Michael Antonoff

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The Download Challenge
Michael Antonoff  |  Feb 26, 2004

Napster is dead. Long live Napster 2.0. Out of the battle between the recording industry and the illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing services has emerged a new generation of legal online services that's rapidly changing the way people buy music.

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Dell Dimension 4600C Media Center PC
Michael Antonoff  |  Feb 23, 2004

Photo by Tony Cordoza

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CES04 Live: Driving to Convergence
Michael Antonoff  |  Jan 11, 2004

Hard-disk drives, the most mundane of devices, have the uncanny ability to launch whole categories of consumer-electronics products.

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Hewlett-Packard dc3000 DVD Movie Writer
Michael Antonoff  |  Dec 01, 2003

Ever since I got my DVD player and video hard-disk recorder, I've been itching to throw my VCR in the garbage. I haven't done it, though, since I have no other way to play my many VHS tapes - or even VHS-C tapes without using a camcorder.

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Adventures in High-Def
Michael Antonoff  |  Sep 21, 2003
Photos by Michelle Hood Normally, you'll find the former bat biologist Jeff Corwin and his TV crew keeping one step ahead of stampeding elephants in Botswana or some place equally exotic. But on this stifling day in late June The Jeff Corwin Experience is on location in New York City doing a show about how wild animals adapt to urban environments.
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What's on HDTV
Michael Antonoff  |  Sep 15, 2003

The transition to high-definition television really picked up steam this fall as ABC, CBS, NBC, and the WB filled their 2003-04 prime-time schedules with more hours of HDTV programming than ever before. During an entire week, these networks are offering some 70 hours of HDTV.

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Go-Video D2730 Networked DVD Player
Michael Antonoff  |  Sep 10, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza Using a standalone DVD player in the connected home seems so inappropriately standoffish. Why live by disc alone? That's the thinking behind the Go-Video D2730, a richly featured DVD player that's also adept at playing music or videos, or displaying photos stored on a Windows-based computer.

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Philips iPronto Wireless Home Control Panel
Michael Antonoff  |  Jul 28, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza Electronic program guides (EPGs) that help you choose what to watch from among hundreds of channels are built into a variety of devices from TV sets and set-top boxes to satellite receivers and hard-disk recorders. What they have in common is an onscreen display that, if it doesn't cover the TV picture, reduces the show to a small window.

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TiVo Series 2 DVR
Michael Antonoff  |  Jul 14, 2003

Photos by Tony Cordoza

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What's on HDTV? (June 2003)
Michael Antonoff  |  May 19, 2003

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