Mark Levinson has unveiled the No. 53 monoblock amplifier, which, vice president of marketing Walter Schofield says, will outperform any of the company’s previous amplification products.
Obviously, the current hot topic in HTPC land is Hauppauge’s upcoming HD PVR… And I just heard back from multi-OS SageTV CEO, Mike Machado regarding their integration plans:
We?re working to support the HD PVR as soon as we can. We expect we?ll support it at or near launch.
Hauppauge has released details and announced timing for their USB HD recording device. The HD PVR records from component and optical inputs at up to 13.5Mbps in H.264. Additionally, AVCHD recordings can be burned to DVD for Blu-ray STB playback (via bundled ArcSoft application suite). Shipping is expected to begin May 1, and a pre-order page (presumably, with pricing) should be available in the near future.