Denon has already made an Audio/Video receiver with a home version of Dolby ATMOS! Basically what this adds to 7.1 surround sound is two ceiling speaker channels... they call it 7.1.2 with the .2 being the two extra celling speakers. If you count the channels normally like operating systems do though that'd be 10 channels. 7.1 is counted as 8 ( Read more... )

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Take a look at this quote I got from a home theater magazine I bought in 1994 which I still have ( Read more... )

 

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This is a great video to watch not only if you care one iota about the space program but also to enlighten a little if you don't understand why it's necessary. The space age was quite the era not only for the innovations it sparked but because of the dreaming it  inspired especially with science fiction. Without it we probably wouldn't have 2001 ( Read more... )

There seems to be quite the hullabaloo on rumors about the next revision of Mac OS X which is rumored to be called "Snow Leopard". ( Continued inside... )

I pestered the people at gimper.net to post a full-screenshot of the Aqua port of The GIMP and they obliged:

[Take a look]I noticed it's actually GIMP 2.5. They told me the way the buttons such as the ones to raise\lower the layers, etc. being flat there is the way they are going to be in all versions. I was almost thinking it was a Mac specific ( Read more... )

There's some rumblings on the internet about a recent job posting for "Touch interface QA personnel". This has lead people to speculate that Apple is going to release the "Mac Touch" soon. On the surface it may sound good but I also am not positive about other things like the graphics card situation ( Read more... )

I was just reading the comments over here and I have to day that I'm dismayed.

( Long Geeky Rant Inside )