M-Audio AV 40

The M-Audio AV 40 remains a solid performer after some running manufacturing changes, and still straddles the line between higher-end home audio speakers and low-end studio monitors.

Dish touts new 'Auto Hop' commercial-skip feature

Dish has announced that users of its new Hopper DVR will be able to automatically skip commercials in recorded prime-time HD programs from the four major networks. Originally posted at TV and Home Theater

When streaming-video is better than Blu-ray

Blu-ray movies will soon be getting two back-to-back, unskippable, piracy warnings, giving movie-watchers even less of a reason to bother with a disc. Originally posted at TV and Home Theater

Samsung OLED will retail for $9,000

(Credit: Ty Pendlebury/CNET) Updated 4.39PM ET with comments from Samsung US Samsung has announced that its ES9500 OLED TV will launch in South Korea in the second half of 2012 at a price equivalent to $9,000 U.S. The TV, formally known as the Samsung Super OLED , will retail for 10 million won ($8,760 U.S.) and is expected to compete with LG's own OLED panel, the EM9600 . The LG is also due in ...

Camelot, W.E. among new home entertainment titles

This week's reviews on what's new on Blu-ray and DVD by Matt Brunson (View From The Couch is a weekly column that reviews what's new on Blu-ray and DVD.) CAMELOT (1967).… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]