Cinemawide TV at a ratio of 21:9 gets rid of the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen when you watch a properly formatted Blu Ray Disc. What you see at home is what you see at the movies, no stretching and no black bars.
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At Beach Street News, we love tech. We are owned by the same company that produces KühlToys so we are always looking for gadgets to make life better. Everything we find that can make life better at the beach or anywhere else for that matter we’ll share here. If you find something, tell us about it. If it makes it down the hall to KühlToys, you might get a free shirt!
Windows 7 v. Windows 8 – Sinofsky leaves Microsoft? What is Happening?
Steven Sinofsky left Microsoft, and the word is he left because Windows 8 wasn’t the rocking success Steve Ballmer wanted. Reports that the lack of
Read moreMicrosoft V. Apple – Redmond comes out swinging with Windows 8
With the ho-hum release of the iPhone 5, Mini iPad and new iPad, it almost appears that Apple has once again stumbled. This happened once before when Steve Jobs left and Apple eventually entered a tailspin only to be rescued by it’s famous founder.
Read moreCalifornia Solar Power Production – Now you can make electricity too!
California now has a peak solar power production capacity of 1.255 gigawatts, which is equivalent to 1 nuclear power plant. This article by Forbes talks about how it’s
Read moreWD® SHIPS FIRST 2 TB PORTABLE HARD DRIVE WITH NEXT-GEN MY PASSPORT®
IRVINE, Calif. – Mar. 20, 2012 – Western Digital® (NYSE: WDC) today announced the next generation of its top-selling My Passport® line of portable hard
Read moreThe New iPad Is Here, and The iPhone 4S Goes 4G?
iOS 5.1 joins 4G? The new iPad is 4G capable.
Read moreAT&T U-verse Now Serves More Than 400,000 Living Units in the Kansas City Area
This marks only the latest expansion of AT&T U-verse availability across the Kansas City area, where AT&T U-verse first launched in March 2007. The number of area households with access to AT&T U-verse has more than tripled since early 2008, and is now available to nearly 45 percent of the households in Kansas City’s designated market area.
Read moreFrost & Sullivan cites Sprint as “an excellent example of an end-to-end mobile solution provider for small business”
Jeanine Sterling, Frost & Sullivan Senior industry analyst, said, “In addition to creating a compelling portfolio of solutions and services, Sprint is very conscious of how frugal today’s small business must be. Mobile technology should be viewed by smaller businesses as the solution, not as a struggle.”
Read moreApple loses ground to Android in tablet biz
According to Strategy Analytics, a market watcher, world tablet shipments topped 26.8m units in the last three months of 2011 – 66.9m in the year as a whole – giving Apple a reduced share of 57.6 per cent, down from 68.2 per cent in Q4 2010.
Read moreIs Lighting Control The Next Technology You Can’t Live Without?
The last house I made “smart” used 50% less electricity a year after the project started.
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