Sony announces cheaper Blu-ray player

If you were considering buying a Blu-ray player in the next couple of months, you had better hold up. Sony is set to announce a new player for $599 that will have the same capabilities of the first generation player. Surprisingly enough, the announcement was not full of arrogant statements. Kudos to Sony for not sticking their foot in their […]

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BitTorrent Launches Video Download Service

We knew it was coming down the pipe, and today BitTorrent let the world know about the BitTorrent Entertainment Network. Similar to other services out there it is a download service offering movies, TV shows, movies and some free content. It is certainly no bargain with movie rentals coming in at $3.99 and TV shows for $1.99. The content will […]

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M&K Closes Shop after 34 Years

A sad day in the speaker industry, after 34 years in business M&K will be closed down. Heading on over to the M&K's site, I couldn't find any information behind the closure.  CEPro has a bit more information on the history of M&K. From the article: Kreisel credits M&K for introducing "first world's modern day satellite-subwoofer speaker system" in 1976, […]

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Blu-ray sales nudge past HD DVD

I have to say, I am rooting for HD DVD now. Just because of the arrogance portrayed by the Blu-ray team. They really remind me of overpaid sports stars. Never the less, Blu-ray has nudged past HD DVD in next gen DVD sales. From the article: Graffeo says that HD DVD players continue to have the highest disc to player […]

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TiVo Desktop 2.4 Public Beta Released

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Courtesy of Dave Zatz, Tivo Desktop 2.4 beta has been released. A couple of new features are worth noting; HD photograph streaming and transcoding for playback on portable devices. Not much other information to report right now. For those TiVo owners out there, let us know what you do with your TiVo's besides recording duties. Read More:    

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MCEtilites Beta Released

Chris L., ever vigilant on the MCE plugin front, posts about the beta release of MCEtilities 1.0. MCEtilities allows you to edit DVR-MS files and view metadata for DVDcml files. Additionally, the software can control (and rip from) DVD changers such as Sony's XL1B2 changer. Read more from Chris' Post: TGB Thread: Now, if you are like me you are […]

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Pioneer PRO-940HD

THe Pro-940HD barely qualifies for the HD name with a resolution of 1024X768. Personally I have not dealt with rectangular pixels but I would think that it would not work well with Media Centers. Odd resolution aside, this TV does get high marks for out of the box picture quality and the ability to stream media files. From the article: […]

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