The Daily Button: October 16th, 2008
The all new Daily Button design is courtesy of Skirge. If you like the redesign, thank him in the forums. If not? Well, go ahead and throw eggs at him.
Content
VUDU News: Ben with EngadgetHD confirms the pic quality of VUDU’s new HDX titles are close to Blu-ray
Blu-ray News: High Def Digest reviews L.A. Confidential and they appear to like it
Software
Netflix News: Netflix announces the Netflix API , so lets get going on make more Netflix plugins!
WHS Plugin News: We Got served takes a look at the MyMovies plugin for Windows Home Server. If you are managing your media from a WHS, this might be a good addition to your setup.
VMC Plugin News: VMC Netflix got an update a few weeks ago. (sorry for missing it). With all of the new content on Netflix, this is worth price of downloading (free).
VMC Plugin News: Music Brows by folder is now open source
Hardware
Display Device News: EngadgetHD is reporting that Sharp plans to sell LCDs with integrated Blu-ray
Display Device News: Samsung to offer DivX playback on some 2009 TVs and reduce panle production by 5%
Display Device News: S&V has a great article up on how to demo a TV in a big box (Best Buy’esque) show room. I think we all know to turn off the super bright extra white mode.
Blu-ray Player News: The Secrets of HT & HiFi put the Yamaha BD-S2900 through its paces. You might want to skip right past this review as the MSRP for this bad boy is $1195.
Blu-ray Player News: Black Friday promises to be a good one with regards to Blu-ray prices. Expect to find profile 1.1 players for $150.
Mobile Phone News: Not typically relvant to MissingRemote, but as wireless internet speeds ramp up and more of us carry a phone with video on it, phones like the G1 Andriod phone are increasing relevant in a digital media enthusiast’s life. Think of them as portable extenders :).
Other
Podcast News: Ian’s famous podcast has reached episode #177 and this week’s topic is GridSearch. GridSearch is a visual way to search through vdieo files.
Wharrrgarbl News: Brent asks the question , "What should we name today’s HTPC?" He also reports on Dell’s Xbox 360 deals. It might not be a bad time to jump on the 360 Arcade bundle ($169) and then put in one of the 20GB refurbished hard drives from Microsoft.