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Blu-ray has landed

Uncategorised By Dec 28, 2008

Finally made the decision to experiment with Blu-ray and took advantage of Blockbuster’s deal to carry one home. It took about two hours in all to connect it to my Naim n-Vi and Panasonic Plasma via an Aten HDMI switcher and Chord Company HDMI cables.  Actually possibly the most time consuming elements were reprogramming the Harmony 895 remote control and…

FIP Radio

Uncategorised By Dec 05, 2008

Can’t take any credit for finding this station as it was a suggestion from Paul Messenger. FIP is a somewhat idiosyncratic radio station also available on the interweb. Only 128kbs mp3 but it doesn’t sound too bad at all. Good music without too much talking and not that distracting for me anyway, as I don’t understand French www.radiofrance.fr

Radio Paradise

Uncategorised By Nov 22, 2008

I’ve become a bit obsessed with Internet radio station Radio Paradise www.radioparadise.com recently. It seems to be a smallish operation, almost family run. What they do well besides play great music is have style. Go visit their website and have a look around. See how the playlist links so well to Amazon in whichever country flavour you fancy. It’s a…