Since none of the five PCs we own has two VGA-out video ports (and we couldn't be bothered to track down a DVI adapter), we ended up hooking the DS-1500 up to both of our Media Center PCs.
But is hooking up -- and its sometimes bittersweet emotions -- just part of life?
As far as connectivity goes, you've got three USB ports, as well as micro-HDMI for hooking this up to your PC.
In brief, the physical installation simply involved plugging the AV cables (included) into the SlingBox and our set-top box (a Philips Freeview box, to be precise), then taping a couple of IR emitters onto the front of our set-top box, and finally hooking the SlingBox up to our router (via a couple of SlingLink ethernet wall-plug bridges as our router was too far away).
Meantime, Ranbaxy is hooking up with strong partners--even sometime enemies in court.
He thinks it might be used to cut the cost of hooking villages up to local electricity-generating plants, or to subsidise the prices charged.
Hyundai of South Korea plans an ultra-low-cost car for South-East Asia and Fiat is hooking up with India's Tata.
Not long after taking the job, Iiguez began hooking up Cemex's operations via satellite -- an unusual move, to say the least, for a then- modest Mexican cement company.
Big Blue is hooking up with DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) in a pioneering three-year deal to jointly sell an integrated computer system that combines DeCode's unique gene-mining software, which sleuths out genetic risk factors for diseases, with IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) servers and database software.
Iiguez began by hooking up Cemex's geographically dispersed operations via satellite -- an unusual move, to say the least, for a then-modest Mexican cement company.
The tricky Robosapien folks chose not to display some of their hottest bots at CES Unveiled -- probably because they won't be released in the US for the forseeable future -- but we managed to sweet talk them into hooking us up with some images and a few deets about this unannounced swag.
Hooking up with a team means sponsorships, stadium signage and an e-mail database for contacting fans.
Before I became a singer, I was traveling around the world, doing a little modeling, doing fashion things, hooking up with girls and partying, doing all the stuff a good-looking Swedish man should be doing.
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As for hooking up to sound systems, the rig packs front and rear RCA pre-outs, separate subwoofer outputs and a baked-in 25-watt x 4 channel RMS power amplifier, to boot.
In other words, today's college culture has turned hooking up into a sport that all the "cool" kids are playing -- or at least talking about -- even if they secretly hate it.
Both also give you the advantage of hooking your TV up to your computer (pending, of course, that it has DVI-out, and you happen to have a DVI-to-HDMI adapter, if necessary).
Hooking up the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch wirelessly via Apple TV or to a high-definition TV by using an HDMI adapter means vjay for iPhone mixes can easily be beamed onto the big screen for friends and family to marvel at.
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Proof of that lies deeper in the numbers: 80 percent of G1 customers are browsing the web on a daily basis from the comfort of their device -- a testament to the goodness of WebKit, we reckon -- over half are using Facebook and YouTube at least once a week, and half are hooking up to WiFi on a daily basis.
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