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When music is compressed to fit your iPod, it can lose a bit of its soul. But connect your iPod to a Yamaha RX-V659 Receiver with a Yamaha YDS-10 Universal iPod Dock, and your music will spring back to life. Features: Universal iPod docking station custom designed for select Yamaha home theater receivers Plays your …
Got a broken iPod? If you can’t fix it yourself or don’t have the money to get it repaired by iPodMods, then you can always rip it apart and make an iPod dock like Andrew Monks. This photo montage on flickr shows how he teared apart his existing iPod dock and jammed it through the …
Say so long to “Saturday Night Live” regulars Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz and Finesse Mitchell. When the show returns Sept. 30, those three will no longer be in the cast. The shift had been expected since the summer, when executive producer Lorne Michaels revealed the show would be leaner. Back this season are Fred Armisen, …
The Polk Audio SurroundBar uses a patented combination of signal processing and sound-effect geometry to produce surround sound without rear-mounted speakers or special room requirements. In other words, it’s not necessary to bounce sound off the walls or re-arrange the furniture in order to get an immersive experience from the SurroundBar. Unfortunately we don’t have …
The Dallas Cowboys’ matchup with the Washington Redskins handed NBC another Sunday night victory, easily overshadowing two competing season premieres on CBS and ABC. Excluding the pregame show and adjusting for time-zone discrepancies, NBC drew 18.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s estimates. Meanwhile, ABC’s premiere of ”Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” with Marlee Matlin as a …
Apple has been selling movies in iTunes 7 for a full week now. How are sales? According to The Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney says they’ve sold 125,000 movie downloads totaling $1 million in revenue. Not bad for just 1 week. “This is just the beginning,” Disney CEO Robert Iger told Wall Street analysts at …
Turner Broadcasting System’s GameTap broadband-entertainment network added enhanced parental controls and new kid-friendly entertainment and educational games. The programmer said the new filtering feature enables parents to select games and content appropriate for each member in the family. And educational titles now available via GameTap include Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, Putt Putt, Jump Start, Clue …
iTunes 7.0Originally uploaded by mike3k. After you download and install iTunes 7, you may be a little surprised at the new user interface. It doesn’t even remotely resemble the standard Mac OS X Aqua theme set. iTunes 7 has a much flatter and darker appearance like a Windows or Java application. The reaction to the …
Miller Tabak & Co. media analyst David Joyce initiated coverage of The Walt Disney Co. with a “buy” rating and $34 per share price target. In his research report, Joyce said that on the upside, Disney’s brands and characters are known around the world, there is still room to expand its cable-network presence internationally. Additionally, …
ABC News is producing a series of exclusive videos for sale on Apple’s iTunes Music Store that combine unused or archived footage into new reports. First series of specials will include pieces on UFOs, extreme snowboarding and ABC’s own “Grey’s Anatomy,” along with archived news reports called “The Day It Happened” and “Celebrity Flashbacks,” featuring …
Apple saved the music business with the iPod. Can they do the same for Hollywood? In the five years since the iPod’s rollout, Apple has locked down the online music business. 1 in 5 Americans owns or has owned an iPod and consumers have downloaded more than 1 billion songs from Apple’s iTunes music store. …
All those would-be “Apprentices” who got the boot from Donald Trump’s TV boardroom, take solace: Carolyn Kepcher, who hovered over many a firing during five seasons of the NBC series, has herself gotten the axe. The blonde exec, who was chief operating officer of two of Trump’s golf courses, was reportedly let go because promoting …
It feels odd being at work today, it should be a day to pay tribute to those whose lives were so tragically lost. That’s hard to do sitting behind a desk. Although I’m attending a vigil in Wagner Park this evening. We couldn’t leave our building between 4:00 and 5:30 w/o being questioned by NYPD …
LG Electronics and Sharp Corp. said they expected prices of flat LCD television sets to drop by 20-30 percent or more in 2007 amid overproduction and cost reductions. That’s basically it – cheaper Plasma TVs. It’s a good thing. read more | digg story This blog is part of the MethodShop.com Network
Fox Sports Net has announced that it will now offer national HD telecasts in addition to its existing local and regional HDTV efforts, broadcasting 15 of its 23 national telecasts of Big 12 and Pac-10 college football games in 720p high-def. The games will be available on FSN HD, which can be seen nationally on …
