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    Trump Rolls Back Online Privacy in Regulatory Shell Game

    I think your concern is dramatically overblown, particularly since ISPs have access to so much less data than Google. For details, see http://www.iisp.gatech.edu/working-paper-online-privacy-and-isps
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    Tidal: The Worst Music Service Online — Except for All the Others

    Google Play nicely integrates my home-stored music so that it's accessible via mobile devices and in my second home. For the vast majority of listening 320Kbps works great. The ability to download to mobile devices is a boon when wireless connections are spotty, eg at a football tailgate. It...
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    Enter to Win: Moshi Audio Clarus Earphones!

    (1) Comfort (2) Compactness (3) Sound Isolation (without noise-cancellation) I have more, but I've been limited to 3.
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    What Home Theater Can Learn from Apple

    Yes and no. It is far from a coincidence that the Apple user experience is uniform and that Apple makes (or licenses) all of the equipment. The tight control over the user process creates higher prices, a reduced level of innovation (except in the user experience, of course) and greatly...
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    DISH Hopper and Joey Whole-Home DVR Preview

    I did read the article (well... I glanced at it) but I still don't see what Dish has that DTV doesn't and hasn't had for some time, though I grant that some of the features are fairly new to DTV as well with the new HR34 which has 5 tuners, not 3, along with 2 TB of storage PIP and internet...
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    DISH Hopper and Joey Whole-Home DVR Preview

    But DirecTV has had this capability for over a year and a half. See here.
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    HDCP Master Key Cracked with $267 Custom Board

    I have ripped BluRays I own (thanks DVDCatalyst and MakeMKV) in order to put them on my Blackberry playbook. At the moment at least, no other way to watch non-streaming movies there.
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    Best Buy Sells Its Soul with Rent-A-Center Kiosks?

    People who can't get credit have a lot of problems. Give them advice if you like, Clint, but don't tell them what they can and can't do with their money. Do RAC and the like carry high interest rates? Sure... but that's because their clients are high risk. As patiently as you or I could say...
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    Columbia House is Back with Blu-ray - We Do the Math!

    I definitely go back to the old LP days. But the new ability to go to a website once a month and cancel the automatic shipment actually makes it look much better to me. The mail return was a real pain, particularly for a disorganized teenager. But a moderately more organized 55 year old may...
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    Netflix Drops DVD Queue Editing in Apps & Devices

    For those interested, a recent debate between a Wall Street investor who doesn't like Netflix's long run prospects here and a very cordial reply from the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, here. FWIW, I think Whitney Tilson has the slightly better argument if one really believes streaming is...
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    web-enabled jukebox?

    No. I used to have a CD jukebox and got rid of it once I went to a Squeezebox solution. Jukeboxes are just an inferior technological option: (1) long lags between CDs, making it almost impossible to program anything other than one CD after another (2) A nightmare to catalog, since the jukebox...
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    Super Bowl XLIV Uncompressed Feed: Will You Get The Immaculate Reception?

    I guess I'm a little confused by this. DirecTV still has to recode in MPEG-4. I presume they can vary the amount of compression they use in doing this, no? Or is there something else I don't understand?
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    Super Bowl XLIV Uncompressed Feed: Will You Get The Immaculate Reception?

    Well, I 'm pretty sure there are a lot of ways I could have been more wrong. Especially since I agreed with you on OTA. As to DirecTV, I've been an HD subscriber from the beginning and the shift to MPEG-4 dramatically improved quality. And as the link I pointed to made clear, it's...
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    Super Bowl XLIV Uncompressed Feed: Will You Get The Immaculate Reception?

    I think things are a lot more complicated than you're making it, as this AVS Forum thread makes clear. (Or sort of clear.) OTA is good, if you can get it. Comcast is probably bad, depending on where you are. But HD quality and compression and recompression are complicated issues for DirecTV...
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    sound bar question

    I really like my Yamaha YSP-4000 soundbar and asssociated sub,but posters above are right to note that it's pretty expensive vis-a-vis a 5.1 system.
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    Classical Music Sampler: Must Haves

    A few recommendations: Organ: the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony #3. The Organ is really only featured in the last movement, but you ought to be able to move some sound on a good system, and it's a great piece of music Orchestral: Berlioz Symphony Fantastique and the Schubert 9th Symphony ("The...
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    350$ (or less) NETFLIX and WIFI blu ray player

    I recently bought the Samsung. I already had a Roku box and the Samsung Netlix streaming is excellent. The Pandora add-on is good as well and I understand they'll be adding Blockbuster PPV soon. I'm very satisfied with the unit so far.
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    sound quality, mp3 vs cd's

    My 400 CD changer has sat in storage for a couple of years now... of course you can create playlists and such, but it's a mechanical system... it might take 30 seconds to change between tracks. And the interface to actually program a playlist are horrible. Use a computer, store lossless if you...
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    Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy Chapter 11

    It depends on what sort of bankruptcy it is. CC already had to pay for inventory in cash. What a bankruptcy can do is to actually enable manufacturers to begin offering credit again on new shipments, since the company can, at least in principle, get new credit sources not encumbered by old...
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