<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Reviews</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/technology/personaltech/reviews?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><description>Reviews</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[DVDs Came Late to the High-Def TV Party]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11116-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11116-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You can now watch high-definition television on sets as cheap as $500, with plenty of programming from a variety of channels. But HDTV is missing from one crucial corner of the home-entertainment business  --  the DVD. Companies are still developing and promoting two different, incompatible high-definition versions of the DVD, neither of which will have any consumer relevance (read: tolerable prices) until next year at the soonest.]]></description><author> Daniel Greenberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11079-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11079-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    JADE EMPIRE, Microsoft/BioWare  <br>Jade Empire has the same basic story line as any good martial-arts adventure  --  you take on the role of a gifted student who must pursue a series of quests to restore peace and harmony to the land  --  but its action has little in...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archos Pocket Video Recorder AV420]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7139-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7139-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Compact and oh so cool, portable video players let you download, store, and view television shows, movies, and photos, on a single take-it-anywhere device.]]></description><author>PC World</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenging the Finance Software Giants]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58266-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58266-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Intuit's Quicken and Microsoft Money dominate the market for personal-finance software, but just because they're widely used doesn't mean everybody likes them. Many users seem unhappy with the big two's cost, forced-obsolescence policies and complexity.]]></description><author> Alan S. Kay</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lego Star Wars: The Video Game; Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30; Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58263-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58263-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LEGO STAR WARS: THE VIDEO GAME, Eidos Interactive  <br>Some time ago, in a marketing department probably not too far away, someone conceived of an ultimate alliance of three empires: "Star Wars," Lego and video games. Lego Star Wars looks like a brilliantly executed...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Palm for the Unconnected]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56489-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56489-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The connected PDA may be the next big thing, but for hundreds of thousands of people, the ability to easily access e-mail or browse the Web from a handheld simply doesn't matter.]]></description><author>PC World</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gadgets Coax Radio Into The Digital Age]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39147-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39147-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MP3 music files, webcasts,  digital satellite and "HD Radio" broadcasts can all make plain old analog AM and FM sound more than a little dated. But hope is not lost: A few new gadgets do their best to yank the venerable analog medium a little further into the digital age.]]></description><author> Daniel Greenberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Matrix Online; Timesplitters: Future Perfect; MX Vs. Unleashed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39144-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39144-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[THE MATRIX ONLINE, Warner Bros. Interactive/Sega/Monolith]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Tests of Intel's Dual-Core Processor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31844-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31844-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Intel's new dual-core 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 processor made a good showing on PC World's WorldBench 5 tests in key multimedia and multitasking tests. But users looking for improvements in single-threaded applications, such as most office apps and games, will see little benefit from the new chip.]]></description><author>PC World</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major League Baseball 2K5; MLB 2006; MVP Baseball 2005; Silent Hunter III]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20445-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20445-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 2K5, Take 2 Interactive/Visual Concepts]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CableCard Being Dealt In  --  Slowly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20471-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20471-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's a simple vision, really: No cable box on the entertainment center, no cable-box remote control on the coffee table.]]></description><author> Mike Musgrove</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Printers With Built-In WiFi Looking Good]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2608-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2608-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Printers often get left behind when WiFi comes to a home  --  the cables needed to link them to a PC may then wind up anchoring at least one computer to a desk. Printing from any other machine then involves fussing with printer sharing (always an adventure in Windows) or transferring individual files to the one machine wired to the printer.]]></description><author> Kevin Savetz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Look: Roxio Revs Easy Media Creator]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16841-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16841-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fresh from the company's acquisition by Sonic Solutions, Roxio has released version 7.5 of its flagship Easy Media Creator DVD software suite. A fairly major upgrade from the capable 7.0 version, the software adds a handful of needed enhancements.]]></description><author>PC World</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NARC; God of War; Heritage of Kings: The Settlers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2602-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2602-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NARC, Midway Games/Vis Entertainment  <br>While games like the Grand Theft Auto franchise have treated the underworld drug scene as a backdrop, NARC is the first game to build actual drug usage into its game play. A remake of Midway's 1988 arcade title, this...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act of War: Direct Action; Oxford English Dictionary 3.1; Registry Repair Wizard 2005]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48978-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48978-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ACT OF WAR: DIRECT ACTION, Atari  <br>Games based directly on books are a rarity in the game industry, but this one shouldn't be much of a surprise: A lot of things blow up in the novel of the same name, by best-selling military thriller author Dale Brown. The book...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a New Toy, Plenty of Titles to Play]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48977-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48977-2005Mar19.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sony is launching its PlayStation Portable handheld with an unusually large spread of titles. Most new game systems ship with only a handful of games, but Sony says 24 will be available for the PSP when it shows up in stores Thursday.]]></description><author> Tom Ham</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[DVD on the Edge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41573-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41573-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you've been on the fence about upgrading to a new internal DVD burner, you're officially out of excuses. In the 12 months since our last major DVD roundup (in April 2004), disc capacities have nearly doubled, write speeds have increased twofold, and average drive prices have dropped by more than half.]]></description><author>PC World</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Night: Round 2; Champions: Return to Arms; Saint Paint Studio 9.2]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28950-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28950-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[FIGHT NIGHT: ROUND 2, EA Sports  <br>Round 2 gets most of its punch from its graphics. The sweat and blood drips more realistically than ever, while a doubling of the polygon count allows fighters to wince in pain in the most lifelike manner yet. (The game features...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real-Time Armor for the Road Warrior]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28927-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28927-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New real-time traffic-data services show where roads are congested, where construction ties things up and where accidents and toll plazas create backups."<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Wayne Rash</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intel Revs Centrino Notebooks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24146-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24146-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_technology/personaltech/reviews</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:27:09 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Notebook vendors are launching a new crop of products to take advantage of Intel's updated Centrino wireless platform. PC World tested laptops from Dell, Gateway, and HP that are among the first to offer the new technology.]]></description><author>PC World</author></item></channel></rss>