Audio/Video, Home Theater

The RTV5504 personal video recorder, or PVR, delivers the ability to pause and replay live TV while recording and storing 40 hours of digital, tapeless audio and video–about a season’s worth of memory for four hour-long programs. Enjoy a broadband or phone-line connection to the ReplayTV service and convenient home networking through a built-in Ethernet port–there’s no extra hardware required. Subscription to ReplayTV service is available either as a $12.95 monthly fee or a one-time lifetime fee of $299.99; a discounted $6.95 monthly fee is available for consumers with more than one active unit.

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TiVo’s Series2 DVR delivers plenty of recording capacity in addition to offering entertainment services like digital music, digital photos, remote scheduling, and hassle-free favorites recording. All this and the famed luxury of being able to pause and view instant replays of live television, too. TiVo DVRs record television programming directly to an onboard digital ATA/IDE hard drive, eliminating the hassles of videotape (imprecise tape searching, head cleaning, steadily degrading picture, fuzzy sound, etc.). This Series2 TiVo, model TDC540040, offers 40 GB storage for up to 40 hours of recording time in TiVo’s best-looking chassis yet.

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DIRECTV programming, HD output and TiVo all from one source? You got it. Have your cake and eat it too with this irresistible package that redefines the television experience.

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HR10-250 DIRECTV/HDTV Receiver with Integrated 250GB TiVo Digital Video RecorderRead More »

Need your tunes in the pool or hanging ten? Then get this orange beauty from Oregon Scientific. Rubberized ‘buds keep your ears dry during the butterfly, and the watertight skin lets you stay 3 feet under for a total of 30 minutes. The player’s 128 Mbytes of flash memory stores nearly four hours of tunes.

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Finally, a network music player that looks as good as it sounds! Roku SoundBridge lets you play your PC or Mac digital music files anywhere in the house – connecting your stereo or powered speakers to your computer’s digital music library. WMA, MP3, AAC, AIFF and WAV music formats are supported — and it’s network ready with wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi. A large, bright display; Apple Rendezvous® and iTunes®* support; and Windows® Media Connect, Windows Media Player 10 and Windows Media DRM 10 compatibility make this player a winning part of your home entertainment system.

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Sony’s freestanding 12.1-inch LCD TV uses dual-band Wi-Fi (802.11a/g) to talk to its base station, either directly or over the Internet. The base station has an NTSC tuner, and connections for your home network and A/V sources like cable and DVD player. The portable even has a 56K modem and an internal hard drive for watching programs on the road.

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