Was anybody craving these? If you are a die hard Marvel fan, and I suppose movie posters were not a sufficient way of showing your devotion…how about a Marvel-branded TV?!? The Marvel heroes are on the bottom of the TV bezel and each TV has a splash screen that shows each time you turn the set on with the super […]
Read moreThis is pretty cool, but I’d imagine a complete showstopper is not being compatible with today’s Blu-ray players. Hopefully that will be remedied by the time it hits consumer level. The new BDXL specification describes High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs which will write up to 128GB of content on each disc. These are write-once capacities, with the rewritable discs […]
Read moreEDIT: Continuing from last week, I am noting the Warner Brothers titles which will have the 30-day rental window imposed on them by placing ** next to the title. Not a lot of new titles this week, but I imagine all us geeks should be giddy about the Battlestar Galactica complete series being released on Blu-ray. Since I never got […]
Read moreI haven’t worked at Best Buy in YEARS, but suffice to say if you are there at the right time with the right manager, you can get yourself one heluva deal. If you want the best deal, tell the sales associate straight up you WILL buy the PSP (performance service plan) and then make sure he goes to the manager […]
Read moreInteresting stat here, as DVD continues to be a dominating force, although no surprise that Blu-ray continues to climb. it’s still interesting to note that for the 1st quarter fo 2010, sales were up 68.5 percent over the same quarter last year. Overall packaged media was up 3.1 percent, which isn’t saying that much since overall sales were hit pretty […]
Read moreI’m sure most of you already know this, but for the sake of discussion…the iPad sold over 300,000 on launch day. Initial reports had it much higher, but still that’s a pretty solid number for a first gen product, right? Now, not all of those 300,000 were folks lined up at Apple Stores. Apple says the figure also includes "deliveries […]
Read moreAnother week gone by, hopefully not too many of you fell for our little April Fool’s Joke. We had a busy week with Andy’s Moneaul HTPC case review , and then blogs from two of our newest Staff Editors–Skirge01 on Monoprice.com , and Josh (UMDivx) on Media Center’s continuing concerns . To go along with those great reads, we have […]
Read moreLots of great stuff as usual to start off your month of April, enjoy! Seen in HD 28 – 3D hands on, LOTR & Avatar previews, GI Joe review After months of talking about it, speculating, and critiquing, Phil finally got a chance to actually check out a 3D HDTV and Blu-ray at his local Best Buy. Two of them […]
Read moreI don’t normally post contests, but given A) the rare nature of the Ceton tuners, and B) The fact that Jere has done such a wonderful job on ShowAnalyzer, I figured you guys might be interested. Ashame I’ve already purchased ShowAnalyzer. How to enter: 1) Buy a copy of ShowAnalyzer via PayPal and enter the word "ceton" in the "Instructions […]
Read moreLet the buzz continue on the very soon to be released quad-cablecard tuners from Ceton corp. I’m sure you’ve seen the review from Engadget, but if you wanted to see a video interview , here ya go. It’s pretty basic and moreso covers general info instead of technical, but still cool. Note, Silverlight required to view the video. On10 Ceton […]
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