5 Essential Building Blocks for Your Home Theater

One thing's for sure about home theater solutions: there's no one right way to build one. Your setup will unique, so forget ad pitches from electronics retailers. The best way to build a home theater system that truly meets your needs is to look at each of its components as a building block, comparing the relative value of each against cost, available space and total utility. Stack, sort and mix the blocks however you desire to arrive at a solution that brings real value to your in-home entertainment consumption.

  

Receivers or Antennas

• For many consumers, the receiver serves as the primary building block in the home entertainment system. Usually a box from your cable or satellite TV provider, the receiver provides you with a mix of TV channels, music channels and on-demand programming for a sliding monthly fee.

  A few words of advice, though. First, match your subscription service and receiver to your TV. Don't pay extra for high-definition digital TV services if your TV doesn't do HD. Although most newer TVs can handle HD signals, people who've inherited older TVs and use them as the base for a new home system must remain aware of potential quality loss between a low-res TV and HD content.

  Second, think through what sort of subscription package you really want. Weigh the value you might get from premium cable, for example, against what you'll get from services like Netflix -- possibly saving you money while exposing you to even more on-demand content.

  Third, consider using an antenna to capture free local TV signals. People who are "cord cutters" don't subscribe to cable or satellite TV; using an antenna to capture over-the-air signals will provide local channels, with premium content coming from other sources (like your DVD collection or a service like Netflix).

Streaming External Content

• In addition to offerings from a cable, satellite or over-the-air provider, companies like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon and Crackle provide free or subscription-based video-on-demand services that include thousands of TV episodes and movies.

  Provided you have a broadband Internet connection, you could subscribe to one or more streaming content provider and then use a dedicated device -- like a Roku -- to feed that content straight to your TV. Roku and comparable services like Google TV or Apple TV provide a small set-top box with remote control that serves as a media hub for one or more streaming providers. Plus, you will have access to services like news headlines, YouTube, weather reports and even simple on-screen games.

  Newer Internet-ready TVs can sometimes handle these services directly. Other hardware, including many video game consoles and higher-end DVD players, also facilitate streaming content -- helpful if space or dollars present a barrier to acquiring several different devices for your entertainment center.

• If you have a large collection of digital media already on your home computer, you'll probably want to invest in a local streaming solution. Apple fans could buy Apple TV, a service that uses Apple's AirPlay technology to connect your TV to a computer's iTunes library. Similarly, the Xbox 360 can wirelessly stream content using Windows Media Center; the Xbox connects to a PC on the network and can then access the computer's entire media library for playback on the TV.

  This type of solution is ideal for people who have purchased a lot of individual movies or TV shows on iTunes or Zune, or who have home movies they'd like to watch on the TV instead of the computer.

Gaming Systems

• The three major console gaming systems -- Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 -- provide hours of entertainment. They also serve double duty, substituting for other parts of a home entertainment system. The Xbox can stream media from Windows PCs on a local network, and the PS3 includes a built-in Blu-ray player as well as content partners like Netflix and Hulu Plus. If you're looking to conserve space, a gaming console may serve double or even triple duty in your entertainment center.

Offline Media Players

• Watch your collection of DVDs using a standalone DVD player. These devices are cheap, starting under $50.

  If you have an HDTV, consider upgrading to Blu-ray. Although the technology is newer and there are fewer Blu-ray titles on the market, these discs present higher-quality images and often pack additional bonus features because the Blu-ray disc has a larger capacity than standard DVD. Blu-ray players can also play DVDs (although the reverse isn't true).

  Many mid- and upper-tier DVD and Blu-ray players can stream content from sites like Netflix, Hulu Plus and YouTube. The LG BD300 pioneered this streaming in 2008 and since then, other manufacturers have joined the act.

Surround Sound

• Surround-sound systems offer a more immersive audio experience compared to ordinary TV speakers. Surround-sound systems usually come in 3.1, 5.1 or 7.1 configurations: The .1 represents the bass speaker at the TV, and the numbers before the "." represent the number of speakers in the setup. A three-speaker setup includes one in the rear and two in the front -- right and left. A five-speaker setup, with its .1 center, looks like a six-pointed star surrounding the viewer.

  Speaker systems come in wired and wireless flavors; some wireless versions include auxiliary inputs on the wireless transmitter so you can plug in your favorite MP3 player for a richer audio experience.

  Just don't forget to set your TV or cable box to match your speaker configuration (e.g., a 5.1 system uses Dolby 5.1, etc.).

  While you're at it, regardless of whether you have a wired or wireless surround-sound system, pipe your audio through an audio receiver. These devices, in addition to augmenting signal strength and providing greater options to tweak output levels, also let you play the radio or connected audio devices while the TV is off.

$100,000 Worth of iPhone 5s Stolen in Japan

Thieves steal 200 iPhones prior to their launch on friday.

It would be quite an understatement to say people were excited for the recent iPhone 5 launch. With record breaking sales and lines starting eight days before release, Apple's latest phone is a hot commodity.

So hot, in fact, that several thieves in Japan have stolen over $100,000 worth of devices just hours before the product released to the public. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, approximately two hundred iPhone 5 devices were taken from retail stores in Osaka, Japan.

Three phone stores were hit in the early hours last Friday, with seventy-five iPhone 5s taken from two KDDI "au" brand retail stores and 116 devices stolen from a Softbank store.

Surprisingly, the robberies were anything but amateur, with the Softbank thieves stealing all 116 devices in less than four minutes. According to the report, the thieves broke into a locked back room at 4:24 a.m. and were out of the store by 4:28 a.m.

Japan wasn't the only place to fall victim to iPhone 5 burglaries. Approximately 250 handsets were also taken from an O2 store in London. All robberies are still under investigation, but it's unclear how or if pre-order customers are being compensated for the trouble.

Apple Tops UK's Coolest Brands List

Apple tops the list for the first time.

Say what you will about Apple products, but one thing is undeniable: The company knows a thing or two about branding. In fact, this week, the company overtook Aston Martin to become the UK's coolest brand, as voted by 2,000 consumers and a panel of 39 experts. Tech companies make up four of the top five with YouTube coming in second behind Apple, and Twitter and Google filling fourth and fifth place.

The list was compiled by CoolBrands, which has been collecting the opinions of experts and consumers to find Britain's coolest brands since 2001. CoolBrands' expert council includes singers, make up artists, rappers, and yes, even tech editors. According to the BBC, car-maker Aston Martin topped the list the last three years running, with Apple placing second in 2011 and second in 2010 and 2009 (with the 'iPhone' and 'iPod' brands, respectively).

Other tech brands represented on the list of top 20 coolest brands are BBC iPlayer, Bang & Olufsen, Sony, Bose, Skype, and Nikon. Check out the full list over on the BBC. Alternatively, you can download the PDF of 2012/13's coolest brands from CoolBrands' website.

Computer Control With Your Eyeballs is Possible for as low as $30

Controlling the user interface with brain wave recognition has not worked out so far, but we are seeing much more traction in the field of eye tracking.

In the near future you could be interfacing with certain applications simply with your eyes. Students at the Imperial College London have shown that such a device could be built for less than $30.

The idea is not as revolutionary as you may think and uses commonly available hardware. The students used game console cameras capable of tracking 3D objects, such as Microsoft's Kinect. However, instead of tracking an entire body, two cameras were placed on a head-mounted construct "outside of the user's field of vision", and were recalibrated to track pupils. According to the students working on the project, the concept worked well, even if the technology was just demonstrated with a simple Pelota-like game.

A commercial product would need "appropriate" funding and about three more years of development, the researchers said.

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Hitachi Says Data Lives Forever in Quartz Glass

Hitachi has found a way to store data in quartz glass.

The AFP news agency reports that Hitachi has discovered a way to store digital information on slivers of quartz glass. This data can seemingly exist forever, enduring extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading... at least until the sun begins to die and expend to consume the earth, that is.

According to the report, the new tech stores data in binary form by creating dots inside thin sheets of quartz glass which can be read using your standard optical microscope. The current prototype is roughly 0.8-inches square and 0.08-inches thick, and consists of four layers of dots which can hold up to 40 MB per square inch -- approximately the density of a music CD. More data layers can easily be added.

Hitachi researcher Kazuyoshi Torii said that quartz glass is highly stable and resilient material, used to make beakers and other instruments for laboratory use. Due to the medium, the chip is waterproof, resistant to many chemicals and unaffected by radio waves. Even more, it can be exposed directly to high temperature flames and heated to 1,832 Fahrenheit for at least two hours without being damaged.

"We believe data will survive unless this hard glass is broken," said senior researcher Takao Watanabe.

The discovery arrives as consumers push their data to the cloud. Physical media is an acceptable temporary backup, but not ideal for the long-term. Even NAND flash-based solutions won't last forever, thus pushing consumers to find ways of storing their digital photos and other personal items online. This too isn't exactly ideal, but the data is backed up by multiple servers, thus serving as a more secure solution than a simple HDD or DVD.

"The volume of data being created every day is exploding, but in terms of keeping it for later generations, we haven't necessarily improved since the days we inscribed things on stones," Torii added. "The possibility of losing information may actually have increased."

The article doesn't state how these chips will be "read" outside using a microscope although it sounds like some kind of microscope-based reader is on the horizon. There's also no indication as to when this storagesolution will become commercially available, but researchers indicated that government agencies, museums and religious organizations will likely be first in line.

Many New PCs in China Come With Malware Preinstalled

In China, there is not much you have to do to contract a virus on your PC. Plus, you have a one in five chance that you will get that first virus on your brand new PC right out of the box.

Microsoft revealed this finding in a new whitepaper and attributes the high rate of infections of PCs to a shaky supply chain structure that does not prevent the presence of counterfeit products. To lower the cost of a new PC, potentially compromised products are sometimes knowingly accepted. It does not take much to see that this scenario is a goldmine for malware makers and allows the malware business to flourish.

In its whitepaper Microsoft said that in some instances malware strains were contacting a known malware hosting source, 3322.org, and added infected PCs to the Nitol DDoS botnet. There were "500 different strains of malware hosted on more than 70,000 subdomains," Microsoft said.

Following its discovery, Microsoft acquired control of the domain via a court order on September 10. In addition to Nitol, Microsoft said that it also found malware "capable of remotely turning on an infected computer’s microphone and video camera, potentially giving a cybercriminal eyes and ears into a victim’s home or business", as well as malware "that records a person’s every key stroke, allowing cybercriminals to steal a victim’s personal information."

Microsoft said that its recent actions will "reduce the impact of the menacing and disturbing threats associated with Nitol and the 3322.org domain". However, there is no effect on the overall infrastructure how malware finds its way into the supply chain. This case is clearly limited to China, but given the increasing concern about counterfeit products, it may be a smart move and common sense to run an anti-malware scan on your next new PC when you turn it on for the first time. Just in case.

Apple Wants Another $707 Million from Samsung

Apple and Samsung are back for another round.

Back in August, a jury came out in favor of Apple in a parent suit against Samsung. The Cupertino-based company was awarded $1.051 billion USD in damages for its troubles. Seven Apple patentstotal spanning physical and software were in question, including pinch-to-zoom and 'bounce back' (the visual effect when you scroll to the bottom of a list). However, it seems this verdict isn't enough for Apple.

Reuters reports that the Cupertino-based company has filed a court order requesting a U.S. sales ban on infringing Samsung products as well as an additional $707 million in damages on top of the billion-dollar verdict handed down in August. According to Reuters, Apple is hoping the court order will cover not only infringing products but any other products with features that closely resemble infringing features present in infringing products. Apple's court order, which was filed late on Friday, includes $400 million in damages for design infringement, $135 million for willful infringement of its utility patents, $121 million for supplemental damages based on Samsung product sales not covered in the jury's deliberation, and $50 million in prejudgment interest on damages through December 31.

Samsung has responded to the suit with a request for a brand new trial, claiming a lack of time and a complicated case prevented the South Korean company from receiving a fair trial. 

iPhone 5 Sells Five Million Units in First Three Days

Apple reveals first weekend sales for iPhone 5.

It may have been announced almost a fortnight ago but the iPhone5 only officially went on sale this past weekend. Things kicked off with line-ups outside Apple stores around the world on Friday morning and it seems the phone continued selling at a steady pace throughout the first weekend of availability. In fact, Apple this morning announced that it had sold a whopping five million units during the course of the weekend and is now sold out of its initial supply.

"Demand for iPhone 5 has been incredible and we are working hard to get an iPhone 5 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible," said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. "While we have sold out of our initial supply, stores continue to receive iPhone 5 shipments regularly and customers can continue to order online and receive an estimated delivery date. We appreciate everyone's patience and are working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone."

With five million iPhones sold in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore, Apple is preparing to launch the iPhone 5 in an additional 22 countries this coming Friday, on September 28. By the end of this year, the newest iPhone will be available to buy in 100 countries.

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W3C Announces Plan to Make HTML5 Standard By 2014

The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) said on Thursday that it hasproposed a plan to move the HTML5 spec into its official "Candidate Recommendation" status by 2014, and then HTML5.1 by 2016. So far this plan hasn't been approved by the HTML Working Group (WG), but it's open for discussion within the group along with the Accessibility Task Force, and the WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group.

                                                                 

For the W3C to get HTML5 into the Candidate Recommendation stage on time, it will need to rip out some of the less stable aspects and reassign them to the later HTML 5.1. This shouldn't be too much of a hassle given that HTML 5 has been "modularized" over the years, as chunks have already been spun off like Web Workers, WebSockets, Microdata and many others which have since become separate, standalone W3C specifications.

"Modularity plays an important role in the plan progress," the W3C blog stated. "To enable features to evolve independently and rapidly, the group will make use of what it calls 'extension specifications.' Some extension specifications may end up being published as stand-alone documents that are part of the 'HTML family of specifications'; others may be re-integrated into the "baseline" HTML5 specification."

To determine what stays in the HTML5 spec, the plans proposes that the group needs to determine which features are likely to meet the "Public Permissive" CR exit criteria. The group must then create a "stable HTML5.0" draft which includes just the "stable" features, and omits the remaining "unstable" features. After that, they will create an HTML5.1 editor’s draft which is a superset of the stable HTML5.0, but with the "unstable" features included instead of omitted, and also with any new proposed features included.

Then for HTML5.1 in 2016, the HTML WG will repeat the process, throwing the unstable parts into HTML5.2. This streamlined process should mean that additional features will reach the Recommendation stage quicker than before the plan was proposed. That said, if the plan is adopted, then the HTML WG expects to advance HTML5.0 to Candidate Recommendation mode in Q4 of this year.

To read the proposed plan, head here.

Study Names Manchester UK's Piracy Capital

UK comes in number two behind United States for downloads.

Monitoring service Musicmetric has conducted a study on piracy around the world, revealing that the UK's number one city for piracy is Manchester. The data was collected as part of Musicmetric's Digital Music Index, an effort to analyse the preferences and tastes of music lovers. The data shows that the UK illegally shared 43 million albums and singles in the first six months of 2012 alone. Of the 43 million albums and singles, 78 percent were full albums while 22 percent were singles.

Despite the fact that sites like Newzbin2 are blocked by major ISPs in the United Kingdom, Musicmetric's study shows that the UK is second only to the United States in terms of downloads. The company said its data comes from worldwide BitTorrent trends. According to the data, seen exclusively by the BBC, Ed Sheeran was the most pirated act in the UK for the first half of 2012. Rizzle Kicks and Rihanna came in at number two and three, respectively.

Speaking to the BBC, Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive of the British Phonographic Industry, highlighted the fact that Musicmetric's data puts illegal downloads ahead of legal purchases.

"According to their data, there are more illegal downloads in the UK still than there are legal purchases," Taylor is quoted as saying. [It] compares to about 240 million tracks that were sold legally. A lot of people are getting very rich from stealing other people's things."

Interestingly enough, Musicmetric reports that 'The Cardigan' EP by Bill Van is the number torrent being downloaded in five of the top 20 countries by downloads. This EP is licensed for distribution via BitTorrent, which again brings the debate back to piracy being a service problem as opposed to a pricing problem.

Apple's Stock Prices Hit $700 Per Share

Apple shares hit record high after iPhone 5 pre-orders break record.

Last week, Apple announced the newest iteration of the iPhone. Though many people were disappointed by the lack of surprises in the iPhone 5, there were more than enough excited customers lining up to put in pre-orders for the device. Case in point, Apple yesterday revealed that it sold two million pre-orders in the first 24 hours. That's twice as many as the iPhone 4S sold in its first day of pre-orders and an Apple record. However, it seems this little piece of news had a knock-on effect. Today, for the first time ever, Apple stock hit $700 per share.

APPL opened today at $699.16. Just before 10am, it dropped to $696.70. However, that was the lowest point for the day, as it spiked to $700.97 just after 10am. The share price skipped above and below $700 all morning and into the afternoon. At around 2:15pm, it hit passed the $700 mark and stayed above $700 for the rest of the day, closing at $701.91.

The Washington Post writes that Apple shares have gone up 6 percent since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 last Wednesday. Speaking to CNBC earlier this year, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he believes Apple will eventually hit $1000 per share, making the Cupertino-based iPhone-maker a trillion dollar company.

"You know, people talk about $1,000 stock price... you know, at first you want to doubt it but I actually believe that and I don't really follow stock markets," Wozniak told CNBC, later adding, "Apple is on such a winning course because it's encapsulated all of its different big products that I mentioned, they all work together so well that you are in a course that if you buy a product from another company it doesn't really do as much as one from Apple does. So Apple has a large room for growth."

According to the Washington Post, analysts say Apple will be close to the $800-per-share mark as the end of the year rolls in.

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iPhone 5 Gets Priced for the UK

Start saving the pennies now.

Apple yesterday took the wraps off its hotly anticipated new iPhone, the iPhone 5. Last night, Everything Everywhere, parent company of T-Mobile, Orange, and EE, confirmed that both T-Mobile and Orange would be carrying the device from September 21. So, you know where you can get it and when you can get it, but how much will it cost?

 

Though full price details are not yet available, Apple's UK website has the starting price for the iPhone 5 listed online. As you may already be aware, pre-orders for the iPhone 5 are opening up tomorrow, September 14. When they do, you'll be paying from £529 for the phones. Obviously, this is the price for the unlocked phone and you could get it much cheaper if you're willing to enter into a contract with a carrier. If that's the case, subsidies will likely bring the price down to £199 or cheaper. Still, if you're looking for an unlocked iPhone, you'll be paying at least £529 for the privilege. Though Apple doesn't specify, we assume this £529 price tag is for the lowest capacity 16GB model. The company also has a 32GB and 64GB iPhone 5 that will cost significantly more.

Specswise, the iPhone 5 features a 4-inch 326 ppi, 1136 x 640 resolution display, a new Apple A6 SoC, an 8MP camera, improved battery life, 4G LTE, FaceTime over mobile networks, and iOS 6.

eBay Unveils a New Logo After Seventeen Years

eBay prepares to take on Amazon.com in the fixed-price sales market.

Last month, Microsoft unveiled its new look, a makeover for its 25-year old logo. The change was made to embody the shifting desktop experience that Windows 8 brings with its Modern UI. Now it looks like the company has inspired another to do the same. On Thursday, eBay executive Devin Wenig unveiled a new logo for the company to represent its own changes.

The new logo may keep the iconic eBay colors, but everything else about it has changed. Once the leading place to find auction listings, vintage goods and rare collectibles, eBay has since shifted its focus to better compete with online retail giant, Amazon.com. According to Wenig, the logo redesign is meant to reflect a shift of focus from auctions and collectibles to fixed-price, buy-it-now merchandise.

"It's eBay today: a global online marketplace that offers a cleaner, more contemporary and consistent experience," Wenig explains. "Auction-style listings, used goods, vintage items and quirky, one-of-a-kind finds are still a big part of what makes buying and selling on eBay special. But we've evolved a lot in the past few years, and eBay is much more than auction-style listings today."

Although the new eBay may prove to be a better competitor in the online marketplace, some would argue the company has last its unique touch, with a logo redesign that puts the nail in the coffin. Tom Walter, a member from the team that developed the original logo commented on Techcrunch:

This watering down and blandifying of a truly great logo, to me, represents what has happened to eBay overall. Once a place to look for the unique and hard-to-find, they left that behind in their quest to out-Amazon Amazon. In that search, they decided to leave the soul of what made that site experience and company so great behind. And by the way, the overlapping colors in the first logo represented the interaction between buyers and sellers in a very personal way. Now the letters barely touch, like they have cooties. And the staggered baseline in the original represented the fun and excitement of finding exactly what you wanted and getting it.

Working along side Meg, Jeff, Rajiv, Mary Lou, Maria, Tom, Steve and scores more from that initial era when nothing was preordained, we were building something that touched people's lives and empowered them in a way few companies ever have. Guess that mission is gone and replacing the logo is the best way to eradicate that feeling from the marketplace and the company. Nice going, eBay, you went ahead and fixed something that did not need fixing. Took something really wonderful and made it, "Eh? Who cares?"

What do you think of the new logo? Let me know in the comments below.

Android Reaches 500 Million Activations Worldwide

Google mobile chief tweets an impressive milestone for Android.

Last week, Google executive director Eric Schmidt made an appearance during the Motorla Razr event, stating that the company has reached a whopping 480 million Android activations and was quickly approaching the 500 million mark.

Just days later, Google mobile chief Andy Rubin tweeted, "There have been half a billion android activations to date, with over 1.3m added every day."

It's unclear whether the announcement had anything to do with Apple's iPhone 5 reveal, but is an impressive achievement regardless.

1.3 million activations a day is nearly double the 700,000 a day reported in December of last year. With the massive volume of Android devices making their way to the market each day, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to see these numbers grow even more.

500 million activations does beat out Apple's 410 million iDevice sales reported in the company's July earnings call. But with the new and improved iPhone 5 on the loose, we'll just have to wait and see which platform reigns supreme.

Amazon's 7-inch Kindle Fire HD Now Available

Consumers can now purchase the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD and the revamped Kindle Fire.

As promised, Amazon has launched the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD tablet, allowing consumers to purchase the 16 GB model immediately. For those who want the 32 GB model, Amazon is gladly accepting pre-orders for $249 now, and will ship the tablet on October 25, conveniently one day before Microsoft unloads Windows 8 and the first wave of related devices on consumers.

As previously reported, the Kindle Fire HD sports a 7-inch HD LCD screen with a default resolution of 1280 x 800. Powereing the device is a masked Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" and a dual-core 1.2 GHz OMAP4460 SoC from Texas Instruments. Also thrown into the mix is 10-point multi-touch capabilities, a battery offering 11 hours of continuous use, 1 GB of RAM, dual-band Wi-Fi connectivity (meaning 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), and more.

For $40 less, customers can purchase the revamped original Kindle Fire for $159.99 USD. Not much has changed with this gadget unfortunately, as it still sports the same 7-inch screen with a 1024 x 600 resolution, 8 GB of internal storage, and single-band Wi-Fi connectivity. There are also no volume buttons, and there's no SD card slot for expanding the storage, but Amazon has doubled the memory and threw in a better battery for improved performance, so that's a plus.

For consumers who think bigger is better, Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 8.9 will be avialable on November 20, costing $299 for the 16 GB version and $369 for the 32 GB version. Still not enough? Try the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G LTE models launching on the same day, costing $499 for the 32 GB version and a hefty $599 for vthe 64 GB version. All four will come packed with a dual-core OMAP4470 SoC clocked at 1.5 GHz, a 1920 x 1200 resolution, dual-band Wi-Fi connectivity and more.

"We're taking on the most popular price point for a tablet, $499, but doubling the storage and incredibly, adding ultra-fast 4G LTE wireless," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. "Kindle Fire HD is not only the most-advanced hardware, it's also a service. When combined with our enormous content ecosystem, unmatched cross-platform interoperability and standard-setting customer service, we hope people will agree that Kindle Fire HD is the best high-end tablet anywhere, at any price."

To get your new Kindle Fire HD, head here.