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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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Around The Classical Internet: February 3, 2012

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Deceptive Cadence is NPR’s new classical music blog — an open space for discussion, discovery, music listening and news. We’ll try to un-stuff the world of classical music, which is both fusty and ferociously alive. Read more.

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The AVC Group Introduces Control Solutions for Home Builders

ELAN_G_System_Control.jpgAsserting that the dream of owning a centrally controlled home where consumers manage audio, video, lighting, security, heating, and more from an iPad, touchscreen, or iPhone is now supposedly within reach. The AVC Group will introduce a series of integrated, customized entertainment and control solutions for home builders.

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• Read more remotes and system control news from Home Theater Review.
• Explore reviews in our Remotes and System Control Review section.

Comprising some of the custom installation industry’s iconic brands
(ELAN Home Systems, Niles, Xantech, Sunfire, and ATON), these new builder system solutions are designed to provide every type of home, from the smallest cottage to the largest mansion, with an appropriate level of integrated home entertainment and control capability.

The AVC Group strives to provide builders with entertainment and control solutions that meet the increasingly specific and demanding needs of the consumer. Through local custom integrators, the company offers project planning and design, fully integrated products that work with third-party components, professional installation and a great post-sale support system for homeowners. The development and engineering teams across the five brands work together to assure consumers that their home technology offerings will install easily and work together.

The ELAN g! Entertainment and Control System is the multi-room, IP-based entertainment and control system that is designed to be modular, easy-to-install and upgrade, and is scalable from one-room installations to whole-home systems. The ELAN g! System is at the core of every system solution The AVC Group is offering to builders.

Niles is known for its range of indoor and outdoor loudspeakers. For behind the scenes, Xantech supplies the infrastructure that makes all the other systems work as one whole. With Sunfire’s engineering, the consumer is able to integrate home theater audio products that play louder, while maintaining the brand’s signature small form factors. ATON offers consumers the world’s first out-of-the-box whole home music system, which provides the simplest and most affordable way to equip a home with a multi-room, multi-source audio system.

Additional Resources
• Read more remotes and system control news from Home Theater Review.
• Explore reviews in our Remotes and System Control Review section.

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A List Of Things Which Are More ‘Jazz’ Than Bad Jazz Music

Pickup basketball, for one.
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Pickup basketball, for one.

For non-playing participants, jam sessions can be difficult musical experiences. As “hangs,” or social gatherings, they aren’t so bad — sometimes you learn a lot by talking to the musicians there. But the quality of the music itself often varies. It only takes a mediocre performance to sour the mood, and a poor showing can turn you off altogether, especially if you’ve paid money to see it.

You know the feeling? What happens when you hear something with all the archetypal trappings of jazz — a basic swing pulse, people improvising rapidly over standards and blues changes, taking place in a jazz club — which leaves you generally unmoved? Do you ever think, “This sounds like jazz, but it poorly embodies the values I associate with jazz”?

That sent me thinking: Could there be other things that feel more true to the essence of jazz — really, of black American music — than indifferent jazz music itself? Fully aware that “jazz” is an artificial construct which everyone defines differently, and that I’m projecting my own romantic ideal onto it, I don’t think it can hurt to explore the positive associations we have with the term. So I humbly submit a short and arbitrary list:

 

  1. D’Angelo. There’s a reason beyond nostalgia that his new performance clips spread like wildfire through the jazz community on social media: He makes soulful, sonically adventurous black music.
  2. Friends greeting each other like this. Demonstrative, deep-seated camaraderie. (Sorry, Eagles fans. Both our teams lost the NFL this year anyway.)
  3. Soul Train. To quote from Dan Charnas on The Record: “Don Cornelius proved a truism about America and race that so few people, even today, understand: Black culture, expressed in undiluted form and unapologetically, will by virtue become accepted by the American mainstream.”
  4. Quality time with your grandparents, if they’re cool. Or sometimes even if they’re not cool. Oral tradition from elders, y’all.
  5. Blake Griffin’s dunk over Kendrick Perkins. Watch. The Chris Paul assist, the improvisation, the raw surge of power, the resourcefulness, the overcoming of barriers, the reaction from everyone involved, the sense of play of it all.
  6. Pickup basketball at the park. Or soccer, or any similarly egalitarian team sport with a ball, mutually-enforced rules and minimal infrastructure. Especially that older dude who plays point guard (or center midfield) with the sharp elbows and unconventional style who is incredibly frustrating to defend.
  7. Lourdes Delgado’s “Jazz In New York: A Community Of Visions” exhibit. Musicians live their art.
  8. The folk art exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Really, anything that has to do with thousands of hours of private creativity for a highly personal product, but especially the pieces that respond directly to real-life events or an artistic tradition.
  9. Remembering your late comrades by telling uproarious and sometimes lewd stories about them. Often with liberal use of the word “motherf—.”

This last item happened at the Jimmy “Junebug” Jackson memorial jam session last night. Bittersweet tribute — celebration and mourning at once — is a very “jazz” thing too.

Who else has something to contribute to this?

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LG Busted by Ad Watchdog Group NAD for 3DTV Advertising Claims

Apparently, you can’t believe everything that you read. Last year, we told you that LG had released survey results stating that four out of five consumers prefer passive 3D TV. Now, the Better Business Bureau is calling them out on it.

The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureau just came out with a statement asking LG to stop touting those claims in TV and web advertising, as well as press releases and dealer-directed materials. Apparently, the NAD wasn’t the only one that had a problem with LG’s claims. Sony and Samsung actually had something to say about it as well.

Back in June, LG’s survey results said that 80 percent of consumers prefer LG’s passive 3D TVs over the likes of active 3D sets from Sony and Samsung.

LG’s announcement was part of a push for passive 3D technology, and more specifically, the company’s Cinema 3D Series. This line includes seven models of 3D TVs, in screen sizes ranging from 42 to 65 inches. It also includes three models of passive 3D glasses.

New for 2011, passive 3D TVs have Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) incorporated into the TV screen to separate the left and right images. The end result is said to deliver a flicker-free, bright viewing experience, but also a more comfortable one. That’s because passive 3D TVs use glasses similar to the ones used in movie theaters, which don’t require bulky batteries or charging.

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While the NAD’s recommendations are not legally binding, LG said it would take those views into consideration going forward. Then, according to the NAD, the company turned around and contacted customers, including electronics dealers and retailers about the case. The NAD says that LG’s actions “violated the procedures that govern the advertising industry’s system of self-regulation.”

According to the NAD, an agreement signed by all of the involved parties state that NAD proceedings and decisions cannot be used to promote products and/or brands to customers.

“NAD examines advertising claims to assure that they are truthful, accurate and not misleading and NAD’s review is impartial,” the company said in its statement. “Self-regulation is a voluntary process and participating companies agree that decisions will not be used for promotional purposes.”

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