"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

  There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical... By "we," I mean TiVo and me, who have united into a corporate Leviathan bent on erasing all televi...

Wish your DVR set-top box had a lot more storage space? Sick of losing that HD program recorded earlier in the week? Well here comes Apricorn to the rescue with their new 1.5TB DVR Xpander – the highest capacity DVR external hard drive available on the market. Featuring a dual eSATA/USB 2.0 interf...

Section: Video, DVD Players/DVRs, HDTV, Computers, Networking, Gaming, Trade Shows, CES You don’t have to be Bill Gates to have that techy, futuristic home hard-wired for your every electronic whim (although it wouldn’t hurt).  D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions developer for consu...

Section: Audio, Video, DVD Players/DVRs There are some companies in the world that aim purely at the upper end of the pay scale.  Denon has just released their new DVD-A1UD which costs a staggering $5,879, a price that us debt ridden unemployed mortals can only gape at. So what does it actually...

Section: Video, Content, DVD Players/DVRs, Video Providers Roku officially rolled out their Netflix set-top box back on May 20 and it went from available to unavailable very quickly. Within just three days there were already reports of 10 day delays, now with a few weeks we are learning that they ar...

Section: Video, DVD Players/DVRs, HDTV, Portable Video Sometimes, we just can’t let go – original eight track records, vintage clothes, hard-to-find comic books, first edition volumes… even with the digital age, some people still prefer to rock on with their analogs. If you (or your father) ar...

Section: News, Video, DVD Players/DVRs, HDTV That sound you hear may be the death knell for the set-top box/dust magnet in your home entertainment center. Sony and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association have announced an agreement that will place the cable companies’ technologie...

Section: Audio, Home Audio, Speakers, Video, DVD Players/DVRs, HDTV Samsung is treating all you couch potatoes out there with their latest products that might make you burn your wallets—the HTS-AS720 Home Theater System and the BD-P1500 Blu-ray player. Samsung is really teasing us with these n...

Section: Video, DVD Players/DVRs, HDTV Sony Japan has introduced two new Blu-ray recorders, the Sony BDZ-A70 and BDZ-T90. You got to give it to Sony for coming out with something new for every consumer product that they release. In the case of these two Blu-ray recorders, Sony has made their hard-dr...