Are you thinking of buying a new LCD monitor or a used plasma TV? If so, there’s something you need to watch out for – and that something is HDCP. What is HDCP? HDCP stands for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection. In short, it’s a method of Digital Rights Management (DRM) used to protect digital audio and video signals that are generally ...

Tuesday, September 12 was an exciting day for TiVo, as Series 3 (S3 for short) was officially released. S3 is the first TiVo device to support CableCards and paves new ground in consumer DVR. There’s a lot of confusion over TiVo S3, as demonstrated by the outpouring of negative feedback by TiVo fans. They'reconcerned over the high price and ...

 The Gizmo Cafe blog is pleased to announce that we now have Stan Eisenberg as a contributor. Stan offers authority in just about every aspect of audio / video engineering. He contributes to us from his electronics laboratory powered by the static charge of his Tesla Coil array located in a remote corner of Michigan State University in East ...