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Sorry, I Can't Hear You: I'm an iPod User April 17, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterQuestion: Is a loud MP3 player or your choice to self inflict damage by cranking the device up responsible for making you go deaf? Aaron McKenna looks at the iPod and hearing loss controversy and asks whether or not we really want to open that can of worms. Read more
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The i's Have It: iPod Amped Speakers From Apple And Klipsch April 13, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterApple's iPod Hi-Fi commands a premium price for what's essentially an amplified speaker system with iPod dock. But when Jean-Pierre Roche compared it to Klipsch's iGroove and iFi, he found that it held its own pretty well. Read more
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Confessions Of A Serial HTPC Builder - Part 2 April 6, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterPart 2 of Michael Baggaley's series explores whether smaller is better when it comes to building Home Theater PCs. Opting for an MSI Mega180 small form factor PC and an ATI 9600 passively-cooled graphics card this time around offered a quieter and more-stylish HTPC build - albeit with some unpleasant surprises. Read more
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Who Designed This Crap? The Great Ipod Scam April 3, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterMany can no longer live without Apple's Ipods and Itunes? Some need a daily Itunes fix. Others lust after the money to be made by getting on the "I" bandwagon. Not Barry Gerber. He's fed up with Ipods and Itunes and argues the world might be a better place if they never saw the light of day. Revised 04/05/06. Read more
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Confessions Of A Serial HTPC Builder - Part 1 March 27, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterMichael Baggaley likes to build Home Theater PCs and will be describing a few of his builds for us. Part 1 of this series examines a water-cooled oldie, which was low on decibels but a bit too loud for most non-geeks' decorating tastes. Read more
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HTPC Remote Possibilities March 20, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterRemote controls are must-haves for anything you need to control from the comfort of your couch. Siggy Moersch reviews six alternatives for making your Windows HTPC more living-room friendly. Read more
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DIY HD HTPC Extravaganza - Part 3: Tuners, Graphics, & Putting It All Together March 7, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterIn our final installment, Siggy surveys quiet graphics cards, TV tuner cards and products for multimedia control and display. And we finally show the details of both our test builds. Read more
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DIY HD HTPC Extravaganza - Part 2: Mobos, CPUs, Memory & Power February 28, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterPart 2 of our build-your-own HTPC series surveys the wide world of motherboards, CPUs, memory and power supplies and comes up with the picks to match our chosen case. Read more
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Two smaller MP3 player offerings... much smaller February 24, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterForget about the Zen and iPod-how about a cube-shaped MP3 player so small that you can actually lose it on your desk? Read more
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DIY HD HTPC Extravaganza - Part 1: The Cases February 22, 2006 | Digital Entertainment | Home TheaterThe choices available for building your own Home Theater PC keep broadening. In Part 1 of our latest HTPC series, Siggy Moersch makes his selection from ten contenders to house a quiet, yet powerful HD-capable system. Read more