HDMI specifications are typically fairly private documents.  They’re reserved for those who are making products, have paid a licensing fee and signed an adopter agreement.  That’s true with HDMI 1.4 as well, to a point.

So you’ve got a whole lot of HDMI sources and a whole lot of HDMI displays.  You want them all connected, but you want to avoid networking.   What to do? Gefen’s 8x8 Cross Point HDMI Matrix may be your solution. 

As evidenced by this year’s Consumer Electronics show, glasses free 3D displays still have a long way to go before they’ll be ready for mainstream consumption.  Visisol and QTEC see a demand though, and they intend to satisfy that demand.

The first week of February is the last of the post-Christmas lull that comes every year.  We’re a week from The Wolfman and big budget pictures like Alice in Wonderland and Clash of the Titans are only a month away.  This week though, you may want to stick to the limited releases.

Velodyne’s new dual subwoofer amp is the newest addition to the SC-600 series.  It sports a pair of Class D amplifiers with 400 watts of peak power apiece. The SC-602 has a five band auto EQ bass correction system that adjusts to the room. 

It wasn’t so long ago that all we had for managing our massive DVD collections were flimsy manual DVD carousels.  How far we’ve come.  The S1 Blu-ray Disc Changer is capable of storing up to 100 Blu-ray discs.  It grabs meta deta from the disc – movie title, director, actors – and cover-art to display on the selection screen. 

If you’ve used a manual projector screen before, you’ve experienced how much of a pain it is to get the screen to roll back up.  When it works flawlessly, things are fine.  But when things go wrong, you’ve got one of two scenarios.   The first is that you could pull too hard and damage the screen or spring mechanism.  The second is that the screen could retract too quickly, knock over and even damage the installation.