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If you’re looking for high-end audio quality without running wires all over your living room, you don’t have too many options. Usually wireless sound suffers from terrible compression and signal loss when you send it through the air. Aperion Audio wants to fix that problem, and promises audiophile-grade sound quality with its new Zona Wireless Surround Sound Speaker System.

Simply plug the speakers into power and plug the wireless transmitter into your audio source, and the speakers automatically sync with one another and stream from the base station. Aperion specifically created the system so setup was simple, and the transmitter even has a USB port on it so you can use the speaker system as a wireless set for your home computer. The speakers have a range of up to 150 feet from the transmitter. If you’re interested, the set is available now for $499 list, and includes two speakers and the wireless transmitter.
 

Western Digital is working hard to grab some headlines from Google TV and Roku. Witness the just-released WD TV Live Hub media center, a full 1080p media player with a 1 terabyte built-in network hard drive that give users the ability to play all their personal media on any screen in their house. This media center lets users rent or purchase movies through the Blockbuster on Demand service the same day that they’re released on disc.

This media center is also a media server. Use it to stream HD video, music, and photos to any compatible TV or mobile device anywhere in the home. You can also use to to stream content to iPads, iPhone, and Android phones using third-party applications. It lists for $199.99.

How many times do we have to learn this lesson? Just because you CAN do something, it doesn’t mean that you SHOULD do it. Jackass 3D recently pushed the boundaries of what sorts of activities people really want to see in three dimensions. Perhaps the surpise box office success of that film has opened a veritable Pandora’s box of upsetting 3D content.

Clearly the producers of Nudist 3D saw the door wide open and just decided to dance right in (nakedly, we assume), creating what may well be a cautionary tale about the sorts of things that nobody, repeat, nobody, looks good doing naked–hiking, yoga, et al.

It gets worse–the film was shot in hi-def 1920×1080. Hollywood in HiDef calls the technical achievements “impressive.” The film is the first product of a new site called Nudist3D.com–the first of many, apparently. We’re not going to link here because we’re not sure if the thing is safe for work, so cut and past at your own risk.

“Obtaining the best possible video quality in this emerging field was of the utmost importance,” said a rep from the site.

Word to the wise: if you check out the film in theaters, make sure you keep a close eye on your popcorn at all times.

Yesterday it was the Nintendo Wii, today PlayStation 3 owners are the ones who get to enjoy streaming video from Netflix without leaving their couches, and without having to keep the Netflix disc in their DVD trays. Just fire up your PlayStation 3, head to the XrossMediaBar (XMB,) and you should see the Netflix app there, ready to download.

Once you have it installed on your PS3, the disc will no longer work. You’re free to use it as a Frisbee or a coaster for those drinks you can enjoy now that you don’t have to get up to watch a movie. At least PS3 owners will be able to enjoy streaming video in beautiful 1080p HD with Dolby 5.1 channel surround sound, something Wii owners sadly didn’t get yesterday, but that’s more Nintendo’s problem to solve than Netflix’s.

At the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver, Colorado, Aperion Audio has debuted it’s Aperion Verus Grand line of home theater speaker systems. The system feature a three-way bass reflex design, a one-inch Aperion silk dome tweeter, two five-inch woven Kevlar mid-range drivers, and two six-inch woven Kevlar woofers. The goal of the line is to create accurate, uncolored lifelike experience, the company says.

While there’s no shortage of home theater systems for those with money to burn, Aperion wanted to keep this line within range of the average home theater buff. Pricing starts at $1,798 per pair for the Verus Grand Tower, $699 for the Verus Grand Center, and $598 per pair for the Verus Grand Bookshelf. The company is now accepting pre-orders, and units will ship on October 30.