Movie Gallery Plans Online Video Rentals

There are a lot of early players getting into the online movie rental market. Movie Gallery, owners of Hollywood Video, have announced the plan to enter the market before the end of 2007. This service is aimed to compliment their existing B&M stores. I personally like the choice of renting online or from the store. However, they really have not […]

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The Open IPTV Forum is Born

I am glad to see industry leaders get together to form an association to help stear and develop IPTV standards. We don't need 20 different standards in different countries that will require different equipment depending where you. Let the service do the talking. Hopefully this will allow consumers not to get tied down to hardware and mini-monoplies. tvover.net The group […]

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Codename Fiji: Next Version of Media Center?

Chris pointes out that Charlie Owen, a member of the MCE Team, got in a little hot water for pointing out some of the features that maybe in the next version of Vista MCE. The blog post in question has since been wiped clean with the only evidence of it at a ZDNET blog. Nothing to interesting really but he […]

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‘The Matrix’ Trilogy Comes to HD DVD

THe Matrix Trilogy coming to HD DVD has to be one of the biggest announcements yet for the HD DVD team. On May 22nd, two box set collections of the Matrix trilogy will be hitting stores. However, it won't be an exclusive, Warner plans on releasing a Blu-ray version once the specs for BD Live are finalized. Expect to pay […]

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Amazon selling Samsung’s Blu-ray player on the cheap

If you were on the fence about buying a Blu-ray player, perhaps Amazon's 50% deal on Samsung's player might persuade you. Perhaps Samsung is preparing a new entry into the next gen market orrrr Amazon simply can't move enough of them. EngadgetHD Yeah you buddy. Wanna cheap Blu-ray player? Amazon is selling Samsung's BD-P1000 for a mere $499. While we […]

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LinuxMCE: Pure Propaganda or quality?

Either way, the voice of this video is an absolute horrible idea. I love the idea of this application, but the video is ridiculous. I had to stop it at 12 minutes because it was getting absolutely ridiculous. That being said, there were some neat features of this app, but since the site's down due to digg, we'll have to […]

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Panasonic updates Blu-ray player

Good to see them making such quick improvements on these, but it's a shame they can't be improved via firmware. Wouldn't you hate to spend $800 on one of these only to see it trumped by a new version 6 months later? TG Daily According to the manufacturer, the new player supports the 7.1 channel surround sound formats Dolby TrueHD […]

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ZigBee’s Benefits for Home Automation

This podcast features a couple of folks from Control 4 talking about Zigbee, the new wireless home automation protocol. A good listen if you are interested in delving into the HA world. Pod Tech Network Adding a home automation system to an existing home used to require tearing out drywall, installing thousands of feet of wire and surviving the battle […]

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