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Entertainment
MPAA Is Still Trying To Plug Your Analogue Hole
2:40AM Danny Allen | Still use component connections with your pay TV box? Listen up: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has again asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to let studios disable analogue connections during certain on-demand movies. The FCC currently bans this, and here’s why that’s a good thing. More »
Music
11:48AM Nick Broughall | Do you spend your weekends pining over boxes of mixtapes a lost love sent you back in the 80s, miserable that you have no way of listening to them any more? Well rejoice! you can now enjoy the crappy analogue quality of cassettes again with Sony’s latest micro hifi, the CMTEH25. More »
Sony Still Making Hi-Fis With Tape Decks
11:48AM Nick Broughall | Do you spend your weekends pining over boxes of mixtapes a lost love sent you back in the 80s, miserable that you have no way of listening to them any more? Well rejoice! you can now enjoy the crappy analogue quality of cassettes again with Sony’s latest micro hifi, the CMTEH25. More »
Gadgets
Elgato Video Capture Records Analogue Stuff Directly to the Mac
2:20AM Jason Chen | Elgato’s Video Capture takes in analogue video—RCA or S-Video—and captures it directly to Macs via USB. More »
Entertainment
The Price is Right Will Lose 3.5M Viewers Come DTV Switch
12:00PM Andi Wang | Out of the 300 million Americans in the United states, 3.5 million are still not ready for the DTV switch come June 12. Is that 3.5 million people or households? Either way, 3.5 million is quite a lot, considering my non-english speaking nanny is already all over her digital converter. Get with it, people. [Switched] More »
Music
Why We Need Audiophiles
2:00AM John Mahoney | This is Michael Fremer. He’s listening to “Avalon” by Roxy Music on his $US350,000 stereo system. It sounds excellent. He’s a bit crazy, but if you love music, you need him. More »
Entertainment
The World’s Most Depressed People Watch the Most TV
5:00AM Jack Loftus | We’re presented with an interesting conundrum this fine afternoon. Exhibit A: A new study says unhappy people watch more TV. Exhibit B: People dealing with the switch from analogue to digital TV are probably the most unhappy TV watchers on the planet right now, next to anyone who’s been hoodwinked by the HDTV department at Best Buy. There was even a NASCAR wreck this week because of digital TV. So, if we use the powerful forces of logic on this little puzzle, we can deduce that the digital switch is making analogue TV owners unhappy, which makes them want to watch more TV, which they soon will be unable to do because the signal is about to get cut off. There have been wars started for less, so we anticipate come February 2009, the world is going to end, three years earlier that predicted. Take THAT, Mayans! More »
Cameras
RedScale Film Shows Analogue Photography Is Not Dead Yet, Thankfully
2:45AM Jesus Diaz | Leave it to the crazy Lomography heads to keep the flame of analogue photography alive and kicking in this cold digital world of ours, like an ’80s top-of-the-charts song always resisting to die: Their new RedScale Negative 100 film gives a vision of the world in intense reds, smooth oranges oranges, and mellow yellows look to all your analogue photographs, but also having highlights in other colours, which appear in an unpredictable way. More »
Entertainment
MPAA Want to Bung-Up ‘Analog Hole,’ Disable Piracy-Enabling Cable Box Outputs
11:15PM Kit Eaton | Movies movies movies… we all love a good show, but the lovely MPAA is up to some pretty strange shenanigans to ensure that you get to see some shows just once—until they’re out on DVD at least. The fab guys at the Motion Picture Association of America are petitioning the FCC on behalf of some major movie studios to close the “analogue hole” that may allow people to record movies broadcast on cable before they hit DVD. “The Petitioners’ theatrical movies are too valuable in this early distribution window to risk their exposure to unauthorised copying” runs the argument, and is why the MPAA wants “selectable output control” (SOC) enabled on some cable box outputs. More »
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Three Top DTV Converter Boxes Go Head to Head For Your Digital Dollar
7:20AM Sean Fallon | Somehow I doubt that many Gizmodo readers are concerned about getting a DTV converter before the February 2009 cutoff date–but then again, I’ve been surprised before. If you or someone you know falls into this category, Sound & Vision has taken the liberty of pitting the top three DTV converter boxes against one another to find out which one will be worth dropping your voucher on. These three boxes include: the Digital Stream DTX9900, the RCA DTA800, and the Zenith DTT900. More »
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