to be the case with many Wi-Fi audio systems these days, and that got me thinking:

For the same amount of money, could I build an audio system with similar functionality, similar footprint - and that actually sounds good?

Challenge accepted.

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Bundling the Awesome: Volume Deals from StoryBundle, Humble Bundle, Amazon, and More
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Aug 10, 2012  | 

The Internet has allowed millions of creative people to offer their works to the world, without the gatekeeper of traditional publishing.

This can be good and bad. There’s good in that there are fewer roadblocks for creative people. The bad in that without that gatekeeper, there’s no “pre-check” of quality. Not to say that everything from a publisher is good, just that the assumption is that somebody looked at the thing before it went out. Without this initial eyeballing, how do you sort through the slag to find the gems?

Enter: Bundles.

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Bye, Bye, Microsoft
Brent Butterworth  |  Dec 27, 2011  | 

When I attended my first Consumer Electronics Show in 1990, Microsoft was a relatively small company that had had one real hit (MS-DOS) and was struggling to gain traction with its other applications. I don’t think the company even exhibited at CES back then.

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