Geoffrey Morrison

Comcast XFINITY TV APP Streams onto the iPad

This download is a no-brainer for iPad-toting Comcast subscribers, but it's not perfect.

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted February 16, 2011

If you're a Comcast subscriber and an iPad user, make sure you download the XFINITY TV app. While not the streaming app widely hoped for, it's at least partially there. The killer feature is that it lets Comcast subscribers stream TV to their iPad from anywhere there's a WiFi signal. No 3G streaming yet. Before you get too excited, there's some limitations.

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Test Report: JVC DLA-X7 3D D-ILA Projector

This projector delivers image depth that other displays just can’t match — and that’s without the 3D turned on.

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted March 23, 2011

To understand the greatness of JVC’s DLA-X7 projector, it’s important to understand contrast ratio. Every TV and projector company rattles on about a million-to-one this and a billion-to-one that. How come? Because there’s no standard method to measure it. Result: Manufacturers can pretty much make up whatever they want.

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The Thrilling Dead: Dead Space 2

In Space, things go splat.

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted March 24, 2011

Dead Space 2 (Electronic Arts)
Xbox 360; also for PS3

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Test Report: Artison Portrait DualMono Speaker System

A stylish solution to a significant problem

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted April 1, 2011

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Test Report: Lirpa Labs Liberty Freedom 1776 A-FY Tower Speakers

The legendary Dr. Loof Lirpa returns—to bring speaker manufacturing back to the US

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted April 1, 2011
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Tron: Re-Entering the Grid

Tron created the template for extensive computer-generated imagery in movies. Three decades later, you can experience Tron: Legacy on Blu-ray 3D.

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted April 3, 2011

GREETINGS, PROGRAMS!

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Tron's Screen Gem

Disney's Second Screen opens another portal, on your portable.

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted April 3, 2011

First with the just-released Diamond Edition of its 1942 classic, Bambi, and now with Tron: Legacy, Disney is including a Blu-ray bonus called Disney Second Screen. After downloading an app to your iPad or laptop computer, you enable the program in the disc’s menu. The iPad/laptop now plays special features to coincide with your viewing of the Blu-ray on TV.

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Review: Samsung BD-D6700 3D Blu-ray Player

Packed with Style. Packed with Features.

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted April 20, 2011

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Digital Media Receiver Roundup

Four inexpensive boxes vie for your streaming dollar

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted May 9, 2011

DEFINING A NEW PRODUCT CATEGORY

I'm struggling with this: What do you call these things? Digital Media Streamers? Digital Media Receivers? How about media extenders, media streamers, or digital media adapters? Maybe Internet Streaming Devices? If you abbreviate that last one, it sounds a bit sinister. "Dude, I got an ISD." Annnnnnnd, you're on a list somewhere.

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Game Review: L.A. Noire

The beautifully realized Los Angeles of 1947 is the real star of Rockstar's noir

By Geoffrey Morrison
Posted May 18, 2011

You pretty much know what you're getting into with this game just from the title. A good, old fashioned, film noir crime drama based in Los Angeles. Think Chinatown or The Big Sleep, except you're controlling one of the guys from Mad Men.

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