HDTV Cables

Best Buy’s Rocketfish brand is typically offered as a less expensive alternative for home theater and computer cables. If you’ve bought any sizable piece of hardware from the huge electronics chain and managed to get out without buying Monster cables, you’ve likely been proffered the cheaper Rocketfish cabling. Best Buy appears to be changing things up a bit with the Rocketfish brand though, as …
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If you’re looking for a really cheap HiDef Television (to complete your really cheap home theater), Wal-Mart has a 32-inch Emerson LCD HiDef Television for under $250–$248, to be exact. This 720p HiDef Television has three HDMI input ports, one component port, and one S-Video input port, and the price (according to the Wal-Mart Website) has been slashed $100 from $348. The set has an unimpressive 2500:1 contrast ratio, but what …
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Viewsonic recently launched the VMP70 HD digital media player, a direct-connect player that lets you hook up a external hard drive or USB flash drive to your HiDef Television. It delivers up to 1080p quality video and home theater-quality audio. The player serves HDMI, Composite (YpbPr), Component (CVBS) and SPDIF inputs, as well as two USB 2.0 [...]
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It was nearly a year ago when storage giant Western Digital rolled out its WD TV HD Media Player, which consisted of mostly a tiny box with a USB port and HDMI and composite-video output and a remote control. The idea was to attach your external hard drive to the device, then send your media on said drive to your HiDef Television. There’s something to be said for simple solutions, but the WD had some …
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Seagate woke up and smelled the coffee, adding a much needed 1080p HDMI output port, Ethernet connectivity, and Dolby Digital and DTS 2.0 to their FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player. The new FreeAgent…
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Looks like our dreams of a discrete, low cost home theater PC are about to be realized. ASUS has a new EeeBox PC EB1012 touting a dual-core Atom N330 ( just as rumored ), NVIDIA MCP7A ION graphics, a 250GB SATA hard disk, 2GB of DDR2-800 memory expandable to 4GB, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n WiFi, S/PDIF 5.1 audio jack, and HDMI out. As such, this little 222 x 178 x 26.9mm box should handle your …
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