An iPod or iPhone should not run around naked, ever. There's no law against it, but touch (or drop) a naked iSomething and you're asking for trouble -- a scratch,...
OK, power trippers. Here's another weapon in the fight against high electricity bills: a power meter called Watts Up? that asks a question but knows the answer to what's abusing...
The subwoofer could be the most despised loudspeaker in America. But why? Because it's big and fat? Because it's such a blowhard? Well, here's some news for the anti-sub movement:...
Q. Is it true that a plasma HDTV starts to lose its picture brightness in about four or five years? --John L. Oliva, Orland Park A. The latest plasma televisions...
Do not be ashamed to admit you still listen to music sitting in front of two speakers. It's OK. That does not make you a fuddy-duddy, just a little unusual...
DVD should have been more than a bit player in portable video. All it needed was an inexpensive mobile device small enough and light enough to carry on subways, trains...
A little go-round with Craig Eggers, surround-sound expert at Dolby Laboratories -- the San Francisco company that creates audio standards for movie theaters, digital broadcasts, DVDs and even cell phones....
Ski bum Bode Miller might look like a runaway winner as the biggest bust of 2006, but hold on -- here come the new high-definition DVD players. Ordinarily, the arrival...
HDTV gets the glamor, but surround sound makes a home theater go 'round. If you're investing in a 5.1 surround system -- two front speakers, a center-channel speaker, two rear-channel...
So, you've got your eye on a plasma TV, progressive-scan DVD player and a hot new audio-video receiver. But don't even think about using the cheap cables that come with...