Want to watch TV on the go? Don?t want to limit your viewing only to DVDs with portable DVD players? Well, it appears as though Archos may just have what you are looking for with its AV 700 Mobile DVR (Digital Video Recorder). The concept behind the device is straightforward: install TV docking pod in a one-time setup operation, record TV programs directly (live programming, movies or home videos), and watch on the go. You can playback video, audio, games and view photos all on the same device. An all rounder gadget, nonetheless!

Forget MP3 players, portable multimedia centers are the rage in consumer electronics these days. Archos? Gmini 402 promises quite a bit in a package this small. According to Archos, "The Gmini 402 is the latest ultra-small, ultra-light, ultra-slim Pocket Multimedia Center of the ARCHOS Multimedia Range. Its compact design, stylish appearance, and extensive functionality offers the future of mobile entertainment."

Now that you?ve set up your new entertainment system, you know what?s missing? A remote control, of course! The sleek looking Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote will let you configure and control your television settings, such as aspect ratios depending on the program source. The advanced remote will also let you pick different ratios for different programming. For instance, you can scale to a 16:9 ratio for movies and HDTV or a standard 4:3 for regular programming.

We have become so used to using our computer monitors at high resolutions that anything below it looks downright ugly, but at the same time, we get by at a resolution of 500 lines/inch! WAY below what we expect from even the cheapest of monitors.

It is summer and beharware.com has tested 11 ultra flat digital cameras. Eleven products in this survey are thin with metal body. Ten of them are 5 megapixels with 3X zoom and one is an 8 megapixels (it has been included it for comparison). 8 of them have 6.4 cm diagonal monitors, the thinner is 1.5 cm thick and one has an optical stabilizing device (!).

It seems that more people lately are striving to get that movie theater feel and sound in their living rooms. A home theater system allows for all the comforts of home and the theater experience combined. The choice of home theater components is vast and confusing. To the average consumer on a limited budget this can be even more frustrating. Luckily, many companies are packaging ready to go kits that are very easy to setup and contain everything you typically would need.

We?ve been thoroughly impressed by Samsung?s YP-T7 series that offers more than a few features including a 65K-color bright screen, support for OGG, MP3, Audio ASF, WMA DRM and WAV audio formats. Furthermore, it comes in three storage sizes including 256MB, 512MB and 1GB. Not only that, but the MP3 player uses flash memory, which makes it far more compact and somewhat rugged than standard hard drive players.

Have you noticed how the recent line of MP3 players from numerous companies has started doing photo slideshows and even video playback? The upcoming thing in consumer electronics, especially devices of such dimensions, is a multimedia player that would not only play audio files, but also video files along with photo slideshows ? all with a much brighter and bigger screen. For our preliminary look today, we have iRiver?s PMP-140 multimedia player that promises quite a bit.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Transcend T.sonic 610. Here is a snippet:

T.sonic 610 player can play WAV, MP3, and WMA files. It has a spectacular LCD screen and design. It is compact and portable beyond belief. It arrives with various types of straps to make the MP3 player even more comfortable to carry around. Not only can it play MP3 files, it can be used to listen to any local FM radio station. Furthermore, it can record sound with the microphone on the top left corner of the LCD screen.

The fact that digital consumer electronics are quickly replacing their analog counter parts only proves that it's only a matter of time before VCR's are on their way to extinction. The new players on the market are DVD recorders, cable of burning your TV shows to DVD recordable media. On top of the benefit of better quality recording, DVD's take much less room than a VHS tape. Today we take a look at one such DVD Recorder from Samsung that's capable recording in multiple formats, their DVD-R120 Recorder.

Overall, my experience with this product has been excellent. This aesthetically pleasing product was problem free, easy to install using a standard video connection and is packed full of features that will have your DVD player future-proofed if you decide to upgrade your TV to a high definition display sometime in the upcoming years. But with the advantages of this product, there are some hang ups.

Sonos first made the announcement of its digital music system back in mid-2004. Although the company?s plan was to bring the actual product to market in September, the final refinements of the music system took some time, and Sonos cleverly waited until the Consumer Electronics Show 2005 in order to display the final version of what can very well set a new trend in digital music systems everywhere.

4"x6" photo printers have a lot of advantages, which is why manufacturers are battling it out for market share. But be careful, because there are a lot of factors to consider, beginning with the choice of technology: thermal sublimation or inkjet. We took a look at seven different 4"x6" photo printers to see what their strengths and weaknesses are.

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We recently scrutinized the kind of picture you get with 26" LCD TVs, but we now go larger with a look at 30" and 32" wares. Does size matter when it comes to picture quality?

Archos' AV 400 already did it all: digital recording, TV capabilities, MP3 play and more. Now, for $300 more, you also get wireless, game console and PDA capabilities - which don't necessarily add up to justify the PMA 400's $799.95 price tag.

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Today we take a look at a new product from Samsung, their HD 850 DVD Player. The HD 850 features HD Up-conversion which is an all-digital process that takes a DVD's signal and converts it to match your HDTV's native resolution. This conversion eliminates video distortion and provides a great picture.

Cut the word "letterboxed" from your vocabulary: Sony's 17-inch widescreen monitor is both DVD- and HDTV-ready. And even if you don't have HDTV yet, this flat panel's built-in NTSC tuner makes it CNN-, ESPN-, or Weather Channel-ready, with picture-in-picture entertainment alongside your Web pages or spreadsheets.

Portable audio players have been taking over the market in full swing. There seems to be a recent boom in the amount of MP3 players you see on the market nowadays. Everyone from Dell and Creative to Sony and Olympus has jumped the bandwagon to become part of the latest trend in the music industry. In an attempt to compete against Apple?s iPod, many of them have forgotten the word "innovation".

In the early days of MiniDV, DV camcorders were reported to last approximately 50 hours. The reason for this was discovered to be a difference in tape lubricant across brands (more specifically, Sony having a different formula to everyone else) causing almost irreperable head clogging. Those days have passed, but a DVdoctor Column suggests that Sony have done it again with the latest high definition camcorders. This is a very serious matter for DV enthusiasts, who may be damaging their expensive recording equipment by using different tape brands.

What's the difference between EDTV and HDTV? DLP, and LCOS? What TV size is best? In today's article, Alexis sorts through all the acronyms, explaining the technology behind them. See which type of display might be best for you in our intro to high-end TVs!