Feb 27, 2014

Technology in the home is becoming quite pervise today. But over the last few years – well, over the last 40 or so years – it’s been changing. In the 1970s, setting up your home stereo system was a very simple affair: two pairs of wires for your speakers, a pair of RCA connectors from your cassette deck, and another pair of RCAs for your...

Feb 25, 2014

CES this year was big. Really BIG. So big, that we couldn’t fit it all into just one show. With Chef De De Cup and producer Gary Stark overseas, 2RDJ’s Peter Worthington stepped into the show to help Maitre D’ Geoff Quattromani get through it all. Here’s the result. ...

Jan 7, 2014

Welcome to the new year. And with January comes CES, the annual electronics extravaganza held in Las Vegas. While that starts just a few hours after this show goes to air, we have a look into the future, at what this yyear’s show is likely to bring to our homes. And cars. And we discuss and explain what 4K TV is all about. It’s likely to be a big...

Dec 31, 2013

December 29. And 31, if you’re listening to the repeat broadcast, which happens every Tuesday afternoon, at 2. Or right now, if you’re listening to the podcast. We start by giving Geoff a hard time, and then we move to giving De a hard time, and then everyone else gives me a hard time. As well they should. Being a technology show, we discuss...

Dec 31, 2013

My taste in headphones is perhaps different from most. I’ve done recording in studios, and when I listen to my music I expect, and I demand, that what I’m hearing should be what the artists put down in the studios, rather than letting some jumped-up alleged sound guy give me what he thinks I should be hearing. In this week’s show we review...

Dec 31, 2013

Parrots. Plants. Flower Power. That’s the gist of a new gadget, designed to help your thumbs – and your plants – turn green. Please excuse me if I seem a bit Haight Ashbury. And with everybody shopping on the internet these days, your credit cards’ security is highlighted. Here’s this week’s...