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- GoPro Motorsports HD Hero
- GoPro had a hit on its hands with the first-generation GoPro Hero. The small camera combined decent video quality and rugged reliability in a small package that was easy to use in action-based scenarios. However, the Hero wasn't without its flaws. Finicky battery choices that often cut recording sessions short...
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 - headset
- Wireless headphones have been around for a while, but it's only been in the past few years that quality has gotten high enough for discerning listeners to consider using them. Many manufacturers, for instance, have turned to infrared IR technology for wireless signal transmission, which powered the Turtle Beach X4...
- Product reviews 2009-11-20
- Zvox Z-Base 575
- Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 575Sound bars feel like they've been around forever now, but they're still a relatively new product; consider that the groundbreaking Yamaha YSP-1 debuted back at CES 2005. Since then, the exterior design of the units hasn't changed much, with the vast majority still consisting of a long...
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- Boston Acoustics Duo-i plus
- Editors' note: The Boston Acoustics Duo-i Plus is nearly identical to the Horizon Duo-i we reviewed a year ago. Not a lot has changed since then aside from the addition of full support for iPhone playback. While the Horizon Duo-i worked with the iPhone, the device had...
- Product reviews 2009-11-13
- Zvox Z-Base 525
- Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 525Surround sound and its accouterments tend to dominate a living room, requiring an AV receiver, several speakers, stands, and wires to make the whole thing work. That's why many people choose to skip surround sound, opting instead for the tinny acoustics of their TV speakers. Single-speaker solutions...
- Product reviews 2009-11-11
- Onkyo SKS-HT870
- Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- 2010 Infiniti QX56
- Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- Onkyo HT-S7200
- Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-S7200"True" home theater fans may look down on home-theater-in-a-box systems, but sometimes that elitist attitude is unwarranted. The Onkyo HT-S7200 may technically be an HTIB, but that's just because it comes in a giant box; the system is composed of two separate components, the SKS-HT870 7.1 speaker package...
- Product reviews 2009-10-27
- Tritton AX900
- Among all the video game accessories available today, no other market seems to be expanding as rapidly as the video game headset. With most current-generation consoles able to produce 5.1 surround sound, finding a headset solution to handle such a request is now much easier than before. We've tested a...
- Product reviews 2009-10-22
- News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Gadget Gal's daily deals: RCA sport media player, Dell Inspiron desktop, Sony digital photo frame
- An RCA sport media player, a Dell desktop computer, and a Sony digital picture frame. Here are your daily deals for Monday, October 5, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the RCA S2001 Jet 1GB Rechargeable Sport Media Player from Woot.com today for only $7.99....
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- If open source were a monopoly
- As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Gadget Gal's daily deals: PSP Go, Dell Latitude notebook, Toshiba Regaza HDTV
- A sale on the soon-to-be-released PSP Go, a Dell Latitude laptop, and a Toshiba Regaza 40-inch LCD HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Monday, September 28, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Save 15 percent off of gaming consoles, phones, GPS, MP3 players, video cards and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Eos Converge Wireless Receiver
- After a CNET reader asked us to figure out a solution to get laptop audio streamed wirelessly to a receiver, we came across the Sound Blaster Wireless System for iTunes and Receiver. While the system worked well, we were disappointed to see that the included remote control was only...
- Product reviews 2009-09-25
- Eos Converge Wireless Transmitter
- After a CNET reader asked us to figure out a solution to get laptop audio streamed wirelessly to a receiver, we came across the Sound Blaster Wireless System for iTunes and Receiver. While the system worked well, we were disappointed to see that the included remote control was only...
- Product reviews 2009-09-21
- More electronics salespeople recommend Samsung, not Sony LCD HDTVs
- Why Samsung?Inquiring minds want to know.Is it just because Sammy makes Sony's panels?RE: Why Samsung?Good question. MAYBE - Samsung reaches out to them more? Just speculating, but when I did retail computer sales (15+ years ago) we had vendors reps that were in the store all the time. They did...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- TiVo sues AT&T, Verizon over DVR patents
- Seems to me..Tivo is a bit out of line.......trying to patent the digital recording of TV programs. Unless I'm missing something I was doing that 14-15 years ago on my home computer. (and that's recording one channel while watching another... it was built right into my video card)....
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart
- In our opinion, the most fun you can have in a car is driving a twisty mountain road, negotiating hairpin turns as fast as possible without overshooting and taking a tumble down a 100 foot cliff. Big dogs like the Cadillac CTS-V and the Audi S8 are no good for...
- Product reviews 2009-08-20
- Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set
- Sony LCDI can see why Sony's sales are dropping in the HD market. Their projection LCD's are a piece of junk and high priced. They don't even last a year before they require service, and usually completely fail at 5 years or less. I'd stay away from...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Sound Blaster Wireless System for iTunes and Receiver
- A while back we were asked about an easy solution to stream audio from a laptop to a receiver. It seemed simple enough, but we soon found out that there weren't too many practical or inexpensive ways to accomplish such a task. Creative has offered a solution to the...
- Product reviews 2009-08-14
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