Category Archives: products for multimedia/pc

Logitech’s 2nd Avnera-based headset hits in the form of G930, for gamers

By mtc | Published: August 18, 2010
Logitech has begun taking pre-orders for their new Wireless Gaming Headset. Based on Avnera’s latest wireless headset chipset, and coupled with some cool innovations targeted at the PC gamer, these will prove to be immensely popular, as well as make a great follow-up to their omnipresent Clearchat PC Wireless set introduced a couple years ago. [...]
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WoW Wireless marks first Avnera headset available on Apple.com

By mtc | Published: March 10, 2010
Following in the footsteps of the Avnera AudioMagic-based products that’s have come before from FREETALK, Creative, Logitech, ASUS, and Plantronics – the Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset sports some seriously tweaked features as highlighted on Apple.com‘s product page: Uncompressed 2.4GHz wireless technology (ahem, the one we know and love) THX TruStudio PC sound technologies create [...]
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Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 goes Wireless

By mtc | Published: January 18, 2010
Behold the Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 Wireless. One of the best THX certified 2.1 speaker systems adds wireless convenience.  The original version of these ProMedias is one of my all time favorite 2.1 speaker systems.  The punch these babies offer is pure Klipsch goodness and now they get even better with the recognition that so many people [...]
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Creative’s Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset is teasing everyone silly

By mtc | Published: December 21, 2009
After seeing their big Rocketboost press release with Best Buy today, I jumped to Avnera’s website for more info, and not only did Avnera just refresh their website and add more info about their also officially announced AM2G, but I noticed a link to an earlier story about a Sound Blaster headset reveal at Blizzcon [...]
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FREETALK Wireless (2nd Gen) in the house! Literally.

By mtc | Published: December 8, 2009
Along with a couple other little gadgets, the FREETALK Wireless headset arrived in the mail from InStoreSolutions (ISS). This product – before even getting into it – holds a special place in my heart, as it uses a chipset from Avnera that I helped design and target at precisely this usage model. That all started [...]
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Sony and Best Buy coordinate on S-AIR wireless audio

By mtc | Published: August 18, 2009
Sony released a story today about their invigorated S-AIR wireless system and new ALTUS product line.  They presented the story as a tale of Best Buy partnership.  Interesting.  Certainly in order to market an iPod story, a PC story, a Blu-ray HTIB story, and an add-on story, Sony had to collaborate on nailing feature requirements [...]
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