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This just appeared. No word on the official site yet as to what it does... Ryan

It's been eons since I posted here, but the arrival of a new Sony KDS-50A2000 TV has thrown my previously well-ordered home theater into disarray. I've pretty much licked most of the issues, but there's one thing left that's vexing me. I'm not sure if it belongs here or in Display Devices, so...

Sometime yesterday, Verisign added a wildcard A record to the COM and NET root nameservers, which resolves to 64.94.110.11, or sitefinder.verisign.com -- a big fat Verisign page. *Any* invalid hostname ending in COM or NET will now return this address. (Try it with nslookup. Scary.) This is...

I've had a crummy year (don't ask), and I'm strongly considering a "therapy purchase" of a spiffy new vehicle. I know there several gearheads here, so... I'm looking in the neighborhood of $26K-36K, though the actual lease payment will be the deciding factor on affordability. (Leasing makes...

Dylan fans everywhere were shocked by last night's show in Seattle. Not only did Dylan play piano on about half the songs, but played no less than three songs by Warren Zevon, who recently revealed he has terminal cancer and a matter of weeks, perhaps months, to live. What an incredibly...

http://www.stevehoffman.tv According to Hoffman's web site, "Cosmo's Factory" and "Willie and the Poor Boys" are coming soon on hybrid SACD (stereo only). First the Stones and now CCR. What a great week for SACD. Ryan

I'm building a "second system" for music only in good old-fashioned glorious stereo. (All of this new-fangled multichannel hoo-ha is happy in the home theater setup.) So far I've requisitioned a Sony CE775 CD/SACD changer and a pair of NHT SB3 speakers (and an old turntable :)) to very pleasing...

http://www.smr-home-theatre.org/ces2.../page_01.shtml Pioneer's new DVD/SACD MCh/DVD-A player was unveiled for the US market at CES yesterday. - February - $1200 - Native DSD decoding (not DSD -> PCM -> analog as in Pioneer AX10) - Bass Management for both DVD-A and SACD - Progressive Scan...

Copy-protected CDs are here as of today, and they won't work in: - DVD players - computer CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD drives - game consoles (PS2, etc.) - many car players with skip protection - many portable players with skip protection - many "high-end" CD players - CD copying decks...