[November] The first A/V component devoted to "place-shifting," Slingbox lets you access your TV channels from another room - or across the planet.
Connect Slingbox ($250) to your home TV, and when you're away from home all you need is a PC running the Slingbox software to tap remotely into whatever your cable or satellite
[April] LCD front projectors remain the home theater nut's secret weapon for getting the biggest high-def picture at the best price, and Sony's $3,500 VPL-HS51 delivers the best picture I've seen from an LCD light cannon.
This sleek machine's three LCD chips deliver crisp pictures with surprisingly powe
[December] There are two really good reasons why the pros are turning to Sony's consumer high-def camcorders - by professional standards they're cheap, and by any standard they produce superb video.
Attend any meeting of video professionals, and you'll hear talk of Sony's HDV-format high-definition cam
Getting the best picture resolution remains one of the chief goals of HDTV shoppers. But as I explained in last month's "Tech Talk," human visual acuity limits how much detail you can see in any image, live or onscreen.
To quote Janet Jackson (Ms. Jackson if you're nasty), "This is a story about control." And whether your lifestyle is Joe Schmo, Average Joe, or Joe Millionaire, control is something we can all use a little more of in our lives. Fortunately, achieving some level of control over our A/V systems is easily done.
Computer companies have been trying to get off your desktop and into your entertainment rack for a decade. Ever since the invention of tuner cards for PCs and giant computer monitors that doubled as TVs, they've been pushing the "convergence" of entertainment and computing on a wary public. The reception from A/V enthusiasts has been, to put it politely, less than enthusiastic.
R30 (Anthem/Zoe) celebrates Rush's 30th anniversary as a touring and recording unit. But your first gig was actually in Toronto in 1968, as you recounted in one of the archival interviews on the second disc. Do you remember what was on your setlist from that show? Wow. Let's see.
In a recent interview about The Aristocrats, you said, "It's the singer and not the song." I see the Aristocrats joke as having a Grateful Dead/Phish kind of vibe where people start within the same framework, but then go off in their own directions. It's very much improvisational, though it's more bebop jazz than Phish.
