20
Dec
Author: admin // Category:
TV & Home Theater
You’re looking for a home theater system. You want something that provides quality image and sound, but you don’t want to pay through the nose for it. You also don’t know all the technical jargon or what makes a good system. Do you need those bells and whistles? How good is the system equipment you’re considering?
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23
Oct
Author: admin // Category:
TV & Home Theater
Yahoo! Tech has a review of the Vudu Movie Player that was announced back in April of this year.
The Vudu Movie Player is a set top box that you connect to the internet via broadband (no PC needed) and download movies to play on your TV. You can rent or buy the movies, and there’s over 5000 titles available to watch (a lot more than iTunes and Apple TV). At $400, it includes a 250 GB hard drive, enough for 100 hrs of standard definition movies. You don’t have to wait to download movies, because popular titles come pre-downloaded for the first 30 second snippets, and peer-to-peer networking enables a faster download (all the live Vudu boxes work to share the load).
So how did the review turn out?
Pretty good overall, but there was a concern about sound quality on some titles. Also, you don’t have the option to rent OR buy on all titles; sometimes you have to buy to view the movie, and sometimes you’re just allowed to rent it. Still, this is a pretty nice little setup that should improve as more titles and features are added (the software can update from its broadband connection).
Other Vudu reviews:
