Michael Riggs

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DLP: Tales from the Dark Side
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 4, 2007
At the CEDIA Expo, Texas Instruments announced the latest generation of its Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) technology, dubbed DarkChip 4. The company claims even better reproduction of black and dark grays than achieved by its current DarkChip 3 devices (never mind DarkChip 2 and the original, now antediluvian DarkChip).

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More Storage for Your DirecTV HD DVR
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 12, 2007
Ever run out of room on your DirectTV HR20 high-definition DVR? (I don't, maybe because of my HR20's propensity to stop recording episodes of a programmed series for no apparent reason, but maybe your luck is better than mine.

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3rd-Gen HD DVD Players & Firmware Updates
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 6, 2007
Yesterday at the CEDIA Expo in Denver, Toshiba announced three "third-generation" HD DVD players: the HD-A3 (available October at a suggested retail price of $300), HD-A30 (shown, September, $400), and HD-A35 (October, $500). Aside from its lower price and sleeker profile, the HD-A3 breaks little new ground and shares the 1080i max output resolution of its predecessor, the HD-A2.

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All that glitters
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 13, 2007
Yearn to unleash your inner Liberace? Jimmy Crystal can help. (I'm not sure if that's just the name of the company or the name of an actual guy. Billy's brother, perhaps?) He can encrust pretty much anything in crystals, it seems, and some of the designs are pretty amazing. The one above is actually rather tame.

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Always Worrying About the Wrong Thing
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 26, 2007
Not always, really, but a lot. So I like it when people start talking about something I consider important but largely overlooked — color, for example.

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