I feel like I need to apologize. Perhaps to all the friends who’ve come to me asking for TV-buying advice over the past few years. Perhaps to the consumer electronics industry as a whole. Perhaps just to Samsung, I dunno. But my mantra when asked for flat-panel buying advice has consistently been, “Buy a plasma.” more »

I’ve often heard it said that if the keyboard players of 1971 could time-travel to now, they’d be absolutely dazzled by even the least expensive keyboards of today. When you consider that the early Moog synthesizers played only one note at a time and had a very limited variety of sound choices, it does seem more »

A device that transmits content from laptop to HDTV would seem to be an absolute no-brainer for this reviewer. After all, to my teenage kids (as to most members of the iGeneration), most anything posted on YouTube is preferable to just about every TV show you could name. Blame it on short, iPod-honed attention spans, more »

Ryan Gosling once again proves himself as one of today’s finest young actors in the excellent 2011 noir thriller Drive. Playing a character only identified as Driver, he’s a stunt driver and mechanic by day, and at night he’s a getaway driver for heists. His troubles begin when he gets interested in a neighbor (Carey more »

Well, the fat lady has sung, the curtains have been closed and CES 2012 is officially a few days in the bag. After several days of decompressing and detoxing — there is a LOT of drinking in Vegas — and reflecting, I thought I would share my list of Best, Worst, Coolest, and other superlatives more »

These days, it’s hard justifying spending more than $200 on a Blu-ray player, given that so many at that price point and below do so many things so very well. But Pioneer makes a pretty solid case for spending the extra pennies (19,999 extra pennies, if you’re counting) on its BDP-52FD Elite 3D-Compatible Streaming Blu-ray more »

You buy a soundbar because you know you should be getting better sound out of your TV, but you might not have the brains, time, or cash on hand to hook up an expensive surround sound system. I happen to fall into all three of those categories, so the AudioSource S3D60 Soundbar with Sonic Emotion more »

My buddy Geoff has just posted a review of a product we both picked up at this year’s CES: V-Moda’s Faders — tuned earplugs designed to stylishly protect your precious hearing in noisy environments. It’s rare for any company to discuss a health problem associated with their industry. This makes V-MODA’s new line of Fader more »

My life would be infinitely easier right now if I could sit you down in front of me and say, “Here, stick these new Paradigm Shift earbuds in your ears. Wait! Let me wipe off that earwax. Okay, now stick them in your ears!” Because while most headphones lend themselves to the sort of superlative more »

“No one raped my childhood, least of all George Lucas. And, quite frankly, if some metaphorical version of George Lucas wanted to have sexual congress with some metaphorical version of my childhood, it would be the most beautiful, consensual of lovemaking.” — Joe Nussbaum, Director George Lucas in Love We watched a documentary the other more »