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Best Portable iPod & MP3 Speakers

benjamin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:09:43 +0000

Best Portable iPod and MP3 Speakers

A few months ago, MetaEfficient profiled an energy efficient home speaker system for the iPod. But what if you want to bring your music with you on the go – and share it outside your headphones? You’ll need a set of portable speakers that are just as mobile as your MP3 player. Following are six of the best portable speaker systems on the market, in a range of sizes and offering a variety of features. All of them feature a self-contained power source, and some offer an iPod dock as well as a standard 3.5mm mini-jack connection.

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Satellite Radio Reviews

Justin — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:29:43 +0000

Satellite radio is a high quality radio service that is static free, mostly commercial free and currently censorship-free. Special satellite receivers, costing around $50 are needed to pick up the signal. The two satellite radio companies, Sirius Radio and XM Satellite Radio offer competing services, both costing $12.95 per month. CNET offers the best comparison review of the two services. If you don’t care much for sports, reviewers say you should consider XM, which currently has the widest, most innovative variety of hardware. A good overview is Consumer Search’s review of satellite radio services and hardware.

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Reviews of Online DVD Rental Companies

Justin — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:24:05 +0000

What are the best online DVD rental services? Most people know Netflix, Blockbuster and Walmart are the major players in online DVD rentals. Netflix, which started it all, still gets the best reviews in terms of service, speed and movie selection (see this review for example).

However, there are some other interesting DVD rental companies out there. GreenCine, based in San Francisco, specializes in indie, arthouse, anime, foreign, classics, documentaries and other esoteric fare. They basically stock what the other mainstream rental companies do not, including an extensive selection of adult titles. Here’s a FAQ for GreenCine. Their “3 movies out” plan is $19.95 per month.

Nicheflix is another specialty DVD rental service. They stock “Multi-Region” DVDs, which are DVD coded for other countries. People with multi-region DVD players can rent and watch films intended for audiences in Asian and Europe. The cost is $24.99 per month for 3 DVDs out at a time.

E-Hit is a rental company offering a large selection of Asian cinema, including many films in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Korean, and Japanese and other Asian languages (with English subtitles) that may be difficult to find elsewhere in the US. The cost is $19.95 per month, for 4 DVDs out at a time. CinFlix is a similar service, also specializing in Asian DVDs.

CafeDVD, founded in 1999, has a good collection of independent, arthouse, foreign, classic and hard-to-find titles on DVD. The cost is $19.95 per month, for 3 DVDs out at a time. They also have an “A La Carte Rental Program” which allows you to rent DVD for $3 each, with no subscription required.

Here’s a discussion of people’s experiences with these rental companies.

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