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Edited by David Dritsas
holding CD sleeves. We played with one for a few weeks, and while it’s not the best-sounding boombox we have ever heard, it is a lot of fun to bang around with—great for the beach to be sure. The silver switches in place of buttons and the tire tread base are some nice added touches. It comes in three translucent colors: flame red, aqua and sport yellow for an approximate retail price of $199.95.
CD-R/RW drive that can connect to a PC or Mac with a USB cable. In addition to audio playback, it also plays MP3s burned to disc. It’s powered by a rechargeable lithium ion battery and ships with a remote, two blank discs and bundled software that includes burning and music mixing applications. It begins selling from Sony online in March and should be at retail by April for an MSRP of $399.
it offers some higher level digital-to-analog conversion circuitry and an airtight disc tray, which is supposed to reduce external vibrations. In video, the player also features Dolby Digital and DTS decoding for DVD-Video as well as gold output jacks for composite, component and S-Video. To show it is serious about the video capability of this device, Rotel included progressive scan output.
of Bear in the Big Blue House from all angles. The monitor also has a remote control (for Mom from the front seat) for all the switching and the interior dome lights. In addition, there are two a/v inputs and one a/v output. There are infrared wireless headphone transmitters built into the face of the monitor housing, for total front-seat quiet, although it’s not recommended for the 2-year-old watching Bear. Sorry, Mom will have to tolerate that voice a little longer. Don’t worry, Barney didn’t last forever, either.
cameras, CD players, cellular phones and camcorders. The Millennium nickel-metal hydride batteries are available in AA, AAA, C, D and 9-volt sizes and come with a lifetime replacement guarantee. Millennium’s AA Charger charges two or four AA batteries at a time. The Millennium Universal Charger fully charges AA, AAA, C, D and 9-volt NiMH batteries in five hours.
watch a movie with it. May we suggest The Road Warrior? The 4.8-pound “notebook” projector measures in at a diminutive 2.5 x 9 x 10.5 inches and comes ready for travel with a deluxe carrying case and connection cables. True XGA 1,024 x 768 resolution and 1,000 lumens of brightness combine with XGA, SVGA, VGA, Macintosh, NTSC, PAL and SECAM compatibility. Support for 1080i and 720p HDTV video is impressive; one-touch zooming and focusing doesn’t hurt either.
that this is a write-once media. So when you put an image, song or whatever digital file you like on it, it’s there for good. Not too many products out there support DataPlay discs yet, but with big-name companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, and Imation backing the DataPlay company, you’re sure to see more this year.
has a lot of nice CD enhancements too, including 24-bit, 96kHz digital audio output for better-than-CD-quality sound. It will also read CD, CD-RW and CD-R, even those with MP3 files. Its suggested retail price is $799.
Media Audio formats and can be upgraded to work with future formats like AAC. Unlike some of its competitors, Intel opted to pack its player with 128 MB of memory. It is also one of the few to include an FM tuner. It retails for $299.99, or $349.99 if you want the optional accessory kit that includes things like a car adapter. Now when will those guys in the silver suits start hocking them, we wonder?
record at various bit rates to allow for more recording time per disc. There’s a FireWire connection for camcorders, as well as composite, S-Video and component outputs—but no progressive scan output. The DVR-2000 can edit unwanted scenes or commercials, and the remote will also control a connected DV camcorder for easier editing. The company says the DVD-Rs will playback on most existing DVD players and DVD-ROM drives. But pirates beware, the DVR-2000 will not copy commercial DVDs if any kind of copy protection is in place. Argh.
The Eye-Trek FMD-200 weighs 3 ounces, has 180,000 pixel resolution, and converts the PS2 video game signal to give you the feeling of playing the game on a 52-inch big-screen image. It has stereo, bass boost and controls to adjust color, contrast, brightness, tint and sharpness. It is available at retail stores nationwide and on www.olympuseye-trek.com for $549.
Digital, DTS and Pro Logic. Because the system caters to the inexperienced user, Onkyo provides a smart configuration function that adjusts the levels of the speakers after the user inputs the speakers’ distances from the primary listening position, in other words, where you like to sit on the couch. It will sell for $1,195.
GI-JOE Audio
Take of a bit of military design, add a splash of iMac translucence, and you’ve got the Jeep boombox. The boombox has a CD player, AM/FM stereo tuner and cassette deck. There is also storage space in the lid for
CD-R Convergence is a Good Thing
When we at E-Gear hear the word convergence, we often run screaming, since it usually means anything but. Yet it looks like Sony may have come up with a semi-convergent device that actually makes sense. Sony’s PC peripheral division took some notes from is portable audio division and came up with a portable Digital Relay CD-R/RW drive that you can listen to with headphones and playback audio CDs, CD-Rs and CD-RWs without a PC. It’s a 4x write/6x read
Add Another to DVD-A
Expect to see a lot of activity in DVD-Audio in the coming months. One of the latest players comes from Rotel. Its RDV-1080 DVD-A player is available now for a suggested retail price of $1,500. No doubt a high-end piece,
A Polished Car Theater
If you think of your car theater as an extension of your home theater, you want nothing but a clean, custom look. Alpine now offers the TMX-R680, a 6.8-inch LCD color overhead monitor for rear-seat entertainment, front-seat tranquility. The monitor installs with an elegant, high-quality fit using different trim rings to blend with the interior of the car. The overhead monitor swivels so the 2-year-old in the back has optimal viewing
Good for the Next Millennium
Millennium’s new rechargeable power cells, packs and chargers power high-drain devices, such as digital
Laptop Light Processing
Once you buy a new compact Toshiba TDP-P3 DLP projector for $4,999, you’re going to want to
Toshiba’s true XGA 1,024 x 768 resolution and 1,000 lumens of brightness combine with XGA, SVGA, VGA, Macintosh, NTSC, PAL and SECAM compatibility.
Talk About A Mini Disc
If you thought Sony’s MiniDisc was small, check out DataPlay’s disc. This 500MB optical media format is taking small to the utmost, yet it packs a big punch—500 MB. Even more surprising is the cost, about $5 to $10, depending on where you buy it. Compare that with $20 for a 16MB CompactFlash card, and that’s some mighty savings. The only catch is
In Prog We Trust
No, not prog rock, but rather progressive scan DVD. Denon unleashed its first DVD with progressive scan capability, the DVD-2800. It utilizes “Pure Progressive” technology from Silicon Image and achieves its picture quality with a digital video processor capable of performing more than 6 billion arithmetic operations per second. Try that on your abacus. It
Intel Jumps on MP3
Don’t they only make processors? Not lately. Intel has jumped into just about every aspect of the gadget game, and it looks like MP3 is no exception. Intel’s Pocket Concert Audio Player plays back MP3 and Windows
VHS Tapes Need Not Apply
Transfer the aging videos of you and your baby sister lip syncing to Kool & the Gang to full digital glory: $2,500. Sound good? If so, check out Pioneer’s DVR-2000 DVD recorder. It writes to both DVD-R and DVD-RW discs and can
Monster Close-Up
Remember the oh-so-slick Eye-Trek from Olympus? The pocket TV that looks like futuristic sunglasses has evolved into a new Gaming Edition, the FMD-200, which comes with an adapter for playing video games on PlayStation 2.
Onkyo provides a smart configuration function that adjusts the levels of the speakers after the user inputs the speakers’ distances from the primary listening position.
Home Theater All-In-One
From the halls of Onkyo comes a home theater package that is geared toward the lover of simplicity. The Envision Theater system features speakers, a 50-watt subwoofer for a 5.1 system and a single component that is a DVD/CD player and receiver combination that drives 30 watts per channel. It may not pack a wallop power-wise, but the system offers CD-R and Video CD playback and decoding for Dolby
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