Yamaha reinvents the digital piano

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

The Avant Grand sounds like the real thing. (Credit: Steve Guttenberg) Digital pianos aren’t new, but Yamaha’s Avant Grand is a very different kind of digital piano. Since Yamaha has been making fine “real” pianos for more than 100 years, its knowledge base is deep.

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Ultracompact E50 (Credit: iriver) Q: I’m looking for a good replacement for my obsolete MP3 player, but I’m just tired of seeing the iPod that everyone has.

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Give your iPod Touch some recording muscle

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The Alsesis ProTrack now works with the Apple iPod Touch. (Credit: Alesis) If you’re in the market for a high-end, portable, audio recorder, but don’t have the ducats for something like the Sony PCM-D50 , the Alesis ProTrack may be just the thing

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(Credit: (via Boing Boing) ) First off, massive geek respect to anyone who’s managed to hold on to their “Empire Strikes Back” AT-AT Imperial Walker from childhood. But it takes a geek visionary to tastefully slap a boombox into the side of one and paint the thing K.I.T.T

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Cowon shows off D2+ MP3 player

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The Cowon D2+ offers improved sound and an updated touch screen graphic user interface. (Credit: Cowon) Details on Cowon’s new D2+ touch screen MP3 player have been revealed on the Korean version of the company’s Web site. As the name implies, the D2+ is an improvement on the …

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Indecent Exposure 37: Infinite excess

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Contests in context, when infinity isn’t infinite, and things that make us cranky. Listen now: Download today’s podcast Episode 37 Today’s links: News Fastest Nikon DX Lens Epic Edit’s complete guide to photo backup

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DXG doubles up on compact HD camcorders

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

(Credit: DXG) While there have been no shortage of vertical-style mini HD camcorders at CES 2009 (see announcements from Kodak , Sony , and RCA ), there haven’t been any pistol-grip mini HD camcorders, mainly because the most recognized maker of them, Sanyo, didn’t have any announcements at the show. But …

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Updated at 8:25 p.m. PST with preliminary test results, and at 10:36 p.m. PST with another photographer’s results.

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(Credit: Sony) I’m sure there are still people out there that want to record standard-definition video directly to DVD. Sony, however, has made its latest DVD Handycams sort of bridge products between the past and present. The DCR-DVD850 (available in February for about $430) is a new “Hybrid Plus” ..

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Pocketable flash-based SD camcorders from Sony

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

(Credit: Sony) With specs similar to the hard-drive-based SR-series Handycams, the decision to go with Sony’s new SX-series standard-definition camcorders comes down to whether you want a slightly more compact body and potentially better battery life and reliability or more storage for your money.

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