Secrets

If you have a relatitively new satellite receiver box from DirecTV or Dish Network, it probably has a USB port on the back. What's it for? Well, if you don't ...

My cable company giveth, my cable company taketh away. The good news is that I am getting more HD channels. The bad news is that putting more HD into the pipe m...

CBC Television here in Canada has a long running no-commercial consumer watchdog type show called Marketplace.  This week the show caught my eye because they to...

Well, I am paying $4.00 a gallon for gas now, and it will go to $6 probably within a year, maybe sooner. I have a big SUV because I really need one, to carry l...

The news talked about how some commercial theaters are offering unusual settings to get customers to come to the movies. One offers meals and drinks while you w...

Our fearless publisher, JJ, is embarking on a quest to determine whether indeed vinyl sounds better than CD (or SACD, for that matter). Being that this is SECRE...

Most people who've never been to Canada, and even some who have, think we live in a perpetual ice age.  News flash: with the exception of a minority of the popu...

I tried to watch a new Blu-ray release on my Sony BDP-S1 player last night. No sale. It froze at the beginning of the movie. So, I checked the Sony website, a...

I was listening to the mix-down of a recording session I played in recently. The production was top-notch, but THE MUSIC ALL SOUNDED LIKE THIS! It was compress...

In case you missed it last week, Oppo Digital posted the first post-launch firmware update for the exquisite 983 DVD player. It came to my attention only becaus...

I just finished reviewing The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in our Movie Renter's Guide. I also just watched a documentary on Jesse Ja...

When the 2004 Acura TL came along, it had one of the first sound systems that could handle surround 5.1 audio from DVD- Audio discs. I was in the market at the ...