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...Viewing habits may change, but the need to advertise products remains. Thus advertisers are hoping that "one-pipe" convergence will remodel the landscape. That's when a single broadband feed into your home will hook into one device that operates your TV, PC, dvd player, dvr, games console and stereo system. The differences between a TV and a computer, and between a website and a TV channel, will then start evaporating like pixels on a dying screen. Viewers will choose whether to watch ads and which way to watch them. How will brands vie for consumers' attention? For a taste...
...used to be quite skeptical of iPod docks. I preferred just plugging the iPod directly into a stereo system using a wire anyone can buy at RadioShack. (In case you?re scratching your head, it?s the Y-shaped wire with the headphone jack on one end and the red and white stereo jacks on the other.) But Digital Lifestyle Outfitters has introduced two successive docks that make me understand the benefits. The brand new HomeDock Deluxe will help maximize both the audio and video capabilities of your iPod...
...Sound quality is great, of course, as good as you?d expect from a stereo dock that costs $150. Surprisingly, video quality is pretty good...
Last week, I reviewed the frill-laden Alpine Blackbird navigator, a $750 product that has all sorts of features, including an FM transmitter to hear instructions (and music) through the car stereo, as well as built-in hardware to receive traffic updates, once the service launches in June. This week, I look at Sony?s entry into portable navigation, the remarkably priced and exceptionally stylish...
...audio, too, was a surprise. Who would have thought that a digital woman?s voice, set at a reasonable volume, could so clearly cut through the music blaring from my car stereo? Alpine?s Blackbird may have an FM transmitter for broadcasting commands through the car radio, but Sony?s Nav-U doesn?t seem to need...