Rob Medich

Installations: S.E.A.L. of Approval

A former member of the military elite takes on a couple of detail-obsessed clients and cleans up after a shifty installer.

By Rob Medich
Posted October 3, 2007

Chris Wyllie has had his share of tough missions. As a Navy SEAL from 1994 to 2000, he was dispatched to the Persian Gulf, where he drove high-speed cigarette boats, supervised military electronics, and gathered photo intelligence.

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Installations: Meeting the Criterion

When the DVD maestros at the Criterion Collection wanted to create a new screening room, they reached out to S&V for help.

By Rob Medich
Posted December 6, 2007

Except for the color bursting from the reception-area movie posters - The Double Life of Veronique, Black Orpheus, and the Beastie Boys Video Anthology among them - the Criterion Collection's new Park Avenue South headquarters in Manhattan are styled in the same palette as many of the films that the company painstakingly restores and releases on DVD: black and white, with profound gray area

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Blade Runner: How Great HD is Made

The studio that just remastered the 1982 sci-fi classic shows us how a great high-def disc is made.

By Rob Medich
Posted January 4, 2008

On the Warner Bros.

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It Streamed From Outer Space

Full 1080p video and lossless audio at 80 megabytes per second — without a high-def disc? That's the promise of XStreamHD, a future satellite system.

By Rob Medich
Posted February 9, 2008

Could this be the Blockbuster-buster? The Netflix-kiss-of-death? The gear that will make Blu-ray blue?

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The Skinny on the New Skinny

When it comes to flat panels at CES, thin is in! Check out our gallery of anorexic tellys, present and future.

By Rob Medich
Posted February 8, 2008

How thin are the displays on display at this year's CES?

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The Dark Knight

Pioneer's future Kuro plasma left CES'rs in the dark — literally. See the TV that can only be seen when the lights go on.

By Rob Medich
Posted February 9, 2008

It's the talk of the Strip.

Everyone at CES who's had the privilege of witnessing Pioneer Electronic's future generation Kuro plasma in action wants to tell someone. That's because it's been like no other experience they've had while watching TV.

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Land of the Giants

Once again, CES is the place where TV manufacturers come to say, "Mine's bigger than yours." Check out the show's biggest displays.

By Rob Medich
Posted February 10, 2008

Got a really big living room? Got a really big entrance to that really big living room? And is your electric bill no issue? Then somewhere at CES, there was an über-jumbo-sized TV for you.

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2007 Editors' Choice: The Event

It happened in Vegas and it didn't stay there. Our photos take you past the bouncer and up to the podium at our 2007 Editors' Choice Awards blowout.

By Rob Medich
Posted February 4, 2008

We really wanted to invite all of you to our 2007 Editors' Choice Awards, 64 stories above Vegas. But then somebody said something about "fire codes," and that was that.

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M-Card: Possible

It's hard enough getting your cable company to cough up a CableCard. But ask for the newer Multi-Stream CableCard (which does the work of two tuners on one card) and you're asking for trouble. Here's our guide to scoring one against all odds.

By Rob Medich
Posted February 10, 2008

I never meant to hold the cable guy hostage. But there he was sitting in my desk chair just a few feet away from my plasma, watching the little "preparing" prompt on my TiVo setup screen spin round and round and round . . . Then round some more . . .

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A/V Maria! 12 Top Wedding Gift-zmos

What bride and groom wouldn't love the gift of video, audio, or gadgets? Here, a dozen prime nuptial presents priced from $12 to $2,500.

By Rob Medich
Posted June 5, 2008

The Guys' Guide for Making it Legal . Make your pals jealous by snaking great gifts, driving away in a h

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