Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre
canadian_right writes “A Calgary man was fined $1,495 and banned from theaters for a year in the first conviction under a new Canadian law making recording a movie in a theater a crime. Until the new law took effect in 2007, prosecutors had to show evidence of distribution to get a conviction; now, recording without permission is sufficient. The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association was disappointed that jail time was not given.” The man was also banned for a year from possessing any video recording equipment, even a video-capable cellphone, outside of his home.

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Gefen HD Scalers
Want an affordable upscaler for your HDTV display? Gefen introduced the Gefen Home Theater Scaler and Home Theater Scaler Plus. Both scale signals all the way up to 1080p. The Gefen Home Theater Scaler ($449) offers these inputs/outpus: - two HDMI inputs each with digital audio (optical and coax) - two component video inputs each with analog (RCA […]

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Toshiba TDP-FF1AU

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How To Play Lossless Music In Windows Media Center
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AMD Reports Second Quarter Results
AMD (NYSE:AMD) today reported second quarter 2008 revenue from continuing operations of $1.349 billion, a seven percent decrease compared to the first quarter of 2008 and a three percent increase compared to the second quarter of 2007. As part of its previously communicated review of its non-core businesses, AMD decided to divest its Handheld and DTV product businesses, and therefore is classifying them as discontinued operations¹ for financial reporting.

Palm Sand v1.0 for Palm
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Palm Sand is an application for Palm handsets. Its actually a game which might come in handy when a break is needed. Palm Sand will let you play with sand no matter how far you are from a real beach. The game comes free of charge and it will work on most Palms out there. It supports both 320×230 high resolution and 160×160 low resolution which means you can enjoy it no matter what handheld youve got. It comes with a fancy skin user interface and it has 5 types of sand droppers and

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Archos TV+

Archos TV+ This Apple TV competitor doubles as a DVR and lets you surf the Web from the sofa, but it’s not nearly as intuitive as it could be. 249

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Motorola EQ7 Wireless Hi-Fi Stereo Speaker

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LG Unveils Wireless Stereo 3G Music Phone
LG Electronics (LG), a pioneer in innovative mobile convergence technology, is set to launch the new LG-U890, a slim and wide screen music phone equipped with stereo Bluetooth in March. LG-U890 is the latest arrival in the MUSE (Multimedia with Unique Style for Entertainment) series of LG. The model provides an advanced audio function through Bluetooth stereo audio. Compared with the average Bluetooth mono audio used in most 3G mobile phones, its Bluetooth Stereo maximize its mobile jukebox,..

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Samsung Eternity a867
The Samsung Eternity SGH-867 is a 3G enabled multimedia-rich device that supports Mobile TV, Napster Mobile, and AT&T Navigator. Key features include a 3.0 megapixel camera, 3.2″ touchscreen display, motion sensing games, haptic feedback, TouchWiz UI, microSD slot good for up to 8GB and stereo…

Unhappy People Watch Lots More TV
Avid television watchers make for grumpsters.

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Wine gadgets for the tech-savvy connoisseur (San Diego Transcript)
This week I check out some of the interesting gadgets for wine enthusiasts. Included are those that help us open, preserve and enjoy wine, as well as a few other items that are hard to categorize. I tried most of…

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