Hugh is Artist 2.0

I so feel these…

Reading Hugh’s cartoons is like browsing a menu of items to find consonance with the day’s mind’s corners. This is an enjoyable catharsis I’ve lost myself in now half a dozen times. On this occasion I figured I’d blog the ones that hit home on this day. Cheers.

Audiovox is kicking, and alive

This Gizmodo post shows some of the latest products coming from the Audiovox group of companies.

For those who may not know (I didn’t until I checked their website), Audiovox maintains the following brands: Audiovox, Jensen, Advent, Acoustic Research, Phase Linear, and most recently, the accessory business from RCA, which they acquired from Thomson.

Alive Matters is particularly interested in how the market reacts to the AWD210 which will be branded Acoustic Research.  Can it deliver a better experience than the old 900 MHz stuff they offered?

Stay tuned…

Floppyhead reveiws the RF-WHTIB. Sees the value.

Not sure who Floppyhead are, but they wrote a pretty good review of the Rocketfish RF-WHTIB. They write with a bit more journalistic tone than AliveMatters, if not a bit less transparency. Who are they, and why do they care so much about HTPCs and getting advertising revenue? Anyways…

Good passage here that sums up the wireless surround sound pain point, and the solution:

The wireless speaker kit is a great idea for apartments or situtations where you cannot run wires through the walls. Several months ago I went to a Superbowl party at a friend’s apartment who had a surround sound system not set-up because the wires would have to run across two door openings. His plasma TV was definitely lonely.

With the Wireless Speaker kit in hand I went over to his apartment last week. We set-up the system in about 10 minutes. The receiver and the transmitter are linked at the factory so there is almost no set-up required. Connect the speakers to the wireless units and turn on your surround sound receiver. That’s about it.

Follow the link to see some pics of the RF-WHTIB in action.