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Peerless peerAir Wireless HDMI Streaming System Impressions

Sometimes it's amazing to just sit back and realize how far we've come with televisions, consoles, and display technology. It wasn't long ago we had to buy something called an RF Adapter just to hook up the latest console to our television. Now? TVs have multiple digital inputs featuring a simple digital cable connection called HDMI. But even that can be topped. Now anything can be beamed through the air thanks to wireless technology. We're living in the future and sometimes it's easy to forget that. Today we're looking at the peerAir Wireless HD Multimedia System

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  • playstation 4
  • xbox one
The future is less annoying than loading times.

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to offer Playing Games While Installing or Downloading

As we inch ever closer to the Fall release of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, we're beginning to learn more and more about the features of each respective system. While both systems will have their own unique take on features, there are some features that will be nearly identical on the two next generation consoles.

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  • pc
  • online
Also ridiculous MacBook resolution support coming.

Diablo 3 Patch Tweaks Co-Op, Auction House Requires Authenticator

Diablo 3 has gotten a new patch which brings a major change to co-op gameplay.  Previously as more players joined your game, the difficulty of monsters would scale up - this included not only their health but their damage.  The patch has removed the damage scaling but left the health scaling in tact.  It's a curious change, one that Blizzard hopes encourages players to play co-op more.  The patch also makes pots drop less gold than before.  I guess calls from the anti-pot destruction league worked.

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  • playstation 3
  • xbox 360
  • pc

AOC E2352PHZ 3D Monitor Impressions

3D gaming and movies seem to be all the rage these days.  Every big theatrical release touts it's 3D viewing and several big games tout their compatibility with 3D on the PlayStation 3 and PC.  Most home 3D viewing is done using a system that requires a set of big glasses that use alternating eyes to give the impression of 3D.  But there's another method that's a lot less expensive and a lot closer to the experience you'd find in a movie theater - and that's polarized.  Over the past few weeks I've been using a new monitor from AOC that uses this method to display 3D images.  

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  • playstation 3

PlayStation 3D Display with SimulView Launches November 13th

The first Sony TV with the much lauded SimulView technology will be available for purchase on November 13th worldwide.  The 24 inch 3D TV utilizes a set of 3D glasses for each player to create two distinct 2D images - thereby eliminating an actual split-screen setup and allowing both players to look at the full screen.  We had some eyes on time with the TV back at E3 and came away pretty impressed - but one thing has changed since then - the bundled game.

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