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A New Decade is Upon Us

Happy New Year Everyone! 2010 is now upon us and I want to encourage all of your to focus on your future and find something you are passionate about. Heathaplex Vision is still an infant, but expanding everyday. In the coming year Heathaplex Vision plans to start a video podcast with all kinds of tips, installation/how-to videos, guest appearances, and just good old fashion fun with the world of tech. In addition to airing Heathaplex Vision.TV, I plan to officially launch the Heathaplex Vision Website with more features to meet your needs. I am also very excited to setup the Heathaplex Vision Swag Hut with T-Shirts, Hats, etc… There’s nothing like showing your support with some good old fashioned Swag. Might even give some away to my faithful followers. These are just a few things I plan to add to Heathaplex Vision in the coming year.

Most importantly, I want to thank each and everyone one of you who have visited my site and shared it with friends. My mission is to provide you the best content I can based on my knowledge, research and your questions, insight and needs. My passion is simple: Sharing and Caring! I want you to learn something from my site and pass it along to your friends and family. There are so many cool devices and technologies out there that it is easy to get overwhelmed. Some products are good and some are not. What matters most is that you are happy and you are taking advantage of what the tech world has to offer.

Top 5 PREDICTIONS FOR 2010: I would like to start a tradition of giving you my tech predictions for each coming year. That way when they come true I can say, “I told you so!” Realistically though, I’ll probably be hearing from you, “You were way off, pal.” Either way….here are my predictions for what we will see in 2010:

1. 3-D Capable Television Sets: There are a few out there, but this will be the year when they really start hitting the market. It won’t explode like HDTV flat screens did in the beginning because the content will take time to build, but I think you’ll start to see some affordable sets in the coming year.

2. Wireless Audio/Video Streaming: Sony already has a television that streams signals from a standalone box to the television….no wires are plugged into the television. I think this will be huge in 2010 as people cry out for Home Theater systems that are free of the cable clutter.

3. Tablet Computing: This is the year Apple enters into the ring of tablets. The rumors are already flowing with a January 26th announcement date from Apple. Just like Apple redefined MP3 Players and Smartphones with the iPod and iPhone, they will showcase a “Tablet” that puts all the others to shame and revolutionizes the market. Don’t count out Microsoft though….they will also introduce a tablet of their own.

4. E-Book Readers: Newspapers and Magazines are already prepping for the e-book revolution. According to Amazon, Kindle eBook downloads far exceeded actually book purchases over the holidays. We will see a standardized ebook format and by the end of the year, you will see a color version of an e-book reader. This will signal the end of magazines as we know it.

5. Finally, Google Navigation (with Google Maps) will appear in American-made Automobiles! My guess is that GM will take advantage with Ford already knee-deep in Microsoft services. The New Audi A8 offers an option for Google Earth Navigation and it looks amazing!

These are my predicitons for 2010. Call me a liar or jump on the Heathaplex Vision bandwagon. Bottom line folks, I want the very best for each and everyone of you in the coming year. Do something amazing this year! Reconnect with old friends, re-invest some much needed personal time with your families and look for ways to improve yourself. If you find yourself down and out in 2010, follow this bit of wisdom, as my good friend Stephanie once passed along to me when the world seemed to be falling apart around me:

“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of you veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting” – Spoken by Merlyn in “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White.

This is going to be an amazing decade…don’t let it pass you by like the last. Do great things and continue to enhance your lives and those around you. I wish you all the very best. Happy Holidays from Heathaplex Vision.

Looking for a Blu-Ray Player? Check out the Sony BDP-N460

Sony BDP-N460Call me crazy and bias, but I do own more than one Blu-Ray player. My most recent acquisition is easily the best, standalone player in this household. Even if you are new to the world of Blu-Ray and players, you gotta check out this beauty. The Sony BDP-N460 is hands down, the best Blu-Ray player on the market right now. What makes this device so great? It’s so much more than just a Blu-Ray player. From the moment I tore this device out of my UPS driver’s hands initial power-up, I knew I had one incredible piece of electronics on my hands.

Besides playing Blu-Ray discs, DVDs, AVCHD encoded discs, photo discs…etc (the box displays too many formats to list here), once hooked up to the internet, the Sony BDP-N460 opens up an entire world of streaming media to its owner. Right out of the box, I noticed it had a USB connection on the front, which gives you the ability to show photos, listen to music, and watch movies via a thumbdrive or external harddrive. Exploring the back panel, I noticed several connections for a wide variety of setups, to include another USB port to house the memory stick required for BD-Live content. It does not have wireless built-in, but you can connect a wireless access point (by purchasing an additional device) to connect to the player in order to stream via a wireless network. I use an Apple AirPort Express to connect the device to my network. It was as easy as plugging in an Ethernet cable into the back of the Sony and into the Apple AirPort Express. No setup required! It even pulled down the latest firmware update, which is a necessity for nearly every player these days.

Let’s talk about the streaming content for a second. You can certainly connect to the big players out there: NetFlix, Amazon-on-Demand and YouTube, but there are many other sites you’ll have access as well. I can watch the most popular video podcasts on the web, play music videos, listen to music and get tips from the “How-To” channel. You could spend days watching the video content accessible through the beautiful, easy to use, award-winning graphical interface.

If you just want this player to play movies, this player will certainly not disappoint. Movies look incredible! The player has a quick-start mode, allowing immediate playback in only a few seconds. As far as background noise from the on-board fan, I could not even hear it running. For the money…and I mean very little (<$200)…this is perhaps the best Blu-Ray player I’ve come across.

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