These products are the top picks based on ongoing head-to-head voting by the ProductWiki community.
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SanDisk Sansa Clip has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 18 votes.
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$49 to $90
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The Sansa Clip is a bare bones audio player by SanDisk that continues the memory maker's tradition for releasing media players that compete in features and quality, but at a lower cost. This approach has made SanDisk the number two company, after Apple, in the media player industry. True to its namesake, the Sansa Clip comes with an integrated clip for attaching the player to your clothes. The small weight and size are intended to make the Clip less intrusive during a workout.
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Microsoft Windows XP has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 63 votes.
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Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. The letters "XP" stand for eXPerience. It was codenamed "Whistler", after Whistler, British Columbia, as many Microsoft employees skied at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort during its development. Windows XP is the successor to both Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Me, and is the first consumer-oriented operating system produced by Microsoft to be built on the Windows NT kernel and architecture. Windows XP was first released on October 25, 2001, and over 400 million copies were in use in January 2006, according to an estimate in that month by an IDC analyst. It is succeeded by Windows Vista, which was released to volume license customers on November 8, 2006, and worldwide to the general public on January 30, 2007.
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Pioneer Elite VSX-94TXH has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 60 votes.
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The Pioneer Elite VSX-94TXH is one of four models of new Elite receivers released in 2007 including the VSX-90TXV, VSX-91TXH, and VSX-92TXH. The VSX-94TXH is a 7.1 channel receiver delivering 140 Watts of power to each of it 7 channels. Pioneer has caught up to its competition (see Onkyo TX-SR875 and the Denon AVR-3808CI) by including 4 HDMI 1.3a inputs with a built-in Faroudja DCDi video processor that upscales all sources to 1080p and sends to the HDMI output, and all analog sources to component video.
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Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 55 votes.
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$59.99 to $60
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Halo 3
Release date: 9/25/2007
Price:$60
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the eighth game released under the Call of Duty franchise, and true to its name, is the fourth main game in the series. While COD3 was developed by a separate studio, COD4 is developed by the game's original designers: Infinity Ward. Thus far the Call of Duty franchise has focused exclusively in the World War 2 era, with the fourth release being the first happening in modern times, and also the first to achieve a mature rating. Similar to the other main releases in the series, COD4 places a heavy emphasis on both the single player campaign and multiplayer portions of the game. Both sides feature new additions to the series, and some new additions to the FPS genre entirely.
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Philips Ambilight 42PFL7432D has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 18 votes.
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$1,099 to $1,999
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Vizio L42
Release date: 8/15/2006
Price:$1,099
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The Philips 42PFL7432D is a 42" flat panel HDTV that features Philips' unique Ambilight technology. The set is a FullHD 1080p resolution LCD (liquid crystal display). Ambilight works by emitting soft colored lighting that matches what is displayed on the screen to ease the strain on your eyes. On this particular set, a 2-channel Ambilight system is used, which produces light on the left and right sides of the television.
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VLC media player has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 25 votes.
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VLC media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project.
It is a highly portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client", but that meaning is deprecated.
It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for BeOS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Windows CE, and is widely used with over 50 million downloads for version 0.8.6.
VLC uses a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries. Many of its codecs are provided by the libavcodec codec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.
Version 0.8.6, which adds support for WMV version 9 and enhances support for H.264, was released on 10 December 2006.
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Firefox has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 79 votes.
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Opera
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Safari
Release date: 1/7/2003
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Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. Beginning as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has since become the Mozilla Foundation's main development focus (along with the Thunderbird mail and news client), replacing the Mozilla Suite as the foundation's official main software release.
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Google has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 37 votes.
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Google
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Yahoo
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Google IS the Internet. Well, it's not true, but it certainly feels that way quite often. Perhaps it's a deserved title with services (on top of their search) like GMail, Google Video, Google Desktop Search, Picasa, Froogle, Google Maps, Google Local, and the list goes on and on. All free, almost all great.
Site : www.google.com
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iRex iLiad has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 46 votes.
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$299 to $699
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The iRex iLiad is an advanced e-paper reader aimed at the corporate and personal markets. It can be used for reading and editing documents and e-books. A touch sensitive Wacom LCD panel is used for controlling the reader and displaying relevant content. Dedicated buttons are also available on the body to facilitate easier reading, such as dedicated "page flipping" buttons. The iLiad is built on Linux and thanks to its open accessibility it's possible to browse the web using this device alongside a host of other custom applications that have been built by the community.
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Google Talk has been chosen top in its class.
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Based on 29 votes.
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A Google approach to instant communications.
