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Christmas came early - again.

I’ve always liked the way English loudspeakers sound. My previous apartment was filled with B&W’s speakers, but I switched to KEF when it came time to equip the four home theaters in this house.

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DTS-HD Master Audio decoding comes to PS3 on April 15th.

Yes, finally! According to various sources and a press release by DTS themselves, your trusty PlayStation 3 will be able to internally decode DTS-HD Master Audio encoded soundtracks into multichannel PCM. Note, however, that the press release does not mention DTS-HD High Resolution at all. So don’t expect the PS3 firmware upgrade released on April [...]

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Unboxing: Denon AVC-A1HD.

Picked up a brand spanking new Denon AVC-A1HD A/V-receiver today. Well, I didn’t pick it up, actually. This monster of a receiver weighs something like 35 kilograms, which is way too much for my once-broken back. It was Mr. Marek himself who carried the huge box into my car. I had to wrangle the bas**** [...]

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How-to: Recover data from Terastation RAID-5 array with UFS Explorer Pro.

Step-by-step instructions on how to recover data off the corrupted Terastation RAID-5 array with Windows XP and UFS Explorer Professional.

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Terastation dies. How to recover data?

I’ve got a bunch of Buffalo Terastations, ranging from the first generation slow-as-molasses boxes to the latest gen Lives. I’ve configured each and every one of them as RAID-5 array for added data security. Recent events have taught me a lot about Terastations, RAID arrays and the necessity of backups.

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Unboxing: Panasonic DMP-BD30 (Region B)

I took delivery of Panasonic’s new DMP-BD30 Blu-ray player earlier today. It’s not a new product as such, as it’s been on sale in the USA for a while already. As usual, Europeans had to wait a few months to get theirs. Here are photos of the unit’s unboxing, with some brief comments.

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Review: Terminator 2 Steelbook Edition (HD DVD)

Toshiba’s HD DVD format lasted less than two years in the battle for the crown of next-gen optical media format. Toshiba threw in the towel in mid-February and placed a number of publishers in a rather difficult situation: what to do with titles that are already in the pipeline? German publisher Kinowelt had been working [...]

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T2 Steelbook (HD DVD).

Well folks, it’s here: T2 Steelbook Edition. Or, as the cover says, the “ULTIMATE HD-EDITION”. I guess we can call this HD DVD’s swan song - one of the last titles to be released for the rapidly dying format.

I received my review copy a few minutes ago. My first action was to try to play [...]

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On predictions.

Some of you may remember my earlier rants about the demise of HD DVD and the future of High Definition. In them I made a bunch of predictions, some of which turned out to be a bit bone-headed. I received plenty of flak for those opinion pieces; some of it justified, most of it… not [...]

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End of an era.

Toshiba conceded the Hi-Def format war earlier today. Rumours of their forthcoming announcement had circulated the net for some days already, so one can’t claim surprise.

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