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Some speaker manufacturers state that their tweeter's response extends to 30 kHz, or more. Amplifier specifications often state a flat response to 100 kHz. Is s...

I see that the car companies are gearing up to make cars that will operate solely on batteries except when you stomp on the gas pedal. They will drive 30 miles ...

Most folks agree that the home theater enthusiast is under threat from an ever-increasing variety of interactive communication, media, and multi-tasking applica...

I have asked a number of A/V companies how they are doing now that the US economy is floundering, and the ones that have significant European distribution netwo...

I wonder how Hollywood chooses which movies to release in high definition, besides the current ones at the Cineplex. I would have thought by now that all of th...

I went into a consumer electronics supermarket yesterday to browse while my wife was in a clothing shop next door. I hadn't been in one of those supermarkets in...

Someone reported an opinion that consumer electronics are headed for a big fall, namely plummeting sales. She was referring to computers and related products, n...

On March 29, Reference Recordings will hold the first-ever public demo of their new hi-rez, HRx data discs. These HRx DVD-Rs contain WAV files intended for play...

The other day, I saw a report that nearly half the USA GNP (Gross National Product) is based on intellectual property. That means software, music, movies, novel...

I was flipping channels the other night, and stumbled across a program about DIY projects gone awry (which proves that I really will watch anything in HD). The ...

I'm going to get an Oppo Digital 983H DVD player for myself.  As you've read here at Secrets, it is an excellent DVD player, actually the best ever made probabl...

The news reported that DLP projection capability is being developed for cell phones, so instead of looking at the 3" LCD panel on the phone, you will be able to...

Back in the days of CinemaScope, movies didn't have shadows. Everything was lit up like noon in the Sahara desert. There were the white hats and the black hats....

"March Surprise: Pioneer to End PDP Production": this was the title of the article from "Display Daily" in my Inbox on Thursday (March 6th).  According to the a...

A couple of days ago, the news reported that AMD is finishing a chip for computers that will replace the high end video cards (except for the absolute extreme c...