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Definitive Mythos Home Theatre Speakers

Modern designed homes and flat panel plasma screen have made the standard big box speakers looking out of place in many homes. Enter stage left - the Mythos Series Home Theatre Speakers are engineered to work together in mix-and-match systems within the Mythos line. You choose the main Left & Right speakers based on your own audio desire, the size of your room or the size of your television. Match it to a Mythos Center Channel Speaker, and then add matching Mythos Speakers as Surround Channels; use the same Mythos Speakers as your mains, or choose a different, more convenient size. Add a SuperCube Subwoofer or two to round out the system with thrilling bass effects; Mythos is designed to work   perfectly with SuperCube Subwoofers (highly reccomeded, since they can sound rather tinish without a sub).

DLO Home Dock

The DLO HomeDock Deluxe is an iPod dock that lets you view and select your iPod's music on your TV screen. The Dock lets you view current song information and navigate playlists, artists and albums from the sofa.

Looks like I will have to get one!

Here are the facts as I copied them from DLO's web site.

• Shipping March 2006
• Easily connect any dockable iPod to your Home Stereo & TV
• View and navigate iPods music directly on your TV screen
• Works with ALL Dockable iPods, including iPod nano and Video iPod
• Plays iPod videos on large screen TV via AV connection or S-Video
• View picture slideshows with music on your big screen TV
• Control everything from the sofa with the included 20 Button Remote Control
• Fully Powers and Charges iPod while in use
• Includes all necessary cables incl. AC Power Supply and AV Cable

You can visit DLO here for more information.

MacWorld, my absence!

This is the first time in years that I am not at MacWorld, this sucks!  I'm betting on a complete line of Intels PowerBooks (a Micro would be great), and 34", 42", and 50" plasma's from Apple with built in Mac Mini's,  AirPort, HDMI, etc.

One Cable to Rule Them All.

One connection for all device mania has hit, and it's about damned time!

Today's breaking news is that a beavy of computer industry heavyweights want to create a new device connection between your monitor and computer called the unified display interface or UDI, by Q1 2006. This interface will not only be used for computers but also for consumer entertainment electronics unifying the two, seperated at birth, industries. UDI will be backwards compatible with DVI, and looking forward, will be compatable with HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), the standard digital interface for High Definition TVs (HDTVs). Sadly, UDI will also use High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), a technology used today in HDMI-compatible products to prevent copying media to other devices.

Industry heavyweights involved in the movement to create this new interface (folks, it's just a new fangled cable) include: Apple, Intel Corp., LG Electronics, National Semiconductor Corp., Samsung Electronics and Silicon Image Inc., NVIDIA Corp., THine Electronics Inc., FCI, Foxconn Electronics Inc. and JAE Electronics Inc.. You can read the entire press release at eHome Upgrade.

Although this sounds to be an improvements, we already have a tangle of cords hidden behind our desks to deal with today. Lets take a look at a short and incomplete list, video (DVI/VGA), sound, three variations of USB, two variations of FireWire, our ancient standard power cord, ethernet, and now the Computer/Entertainment industry wishes to add another cable... whew, it almost makes a tech geek like me want to run and hide. I hope that this new cable standard will carry sound, USB and FireWire to the monitor, so that the snarl of cords really does get tempered.

This news follows closely on the heals of South Korean cell phone manufacturer's initiative aimed at creating one cable for all cell phones, making it easier for consumers to utilize their devices, and increasing the sales of cell phone accessories. You can read more about this development at engadget.com.

One Cable to Rule Them All.
One Cable to Find Them,
One Cable to Bring Them All
And in the Darkness Bind Them!