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Jamo announced the A804 wall mounted surround sound speaker. It’s meant to look good beside a flat panel, and give you some flexibility.
Monoprice is making a mini display port to HDMI adapter. It won’t deliver copy protected content or sound, though.
The Addonics NAS Adapter turns a USB drive in NAS, and it only costs $55.
If you do a lot of Powerpoint presentations, you’ll be happy to hear about iSpring Free. It turns the presentation into a Flash movie that you can embed into a blog post and share.
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
sorry, I don’t have a witty comment or helpful feedback, but I’ve been watching GB for weeks now, and I just have to say I think Cali Lewis is Beautiful with a capital ‘B’!
December 18th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I wonder what an Addonics NAS would do if attached to a USB Drobo? Would it effectively replace a DroboShare? Might be worth $55 to find out.
December 19th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Jamo’s actually pronounced Yah Mo. I’ve had a set of Jamo Art speakers since high school and they still sound great fifteen years later!
December 19th, 2008 at 3:37 am
DavePeterson,
I don’t see why it wouldn’t replace the Droboshare. Wouldn’t that save a lot of money for the same functionality? Can anyone confirm that it works? Thanks, Andy
December 19th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Cute sweater.
December 19th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Might work with Drobo, but is only 100Mb not gigabit – trust me, you want gigabit network speed.
December 19th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Anybody know the name of the song they play at the end of the show?
December 19th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Drew, the name of the song is “Some Christmas Huggin’ and Kissin’” by Geoff Smith. Available at iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=270002180&s=143441
or CD Baby:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/geoffsmith2
December 20th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I see Chad beat me to the punch, but yes, “Jamo” is pronounced YAH-mo. Danish company, so the ‘J’ is pronounced like a ‘y’ sound ;)
December 21st, 2008 at 9:26 am
sounds like you are back to your old self Cali! But what’s with the hotel room set?
December 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I am wondering where you got the impression that the monoprice cable won’t deliver high def content?
The electronista article that was shown as a graphic during the show mentions that an analog VGA connection won’t support high def content, but doesn’t say that the MDP to HDMI cable would be subject to those restrictions…
Is there another article that you are referencing that does say the monoprice cable will have such a restriction? I do not see why they would remove a part of the standard interface, since the command channel is required to query panel size.
-Matt
December 27th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
@prosperitygal it just does http://tinyurl.com/44uhhn
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I see that several people have corrected the pronunciation of ‘jamo’, i do home theater and these are my preferred speakers, it is made by a danish company, you should check into some of their ipod docks as well, awesome sounding machines, gives bose a run for its money, also jamo is now owned by klipsch. check out the i200 i have two of these, and also check out the i300.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I can’t wait for the mdp-hdm adapter. while the DP spec does support sound (several sites/blogs are saying otherwise, http://www.vesa.org/press/displayportaug.htm ), it’s just that Apple/Nvidia didn’t enable it on their port. Apparently this is a bit of a problem with the video card manufacturers… but it probably has it’s source from another problem: Hollywood.
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