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Cooltone Fridge Comes With Music

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smart Home, 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.

iRadio For International Music

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

iRadio 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.

iRiver to Release New B20 PMP

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

iRiver B20 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.

PS3 to Get PlayTV Tuner DVR Accessory

Posted by Paul Hamilton Categories: Accessories, PlayStation 3, PSP, Sony,

PlayStation 3 TV Tuner Sony announced in a Leipzig press conference a new digital tuner to be released in early 2008 for the PlayStation 3 that will allow it to display and record TV, effectively turning the console into a PVR. In addition to the PS3 recording and playback functionality, the tuner will also be able to transmit the signal locally or via WiFi to a PSP adding Slingbox-like capabilities to the accessory.

So far there has been no announcement of pricing of the unit, dubbed the PlayTV.

Analog TV Will Cease to Exist in 2009

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,

The Bad News

Analog broadcasting, as we now know it, will end by February 2009. When the time comes, your TV has to be capable of receiving digital signals or you will end up with a very large paperweight. If you have satellite service or cable they will provide you with anything you need, but if you use an antenna you will need an ATCS tuner.

The Good News

If you need the tuner (which costs between $50.00 and $70.00,) the government will help subsidize your purchase if you apply for up to two $40.00 coupons between January 1 and March 31, 2008.

The Best News

If you have a VCR, or DVR with a digital tuner that will do the trick, so save your old VCR even if you never got around to fixing that broken belt. Contact the FCC’s site for more infomation.

TEAC Goes Nostalgic

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Home Entertainment, Music,

TEAC GF-650 TEAC’s GF-650 Retro Stereo System allows you to turn your old LPs into a CD collection. The player/recorder can deal with up 32 tracks of music that can shuffle or repeat. The auto-return turntable can handle 33 1/3 and 45 records and is compatible with T4P mount (P-mount,) and let us not forget the AM/FM tuner with horizontal scale rotary volume control. Just in case you have audio from cassettes that you want to transfer, there is also an auxiliary input. Stereo speakers and remote completes the 18 7/8 x 9 1/8 x 15-inch system contained in a 30’s style black wood grain cabinet which will set you back $449.98. You might have to eBay off one of your old LPs just to pay for it.

Shark Acts as TiVo for Your Tuner

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

Shark 2 How many times have you heard a tune on the radio and wish you had snagged it for your iPod, but you missed the opening notes? Wish no more, for Griffin’s recently upgraded Shark 2 acts like a TiVo for your tuner. With a USB connection, the device saves the music through your computer that you can mix later and add to your iTune playlist. You can also set up timed broadcasts with its software and it’s compatible for both PC and Mac.

Available with an antenna extension you also can receive a free edition of Snaptune one, which turns the Shark into a veritable do-all by scheduling, exporting, cataloging, and labeling artist and album information. At a MSRP of $49.99, we think it looks rather gnarly, dude.

Ferrari Gets Into Home Entertainment

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment, Music,

Meridian F80 Put the name Ferrari on something and you can either assume it is of quality or expensive, or both. Their latest endeavor is their teaming up with Meridian to create the F80 Home Entertainment System, which looks neavou riche but is basically a glorified boombox. The gadget, which comes in red, yellow, silver, black, or white, features an FM/AM/DAB tuner and DVD player. Its 3 amplifiers feed two drivers in front and one rear-firing sub. Hook it up to your TV and you have something that will really fly.

Be prepared for a price tag of ~$3500 for the Limited Edition or ~$2900 if you just want to stick to basics. You can then let your NASCAR buds in on the action. Check with Meridian for details about its release date.

ATI Xilleon 260 HDTV Processor

Posted by Brian Viele Categories: HDTV,

On September 1, ATI announced that they would be releasing the newest addition to their line of HDTV processors, the Xilleon 260. The new 260 is the successor to the current 240 chip which has received much praise and success. The 260 is the first system-on-a-chip that supports full HD for worldwide DTV (digital television) standards including Europe, Japan, Korea and North America. Advanced features include HD deinterlacing, 3D comb filter, dynamic contrast, noise reduction, sharpness, and color control to deliver top quality end-to-end performance. Xilleon 260 also offers a full audio subsystem for home theater applications.

The Xilleon 260 is currently being distributed in samples to its customers, and will likely be in use in set-top boxes within the next year. With the big push from TV manufacturers starting to release almost every model of display in full HD capacity, it’s only a matter of time before people will be looking for set-top boxes with the Xilleon 260 logo.

Nakamichi Unveils IN-DV7

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

Nakamichi IN-DV7 We have more news from Berlin’s IFA. Nakamichi introduces the IN-DV7, a DVD/TV/Tuner that they claim will “revolutionize your in-car entertainment experience”. The IN-DV7 has a 7”, 16:9 Wide-screen as well as a built in 4-channel MOSFET amp.

Other features include:

Active Matrix LCD Panel
Full Automatic Motorized TFT LCD Flip-out/up
Touch Screen Control
DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW compatible
VCD, SVCD, DVD media Formats
MP3 Direct track Access
60 Sec ESP

At an MSRP of $1699, the IN-DV7 could be the perfect solution to those long LA freeway commutes, but couldn’t they just have named it Fred?

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