Nero Liquid TV - TiVo Your PC

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Internet, Movies, Software

TiVo and Nero have teamed to make Liquid TV software. It includes the simple TiVo interface to watch and record TV shows and movies in HD and Standard formats on your TV or PC. Liquid TV has the ability to burn to DVD or hard drive, pause, export to PMP or iPod, and schedule recordings in the U.S. and Canada. The package includes TiVo’s Season Pass, WishList, and a 12 month subscription to the service, and comes with tuner for your PC and remote. All in all, this is a fine deal for $199.00 that will be out October 15. If you already have a tuner, Nero is offering the software separately for $99.00, TiVo subscription included.

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Nomad Portable Speaker

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Music, Portable Audio / Video

Based on a 1930 vintage design, the Nomad Portable Speaker is lightweight and very mod looking with its wood cabinet, leatherette handle, and tweed vinyl accents. The 11.25 x 7.5 x 5.25-inch device has a dedicated aux input for your MP3 player/iPod, a telescopic antenna, and on/off/volume and tuning knobs. With its electronic tuner, you can choose AM/FM/Aux input with a simple switch. An iPod/MP3 cord and AC adapter are included, but not the 4AA batteries it requires. The speaker can be pre-ordered for $72.00.

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Horizon Duo-i Dock Makes iPod Noticable

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Accessories, Misc. Tech, Music, Portable Audio / Video

Boston Acoustics has a deluxe dock for impressing almost anyone. With AM/FM stereo and 15 station presets, you can listen to your tunes while charging your iPod or seek out noise-free stations worldwide on the Horizon Duo-i. It has dual 3 1/2-inch full range speakers, BassTrac audio processing, and a high contrast display that automatically adjusts to the light level. Add to that an alarm clock with sleep timer and snooze control, a remote, 2 aux inputs, and line and stereo headphone outputs, and you have one sweet music machine at a price of $199.99.

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Sony Gets Back to Musical Basics

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Music, Portable Audio / Video

While we know that most people are into the MP3 experience, many of the older

“earlier” generation still use cassettes for recording and duplication. Besides, if you head into any bargain aisle, you can get some decent prices on tapes. Sony has issued the CDF-W77, a dual dubbing tape recorder with AM/FM tuner. In case you have some of both or want to take the plunge in digital music, there is a CD player included. The CDF is available for €100 (~$146.00,) at this point only in Japan.

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Duck Radio Relieves Stress

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Misc. Tech, Portable Audio / Video, Toys

Still cleaning up from all the Thanksgiving hoopla? Take a nice long bath with the Floating Mood Duck Radio. His right wing features an on/off switch for lighting. Turn his head clockwise for volume control for AM or FM. To change stations on the tuner, simply give his tail a tweak. The duck is available for £12.99 (~$27.00) and we suggest at least 2 hours of stress relief with some aromatherapy salts thrown in for extra pampering.

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Infobar 2 Makes Japanese Debut

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Cell Phones, Corporate News

The Japanese company KDDI, in cooperation with Sanyo, has unveiled its Infobar 2 cell phone, the newest generation of the original created in 2003. The device features a 2.6-inch OLED, supports 1-Seg for mobile and reserved TV on its tuner, a 2M cam and a micro SD expansion slot. At a size of 47 × 138 x 15.5 mm and a weight of 104g, the battery allows about 290 minutes of talk time or 350 standby. Check with Sanyo for price and availability on this side of the planet.

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Hitachi Releases 3-in-1 Recorders

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Movies

At last someone has understood that we love our old VHS tapes and are reticent to give them up. Hitachi has three new 3-in-1 recorders that play both VHS tapes and HDD/DVDs. The DV-DH250VH has a digital and analog tuner, HDMI, and holds 250GB. There are also two models which hold 500GB, the DV-DH500VH and the DV-DH500H. Expect a late October or early November release. We think this is a fine idea if we can just figure out how to use the multi-button remotes.

Read More | Hitachi (translated) via Akihabara News

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Cooltone Fridge Comes With Music

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Household, Misc. Tech, Music

This is more than just your ordinary kitchen appliance. The Cooltone mini-fridge can hold 20 cans of your favorite brew, 4 two liter bottles, or six wine bottles and comes with more accessories than you probably ever though you would need on ice. It has a digital, top loading CD player, integrated speakers, a digital AM/FM tuner with up to 32 preset buttons and LCD, a link for your PMP, and an integrated alarm clock with snooze. There are also inputs for headphones and external speakers. The refrigerator comes with remote in case you drank all the Cooltone’s contents and can’t seem to get up to shut off the music. All this, and perhaps a hangover as well, can be yours for $260.00.

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iRadio For International Music

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Internet, Misc. Tech, Music

Here comes one more iGadget. TerraTec’s Noxon iRadio allows access to over 10,000 Internet radio stations in addition to your own music library. Stations are sorted by country and genre, and included software makes it easy and compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux. There are five preset buttons as well as a speaker unit and a headphone plug-in. Musicload is offering new customers free access to their Nonstop service which features more than 2 million tracks of music. That’s a lot of sound for €229 (~$319.00.) The iRadio comes with a remote (batteries included,) power adapter, and CD-ROM software.

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iRiver to Release New B20 PMP

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Handhelds, Misc. Tech, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Video Games

iRiver has unveiled its new B20 PMP with a 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen, integrated mono speaker, DAB/FM tuner, multi-codec video and digital audio playback, and Flashlite game support. It also features a digital photo album and an SD card slot. The PMP will have access to 7 video and 10 audio channels with its advanced Dclick System. Arriving later this month, the DMB receiver will be available in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB capacities and promises up to 27 hours of listening time.

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