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FlipShare TV Makes PC-to-TV Easy!

Those little Flip Video cameras make shooting and uploading Web videos portable, compact and easy—even letting you upload from the camera straight to Facebook. But Flip is taking a stab and doin...

A Music Lover's Impressive Home Theater
Close-Up

Klaas Jan Guchelaar loves music. So much so that he's found a career as a concert photographer in the Netherlands. When he's not snapping priceless moments at Living Colour concerts he's sitting back...

The Share TV Could Save Marriages

What's the number one subject couples fight about? Television. OK, so we're sure that the answer is actually 'money,' but 'TV' has got to be way up there. But where there's a problem, somebody's inve...

Mini Movie Theater: MiLi Pro

We've talked about the MiLi Power Pack for the iPhone before, and just when you thought MiLi couldn't get any better, they've released a device that will allow you to project the movies you usually ...

Samsung's Blu-Ray Player Streams Netflix and Pandora

Have you adopted Blu-Ray technology into your home? After it kicked HD DVD's optical butt in this generation's version of the VHS-Betamax format war, it seems like more and more households are buying ...

Aluminum DVD Shelves for Budding Cinephiles

There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to DVDs -- flaunt or conceal. Some of us like to show off our wicked taste in the cinema. Others like to hide their copies of Real Cancun and Sl...

Close-Up: A Homemade Media Cabinet to Fit Every Pastime

click for more pics Brian Watkins installs home cabinetry in San Bernardino, California so when his son thought it would be a good idea to have a place that could hold on the newest and greatest video...

How To... Film Time Lapse Video of Garden Growth

Over the past week, every time we walk our pup we're reminded of the fact that Spring is upon us. It's as if overnight all the trees, shrubs, and flowers agreed it was time to push out some blossoms....

How To...Sell Old DVDs in a Few Clicks

Last weekend we decided to get our Spring cleaning on. We went through everything, purging where we could. As we went through the storage containers we had forgotten about years ago in our closets we...

Always Use Protection: Read-Through Skins for Media Disks

Our media disks have a lot of everyday hazards to deal with every day. You think nothing of a closing DVD player drawer or a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but for DVDs, CDs and Video Gam...

Look! Industrial Metal Table Has Second Life as Media Console

As we've seen, there are many ways to watch TV. Buying a bonafide TV console isn't your only option. Rather, you can turn almost anything -- sideboard, public school desk, or in this case, a steel ta...

Netflix Flirts with HBO Streaming
Would You Pay Extra to Watch?

We don't have cable, though we sure do love watching TV. The main reason we don't is that we don't agree with the cable payment structure. Why do we have to pay close to $100 for hundreds of channels...

LendAround.com: Helps You Borrow DVDs from Friends

I got an email last week about a new online service that helps people lend things to one another. It's called Lendaround.com and was founded by Tim Jackson, who is a "venture capitalist, entrepreneu...

Tech Tour: Americana With a Silicon Valley Twist via Sweden

Names: Henrik Nyh and Johanna Öst Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Size: The entire home (a condo) is 63 square metres/678 square feet. Years Lived In:: Just over one year now. >>Enter Slideshow We fe...

DIY TV Riser: Use Door Stops to Lift your Boob Tube

We don't know about you, but we've often made sacrifices in our TV viewing because we just had to use a certain vintage credenza to hold our CRT. With our TV just a tad too low, we find ourselves slo...

What a Difference a Flat Screen Makes

Kelly, who lives in Gurnee, Illinois, has quite the living room. Not only does she have an xBox and a Wii, but she's got an old school, coin-operated, Donkey Kong arcade system! What we love about Ke...

Look! Floor to Ceiling Audiophile Wet Dream

We saw this on Flickr and didn't even know what the majority of the stereo equipment was in the photo. Naturally we had to know so we emailed Thomas and found out what he's got going on in his living...

Sharp Aquos: A New Way To Reduce Your Cable Clutter

One of the things that's so frustrating with home theater systems is the amount of wires that are just lying around. There isn't that much you can do about them, unless you are ready to find some inve...

iRecorder Gets Your Movies to Your iPod

Watching movies on the go is a great little pleasure of the 21st century. But, as with all technology, we take a mile when we're given an inch and we've complained about what we can and cannot get on ...

Hot Posts 10.07.08:This Week's Hot Posts

What a week. The stocks plunged, the senate and the house couldn't agree on a bailout until Friday, and Biden and Palin went head to head in one of the most watched veep debates in history. Well goll...

Look! TV Mounted Above Fireplace

There are lots of places to place a flat screen when you're willing to look to your walls for support. Jonathan Craddock and his wife decided the empty spot above their fireplace was the best place f...

Look! White Is the New Black

Oooh how we love white electronics. We're not sure if it started with the iBook or with Woody Allen's Sleeper, but there's something about a room filled with shiny white things that just makes us fee...

Hot Posts 09.14.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

Our hearts go out to those affected by hurricane Ike. When will this gusty season end? Ok, Debbie Downer moment over. On a lighter note, we had a great week of posts (both old and new) making the t...

LG's Portable DVD Player is Sleek and Affordable

We don't yet have kids, so we don't understand the infallible necessity of having a portable DVD player for thos long car trips—ya know, like all the way to the farmer's market across town. If y...

Hot or Not? Terminator DVD Player

I'll be back... as a DVD player! This Endoskeleton turned DVD player was given out as a prize during the release of Terminator 3 in Japan. More pics after the jump......