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Now that I’ve got an HD TV, my old Tivo seems very deficient. I can’t record any of the HD signals, and the defects in the picture from the Tivo show up much more on the high-def screen. What to do, what to do? Tivo hasn’t said much about when they will introduce an HD […]

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To all you basketball fans: CBS claims that they broadcasting all the games this year if you have digital television. Our local Channel 5 has 3 digital channels available and the schedule is full of games starting Thursday morning. I understand that Cox and Cable America will also be carrying all the games. Arizona tips […]

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I got my SXRD TV for my birthday last week. I am both ecstatic and disappointed. It’s a 60″ Sony HDTV using “LCOS” technology (a kind of microdisplay rear projection similar to DLP or LCD Projection). At its best, the image is astounding, jaw-dropping. The local PBS station broadcasts full HD (1080i) travel, cooking and […]

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The newest Intel CPU (due out in the fall) leap-frogs AMD in performance. See here. It has 20 – 40% better frame rates on games than the AMD chips, and outperforms generally across all tests. This is very good news for Intel — AMD has been kicking their butts for a couple of years, especially […]

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Here’s a cool extension for Firefox: IE Tab There are a few web pages that don’t work right in Firefox, and you have to open them in Internet Explorer (IE). IETab will open them in IE embedded in a tab in Firefox. Furthermore, you can tell it once when a site needs to use IE, […]

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I love the FoxIt PDF reader; it’s much faster and cleaner than Adobe Acrobat. However there were a few printer bugs in the version I have been using — some things didn’t scale or rotate correctly. Foxit Software has a new realease out (still version 1.3, but build number 1413) that seems to fix the […]

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