Gramophone’s Favorite Things

Home Theater Trio

One of my new favorites is actually a trio: three home entertainment gadgets working together to create a true private cinema experience in the home. The trio includes the Kaleidescape movie, a music server with the Runco Cinewide/AutoScope projectors and a Stewart Cinecurve adjusting screen. The Kaleidescape unit will store your movies for instant retrieval by title, actor, director, rating, year or genre. It then tells the projector and screen to adjust to the proper aspect ratio. Now if I'm watching football in HD my screen is a 16:9 aspect ration. If I decide to watch Ghost Rider, the screen will now expand to 2.35:1 wide-screen. Now I'm seeing the movie as the director intended. What a difference.

Enjoy,
Bruce

Musical Fidelity A1008 Amplifier – Your iPod never sounded so good

Love your iPod but don’t love the sound quality? Then be prepared to fall in love with this Musical Fidelity amp. It combines high fidelity craftsmanship and engineering with today’s hottest music technologies. Did I mention it has a built-in 250-watt amp? Your iPod never sounded so good.

Enjoy,
Brian

Learn more at MusicalFidelity.com

Crestron TPMC-8X

The Crestron TPMC-8x is simply a brilliant way to control your home’s systems. It’s a sleek and stylish touch panel that provides complete control of audio, video lighting, HVAC, security, all while allowing you to surf the web from the same screen. And you thought playing with your PDA was addicting. Did I mention that the graphics are slick and you can easily toggle between controls at blazing speed? You can come see it at Gramophone – if you can pry it away from us.

Enjoy,
Brian

Learn more at Crestron.com

Sony DSC-G1 Digital Wi-Fi Camera

So you have a lot of photos on your digital camera but you never take the time to share them with your friends and family, right? Now Sony is making it easy with the incredibly cool DSC-G1. This camera has a wi-fi link built-in so you can send your photos to your PC, another camera and even to your TV (on compatible models). Imagine having friends and family over while you play a customized photo slide show right on your TV. It’s cool technology that actually works for you. And that’s why it’s a Gramophone favorite.

Enjoy,
Brian

Learn more at SonyStyle.com