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Samsung gives Blu-ray five years to go by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:21 PM on September 4, 2008 Like VHS did in the video cassette era, Blu-ray has emerged as the victor of the high-definition format wars. How long will Blu-ray continue to... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Storage	76
Spy shots of 120GB, 16GB Zunes hit the web by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:24 PM on September 2, 2008 As Apple puts the finishing touches on its next-generation iPods (or so recent reports would have one think), Microsoft is hot on the Mac... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Personal tech	32
Thinner iPod nano, other iPods lurk on the horizon by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:13 PM on August 26, 2008 Apple plans to introduce new iPods very soon. Although the company hasn't announced anything, Mac blogs and gadget sites have amassed enough evidence to make... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	24
AMD sells its digital TV unit to Broadcom by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:03 PM on August 25, 2008 As part of its latest quarterly financial results announcement released last month, AMD said it had "divested" its handheld and digital TV businesses. Today,... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	46
New Vista X-Fi drivers restore Dolby Digital, DTS decoding by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:31 PM on July 31, 2008 After Windows Vista came out in January 2007, owners of Sound Blaster Xi-Fi sound cards were distressed to find that Creative had left several features... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	30
Yahoo buckles, refunds users of doomed music service by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:17 PM on July 30, 2008 Last week, Yahoo said its Yahoo Music copy-protection servers will go dark on September 30, and it urged users to burn their music to... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Copyright	7
Dell to take another stab at music players by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:37 PM on July 30, 2008 The last Digital Jukebox player disappeared from Dell's website almost two years ago, and since then, Dell seemed to have pretty much given up... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	34
FireWire to get speed boost to 3.2Gbps this fall by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:32 PM on July 29, 2008 Despite the raw performance of eSATA and the ubiquity of USB, the IEEE 1394 standard (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) still has a strong following among... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Storage	47
MPAA to put up search engine for legal movie downloads by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on July 29, 2008 The Motion Picture Association of America is keen to turn in pirates who share copyrighted movies illegally, but its next effort might do more to... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Copyright	22
Asus deal forced Auzentech to ditch X-Meridian by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:23 PM on July 28, 2008 We were quite impressed with the X-Meridian when we reviewed it in early 2007, but Auzentech ended up discontinuing the sound card mere months... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	32
Yahoo to shut down DRM servers on September 30 by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:22 AM on July 25, 2008 Owners of Yahoo Music accounts, take note. In line with the company's plan to terminate its Yahoo Music Unlimited service, Yahoo intends to shut... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Copyright	54
Analog Devices bails on SoundMAX, PC audio by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:32 AM on July 14, 2008 Analog Devices' SoundMAX line of audio codecs has been one of the more notable integrated audio options in PC motherboards for some time now.... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Multimedia	76
Rhapsody hops aboard the MP3 bandwagon by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:26 PM on June 30, 2008 Another one bites the dust. According to IDG News, Rhapsody has followed in the footsteps of Napster and others by starting to sell... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	13
Asus unveils HDMI-equipped Xonar HDAV1.3 sound cards by Geoff Gasior — 8:30 PM on June 3, 2008 In a radical departure from its wave of Eee PC-related releases, Asus has just announced a new addition to its line of Xonar sound cards.... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	43
Napster goes back to its roots, opens MP3 store by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:26 PM on May 20, 2008 Watch out, Amazon MP3. Napster is back in the world of MP3 downloads, and this time it's a fully legal online music store with the... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Copyright	21
Report: Xbox 360s with Blu-ray coming in the third quarter by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:39 AM on May 2, 2008 Just over a month ago, Asian tech sites reported that Lite-On was quietly manufacturing Blu-ray drives for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. Microsoft took the... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Game consoles	39
New movies to hit iTunes, DVDs simultaneously by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:06 PM on May 1, 2008 A year and a half after opening its iTunes movie store in the United States, Apple has struck a deal with major movie studios... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	31
Blu-ray selling poorly despite HD DVD's demise by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:31 AM on May 1, 2008 With HD DVD out of the picture since Toshiba's capitulation in mid-February, you'd think Blu-ray sales would have taken off. And yet, the New... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia	150

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tipoo

It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

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Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +25

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Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +24

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