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Amazon Kindle Fire: Why You Need One

Movies, apps, games, music, reading and more, plus Amazon’s revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser.

  • 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books
  • Thousands of popular apps and games, including Netflix, Pandora, and more
  • Ultra-fast web browsing – Amazon Silk
  • Free cloud storage for all your Amazon content
  • Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle
  • Fast, powerful dual-core processor
  • Favorite children’s books, graphic novels, and magazines in rich color
  • $199.00 Free Super Saver Shipping

The all-new Kindle Fire will be released on November 15, 2011. Orders are prioritized on a first come, first served basis.

FEATURES

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Stunning Color Touchscreen

Movies, magazines and children’s books come alive on a 7″ vibrant color touchscreen that delivers 16 million colors in high resolution. Kindle Fire uses IPS (in-plane switching) technology – similar technology to that used on the iPad – for an extra-wide viewing angle, perfect for sharing your screen with others.

 

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Magazines in Rich Color

Enjoy your favorite magazines with glossy, full-color layouts, photographs and illustrations. Choose from hundreds of titles, such as Bon Appetit, Elle, and Oprah. Special editions of titles like Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ come with built-in video, audio and other interactive features.

 

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Beautifully Simple and Easy to Use

Designed from the ground up, Kindle Fire’s simple, intuitive interface puts the content you love at your fingertips – spin effortlessly through your recent titles and websites straight from the home screen. Whether you are in the mood to watch, read, listen, play or browse, you can get to all your favorite content with a single touch. It’s that simple.

 

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100,000 Movies and TV Shows

Over 100,000 movies and TV shows, including thousands of new releases and your favorite TV shows, are available to stream or download, purchase or rent – all just one tap away. Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, commercial-free streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows.

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Fast Dual-Core Processor

Kindle Fire features a state-of-the-art dual-core processor for fast, powerful performance. Stream music while browsing the web or read books while downloading videos.

 

 

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Your Favorite Apps and Games

Thousands of the most popular apps, including Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, Comics by comiXology and more, plus you’ll get a great paid app for free every day. Enjoy the best games, including Words with Friends, Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies and more, from top developers like Zynga, EA, Gameloft, PopCap, Rovio and more. All apps are Amazon-tested on Kindle Fire for the best experience possible.

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Ultra-fast web browsing – Amazon Silk

Amazon Silk is a revolutionary, cloud-accelerated browser that uses a “split browser” architecture to leverage the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services cloud. Supports Adobe® Flash® Player.

 

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Millions of Books

Read bestsellers, children’s books, comic books, and cookbooks in vibrant color. The Kindle Store offers over 1 million books, including 800,000 titles at $9.99 or less. In addition, over 2 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available such as Pride and Prejudice.

 

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Free Cloud Storage

Forget about memory – Kindle Fire gives you free storage for all your Amazon digital content in the Amazon Cloud. Your books, movies, music and apps are available instantly to stream or download for free, at a touch of your finger.

 

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Your Favorite Children’s Books

Kindle Fire is great for parents and kids. Stir your child’s imagination with over 1000 beautifully-illustrated children’s books, including favorites like Brown Bear, Curious George, and Circus Ship.

 

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Easy to hold in one hand

Designed to travel with you wherever you go. Small enough to fit in your purse and light enough to hold in just one hand, Kindle Fire is perfect for browsing, playing, reading and shopping on-the-go.

 

 

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17 Million Songs

Stream your music library from Amazon Cloud Drive or download to your device and listen offline. Looking for new music? Discover over 17 million songs in the Amazon MP3 Store.

 

 

 

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Extra Durable Display

Our state-of-the art Kindle Fire display is chemically strengthened to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, making it extra durable and resistant to accidental bumps and scrapes.

 

 

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Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

With an Amazon Prime membership, Kindle owners can choose from thousands of books to borrow for free – including over 100 New York Times Bestsellers – as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates.

 

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Amazon Whispersync

Like Kindle e-readers, Kindle Fire uses Amazon’s Whispersync technology to automatically sync your library, last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across your devices. On Kindle Fire, Whispersync extends to video. Start streaming a movie on Kindle Fire, then pick up right where you left off on your TV – avoid the frustration of having to find your spot.

 

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Free Month of Amazon Prime

Experience the benefits that millions of Amazon Prime members already enjoy, including unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows, Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items, and now, access to thousands of popular Kindle books through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.

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Read Your Documents

Kindle makes it easy to take your documents with you. You can e-mail documents – including Word, PDF and more – directly to your Kindle so you that you can read them anytime, anywhere.

 

 

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Email

Stay in touch using our built-in email app that gets your webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL etc.) into a single inbox. Import your messages and contact lists from other email accounts. Additional email apps are available in our Amazon Appstore for Android.

 

THE SPECS

Display
7″ multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.

Size (in inches)
7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45″ (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm).

Weight
14.6 ounces (413 grams).

System Requirements
None, because it’s wireless and doesn’t require a computer.

On-device Storage
8GB internal (approximately 6GB available for user content). That’s enough for 80 apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.

Cloud Storage
Free cloud storage for all Amazon content

Battery Life
Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and downloading content.

Charge Time
Fully charges in approximately 4 hours via included U.S. power adapter. Also supports charging from your computer via USB.

Wi-Fi Connectivity
Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, or enterprise networks with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.

USB Port
USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)

Audio
3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers.

Content Formats Supported
Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.

Documentation
Quick Start Guide (included in box); Kindle User’s Guide (pre-installed on device)

Warranty and Service
1-year limited warranty and service included. Optional 2-year Extended Warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Kindle is subject to the terms found here.

Included in the Box
Kindle Fire device, U.S. power adapter (supports 100-240V), and Quick Start Guide.

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By Rocker – November 10, 2011

Luc de Clapiers

“Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”
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By Rocker – May 18, 2012

Around The Classical Internet: May 18, 2012

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By Rocker – May 18, 2012

Ears on with Dolby Atmos: Impressive… Most Impressive.

Dolby made a big splash at this year’s Cinema Con show in Las Vegas unveiling a new surround sound system for movie theaters.  It’s an object-oriented platform that can support up to 64 discrete channels of sound. The system, known as Dolby Atmos expands on traditional surround formats by offering not only more side and rear surround channel options but also height channels to give theater goers a more immersive and three dimensional surround sound experience.

Earlier this week, we had a chance to hear Atmos in action at Dolby’s screening room in San Francisco in a 26.3 channel configuration and we were impressed with what we heard. Editor at Large, Chris Chiarella and I watched (and listened to) a series of clips including the climactic Golden Gate Bridge scene from Rise of the Planet of the Apes redone in Dolby Atmos, and the sense of spaciousness and presence was breathtaking.  A helicopter flying overhead, bullets whizzing in all directions, monkeys making all manner of multi-directional mayhem – all of these sounds were brought to life in a broad, deep (and tall!) three-dimensional soundscape that enhanced the on-screen action.  Another complex, multi-layered audio-only clip of an airline flight gone awry (from the perspective of one of the ill-fated passengers) was so realistic as to be difficult to sit still through.

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Members of the press prepare to be Atmos-ed.

The Dolby Atmos system is object-oriented, which means the mixing engineer can position specific clips, sounds or effect sounds at a point in three-dimensional space with various controls for pans or sweeps or other motion effects all stored as metadata in a dedicated datastream. At playback time, the Atmos decoder positions each sound with precision based on the available number of speakers.  This way a single soundtrack can be delivered to theaters whether they have 10, 20, 30 or 64 speakers.

The minimum number of channels recommended for the Atmos experience is 9.1 (a traditional 7.1 surround system plus two height channels), though up to 64 discrete channels are supported. So far, the largest implementation of Dolby Atmos has been the Brenden Theatres in Las Vegas for CinemaCon with a 47.3-channel Atmos system (that’s 47 discrete speakers plus 3 low bass/LFE channels). Although Dolby recommends the use of full-range speakers for all channels, Atmos also includes robust bass management so multiple subwoofer can be used to supplement the bass response of smaller speakers.

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A Dolby Atmos-equipped theater: So many speakers, so little time.

For compatibility purposes, the Dolby Atmos encoder can also render standard 5.1 channel and 7.1 channel soundtracks for use in non-Atmos-equipped theaters.  This means that recording/mixing engineers can work on a single soundtrack in Pro Tools and they will end up with traditional surround mixes, plus the metadata-enhanced Atmos mix.

According to Dolby execs, the expected upgrade costs for existing theaters will typically be from $ 15,000 to $ 25,000 for a typical installation. This includes speakers, amps, Dolby Atmos processor and installation/training. But Dolby has also stated that a basec Atmos upgrade could be done for as little as $ 10,000.
Atmos is available to mixing engineers as a series of plug-ins for ProTools, the industry standard for movie and television audio mixing. The system supports up to 128 discrete sounds or sound objects ( a 9.1-channel “base” plus up to 118 additional objects) and renders all of these elements at playback time using up to 64 output channels.

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Dolby’s John Loose explains the finer details of Dolby Atmos.

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Dolby Atmos is delivered as a collection of plug-ins for Avid’s Pro Tools.

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So easy to use even an editor can do it.

As to when we’ll be able to see and hear Atmos in the real world, Dolby execs said that they are beginning to work with Disney/Pixar in creating a Dolby Atmos mix for the upcoming animated film, Brave, which is expected in theaters on June 22. Dolby expects that approximately fifteen theaters across the United States should be up and running in Atmos in time for the launch of this film. Expect to se Atmos in flagship, high-end large theaters at first, though it should trickle down to medium- and smaller-sixed theaters over time.

“We are offering Dolby Atmos to theater owners as a way of improving the overall movie-going experience. It’s another tool in their arsenal to attract viewers to theaters with an experience that cannot be duplicated at home,” said Stuart Bowling, Dolby’s Senior Worldwide Technical Marketing Manager. It is Dolby’s hope that major improvements to film sound such as this will help their cinema customers become more profitable by bringing more movie-goers back to theaters.

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Dolby’s Stuart Bowling reveals the speakers hidden inside the walls of the Dolby screening room.

When asked when we could expect some form of this technology in the home theater environment, Dolby reps said they are committed to leveraging the Atmos technology for home use, but there is no immediate timeline as to when this will come and what it will look like. I asked Gary Epstein, Product Marketing Manager, Professional Content Tools, about whether it would be possible to encode Atmos height channel information into a standard Dolby TrueHD 7.1-channel mix using Dolby ProLogic IIz matrix encoding, so it could be delivered on a standard Blu-ray Disc. He said that this is one option they are exploring, but not the only one. A Blu-ray Disc actually has up to 16 channels available in Dolby TrueHD (a 7.1 channel main track, a 5.1-channel alternate track and a 2-channel stereo track). Although there is not currently any way to access all of these channels at the same time (at least not yet), a solution like this, or like PLIIz-encoding could conceivably work with existing Blu-ray standards.

So it’s too early to tell what the home market impact will be, or when we’ll see it, but one thing is clear: movie-goers are in for a real treat with Dolby Atmos and we hope Brave is the first of many films to be given the Atmos treatment.

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Special Thanks to Dolby for covering travel expenses to visit their headquarters in San Francisco for this demo and briefing.

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By Rocker – May 18, 2012

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Discuss

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By Rocker – May 18, 2012

Remembering Go-Go Legend Chuck Brown

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Chuck Brown, the “Godfather of Go-Go” died Wednesday. He was 75 years old.

Chuck Brown, the guitarist and singer most associated with the Washington, D.C.-based genre go-go, died Wednesday after a long hospitalization. Brown, a monumental figure in the D.C. music scene for more than 30 years, died in Baltimore from sepsis after multiple organ failure, says his manager, Tom Goldfogle. Brown was 75 years old. Listen at the audio link for the remembrance that aired on Morning Edition.

It took a lot of work getting an interview with Chuck Brown. There were people to go through, and people who had people. It took a lot to get to the guy, and when we finally hooked up, we spent an inordinate amount of time talking about shoes.

Chuck Brown got his start in music shining shoes on the streets of Richmond, Va., in the early 1940s, and then around the corner from the Howard Theater in Washington D.C. Chuck was possibly the only person to have bootblacked for both Louis Jordan, the early king of rhythm and blues, and Hank Williams, the country star who was the first person to tip Chuck a whole dollar. He asked questions, listened to their music and everything else on the radio. And by the time he had made his way in the world, Brown could say he had done one amazing thing that those two giants never had: invented a whole new music by himself.

I needed to talk to Chuck for a book I was writing about James Brown. There were few folks alive who could speak more knowingly about funk, as a music and a state of mind, than Chuck. And, like James, he’d had a huge influence on George Clinton and hip-hop, from his gold tooth down to his popping bass. Both Browns grew up poor, Southern, both had gone to prison as kids, heck — both shined shoes.

 

By the time I spoke with him, Chuck had long become famous around the world as the Godfather of Go-Go, the Washington D.C.-based sound that was the square root of funk. In 1965 the African-American guitarist was playing in Los Latinos, a multi-racial Top 40 band pumping Latin rhythms into the soul they were playing. Soon on his own Chuck was jamming James Brown grooves at casual District backyard parties, incorporating the Latinos’ sound into what was becoming his own. He called himself The Soul Searcher, and fancied himself a guitar star.

But it was when he got his own band together, called them the Soul Searchers and used his cigarillo-sooty rasp as the band’s lead instrument, that go-go took off. Maybe urban places were supposed to be the death of folk styles, but with go-go, Brown created a sound that was purely of the place he called home. Go-go was the boogaloo beat transforming the barbecues of Chocolate City.

“I wanted something different!” he barked at me with a smile. “I wanted my own sound, you know what I’m saying? And I said, ‘I’ma create my own sound.’”

It was music with a fat bass that hovered over the night like a rhetorical question, and that clarified itself at 4 am. By then D.C. and Maryland clubs were supposed to be shut down, but Brown was just establishing his presence. And it was regal: big-pimpin’ velours, a devilish grin and a chapeau broad enough to to block the sunrise. That showmanship propelled the music, as did the conga/bass drum interplay threading through and between the songs.

Go-go birthed numerous D.C. bands, and was a crucial influence on George Clinton’s P-Funk; Chuck’s 1979 hit “Bustin’ Loose” got him on Soul Train. For a moment go-go was marketed as a national craze; in the ‘early ’80s Brown showed punk rockers they, too, had rumps. Everyone from Eric B. and Rakim to Duran Duran sampled his music, but while it eventually fell off the charts go-go never fell out of favor in D.C. Chuck was doing shows every week or two, and had been around so long that the regional icon was treated like a national treasure.

Another D.C. musician of note, Duke Ellington, once said, “Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be famous too young.” A year before he died, around the time the National Symphony Orchestra played a show of Sousa, Ellington and Chuck Brown music on the West Lawn of the capitol, Brown told me, “I think if I was a young man and was as famous as I am now — oh, man I might be all messed up. I just thank God that it happened in its time, and that the older I get the more famous I get.” Throw your hands up!

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By Rocker – May 18, 2012