DVD industry in crisis as sales slump

Raise your hand if you’ve heard this before, the slumping economy is hurting the **** industry. It seems to be a defacto excuse for a lot of big companies. But…if DVDs and Blu-ray are so dead, then why does a movie like Avatar break records on sales? Inception’s coming out…I think it will do just fine. I think this is […]

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Lian Li PC-V352 B Chassis Review

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Here’s an interesting case. It was a few years ago when cube cases were all the rage for your main PC, but that really has diminished…but here’s a new offering from the all aluminum fans at Lian Li. It looks pretty slick, but I’m still not sure I could fit this in my home theater. I am speaking of the […]

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Sony NSZ-GT1 Reviewed at AnandTech

I’d love to see sales numbers for the NSZ-GT1 and Revue; can’t think the are very good because Sony dropped the price $100 a few days ago.  Besides AVRs I think Blu-ray players have the most potential as GoogleTV devices, but I have to wonder if GTV have the chops to make it in a crowded over-the-top apps market.  What […]

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Panasonic DMP-BD655 Blu-ray Disc Player

Here’s a review of Panasonic’s Blu-ray player with quite a lot of integrated online services. It’s about time I upgraded my Blu-Ray player I think, and Geeks.com has come through for me by sending a very nice Panasonic unit for review.  My current Blu-Ray player is an older model from Sony with not many features at all, and with very […]

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Microsoft in talks for new TV service

Microsoft has, shall we say, a bit fragmented in its business operations. As the mighty company moves towards integration of its products at what we hope is an increasing pace, news comes that they are trying to add to the livingroom wars by possibly becoming a cable provider of some sort. No real specifics in the article, but we do […]

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Slysoft AnyDVD to end Lifetime Upgrade Purchases

I actually thought they had done this last year…but apparently I’m wrong. Slysoft AnyDVD is THE best software for ripping your Blu-ray and DVD movies to your hard drive, strictly for backup purposes. So…if you find yourself needing something like that you may want to take advantage before you have to start paying for upgrades. The upgrades are CRITICAL as […]

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