mrnomas - Slashdot User

Comment Mandated? Seems a bit much. (Score 1) 2

by mrnomas on Saturday March 06, 2010 @10:56AM (#31380734) Attached to: Jury Rules All Table Saws are Unsafe

While the safety tech sounds great, I'm not sure I'd pay the extra for it when just being careful works better. For places like schools and professional settings - I think they should get it but it shouldn't be mandated. Plus, don't you have to replace the brake assembly and blade afterwards? Sure, it's cheaper than replacing a finger but it's still something to consider.

Submission + - THX Caught with Pants Down over Lexicon BD player (audioholics.com)

Submitted by SchlimpyChicken on Friday January 15, 2010 @04:27PM

SchlimpyChicken writes: Lexicon and THX apparently attempted to pull a fast one on the consumer electronics industry, but got caught this week when a couple websites exposed the fact that the high-end electronics company put a nearly-unmodified $500 Oppo Blu-ray player into a new Lexicon chassis and was selling it for $3500. AV Rant broke the story first on its home theater podcast with some pics of the two players' internals. Audioholics.com then posted a full suite of pics and tested the players with an Audio Precision analyzer. Both showed identical analogue audio performance and both FAILED a couple of basic THX specifications. Audioholics also posted commentary from THX on the matter and noted that both companies appear to be in a mad scramble to hide the fact that the player was ever deemed THX certified.

Submission + - Is the CD Becoming Obsolete? (audioholics.com)

Submitted by mrnomas on Monday June 25, 2007 @07:04PM

mrnomas writes: So, what's to blame for the declining CD sales? Is it that manufacturers are putting out more and more "safe" (read: crap) music while independent musicians are releasing online? Is it because iTunes is now the third larges music retailer in the country? Or is it just that CD's are becoming obsolete?

"Glancing at a report on Forbes.com this morning, there was an article showing that CD sales are expected to be down 20% 2008 (slightly higher than the 15% drop initially predicted). Why such a drop? What's truly happening is a gradual shift away from physical media to downloadable formats. What this indicates, so far, is that US sales of digital music will be growing at an estimated rate of 28% in 2008, however physical sales will drop even further, resulting in a net overall decline."

Submission + - What's the Matter with HDMI?

Submitted by mrnomas on Friday May 18, 2007 @11:22AM

mrnomas writes: "HDMI, as we've pointed out elsewhere, is a format which was designed primarily to serve the interests of the content-provider industries, not to serve the interests of the consumer. The result is a mess, and in particular, the signal is quite hard to route and switch, cable assemblies are unnecessarily complicated, and distance runs are chancy. Why is this, and what did the designers of the standard do wrong? And what can we do about it? The story begins with another badly-developed standard, DVI.

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