 | Half on broadband by 2009: study (Australian (Australian IT, 5/09/2005 8:25am) |
| HALF of all Australian households will have broadband by 2009, rising from an expected 27 per cent penetration this year, according to a new study. The broadband market entered a \\\"land-grab\\\" phase in the past six to eight months, according to analyst IDC. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dead Rising 3 demo available now, first DLC out Christmas Eve (Joystiq, 12/13/2013 8:30pm) |
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If you're not dead set on Dead Rising 3, don't dead fret: There's a new demo on the Xbox [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Rumor: Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate coming to PS3/360 (Joystiq, 5/08/2013 12:45am) |
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An enhanced version of last year's Dead or Alive 5, dubbed Dead or Alive 5 [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Blu-Ray Sales Developing Nicely (High-Def Digest, 1/21/2009 10:45pm) |
| The Blu-ray Disc player industry is seeing increased sales over the past two and a half years. Since the technology was unveiled, 10.7 million players (including Playstation 3s) have been shipped to retail... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dead Rising Collection hits European Xbox 360s in March (Joystiq, 1/23/2014 8:30pm) |
| Europe is getting a Dead Rising Collection for Xbox 360 on March 7, bundling up the original Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2, and the Case Zero, Case West and Off the Record DLC missions. Capcom hasn't said if the collection will make its way to North [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dead or Alive 5 1.03a patch on PS3 today, see it in action (Joystiq, 2/13/2013 4:00am) |
For specifics about the updates coming to Dead or Alive 5 with the version 1.03a patch - hitting PS3 today and Xbox this month - consult (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | If you're all-in on Dead Space 3, don't watch this trailer (Joystiq, 1/31/2013 8:30pm) |
For those picking up Dead Space 3 next week who don't need any [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Neo Geo sale has PS3 and PSP games at half-off (Joystiq, 8/29/2012 2:00am) |
| SNK is hosting a month-long half-off sale on a handful of Neo Geo games for PS3 and PSP. PSN games drop to $4.50 apiece and PSP games are $3.50; the Neo [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Generation Next gets one upped (Joystiq, 4/18/2005 4:22pm) |
| Wondering what the future holds? Well don’t go playing with your crystal balls. Instead, check out 1UP’s Generation Next feature. Sort the fact, from the fiction. A good look at what we know so far, and it even gives props to the Dreamcast, a console which, despite being dead, still has a strong homebrew community. Of course, you’re interested in the future, not the past. Go check the (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dead Space 3 demo out starting January 15, 'Story So Far' trailer released (Joystiq, 12/26/2012 2:45pm) |
Dead Space 3's playable demo will crawl out from the void where nightmares [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dead Space 3 demo 'close to 2M' downloads (Joystiq, 2/04/2013 2:15pm) |
| EA revealed nearly two million people have already downloaded the Dead Space 3 demo, at least 10 percent [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Walking Dead Episode Four PS3 save issue patched (Joystiq, 10/14/2012 9:30pm) |
| A "small number" of PS3 players encountered a save glitch when booting up The Walking Dead [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New Blu-ray, 3D & UltraViolet: Battleship, Walking Dead Season Two, Sons of Anarchy (HD-Report, 8/28/2012 8:51am) |
| It’s a big week for TV shows on Blu-ray. We already mentioned The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is Amazon’s Blu-ray Deal of the Week. Today, The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season hits shelves. The box set includes audio [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Dead Man Down' Blu-ray Dated & Detailed (High-Def Digest, 5/14/2013 10:00pm) |
| The crime thriller from director Niels Arden Oplev (the original 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo') will hit Blu-ray in July. In an early announcement to retailers, Sony has slated 'Dead Man Down' [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Evil Dead Blu-ray Review (Big Picture Big Sound, 7/15/2013 7:29pm) |
| Was a remake really necessary? Bruce Campbell makes everything better, but this Blu-ray still scares up a few [...] (Read Full Article) |
| LG Kills Blu-ray/HD DVD Hybrid Player [Hd Dvd] (Gizmodo, 5/13/2008 8:19pm) |
| LG will stop swinging both ways with HD formats this fall, when it ceases production on its Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player. (Samsung's is already dead.) I'm just kind of amazed an already dead format... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Prediction: HD DVD Not Dead, Toshiba Will Produce Dual Format HD Players [Hd Dvd] (Gizmodo, 1/07/2008 2:54am) |
| We snagged a second with Wolfgang Schlichting, IDC's research director for removable storage, to ask what the picture looks like for HD DVD. His thoughts? HD DVD isn't dead yet. Toshiba will probably... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Shane Kim Can't Quit HD DVD [Xbox 360] (Kotaku, 4/17/2008 8:00am) |
| The dust has settled. Long ago. HD DVD is way dead, way dead. But Micrsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim hasn't given up! The man is an optimist. He can see the bright side of a train wreck. Bless him.... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 3D Video Games Sound as Good as Dead. Good. [3D] (Kotaku, 8/22/2012 3:30am) |
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3D was everywhere a year or [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Starz to Unleash 'Halloween,' 'Evil Dead 2,' 'Dawn of the Dead' on Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 7/17/2007 2:55pm) |
| Nearly a month after formally announcing its support of the Blu-ray format, Starz Home Entertainment says it will release four horror film classics as its first Blu-ray titles. As we originally reported... ... (Read Full Article) |
| 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead' Heads to HD DVD (High-Def Digest, 12/14/2007 5:00pm) |
| Image Entertainment is planning an April HD DVD arrival for the acclaimed Sidney Lumet crime thriller 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' Starring Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman as brothers who... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 1 - All That Remains dated for Xbox 360 (Joystiq, 12/10/2013 2:15pm) |
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Season 2 of The Walking Dead premieres December 18 on Xbox 360, according to an [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate confirmed for Xbox 360, PS3 this fall (Joystiq, 5/09/2013 7:00pm) |
Dead or [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'The Living Dead Girl' and 'Two Orphan Vampires' Announced for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 8/09/2012 6:00pm) |
| Two cult horrors from director Jean Rollin will sink their teeth into Blu-ray at the end of the month. In an early announcement to retailers, Kino's Redemption label is preparing 'The Living Dead [...] (Read Full Article) |
| HDNet Adds Joan , Dead (MultiChannel News, 4/24/2006 8:07pm) |
| HDNet is adding off-network shows Joan of Arcadia and Dead Like Me to its weekly HDTV program lineup, officials said Monday. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Dead Man Down' Blu-ray Announced (High-Def Digest, 4/11/2013 6:00pm) |
| Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace will be seeking vengeance on Blu-ray in June. In an early announcement to retailers, FilmDistrict is preparing 'Dead Man Down' for Blu-ray on June 18. Victor (Colin [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Dead Souls' Announced for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 3/11/2013 6:00pm) |
| Colin Theys' supernatural thriller will be available on Blu-ray in June. In an early announcement to retailers, Scream Factory has revealed 'Dead Souls' for a Blu-ray release on June 25. On his 18th [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Get The Walking Dead First Season on Blu-ray just $24.99 (HD-Report, 8/26/2012 2:51pm) |
| Here's your chance to pick up the The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season 3-disc Blu-ray edition for just $24.99 -- a 60% savings off the list price of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'TerrorVision / The Video Dead' Announced for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 11/05/2012 9:00pm) |
| A TV-themed horror double feature is on its way to high-definition in February. In an early announcement to retailers, Scream Factory is working on 'TerrorVision / The Video Dead' for Blu-ray on [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'TerrorVision / The Video Dead' Blu-ray Date Correction (High-Def Digest, 11/15/2012 7:00pm) |
| The TV-themed horror double feature is now on its way to high-definition at the end of February. As previously reported, Scream Factory is working on 'TerrorVision / The Video Dead' for Blu-ray on [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Day of the Dead: Collector's Edition' Blu-ray Announced (High-Def Digest, 5/07/2013 6:30pm) |
| A double dip of George A Romero's 1985 zombie flick is coming in 2013. In an early announcement to retailers, Scream Factory says 'Day of the Dead: Collector's Edition' is on its way to Blu-ray later [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'The Definitive Document of the Dead' Announced for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 9/17/2012 8:00pm) |
| Roy Frumkes' 1978 documentary on George A. Romero is getting a limited edition Blu-ray release this November. Synapse Films is now taking pre-orders for 'The Definitive Document of the Dead' which [...] (Read Full Article) |
| UK Cult Fave 'Dead Fish' Bound for Blu-ray, HD DVD (UPDATED) (High-Def Digest, 11/26/2007 11:00pm) |
| UPDATE (11/27/07, 4pm ET): Contrary to earlier reports, it looks like high-def early adopters will have to keep waiting for the UK crime caper 'Dead Fish' to hit Blu-ray and HD DVD. We've just received...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/191472901" height="1" width="1"/> ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Contest: Win 'Evil Dead' (2013) on Blu-ray! (High-Def Digest, 7/16/2013 5:00pm) |
| This week's contest is for all you horror junkies out there. We're giving away a copy of the splatter-tastic 'Evil Dead' remake on Blu-ray. Enter our contest today for your chance to [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | D creator Kenji Eno dead at age 42 (Joystiq, 2/21/2013 8:30pm) |
| One of the most fascinatingly creative voices in the Japanese game industry has died. Kenji Eno, designer of the D series, the 3DO's most interesting games, and [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Half Of U.S. Households Expected To Own DVRs (TechWeb, 7/21/2005 10:23pm) |
| Nearly half of U.S. households are expected to own digital video recorders in five years, as cable and satellite companies heavily market the devices to consumers. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Evil Dead' Remake Dated for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 5/28/2013 10:00pm) |
| The hit remake of Sam Raimi's cult classic will be summoned to Blu-ray in July. In an early announcement to retailers, Sony will be releasing 'Evil Dead' on Blu-ray on July 16. The story follows Mia, [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Half of U.S. households expected to own DVRs (EE Times, 7/22/2005 7:21pm) |
| Nearly half of U.S. households are expected to own digital video recorders in five years, as cable and satellite companies heavily market the devices to consumers, a research firm said Thursday. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Day of the Dead: Collector's Edition' Blu-ray Features Detailed (High-Def Digest, 7/08/2013 10:00pm) |
| Features have been revealed for the Collector's Edition of the cult George A. Romero horror film coming to Blu-ray in September. As previously reported, Scream Factory will release 'Day of the Dead: [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Dead or Alive 5 PS3 patch bugs out, Xbox 360 patch delayed to Feb. (Joystiq, 1/24/2013 2:00am) |
| Dead or Alive 5 patch 1.03 (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season' Blu-ray Announced and Detailed (High-Def Digest, 6/05/2013 4:55am) |
| No less than three Blu-ray editions of Season 3 will be available this August. In an early announcement to retailers, Starz/Anchor Bay is working on 'The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season' for [...] (Read Full Article) |
| One ``Half Million Dollar'' Home + 12,000 Ticket Holders = One Lucky Winner!!! (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 6/08/2005 4:56pm) |
| Approximately 12,000 Californians will compete this Saturday to win one brand new home during the Irvine Public School Foundation's "$Half-Million Dollar$" House Raffle! ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New 3DS Zelda returns to the world of A Link to the Past (Joystiq, 4/17/2013 3:39pm) |
| A new top-down Zelda set in the "world" of A Link to the Past will be released in North America in Holiday 2013. While the perspective is the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 2 gets dates on Xbox 360, iOS (Joystiq, 3/04/2014 11:00am) |
| There's no point trying to hide on Xbox 360 and iOS, Clem, because A House Divided is also headed their way this week. After originally leaving the platforms in release date limbo, Telltale revealed the second episode of The Walking Dead Season [...] (Read Full Article) |
| In case you missed it: peace broke out in the format war, HD DVD is dead (Engadget, 2/19/2008 6:02pm) |
| Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Just in case you missed the big news earlier this morning, after more than two years on the market, HD DVD finally rolled over. Here's everything you need to know:
Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over
Toshiba: "no plans" to adopt Blu-ray
HD DVD casualty report: over 1m players, recorders, and drives lost to the format war
Pa ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New 3DS Zelda falls after 'A Link to the Past' (Joystiq, 4/18/2013 1:30am) |
Nintendo is still mulling over an official North American title for this holiday's (Read Full Article) |
| Non-Combo HD DVD Re-Issues Planned For 'Dazed & Confused,' 'Land of the Dead' (High-Def Digest, 12/19/2007 9:00pm) |
| In its latest round of combo demotions, Universal will re-issue 'Dazed & Confused' and 'Land of the Dead' as stand-alone HD DVD releases this March. Universal first released both titles back in 2006... ... (Read Full Article) |
| HD DVD not dead yet: research group calls for caution interpreting weekly sales figures (HDTV UK, 1/29/2008 8:00am) |
| According to the NPD Group, who has provided weekly sales tracking figures for high definition discs in the US, the HD DVD format is far from dead.
They have correctly reminded those using the figures alone to signal Blu-ray's victory to be cautious at using a single week's results to plot a trend.
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| 'Dawn of the Dead,' 'Notting Hill' Lead Universal Late August HD DVD Wave (High-Def Digest, 5/31/2007 10:01pm) |
| Universal Studios Home Entertainment has added two more catalog titles to its ever-expanding next-gen library, bringing 'Notting Hill' and the 2004 remake of 'Dawn of the Dead' to HD DVD late this summer.... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Meet the New Redesigned Xbox 360, Same Price as the Old Xbox 360 (Kotaku, 6/10/2013 6:55pm) |
| The new Xbox 360 design—in stores today, says Microsoft—features a design consistent with the one-half-glossy/one-half-matte look of its successor, the Xbox One. It also bridges future [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | PSN Tuesday: Awesomenauts, Dead Nation on PS4, South Park on PS3 (Joystiq, 3/05/2014 1:30am) |
| The PSN update this fine Tuesday includes Awesomenauts Assemble and Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition for PS4, as well as South Park: The Stick of Truth, Master Reboot and NASCAR '14 for PS3. Vita gets Hatsune Miku Project Diva F, and PS3 owners [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray revenue on the rise but what does it really mean? (AfterDawn, 7/21/2008 5:58pm) |
| Half way through 2008 the home video market has made studio executives happy. Although spending hasn't grown from last year's levels it also haven't fallen, which many in the industry considered a strong possibility.
Blu-ray in particular has seen a spending increase of around 300% from the first half of last year. It has amounted to more than $200 million in revenue so far this year.
“I ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Assassin's Creed 3 day-one patch clears up the past (Joystiq, 10/30/2012 5:30pm) |
| The good thing about a game that takes place inside a computerized reconstruction of someone's memories is that you can pretend there's a narrative [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New Nintendo eShop releases: A Link to the Past, Mario Bros, indie sale (Joystiq, 1/30/2014 10:30pm) |
| Nintendo brought forth three games to the 3DS and Wii U eShops today. This week's selections are highlighted by The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, which is now available on the Wii U Virtual Console for $7.99. The 3DS side of the eShop sees [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | This Week on Blu-ray: 42, Evil Dead, Hell on Wheels, Lord of the Flies, and more! (Big Picture Big Sound, 7/17/2013 12:15am) |
| A baseball icon, a cult classic reincarnated, and another stunner from AMC; get a peek at this week's new and notable [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Animal Crossing 3DS launches during 'first half of 2013' (Joystiq, 8/30/2012 12:30am) |
| Animal Crossing 3DS is poised to hit US shores during the 'first half of 2013," [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Xbox 360 Ultimate Sale continues with FIFA 14, Skyrim, Dead Island: Riptide (Joystiq, 2/20/2014 12:00pm) |
| It's day 3 of the Xbox 360 Ultimate Game Sale, and that means seven more discounts vying to divorce hard-earned cash from bank accounts. The big name games include FIFA 14, Skyrim, and Dead Island: Riptide, but the biggest discount of the day goes [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Steam Holiday Sale Day 3: DOTA 2, Dungeon Defenders, Dead Island and more (Joystiq, 12/22/2012 8:45pm) |
| Ah, the steady march of time. Just as the electronic transition frequency of an atom can be used to measure the passage of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Minecraft tops 10 million on Xbox 360, celebrates with half-off DLC (Joystiq, 12/13/2013 9:30pm) |
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No stranger to huge sales numbers, the people behind the Xbox 360 iteration of (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Super Joystiq Podcast 046 Live: New Zelda, Mario & Luigi, Injustice (Joystiq, 4/18/2013 8:40pm) |
It's a Nintendo news-o-rama this week, with Joystiq getting its hands on a new Zelda: Link to the Past, (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | EOS imaging First Half 2013 Sales More Than Double (Business Wire, 7/20/2013 2:00pm) |
| PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EOS imaging (NYSE Euronext, FR0011191766-EOSI), the pioneer in orthopaedic 2D/3D imaging, announced today its sales for the first half of 2013.      In € millions    30th June 2013  30th June 2012  % [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Half of households worldwide to have 3-D-ready TVs by 2019, says report (Broadcast Engineering, 10/01/2012 9:02pm) |
| A new report from NPD DisplaySearch forecasts 3-D TVs will account for $67 billion in revenue globally in 2019.
read [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Half of High-Definition TV Buyers Aren't Actually Watching HDTV (News 10 Sacramento, 12/19/2005 11:11pm) |
| An estimated 16 million high definition TV sets will be in American homes by the end of the year. But a new survey by home entertainment technology provider Scientific-Atlanta shows half of the people buying HDTV sets aren't taking the necessary steps to actually watch high definition programming. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Universal Cancels 'Dazed & Confused,' 'Land of the Dead' HD DVD Re-Issues (High-Def Digest, 2/08/2008 7:00pm) |
| Sorry, combo haters: Universal has pulled the previously-announced HD DVD non-combo re-issues of 'Dazed & Confused' and 'Land of the Dead' from its high-def schedule. As we've previously reported,... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Warner Talks More About Reasons for Choosing Blu-ray Disc (Format War Central, 1/09/2008 6:23am) |
| Rueters is reporting that Warner Bros
Entertainment Group President Kevin Tsujihara has spoken out more regarding Warner’s shock news that they would only support Blu-ray in the second half of 2008.
A 2007 decline in DVD sales, which account for half of
Hollywood’s profits, and anticipated further declines in 2008
sped Warner’s decision making process.
Tsujihara said the [ ... (Read Full Article) |
| Panasonic's plasma half-brightness rating upped to 100,000 hours (Engadget, 8/08/2007 7:05pm) |
| Filed under: HDTV
Most of the time you're probably just sitting around, staring at your plasma television and wondering how much longer you have till the thing starts going dim on you. Well luckily, Panasonic is seriously feeling your pain, and the company has just upped the half-brightness rating of a whole slew of its new plasma screens to 100,000 hours -- a nearly 67 percent increase in lifesp ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Left 4 Dead 2 'Cold Stream' DLC for Xbox 360 this Friday (Joystiq, 8/01/2012 1:15pm) |
| It's been a long time coming, but the Cold Stream DLC will arrive on Xbox 360 this Friday, August 3, according to (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | A new Dead or Alive 5 project is "coming soon" to the PS3 and the Xbox 360. (Kotaku, 4/29/2013 9:30am) |
| A new Dead or Alive 5 project is "coming soon" to the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Yosuke Hayashi, Team Ninja's leader, recently announced that the "newest work" (最新作) for [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Walking Dead: Season 3 on Blu-ray Comes In This Creepy Cabinet of Zombie Heads (Gizmodo, 4/12/2013 2:26pm) |
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| (Unranked) | The World of A Link To The Past Has Changed in the New 3DS Zelda (Kotaku, 6/14/2013 5:30pm) |
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The upcoming 3DS Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds, shares much of the same terrain with the classic Super Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. But the game's lead creator [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon delayed to 'first half of 2013' (Joystiq, 8/13/2012 1:30pm) |
| Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon apparently won't be spooking Nintendo 3DS owners until some point in the 'first half of 2013," says Nintendo. The game was originally (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | DOA 5 1.03 update takes PS3 to Zack Island today, Jan. 29 on Xbox 360 (Joystiq, 1/22/2013 11:00pm) |
A new patch has been issued for Dead or Alive 5, available today on the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Chyron Reports Second Quarter and First Half 2005 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 8/12/2005 8:48pm) |
| Chyron Corporation today announced that for its second quarter, the Company generated revenues of $5.8 million and incurred a net loss of $0.2 million. For the first half of 2005 the Company generated revenues of $11.8 million and incurred a net loss of $0.4 million. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 2013 DICE Award nominations led by Journey, Walking Dead, Far Cry 3 (Joystiq, 1/14/2013 4:45pm) |
| The nominations have been announced for the 16th annual DICE Awards, and Journey leads the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Broadcast Flat at half-mast (p2pnet.net, 5/06/2005 11:06pm) |
| Drooping, but not lowered ... (Read Full Article) |
| (No Title) (, 5/01/2007 6:37pm) |
| Nearly half of Americans who own HDTV technology are unable to actually receive high-definition... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, DLC half-off today on Xbox Live (Joystiq, 12/18/2012 2:45pm) |
As part of its "countdown to 2013 deals," Xbox Live has Call of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Disc Sales Rise 91% in First Half of 2009 (Electronic House, 7/17/2009 6:30pm) |
| Digital Entertainment Group says nearly 20 million Blu-ray players shipped in second quarter. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Disc Sales Rise 91% to $407M in First Half of 2009 (CE Pro, 7/17/2009 2:55am) |
| Digital Entertainment Group says nearly 20 million Blu-ray players shipped in second quarter. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 4K or 3D? The future remains unclear (Broadcast Engineering, 2/25/2013 7:56pm) |
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Is 3D dead? Is 4K alive? Readers seem unsure
Readers provide their views on how 3D and 4K technologies may arrive in their plans.
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| (No Title) (, 10/18/2007 3:05pm) |
| No wonder we're raising a society of brain dead kids. Between the Internet, video games, and TV, ... and anchordudes spending more time watching THEMSELVES in makeup mirrors. Why? HDTV. The Cincinnati Enquirer ... (Read Full Article) |
| Microsoft Continues to Pimp HD DVD Player [Hd Dvd] (Kotaku, 2/20/2008 9:00am) |
| So, HD DVD is dead. But, Microsoft is having a hard time moving on, it seems. Soon after the Toshiba announcement, Xbox Japan said the death of HD DVD is something it "will examine from now." By... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Review: Frankenweenie - 3D (High-Def Digest, 1/14/2013 3:00pm) |
| A boy's best friend is his dead dog in Tim Burton's 'Frankenweenie,' an extended remake of the director's 1984's short film which didn't see the light of day until a decade later and cost him his job [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | HBO pioneer writes off 4K prospects (Broadcast Engineering, 3/24/2013 12:23pm) |
| HBO CTO Bob Zitter, who retires this month, had a sting in his tail for delegates at the TV Connect show in London, with his declaration that 3-D with glasses was dead and that prospects for 4K were little better.
(Read Full Article) |
| Orb Networks can set you free (USA Today, 6/30/2005 5:36am) |
| Who says you can't take it with you? I was visiting family near Baltimore this past weekend while my beloved New York Mets battled ... ... (Read Full Article) |
| The players at an impasse (Ars Technica, 10/14/2005 7:45pm) |
| Here's the back-story, insofar as I've been able to piece it together from the past week's reporting on the issue (see "Related Coverage" below). ... (Read Full Article) |
| Clearing the Picture (RedNova, 12/05/2005 10:21pm) |
| The two houses of the U.S. Congress remain divided by just four months on a firm "drop dead" date for analog TV. But it's fairly certain that by April 7, 2009 (if not Dec. 31, 2008), your old-line TV set will no longer be able to tune in over-the-air TV channels. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | BBC Dropping 3D By the End of the Year (High-Def Digest, 7/05/2013 6:30pm) |
| "I have never seen a very big appetite for 3D television in the UK." After a year and a half of broadcasting 3D content such as 'Doctor Who,' the London Olympics, and even the last Christmas' [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (No Title) (, 4/04/2007 2:31am) |
| Sometimes I don't know whether to feel sympathy or contempt for people. Half of the 24 million households with HDTV sets can't watch HDTV because they... ... (Read Full Article) |
| A Consumer's Cheat Sheet to HD DVD's Death and Blu-ray's Victory [Format War Over] (Gizmodo, 2/19/2008 7:09pm) |
| HD DVD is dead. Officially. That may mean a whole bunch for the early-adopter tech geek crowd that's been wading in the kiddie pool of technological bickering and backhandedness for years, but what... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | UK Man Receives New 3D Printed Face (DailyTech, 4/15/2013 8:18pm) |
| He lost half of his face to [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray disc sales, rentals skyrocket (CEA SmartBrief, 7/17/2009 5:00am) |
| Sales of Blu-ray discs jumped 91%, to $407 million, in the first half of 2009 even as consumers' home-entertainment spending -More- ]]> ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Here's a $499 3D printer (Engadget, 1/07/2014 7:51pm) |
| After the deluge of announcements from MakerBot and 3D Systems over the past two days, it's likely going to be tough for any other 3D printing companies to cut through the noise this week at CES -- though XYZprinting's got something most of the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Deadline for Digital TV Established (TV Week, 12/19/2005 6:52pm) |
| Feb. 17, 2009, is the new drop-dead date by which broadcasters must make the switch to digital TV, under a legislative compromise approved by House and Senate leaders late Sunday. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray, HD DVD crack becomes a crevice (Ars Technica, 3/07/2007 3:55pm) |
| Another piece of the high-definition content protection puzzle has been found, as hackers have located device keys for a software player. Does this mean that next-gen copy protection is already dead? Read More... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Crimewave' Blu-ray Dated (High-Def Digest, 2/11/2013 7:00pm) |
| The 1985 cult serial killer spoof debuts on Blu-ray in May. In an early announcement to retailers, Shout Factory will release 'Crimewave' on Blu-ray on May 14. Sam Raimi ('The Evil Dead') directs [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Yet another blow to 3DTV: BBC puts the brakes on stereoscopic program production (Broadcast Engineering, 7/08/2013 2:25pm) |
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Only about half of the UK’s 3DTV sets tuned into the opening ceremonies of last summer’s Olympics.
(Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Highlights: Week of July 28th, 2013 (High-Def Digest, 7/29/2013 5:00pm) |
| They say that knowing is half the battle. If that's the case, you should know that this is another slow week for new Blu-ray releases, with only one major title that's not even particularly great. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray, HD DVD Overtake VHS in Sales (High-Def Digest, 8/08/2007 2:55pm) |
| High-def has notched up another milestone, with combined Blu-ray and HD DVD disc sales overtaking VHS during the first half of 2007. That's according to a new research report from Video Business, which... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 3D is dead--long live 4K (Broadcast Engineering, 2/13/2013 3:28pm) |
| Similar to 2010, the 2013 consumer electronics industry has decided the next great thrill will come from everyone buying another hugely expensive 4K television. Never mind the small detail that the so-called 4K televisions aren’t really capable of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Fox Prepping New 'AvP' Blu-ray with BD-Live, PIP (High-Def Digest, 3/10/2008 11:00pm) |
| There's no street date yet, but Fox says it is readying a Blu-ray re-issue of 'Alien vs. Predator' for the second half of 2008 that will include all-new PIP and BD-Live bonus features. When asked to comment... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 6 Solid LED HDTVs Under $500 (eCoustics, 3/29/2013 4:30pm) |
| Not too long ago, HDTVs were expensive. The idea of spending less than $1,000 on a high-def television seemed impossible just a few years ago. Now you can get a 40- or 42-inch full HD 1080p screen for less than half that. If you already have a [...] (Read Full Article) |
| NASCAR needs to rethink its deal with NBC (The Morning Call, 9/06/2005 1:08pm) |
| It's clear NBC just doesn't get it when it comes to covering NASCAR, which is why the sport would be wise to find a new home for the second half of its season when the current contract expires in 2006. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nintendo wins 50 percent reduction of $30M 3D infringement award (Joystiq, 8/15/2013 5:00pm) |
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Nintendo only has to pay half of the $30.2 million a US District Court determined it owed to Seijiro Tomita for infringing on his 3D display patent. As both (Read Full Article) |
| Paramount Kills Entire HD DVD Release Schedule, But No Blu Flicks 'Til Summer [Hd Dvd] (Gizmodo, 2/29/2008 6:10am) |
| There won't be a soft transition to Blu-ray for Paramount—they're dropping their whole HD DVD release slate right this second. Their last two movies on the dead format hit Tuesday, even though... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony: We've sold 70 million PS3 consoles worldwide (CNET News, 11/16/2012 1:18pm) |
| Six years on, the PS3 chugs past another big round number, matching the tally logged by the rival Xbox not so very long [...] (Read Full Article) |
| With HD DVD dead, Blu-ray's next threat is digital downloads (Ars Technica, 2/19/2008 2:48pm) |
| Toshiba has officially put HD DVD to the sword, saying it will stop shipments by the end of March. Blu-ray's backers will now turn their attention to the format's next competitive threat: high-def downloads.Read More... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Oz The Great and Powerful Arrives on Blu-ray - Read the Review (About.com, 6/06/2013 8:00am) |
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The "prequel" to the celebrated 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz, Oz the Great and Powerful, comes to Blu-ray courtesy of Walt Disney Studios and Evil Dead/Spiderman ... (Read Full Article) |
| Does HP have the bright stuff? (Presentations Magazine, 1/21/2006 7:32am) |
| It's a sunny July day in the central Oregon town of Corvallis. This being the Pacific Northwest, I'd half expected rain. But the grass is dry and fading to brown outside one of the massive manufacturing buildings of the company also known as Hewlett-Packard. ... (Read Full Article) |
| ESPN may soon have company (Boston Globe, 7/31/2005 8:11am) |
| Going up against ESPN hardly has been a successful marketing plan in the broadcast industry in the past decade. ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 Profitable By August? Who Knows! [Sony] (Kotaku, 4/22/2008 4:30am) |
| Kaz Hirai reckons the PS3 will start making Sony some money around the end of the year. Maybe early 2009. Kaz, you see, thinks the glass is half-empty. The analyst team at Nikko Citigroup, however,... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Universal Brings 'Thing,' 'Dead' Series to Blu-ray this Halloween (High-Def Digest, 7/17/2008 10:00pm) |
| Universal has announced plans to bring three of its top catalog horror hits to Blu-ray this September with all-new U-Control features, both as stand-alone releases and a three-title 'Halloween Starter... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba VP on HD-DVD: We've Been Declared Dead Before (Big Picture Big Sound, 1/09/2008 2:11am) |
| In a press conference just two days after Warner's announcement to drop support of the HD-DVD format as early as this May, Toshiba showed no sign of throwing in the towel in the high definition disc format war. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 2 Broke Girls Blu-ray Review (Big Picture Big Sound, 9/25/2012 6:42pm) |
| Move Over Two & a Half Men, these chicks mean business as season one arrives on [...] (Read Full Article) |
| What's new (Guardian Weekly, 4/20/2005 11:12pm) |
| Over the past few years, we have seen watches with built-in MP3 players, cameras and even mobile phones. Now, the Japanese manufacturer NHJ has taken timepieces to another dimension with the VTV-201, the first watch to feature an integrated analogue terrestrial TV tuner. (Read Full Article) |
| Faster Wi-Fi connection has limited benefits (Milwaukee Journal (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/02/2005 10:44pm) |
| The alphabet soup of wireless networking - a dish that most users learned to digest only in the past couple of years - is getting a few new letters. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 Games Don't Sell In Japan [Dead Horse, Beaten] (Kotaku, 12/27/2007 6:40pm) |
| New numbers have come from Famitsu, who has broken down Japanese sales figures on the top 50 Xbox 360 games since launch. None of the results are good. While Blue Dragon, an RPG by famous Final... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Top 10 Tech Stories: Blu-ray won, E-Loremo, NVIDIA 9600 GT (I4U, 2/24/2008 11:00am) |
| This week marked an historic event in technology.
HD DVD is officially dead,
long lives Blu-ray. NVidia launched a new GPU with the
9600 GT. We have
published a review of the
XFX 9600 GT.... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Half Price Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD Deals - Dozens of Titles (Big Picture Big Sound, 1/17/2008 9:34pm) |
| No matter which side you take in the next generation DVD format war, you can save big bucks now on a large selection of both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD titles on Amazon. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sports Fans Driving HDTV Purchases (DesignTechnica, 1/17/2006 6:23pm) |
| New findings from the Consumer Electronics Association determine that around half of current HDTV owners purchased because of HD sports programming. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Consumers, analysts, retailers give HD DVD the cold shoulder (Ars Technica, 1/29/2008 8:56am) |
| HD DVD may not be dead yet, but it looks to be a solid candidate for the endangered species list. Some early adopters believe the format war is over and are looking to unload their players while analysts call the format's demise inevitable.Read More... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Standards sell ... but who's buying? (telecomasia.net, 6/13/2005 11:15am) |
| The satellite broadband sector is still dominated by proprietary technologies, despite the emergence of several open standards in the past couple of years. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Laura (Blu-ray Review) (Home Media Magazine, 3/02/2013 1:42am) |
Fox
Drama
$24.99 Blu-ray
Not rated.
Stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price.
For a movie to advance past the whodunit threshold to become something or even a lot more, it needs additional [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New on Blu-ray this week: 42, Evil Dead, Solomon Kane (HD-Report, 7/16/2013 1:30pm) |
| What’s new on Blu-ray Disc this week? Let’s start with 42 starring Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, and Nicole Beharie. The Blu-ray Combo Pack from Warner Bros. comes with BD, DVD, and UltraViolet code to download [...] (Read Full Article) |
| NEC provides half of HD hybrid puzzle (Geek.com, 10/12/2006 7:32pm) |
| As consumers scratch their heads trying to decide which disc format they should back in the high definition battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD, some companies are already developing electronics to get around the issue. The ultimate solution is a hybrid player that copes with both formats. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Philips Blu-ray TripleWriter SPD7000 Comes 2nd Half of 2006 (, 2/03/2006 3:21am) |
| With all the arguments about Blu-ray and HDTV today, I saw this story and thought about who 'owns' the CD, cassette, VCR, etc. It's all Philips so I guess if they're going with Blu-ray then that could answer the whole 'what's gonna be the standard?' debate.
Just a thought. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Who Makes the Best HDTVs? (Electronic House, 2/25/2009 7:20pm) |
| With the prices of flat panel HDTVs dropping dramatically over the past year, it’s almost difficult to differentiate between the big screens on display at your local retailer. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The 10 Best HDTVs (eCoustics, 7/08/2013 9:15pm) |
| Given the rapid evolution of the HDTV over the past few years, it’s hard to believe that many of us rang in the new century watching bulky, standard-definition tube TVs. Since then, old-school CRTs have made way for slicker, multitalented [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Orb Networks can set you free (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News, 6/30/2005 2:03pm) |
| Who says you can't take it with you? I was visiting family near Baltimore this past weekend while my beloved New York Mets battled the Bronx Bombers in the latest Subway Series. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Reader Comments (Ars Technica, 11/16/2005 3:32pm) |
| In preparation for high-definition gaming, Ben and I have both gone from our college-era CRT sets to the new HDTV hotness—he with a DLP and I with a plasma. The prices on large-screen HD displays have been dropping over the past year or so; enough to get both of us to make the jump like many others. ... (Read Full Article) |
| PlayStation 3 aims to blast competition (Chicago (Chicago Sun-Times, 5/17/2005 11:25am) |
| LOS ANGELES -- You see the billboards throughout the Los Angeles area; Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) controller\\\'s familiar triangle, square, X and circle button-scheme, but the symbols are cut in half. ... (Read Full Article) |
| PlayStation 3 aims to blast competition (Chicago (Chicago Sun-Times, 5/17/2005 9:36am) |
| LOS ANGELES -- You see the billboards throughout the Los Angeles area; Sony PlayStation 2 (PS2) controller\\\'s familiar triangle, square, X and circle button-scheme, but the symbols are cut in half. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Plasma vs. LCD vs. LED: Which HDTV Type is Best? (eCoustics, 11/15/2012 6:21pm) |
| When you’re shopping for an HDTV, there are plenty of factors to consider. Chief among them is the type of display. While boxy, bulky CRTs are long dead and mammoth rear-projection HDTVs are all but extinct, the HDTV market currently offers [...] (Read Full Article) |
| CEA: Blu-ray Player Shipments to Jump 112% in 2009, Despite Recession (Home Media Magazine, 7/20/2009 7:53pm) |
| Burgeoning shipments of Blu-ray Disc players in the second half of the year are expected to contribute to a 112% increase in unit sales by the end of 2009, according to a report from the Consumer Electronics Association. ... (Read Full Article) |
| HD-DVD confirmed dead (the INQUIRER, 2/18/2008 11:26am) |
| Nick Booth the Inquirer,
Monday 18 February 2008. 10:19:00
Hip hip, Blu-ray!
FOLLOWING REPORTS that it is set to dump HD DVD, Toshiba has pretty much
confirmed its tactical retreat from the HD-DVD battleground. The Blu-ray camp,
led by Sony, may finally get this market their own way. Company sources at
Toshiba said it is mulling three main options.... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Gadmei 3D HD Pad hands-on (video) (Engadget, 1/10/2013 11:48pm) |
| While some have declared 3D dead, Chinese electronics firm (Read Full Article) |
| Review: Humax HDCI-2000 HD satellite receiver (Personal Computer World, 7/25/2006 9:42am) |
| High definition (HD) has been rammed down our throats by Sky and the various TV manufacturers for the past year now. However, should you splash out on an HD-ready display (be it a TV or projector), there's precious little true-HD content out there to feed it with. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Nearly Half of HDTV Owners Aren't Getting the Whole Picture; Best Buy Blue Shirts Help Educate Consumers About Having a (FinanzNachrichten, 1/19/2006 11:29pm) |
| Driven by falling prices and rising consumer interest in high-definition (HD) programming, Best Buy ( Nachrichten ) reported triple-digit growth in flat-panel TV sales in December. ... (Read Full Article) |
| OPINION: HD DVD is dead - but does that mean Blu-ray automatically wins? (Tech Digest, 2/18/2008 2:28pm) |
| Gary Cutlack writes... So it looks like HD DVD has died.
That doesn't bother me much as I can't tell the difference between HD and
normal telly from the comfort of my uncomfortable DFS sofa, so I'm yet to
bother upgrading to any new movie formats. But my "old" DVD collection is huge
- although it only covers a relatively small period of time, back when DVD was
the hot new thing. It start ... (Read Full Article) |
| TV on a high - by definition (Guardian Weekly, 4/13/2005 11:11pm) |
| 'The clarity is so good, you feel like you are at the movies," says Jack, a plumber from Florida. "I think it's probably the greatest bit of technology to come along in the past 40 years or so," says Mike, a 23-year-old student from Massachusetts. "It's that good." (Read Full Article) |
| Frys and Blockbuster Offer HD DVD Bargains (High-Def Digest, 12/30/2008 9:30pm) |
| Reminiscent of the Ghost of Christmas Past, HD DVD deals continue to materialize almost a year after the end of the format war. In what looks to be a one day sale, Frys is offering a special on the XBOX... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 3D printing destination Cubify hits 2.0 with curated and branded collections (Engadget, 1/06/2014 3:21pm) |
| Even if it completely failed in the consumer market, 3D Systems would still be on pretty solid ground thanks to its strong industrial 3D printing presence. But that hardly means the company is going to half-ass its efforts to capture mindshare from [...] (Read Full Article) |
| HD DVD Players To Drop Below $500 Mid 2007 (DVD-Recordable, 1/22/2007 4:56pm) |
| In view of Toshiba's recent launch of an inexpensive HD DVD player with a retail price of US$599, Taiwan optical disc drive makers think an entry-level HD DVD player priced at up to US$500 (£253) may be available in the second half of 2007. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Wii Dominates April, PS3 & Xbox 360 In Dead Heat On GTA IV Sales [Console Wars] (Kotaku, 5/15/2008 10:40pm) |
| Nintendo had an amazing April, pushing over 700,000 Wiis in the United States. That's a massive difference from its "current gen high definition console" competition, as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Engadget HD Podcast 387 - 2.27.14 (Engadget, 2/27/2014 9:44pm) |
| The HD news heap has reached a toppling point, so Ben and Richard get to work sifting through all the insanity from the past week. One of the major talking points is the streaming bottleneck of Netflix's content on various service providers. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Is Netflix Coming to PS3 and Wii? [NetFlix] (Gizmodo, 3/21/2009 3:30pm) |
| Sony's officially denied it in the past, but a survey is being conducted to sniff out the public's interest in streaming movies and TV shows to their console of choice.
Apparently the service on PS3... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Dish heaps on HD servings (Rocky Mountain News, 1/23/2006 7:33am) |
| After waiting on the sidelines the past few years, EchoStar Communications' Dish Network has jumped into the high-definition programming market with the intention of taking the lead. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Hollywood Execs Banking on Blu-ray Holiday Boom (CE Pro, 11/18/2008 12:22am) |
| Taking a glass half-full view of the home video market, Hollywood studio executives are optimistic that Blu-ray sales will be stimulated by HD-hungry consumers this holiday season. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray encryption scheme revolves around half life of films (CNET Blogs, 3/05/2008 11:04pm) |
| Call it the Harold and Kumar effect.
Now that Blu-ray has won the format war, the public and security industry will get a chance to see how well the novel encryption scheme that Blu-ray publishers and manufacturers works.
What makes the strategy somewhat novel is that is relies as much ...]]> ... (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba says HD DVD ''has not lost'' despite Warner Move (I4U, 1/07/2008 7:46am) |
| By Franklin Paul and Mayumi Negishi
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp insisted on Sunday that its HD DVD
high-definition video format is far from dead despite being dealt a major
setback by Warner Bros studio's decision to exclusively back So... ... (Read Full Article) |
| BDP-S350 and S550: Sony's First Full 2.0 Spec Blu-ray Players [Sony] (Gizmodo, 2/26/2008 8:01am) |
| PS3 aside, the Blu-ray players Sony sold up until now are worthy of only your garbage can. Now that HD DVD is dead like a doornail, the 800-lb. gorilla is getting serious. The $400 BDP-S350 will... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Consumers Increase HDTV Acceptance (DesignTechnica, 3/24/2005 5:39pm) |
| Nearly half of all consumers plan to make their next television purchase a high-definition (HDTV) television set, according to a new consumer survey released by the CEA. (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV sales are up 118-percent (News 14 Carolina, 12/30/2005 9:09pm) |
| (FAYETTEVILLE) -- If you've been considering buying a high definition television, you're not alone. Almost all the televisions that are sold at Circuit City are high definition, a big change from just two years ago when only half were HDTV. ... (Read Full Article) |
| CES: Samsung Bows New Dual-Format Blu-ray/HD DVD Player (High-Def Digest, 1/07/2008 2:24am) |
| Updating its recently-released BD-UP5000, Samsung says it will introduce the new BD-UP5500 Duo HD player in the second half of 2008. Like its predecessor, the BD-UP5500 will support both Blu-ray and HD... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Review: Poirot: Series 6 (High-Def Digest, 10/04/2012 10:55pm) |
| Hercule Poirot and his detecting skills have been a welcome addition to my Blu-ray collection. As I've said in my past Poirot reviews, I admire Acorn Media for diligently bringing a somewhat obscure [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Top 25: Technological breakthroughs (CNN.com, 4/01/2005 2:26pm) |
| Advances that transformed how the world communicates are among the top 25 technological breakthroughs of the past quarter century, according to a panel of experts assembled by CNN. (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Watch today's Nintendo Direct on upcoming 3DS games right here (Joystiq, 11/13/2013 3:30pm) |
Blah blah PlayStation 4 blah Xbox One blah. Yes, there may be some new consoles nearing the wild, but for half an hour starting at 11AM ET (8AM PT) the focus will shift to arguably the hottest gaming system already around (well, I'd argue [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Kagan: HDTV Sales To Rebound In Late '09 (Multichannel News, 10/07/2009 8:42pm) |
| A new study from SNL Kagan predicts that improved HDTV sales in the second half of 2009 will... (Read Full Article) |
| Warner Bringing 'L.A. Confidential' to Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 6/17/2008 6:00pm) |
| Warner is set to release the Oscar-winning cult classic 'L.A. Confidential' to Blu-ray this September. Scoring over a half-dozen Oscar noms (and a Best Supporting Actress win for Kim Basinger), the critically-lauded... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Disney's 'Pirates' DVD Previews 2007 Blu-ray Booty (High-Def Digest, 12/13/2006 11:00pm) |
| Offering a tantalizing preview on its recent DVD release of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest,' Disney appears to have a bountiful 2007 lined up for Blu-ray fans. In a brief teaser that appears... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Hard-core high-definition: 1080p HDTVs (San Francisco Chronicle, 12/19/2005 3:59pm) |
| These rear-projection 1080p HDTVs promise to deliver all the detail in today's highest-res broadcast format, 1080i. You'll get a screen large enough to enjoy HD at half the price of a similar size plasma. ... (Read Full Article) |
| NH's Evolving Telecom Industry (RedNova, 4/18/2005 8:04am) |
| For the past five years, the telecommunications industry hibernated - recovering from the high-tech crash that left it decimated. However, like the economy itself, telecom has awakened. (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Vizio's very wide CinemaWide 21:9 TV is a revelation for movie buffs (Consumer Reports, 7/30/2012 2:00pm) |
| For the past several years we've seen TVs get bigger, but it's not often that we've seen one get wider. But that's the case with Vizio's new XVT3D580CM CinemaWide-series TV, a $2,500, 58-inch 3D LCD TV that has an aspect... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Top-rated reviews of the week (photos) (CNET News, 6/18/2011 11:00am) |
| Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the latest Alienware M11X, the Vizio VHT510 sound bar, and the hot new HTC Evo 3D [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Inescapable' Blu-ray Announced (High-Def Digest, 6/11/2013 4:00pm) |
| A father's past threatens the life of his daughter in this mystery thriller hitting Blu-ray in July. In an early announcement to retailers, MPI is preparing 'Inescapable' for Blu-ray on July 2. [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | HDD Samurai Bargain: 'Seven Samurai' Blu-ray $24.49 & 'The Samurai Trilogy' $35.49 at Amazon (High-Def Digest, 10/04/2012 6:30pm) |
| Two samurai Blu-ray releases starring the legendary Toshiro Mifune are half off today-only at Amazon! The online retailer is now selling 'Seven Samurai' on Blu-ray for only $24.49 (51% off suggested [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Retailers offering credits/refunds to early HD DVD adopters (Ars Technica, 3/22/2008 5:20pm) |
| With HD DVD officially dead, multiple retailers are reaching out to soften the loss for early adopters, and maybe entice them back into the store. Ars tells you who's offering the trade-ins and how to take advantage.Read More... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | VIEW / Blame the economy, the product, the theaters -- we're just not going to movies the way we used to (San Francisco Chronicle, 7/13/2005 10:38am) |
| The movie box office situation is getting serious. For 19 of the past 20 weeks, box office numbers have been down compared with last year's. There's a possible break this week with the success of "Fantastic Four," leading to the inevitable speculation that... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Media rooms provide a movie-going experience, minus the crowds (Pittsburgh Daily Courier, 3/12/2005 5:30am) |
| Theaters are becoming the featured attractions at many homes. Nationally, sales of items commonly used in theaters are up more than 30 percent in the past year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. (Read Full Article) |
| EXCELLENT editorial regarding Hi-Def Gaming and the REAL next-gen players (Digg.com, 3/09/2006 8:01pm) |
| A great, insightful article that analyzes the move into high definition, why its significantly different from past advancements in gaming, why it will have a major impact on the next-generation wars. Interesting and well written. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Survey: HD DVD is dead, but did anyone tell the online retailers? (Tech Digest, 4/01/2008 6:12pm) |
| With the HD
DVD Promotional Group dissolving, Toshiba abandoning ship, and precious few
studios releasing anything on the format any more, you'd have to be totally
uninformed and just a little bit stupid to buy an HD DVD player thinking that
it was the future. Enter two fairly benign entities -- online retailers and the
Great British consumer -- which when mixed can be deadly (or at least, g ... (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba's portable HD DVD player prototypes (Engadget, 1/09/2008 1:13am) |
| Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Portable Video
If the HD DVD format lives to see the day, then we'll be carrying around these swank portable players. They're just concepts, and that screen is as dead as HD DVD is to Warner (it's just a picture). But man do they get our man juices oozing something fierce. They're almost good enough to make us hope HD DVD wins the format war. Almost.Gallery: Toshib ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sharp quality of new technology snags moviegoers (Florida Today, 5/24/2005 1:26pm) |
| Complete FLORIDA TODAY coverage delivered to your door. Subscribe now. Bruce Somich walked up to the CinemaWorld box office in West Melbourne. It was 11:30 a.m. He had been standing for a half hour to pick up tickets to \\\"Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith,\\\" but only to special screenings. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Canon Expands HD Line of ENG/EFP Lenses (Broadcast (Broadcast Newsroom, 5/16/2005 5:14pm) |
| High Definition program origination of sports, documentaries, special events, prime-time sitcoms, and dramas has been expanding for the past few years as the Digital Television transition continues to accelerate. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Breaking News: Barbara Bel Geddes dead at 82 (TV Squad, 8/10/2005 8:52pm) |
| Filed under: Talent She played Miss Ellie on Dallas for many years. When she had a heart attack and was replaced by Donna Reed for several episodes, fans were up in arms. She died of lung cancer on Monday. Bob Thomas has a great (naturally) obituary of her at the link below. Read Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by ... (Read Full Article) |
| Porn Coming to Blu-ray; PS3 Owners, Jason Chen Very Excited [Boobies] (Gizmodo, 12/20/2007 5:53pm) |
| The porn industry, having steered clear of Blu-ray and successfully put out titles on HD DVD for the past year, has decided to give the competing HD format a shot. Digital Playground has plans to... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Weekly Wrap-Up: Can Best Buy's Earnings Electrify? (Schaeffers Research, 6/10/2005 4:12pm) |
| This is a weekly feature designed to review some of the major events that occurred during the past week and provide a peek into what is in store for the coming week...( Read More ) ... (Read Full Article) |
| SES GLOBAL S.A. On Track to Meet Growth Targets (RedNova, 8/08/2005 8:59am) |
| SES GLOBAL, the world's leading satellite operator (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchanges: SESG), announces group consolidated results for the six months to 30 June 2005. Figures for the first half of 2004 have been restated under IFRS to facilitate comparison. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 (Yakuza 3) Ships Over Half A Million [PS3] (Kotaku, 3/19/2009 8:00am) |
| PS3 exclusive Ryu Ga Gotoku 3 is a smash hit. The game sold 372,000 copies in its first week and is one of the biggest selling copies on the PLAYSTATION 3.
The game has in-game tie-ups with 27... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Don't throw out that old TV yet (The Pueblo Chieftain Online, 7/24/2005 1:46pm) |
| The National Association of Broadcasters this month agreed that in 2009 - three years later than originally planned - they will give up the traditional analog channels they've used for more than a half-century and broadcast totally digital signals. That doesn't necessarily mean that everyone will have to trash their old TVs in four years, though. What the move to digital technology means for ... (Read Full Article) |
| Ritek to double monthly Blu-ray disc production (HDTV UK, 1/28/2009 11:26am) |
| Ritek has announced that it's increasing output production of blank Blu-ray discs, with the opening of a second production line which should see its monthly capacity doubled to half-a-billion units... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Six Classic Bond Titles To Hit Blu-ray this October (High-Def Digest, 6/18/2008 10:00pm) |
| MGM/Fox today officially announced the first next-gen release of a half-dozen James Bond catalog titles, which will hit Blu-ray this October in newly-remastered special editions. Spanning several Bond... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Firmware Updates and What It Means For Your Blu-ray Disc Player and Other Home Theater Components (About.com, 1/06/2009 10:00am) |
| Did you purchase or receive a Blu-ray Disc player as a gift this past holiday season? If so, you probably noticed a sheet packed in the box, or a section... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Live from the Engadget CES Stage: The Engadget HD Podcast (Engadget, 1/08/2014 2:30am) |
| CES is always a big show for big TVs, and there's no reason to expect that 2014's edition will be any different -- though it may well be a bit more... curved than in past years. Join Richard Lawler and special guests for an HD Podcast preview of [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Is HDCP Dead? PS3 Blu-ray and Xbox 360 HD DVD Without HDMI (I4U, 5/09/2006 10:52am) |
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The Microsoft Xbox 360 does not support HDMI and the cheaper version of the Sony PS3 also does not have a HDMI interface. Which means if HDCP is enforced on Blu-ray or HD DVD Discs you would only be able to watch the movie in DVD quality.
The Sony P... ... (Read Full Article) |
| CBHD Leads Marketshare over Blu-ray in China (Format War Central, 7/24/2009 11:30pm) |
| CBHD seems to be doing much better against rival Blu-ray than its ill fated predecessor HD DVD. A recent report by a Japanese news station looking at CBHD format and its competition with Blu-ray confirms CBHD has a 3% market share lead on Blu-ray. The CBHD format launched in the first half of 2009, Blu-ray [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Stuck in Love' Blu-ray Announced (High-Def Digest, 8/02/2013 4:00pm) |
| Director Josh Boone's romance heads to Blu-ray in October. In an early announcement to retailers 'Stuck in Loveis planned for Blu-ray release on October 8. Three years past his divorce, veteran [...] (Read Full Article) |
| US Retail Looks Abroad for Ways to Enliven 2006 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 1/10/2006 3:26pm) |
| BALTIMORE----Jan. 10, 2006--Now that the numbers are in and this past retail season was not as robust as everyone had hoped, U.S. retailers and developers need a tonic for their ills - a reason to be optimistic about the road ahead. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nintendo Announces Wonderful PAX Panel for The Wonderful 101 with Game’s Creator (Business Wire, 8/24/2013 12:00pm) |
| REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo is launching a ton of great video games for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in the second half of 2013, and many of them are headed to the sold-out PAX Prime event in Seattle. New installments in the Super Mario, The [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Get the biggest bang for your gaming buck (The Olympian, 12/02/2005 3:17pm) |
| The Xbox 360 rocks. After the marketing and media blitz of the past week or so, everyone knows this. But everyone doesn’t know that the early games in the life cycle of video game hardware often aren’t so stellar. That’s because developers haven’t figured out how to take full advantage of the box. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sharp quality of new technology snags moviegoers (Florida (Florida Today, 5/20/2005 5:13am) |
| Complete FLORIDA TODAY coverage delivered to your door. Subscribe now. Bruce Somich walked up to the CinemaWorld box office in West Melbourne. It was 11:30 a.m. He had been standing for a half hour to pick up tickets to \\\"Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith,\\\" but only to special screenings. ... (Read Full Article) |
| What you need to know before buying an HDTV (Chicago Tribune, 3/30/2007 10:31am) |
| Anyone who thinks consumers understand high-definition television should consider a recent survey by Leichtman Research Group. It concluded that close to one-half of the 24 million households with HDTVs don't actually watch high-definition programs because they haven't obtained the necessary hardware from their cable, phone or satellite operators. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Hard-core high-definition: 1080p HDTVs (San Francisco Chronicle, 12/19/2005 11:43am) |
| These rear-projection 1080p HDTVs promise to deliver all the detail in today's highest-res broadcast format, 1080i. You'll get a screen large enough to enjoy HD at half the price of a similar size plasma. In other words, these sets are in the sweet spot if... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 3Doodler review: a $99 3D-printing pen (Engadget, 12/08/2013 3:00pm) |
| I've spent a fair bit of time trying to explain the WobbleWorks 3Doodler to people over the past year or so. My descriptions generally alternate between the company's slightly misleading "3D-printing pen" to "sort of like a hot glue gun that melts [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Exclusive: Zelda 3DS 'feels totally different,' needs to be played in 3D (CNET News, 5/01/2013 4:00pm) |
| In an exclusive interview, Zelda series director and producer Eiji Aonuma talks to CNET's Jeff Bakalar about the sequel to 1992's A Link to the Past on the Nintendo [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | ”Smart TV” Gaining Traction: More than Half of Sets Sold Will Connect to the Internet Within Two Years (Broadcast Engineering, 2/27/2013 3:36pm) |
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The next big thing in television set technology is not 3D or Ultra HDTV. It is “smart TV†sets that connect to the Internet.
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| What is Digital Television (DTV)? (KXLY-TV Spokane, 11/07/2005 9:40pm) |
| Digital Television is an entirely new way of broadcasting TV pictures and sound. The present broadcasting system uses an analog transmission method developed over half a century ago. Technology has moved well beyond the capabilities of this original system. ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3s Now Made For Half The Price [Playstation 3] (Kotaku, 1/12/2008 3:20am) |
| Yeah, a lot's been made of the PS3 losing Sony money. As impressive a machine as it is, it costs a ton to manufacture, and the more Sony sell, the more money they're losing. Or are they? We know the... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Another cultural warning: Canadian TV lags U.S. in HD content, industry told (Canada.com, 3/08/2005 12:19pm) |
| Canada is falling too far behind the U.S. in the creation of high definition television content and there's no coherent national strategy to improve the situation, warns the man who for the past decade has been overseeing the gradual migration to hi-def from analogue. (Read Full Article) |
| In Demand Working with Smaller Ops (MultiChannel News, 10/07/2005 8:32pm) |
| After some small cable companies complained about pricing structures proposed during the past two weeks by In Demand for the right to carry pay-per-view sports packages, the programmer decided to negotiate accommodations with those operators that would keep the content available, parties to the dispute said Friday. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba slashing HD DVD prices, but will it work? (Tech Digest, 1/15/2008 8:00am) |
| The fightback has begun in the HD wars, with HD DVD backer Toshiba slashing prices on its players to try and compete with its Blu-ray rivals. In the US, its cheapest HD DVD player will now cost $149 - half its previous official price - while even its high-end player has seen a big cut to $299.]]>
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| New Sony Blu-ray players: Better than PS3? (CNET Blogs, 2/26/2008 8:01am) |
| Is the BDP-S550 the first standalone Blu-ray player better than the PS3?(Credit: Sony)
Sony has announced two new Blu-ray players scheduled to be released in the second half of the year: the entry-level BDP-S350 and the step-up BDP-S550. We haven't been the biggest fans of Sony's recent ...]]> ... (Read Full Article) |
| Disney Eyes 'Sixth Sense' Blu-ray for September (High-Def Digest, 6/30/2008 10:00pm) |
| Eyeing a late-September release, Disney has issued a preliminary Blu-ray announcement for the blockbuster thriller 'The Sixth Sense.' Raking in over $250 million domestically and garnering nearly a half-dozen... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Solving puzzle of HD and TV (The Washington Times, 12/05/2006 5:53am) |
| What's the difference between a 27-inch television and a state-of-the-art 42-inch liquid-crystal display model? The past and the future. Within a couple of years, all television programming in the United States will be high-definition and old sets will be just so many paperweights. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Google Chromecast Review: A Little Dongle With Big Potential (Gizmodo, 7/29/2013 6:49pm) |
| Over the past few years, manufacturers have been packing more and more features into their televisions—from 3D picture to web browsing—in an industry-wide arms race to differentiate. It [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Autodesk's 123D Catch app updated with enhanced capture and Photo Compass assistance (Engadget, 11/14/2013 10:03pm) |
| Autodesk's 123D Catch app has been snapping photos and turning them into 3D models on iOS for about a year and a half. Now, the software has been updated with a new UI for browsing, shooting and transforming those photographs with iOS 7 [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | These Guys Want To Bring Their Classic Platformer To HD Consoles (Kotaku, 9/04/2013 8:30pm) |
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Everyone's favorite half-genie belly dancer looks pretty good in HD. Shantae, the star of games like Shantae and Shantae: Risky's Revenge, wants to hair-whip her way to HD platforms, and the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Cool HD and Media Players (Washington Post, 3/22/2007 7:18pm) |
| TOKYO--It's been a year since the next-generation DVD battle kicked off with the launch in Japan of Toshiba's first HD DVD player. In the past 12 months we've seen players and recorders designed for each format go on sale, and customer reaction has made one thing clear: People aren't interested in... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Connecting your PC to a HDMI High Definition TV (Web TV Wire » The Business of Internet Television and Video, 5/17/2007 6:55pm) |
| In the past year or so, computer graphic cards have begun to sprout HMDI ports allowing you to connect your PC to a High Definition (HD) TV via HDMI... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Broadcom stock up 19% on Q1 forecast (EETimes, 1/27/2006 12:23pm) |
| Broadcom Corp. stock soared after hours as the company screamed past analysts' forecasts for its earnings results and in its forecast for the March quarter. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray HD DVD combo player sales up on discount (Punch Jump, 3/19/2008 4:00pm) |
| Sales for Samsung Inc.’s Blu-ray HD DVD combo player increased at Amazon.com following a discount to half its original MSRP. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Kolin expects to launch 65-inch LCOS RPTV in 2H06 (Digi Times, 3/10/2006 9:24am) |
| Taiwan-based Kolin stated it will release its first 65-inch LCOS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon) full HD (high definition) resolution RPTV (rear projector TV) in the second half of this year. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Get ready for Telco TV, says In-Stat (Digi Times, 9/07/2005 10:52am) |
| Telecommunications providers in many parts of the world are rolling out, or will soon roll out, TV services, reports In-Stat. At the end of 2004, there were 1.6 million Telco TV subscribers, the high-tech market research firm says, and it forecasts that number to rise to 32 million by the end of 2009, with over half of the total coming from Asia. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sony Sets 'Quarantine' Blu-ray for February (High-Def Digest, 12/08/2008 10:00pm) |
| Sony Pictures will unleash the horror hit 'Quarantine' on Blu-ray this February. The apocalyptic medical contamination thriller, which grossed over $30 million at the box office this past fall, will hit... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray is doomed (CNET Blogs, 3/07/2008 5:51pm) |
| In the past, I've always felt that Blu-ray would win the high-def format war. After that, I wasn't necessarily sure what the future would hold for the format.
Would it be the success DVD was? Would it flop worse than LaserDisc? Would it cater to a slightly more advanced crowd but never reach the mainstream? Would it be a downright loser?
For a while, I decided to hold off from making a ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Daily Roundup: flexible 3D-printed material, Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga review and more! (Engadget, 1/28/2014 2:02am) |
| You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | How Under Defeat HD fills your HDTV (Joystiq, 12/19/2012 1:00am) |
| Welcome to Living in the Past, a weekly column about what's new in old games. Now get off our lawn. Vertical shooters don't really mix well [...] (Read Full Article) |
| New DZ-BD9H Blu-Ray HDD Camcorder From Hitachi Tries to Make Up For Past Mistakes [Camcorder] (Gizmodo, 1/22/2008 8:11am) |
| Hitachi is releasing a new Blu-ray camera after getting spanked for their first generation. The DZ-BD9H still records to Blu-ray or a 60GB hard drive, but tries to fix the poor image performance... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | PS3 key leak is setback for console's security (AfterDawn, 10/24/2012 5:21pm) |
PS3 security suffers another setback.
Over the past few years, there has been several breaches of the PS3's security, which is geared toward controlling what can be run on the device. A few days ago, it suffered another big setback when a [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Disc Sales: 'No Country' Pushes Blu-ray Past 9M Mark (High-Def Digest, 3/27/2008 6:00pm) |
| Propelled by strong sales of 'No Country for Old Men,' total U.S. Blu-ray software sales since inception have now topped 9 million through the week ending March 16. According to HMR research, BD unit sales... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 3D-Printing Liquid Metal Could Make the T-1000 Terminator a Reality (Gizmodo, 7/09/2013 7:08pm) |
| If 3D printing is truly going to revolutionize how we produce everything from cars, to computers, to weapons, it's going to have to move past the current (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 sales gain on Blu-ray, fall of HD DVD (Punch Jump, 2/18/2008 4:58pm) |
| Sales for Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 rose on Amazon this past weekend following a round of support for the Blu-ray disc high-definition format over Toshiba Corp.’s HD DVD. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Universal releases lineup of Blu-ray “Steelbook” editions (HD-Report, 6/25/2013 4:58pm) |
| Universal has released a lineup of titles to the Blu-ray “Steelbook” format this week, including titles like Scarface (1983), The Big Lebowski, Serenity, and Shaun of the Dead. The Steelbook editions come with a Blu-ray [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Philips dual-layer Blu-ray PC drive (HDBlog.net, 6/09/2006 12:34pm) |
| It took a while for dual layer DVD burners to come to market. But things seem to be moving much faster in the world of blue lasers. Philips has recently announced a Blu-ray burner for PC’s that can burn to both BD layers, giving 50GB of disc storage. That’s more than half the HDD space [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Daily Roundup: Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet review, 3D printed speakers, Windows Phone 8.1 and more! (Engadget, 12/17/2013 2:19am) |
| You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours -- all [...] (Read Full Article) |
| A need for speed (Guardian Weekly, 9/07/2005 11:07pm) |
| Over the past few months, the average speed of the nation's broadband internet connections has moved from 512kbps to 1Mbps. Yet in a few months, speeds of up to 2Mbps will seem snail-like compared to what some internet service providers (ISPs) are offering. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Two years of battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray: a retrospective (Engadget, 2/20/2008 4:48pm) |
| Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
It's been a long, hard journey to get to this point, but at long last, the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is over. Sure, we've got a somewhat clearer view of how things will pan out going forward, but we figured it prudent to take a step back and really scope out how we got to this point. If you're interested in taking a walk through the past two yea ... (Read Full Article) |
| Denon Releases a New Universal Blu-ray Disc Player (High-Def Digest, 9/21/2009 8:00pm) |
| Based on their flagship player, the Denon DBP-4010UDCI is a more affordable, but still impressive, Blu-ray player. Nearly half the price of the flagship DVD-A1UDCI, Denon’s DBP-4010UDCI is a very capable... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Modder adds Oculus Rift support to Crysis and CryEngine 3 (Joystiq, 2/27/2013 7:00am) |
Modder Nathan Andrews, last seen working on an Oculus Rift mod for Half-Life 2, has set his sights on making the head-tracking 3D [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Inshon shows large-screen DLP rear-projection TVs (Digi Times, 6/06/2005 6:04am) |
| Despite a surge of media attention in the past few months, rear-projection TVs were something of a rarity at this year's Computex. An exception were units exhibited by Inshon, a company within the First International Computer (FIC) group. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Survey Finds Half HDTV Owners Kinda Fuzzy (DesignTechnica, 12/09/2005 7:51pm) |
| A telephone survey conducted by Scientific-Atlanta finds 49 percent of HDTV owners either aren't receiving HD channels or aren't set up to watch them. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba Cuts HD-DVD Player Prices Up to 50% - Smart Move or Delaying the Inevitable? (eHomeUpgrade, 1/16/2008 8:00am) |
| Much has been made of the HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray war in the past few weeks, with Blu-Ray being all but declared the winner - due mostly to the decision by Warner to go exclusively into the Blu-Ray camp. But, as in any war of this sort, Blu-Ray can't quite declare victory yet as CNET is reporting serious price drops on Toshiba's HD-DVD players that may prolong this war even more. The baseline play ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part Two' Blu-ray Announced (High-Def Digest, 11/06/2012 11:00pm) |
| The second half of the animated Frank Miller adaptation arrives on Blu-ray in January. In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Brothers has slated 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part Two' [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Cooperative reality: Hands-on with Box! Open Me for PS Vita (Joystiq, 9/24/2012 9:00pm) |
Augmented reality games are nothing new. Over the past several years, we've seen them pop up on virtually every platform, from the Xbox and PS3 to Vita and 3DS to mobile phones. Box! Open Me for the PlayStation Vita is a little different, [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Samsung planning 63-inch HD-ready plasmas for early 2007 (Engadget, 7/22/2005 11:53am) |
| We’re not quite sure where we’ll put it, but we’re ready to get in line for one of Samsung’s 63-inch HDTV plasmas, which the company says it’s on target to launch in the first half of next year. That may be smaller than the 102-incher Samsung showed off at CES (pictured, because we just can’t get enough of it), but we’re still ready to clear a wall for it. No pricing or other info, ... (Read Full Article) |
| They're Baaaack! Blu-ray Buy One Get One Free Deal At Target (Format War Central, 3/12/2008 9:22pm) |
| I am excited to announce that I was wrong in saying Blu-ray "Buy One Get One Free" deals were a thing of the past (now that the war is over).
Starting Sunday March 16th, Target is offering their first "Buy One Get One Free" on selected Blu-ray titles ($29.99 Each). Most of the titles on [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | ‘Terminator’ Anthology Blu-ray Goes Wide March 5 (Home Media Magazine, 1/25/2013 7:23pm) |
| Warner Home Video will release all four “Terminator” films in one Blu-ray set March 5 (order date Jan. 29) at $49.99. The set was previously a Best Buy exclusive this past August.
The five-disc set includes previously released [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Shantae and the Pirate's Curse' coming to 3DS eShop (Joystiq, 11/07/2012 1:00am) |
| WayForward's half-genie mascot Shantae returns in a new downloadable 3DS game, revealed in the penultimate issue of Nintendo Power. Shantae and the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Belkin kills the FlyWire -- does wireless HD / HDMI even have a chance? (Engadget, 7/16/2009 9:44pm) |
| We sort of saw the writing on the wall, but now Belkin has went and made it official: the FlyWire is dead. Originally showcased at CES 2008 and at practically every AV-related trade show since, the wireless HD-enabling FlyWire was seen as the poster child for wireless HD / HDMI by many, and the death of this product certainly doesn't bode well for the technology as a whole. It's true that AMIMON ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Multiplayer minigame collection Sportsfriends delayed on PS3 (Joystiq, 1/21/2014 1:30pm) |
| Die Gute Fabrik's local-multiplayer PS3 minigame compilation Sportsfriends will sail past its previously announced January release date, as its developers report that the final product is still several weeks away from completion.
A backer-only [...] (Read Full Article) |
| The iMuse high-end home entertainment system (Engadget, 8/11/2005 5:27pm) |
| Nah, this isn’t the same iMUSE that used to power music in old school Lucasarts SCUMM-based adventure games—this iMuse media system takes dead aim at the custom media server market players like Kaleidescape and Chord with their much more box-centric (and apparently cost effective) solution. Each room gets an iMuse Sierra PC (which you may recognize is the same media PC that Gateway and ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Nintendo finally updates 3DS with Miiverse, Nintendo Network ID support and unified eShop wallet (Engadget, 12/10/2013 4:52am) |
| A year and a half ago, Hideko Konno hinted that Nintendo's Miiverse might eventually find its way to the 3DS. Now it finally has. The stereoscopic handheld's latest update is a doozy, not only brining the quirky social network to the small screen, [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Laser scans objects in 3D from half a mile away, scientists just need reason to use it (Engadget, 4/09/2013 8:03pm) |
| 3D scanning at a range of 0.62 miles? It just became [...] (Read Full Article) |
| HDD Spotlight Bargain: 'T2 Endoskull Complete Collector's Set' Blu-ray $87.49 at Amazon (High-Def Digest, 7/22/2009 11:00pm) |
| If you were waiting for the price of the 'Terminator 2: Complete Collector's Set (w/Endoskull Bust)' to drop, Amazon has just slashed the price in half. Now the online retailer is selling this ultimate... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Zelda: Link Between Worlds comparison vid shows overworld changes (Joystiq, 8/13/2013 6:00pm) |
It's a Hyrule of life: Time changes everything. Here's a new GameXPlain video comparing SNES classic The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with footage of 3DS follow-up (Read Full Article) |
| High Definition Hyped, But Many Consumers Remain Wary (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 1/20/2006 12:00pm) |
| While 90% of all Americans have heard of high definition television , only 47% say they know anything substantial about it, and just 15% say they are somewhat or very likely to get HDTV - all reflecting basically unchanged levels over the past year, according to the latest research from Ipsos Insight, the global market research firm. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Ultimaker debuts its latest 3D printer ahead of World Maker Faire (Engadget, 9/20/2013 5:39pm) |
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| (Unranked) | Dassault Systèmes Reports Organic Double-digit Revenue and Earnings Growth for the 2012 Second Quarter and First Half (Business Wire, 7/28/2012 9:01pm) |
| PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Dassault Systèmes (Paris:DSY) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray notebooks expected to have a big year in 2010 (CrunchGear, 9/29/2009 12:32pm) |
| Right now it's somewhat of a chore getting a Blu-ray-equipped notebook. That might change in 2010 though according to a report at Digitime. The report suggests something most of us already know that once the price drops on the slim Blu-ray drive - which will happen in the second half of 2010 - we will start seeing the option become standard. (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The 5 Best Home Theater Projectors (eCoustics, 11/29/2012 8:00am) |
| You needn’t be rich as a movie mogul to afford a home theater projector anymore. In the past couple of years, these projectors—destined for a family theater room—have plummeted in price while adding goodies like 3D [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Tiny new USB drive holds 2 GB (Contra Costa Times, 7/31/2006 10:11am) |
| USB drives are getting smaller but offering bigger capacity all the time. Now Sony is introducing the latest version of its Micro Vault line, the Tiny USB. Roughly one-half by one inch but wafer thin, the Micro Vault Tiny can hold up to 2 GB of data, which means about 500 MP3 songs or high-definition images, or up to five hours of MPEG video. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | CES 2013 Product Preview: LG To Expand 4K UltraHD TV Line (About.com, 12/27/2012 6:00pm) |
| LG made a big splash this past year by being the first to bring an 4K UltraHD LED/LCD TV to [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | HDD Black Friday Blitz: 'Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection' Blu-ray $149.99 at Amazon! (High-Def Digest, 11/19/2012 9:08pm) |
| The Blu-ray boxed set of 15 classic films from the Master of Suspense is half off at Amazon! Amazon is offering 'Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection' for $149.99 (50% off suggested list [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray, Digital Keep 2012 First-Half Consumer Spending Positive (Home Media Magazine, 7/29/2012 7:10pm) |
| Strong double-digit growth of Blu-ray Disc sales coupled with digital distribution helped increase home entertainment consumer spending nearly 1.4% during the first six months of 2012, according to new data from DEG: The Digital Entertainment [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Telco TV Poised for Robust Growth in Next Few Years Reports In-Stat (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 9/07/2005 12:01pm) |
| Telecommunications providers in many parts of the world are rolling out, or will soon roll out, TV services, reports In-Stat . At the end of 2004, there were 1.6 million telco TV subscribers, the high-tech market research firm said, and it forecasts that number to rise to 32 million by the end of 2009, with more than half of the total coming from Asia. ... (Read Full Article) |
| MTV Networks Music Group Launches New HD Channel (Broadcast Newsroom) (Broadcast Newsroom, 2/24/2006 5:50pm) |
| Demonstrating the continued momentum for high-definition (HD) television , MTV Networks Music Group launched its first HD channel, MHD, this past month with Dolby(R) Digital 5.1 audio. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2' Leads a Slew of Nintendo Announcements (High-Def Digest, 4/17/2013 7:30pm) |
| 'The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages & Seasons' titles also coming to the 3DS. In today's 3DS themed Nintendo direct, several titles for the 3DS were either announced or discussed, culminating in [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-Ray and H DVD Past Prime? (HDBlog.net, 3/10/2006 1:22pm) |
| Martin Lynch at the Inquirer has an article about how HD DVD and Blu-ray are obsolete before they even hit the market. His main point:
Storage has moved on. High-density discs are no longer the revolution they once were. Hard disk-based storage has passed it by. Even Flash-based storage is growing rapidly in capacity terms. People [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Player Price Drop Hits Costco (Format War Central, 9/29/2008 9:28pm) |
| We had heard about a Blu-ray player price cut hitting this past weekend, so we decided to go find out for ourselves. We stopped by Costco and were plasantly surprised to see they had the Sony BDP-BX1 for $279.99 (was $379.99). Costco also had the Samsung BD-P1500 at the new Price of $249.99 (was $349.99).
As [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sony yells "me too," introduces BWU-300S 8x Blu-ray burner (Engadget, 9/23/2008 8:19pm) |
| Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, StorageWhat is this, the week of the 8x BD writer or something? Just days after Buffalo announced two such units for the American market (and Delkin failed epically with an alternative half as quick yet more expensive), in runs Sony with an 8x Blu-ray writer of its own. The October-bound BWU-300S can cook an entire single-layer (25GB) BD-R in around 15 minute ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Cowboy Bebop on the PS2 is a Bad 3D Brawler, But a Decent Episode (Kotaku, 3/25/2014 11:50am) |
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Over the past few weeks I have looked at both the series
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| 'Jazz Standards,' 'Way to Paradise' Multichannel Audio Titles Out Today on HD DVD (High-Def Digest, 9/11/2007 2:55pm) |
| Surround Records has issued two additions to its HD DVD series of multichannel audio releases, due in stores today. Like 'Uncommon Bach' (which hit stores this past June), both new HD DVD discs are produced... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Squids Odyssey colliding with Wii U, 3DS in spring (Joystiq, 2/15/2014 6:30pm) |
| Squids Odyssey has slingshotted past its 2013 fall release date on the 3DS and Wii U eShop and is readjusting itself to target this spring. Odyssey is a turn-based, tactical RPG that lets players fight battles by flinging ocean life into their [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | This Game Brings New Meaning to the Word “Fan Service” (Kotaku, 5/07/2013 9:00am) |
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In the past, the Senran Kagura series of games have been brawlers exclusive to the 3DS. But the newest iteration on the PlayStation Vita makes the game play more like Dissidia: Final Fantasy [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster audio episode teases post-X-2 events (Joystiq, 8/12/2013 3:30pm) |
The HD Remaster of Final Fantasy X and X-2 contains a bonus half-hour audio drama written by series wordsmith Kasushige Nojima, and going by this tease it delves into [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | James Bond HD channel launching in the UK (HD-Report, 8/07/2012 4:52pm) |
| Sky will launch a dedicated James Bond HD channel for the entire month of October, the UK’s Pocket-Lint reports. The channel will broadcast all 22 of the past Bond films from Dr No (1962) to Quantum of Solace (2008), as well as the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| LGE develops 50-inch full HD PDP (Digi Times, 10/05/2006 9:46am) |
| LG Electronics (LGE) said on October 3 it has successfully developed a 50-inch full high-definition (HD) PDP (plasma display panel) and will show the unit at the Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX) at the Korea Electronics Show (KES), with volume production to start in the second half of 2007, according to the Korean-language Digital Times. ... (Read Full Article) |
| WiFi Shifts Into a Faster Gear (Washington Post, 1/13/2006 4:46pm) |
| The alphabet soup of wireless networking -- a dish that most users learned to digest only in the past couple of years -- is getting a few new letters. This latest addition to the recipe promises faster data transfers over wider areas for your home computers, but it comes with a catch: It's based on a standard that, technically speaking, doesn't exist yet. ... (Read Full Article) |
| So it begins: Toshiba's HD-A3 falls to $99 at Circuit City, comes with 7 free HD DVDs (Engadget, 2/20/2008 2:26pm) |
| Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
It's not like there has been any shortage of deals on HD DVD hardware over the past few months or anything, but now that Toshiba (and almost everyone else on the planet) has officially yanked support for the format, prices are beginning to plummet en masse. First on the docket is the HD-A3 at Circuit City, which now sits at just $99.99 and comes with seven fr ... (Read Full Article) |
| I love my remote control. Thank you Nikola Tesla! (TV Squad, 7/04/2005 7:04pm) |
| Filed under: HDTV , DVR , Video , Industry , Cable/Satellite I have a theory that one of the big reasons this country has gotten increasingly fat over the past four decades isn't because of high carbs or high fat or giant portions of food. It's because we're so remote control crazy! Remember the days (and anyone under 25 probably doesn't) when we actually had to get up from our couches ... (Read Full Article) |
| Panasonic's 103-incher, up close and personal (Engadget, 1/09/2006 9:55pm) |
| Filed under: CES , HDTV What's about 7 and a half-feet long, 4-feet tall, has about 30 square feet of viewing space, a 3001:1 contrast ratio, pushes over 2 million pixels progressively, and requires Howie Mandel to demo it? That'd be Panasonic's behemoth 103-inch plasma at CES this year, which we got in close enough to get some sweet shots of. The color was rich, the blacks were natural ... (Read Full Article) |
| Big-screen high-definition TVs are ripe for buying (Deseret Morning News, 1/16/2006 7:37am) |
| If sticker shock has kept you from getting that big-screen high-definition TV, take a second look at the price tag. Now is a good time to buy. Prices of flat-panel plasma sets have fallen more than 50 percent in the past year, and those of equally svelte LCDs have dropped 80 percent. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Denon Announces Less Expensive Flagship Blu-ray Disc Player (About.com, 9/26/2009 8:00am) |
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Although Denon introduced their flagship $4,500 DVD-A1UDCI Blu-ray Disc player just this past January at CES, they have just announced a new "flagship quality" Blu-ray Disc player for less than half the price (which is still $1,999).
Just as with the DVD-A1UDC1, the new DBP-4010UDCI meets Profile 2.0 specifications with the required Ethernet port as well as a slot for memory expansion and audio, video, still image file playback via SD card. This player is also playback compatible with Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs, but DVD-Audio Discs and SACDs. Also, another welcome feature for audiophiles has a separate 2 channel/7.1 channel analog audio outputs and bass management control, and, for videophiles, the DBP-4010UDCI offers vertical stretch, so that films with 2:35 aspect ratio images can be properly displayed when using projectors with 2:35 aspect ratio lens attachments.
However, one important change from the previous DVD-A1UDCI is the switch from using the the Silicon Optix Realta Chip for DVD upscaling, to the use of the Anchor Bay VRS ABT-2010 Chip for that purpose.
Also, for custom installers, the DBP-4010UDCI is fully equipped with both RS-232 and Wired remote in/out connectors.
For complete details, check out the Official Denon Announcement, along with the DBP-4010UDCI Specification Sheet and User Manual. Photos (c) Denon USA - Click on photos for larger view. (Read Full Article) |
| Pioneer developing one terabyte Blu-ray disc (HDTV UK, 12/03/2008 2:12pm) |
| When it comes to ridiculously large optical disc storage capacities, Pioneer is trying to win the prize by announcing that it's working on a one terabyte (1TB) Blu-ray disc, which could be available in the next couple of years. It has already perfected a 400GB disc, and a half-terabyte disc is also expected to be released commercially soon. Interestingly, the 400GB disc is already compatible with ... (Read Full Article) |
| Pioneer developing one terabyte Blu-ray disc (HDTV UK, 1/10/2009 1:43pm) |
| When it comes to ridiculously large optical disc storage capacities, Pioneer is trying to win the prize by announcing that it's working on a one terabyte (1TB) Blu-ray disc, which could be available in the next couple of years. It has already perfected a 400GB disc, and a half-terabyte disc is also expected to be released commercially soon. Interestingly, the 400GB disc is already compatible with ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Zelda 3DS is now The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Joystiq, 6/11/2013 3:53pm) |
Following this morning's E3 Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo sneakily uploaded the above trailer to YouTube that gives us a final name for that new The [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Xploder PS2 HDTV upscaler reviewed (Engadget, 2/17/2007 5:35am) |
| Filed under: Gaming, HDTVWhile there's plenty of options for upscaling all those non-HD DVDs you're not ready to give up just yet, there's not a whole lot you can do to improve how your collection of past-gen video games look on your spiffy HDTV, apart from simply using a good component cable. Video game accessorizer Xploder is trying to rectify that situation somewhat, however, releasing its ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | This Week on Blu-ray: Doctor Who, Cleopatra, The Numbers Station, and more! (Big Picture Big Sound, 5/29/2013 6:33am) |
| Doctor Who's other half, John Cusack in action, and one of Elizabeth Taylor's best; get a peek at this week's new and [...] (Read Full Article) |
| PCCW picks Tandberg solution for HDTV over DSL (Telecom.paper, 11/24/2005 8:44am) |
| (TP) Hong Kong carrier PCCW's now Broadband TV has chosen compression solutions from Norway's Tandberg Television for a world-first roll-out of high definition TV (HD) over DSL, Tandberg said. The deal expands on the companies' existing relationship. Now Broadband TV is deploying the Tandberg EN5990 MPEG-4 AVC encoder to deliver an HD service with sport, entertainment and news content in half t ... (Read Full Article) |
| Cox improves On Demand interface, adds HD content (HD-Report, 12/02/2009 6:54pm) |
| Cox Communications has improved their On Demand interface, allowing faster and easier navigation through their content library. They also added FreeZone, more Movies On DEMAND, and additional HD content.
Added HD VOD titles this month include “Terminator Salvation†(Dec. 1), “Up†(Dec. 10), “Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince†(Dec.15), “Star Trek†(Dec. 16) and “Night [...] (Read Full Article) |
| JupiterResearch Forecasts Digital Video Recorders Will be in Nearly Half of All U.S. Households Within Five Years (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 7/21/2005 12:59pm) |
| JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation , today released its annual digital television forecast entitled, "U.S. DTV Forecast, 2005-2010," which presents JupiterResearch's latest projections of the growth of digital television, including HDTV, in U.S. households. ... (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 to get trophies (the INQUIRER, 6/02/2008 10:32am) |
| Dean Pullen the Inquirer, Monday 2 June 2008. 10:49:00 Console round-up XBLA restrictions eased SONY'S PSP is still topping sales figures in Japan. According to Gamesindustry.biz the PSP shifted 64,449 units over the past week ending May 25th, with the Wii at second place with 49,047 units sold. The Nintendo DS sold 37,404 units, and the PS3 only managed a meagre 9,071 units.... ... (Read Full Article) |
| 'The Closer' shuts door on competition (TV Squad, 12/29/2005 5:37pm) |
| Filed under: Drama , Cable , Industry The Closer , TNT's new drama series, has now been ranked as the most watched original cable series of 2005. It ranked first in all basic cable networks in total viewership and other key demographic categories. That's a pretty good honor for a freshman show which was competing with other basic cable programs such as Monk , The Dead Zone , The ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray disc sales jump in Q4 2008 (AfterDawn, 1/10/2009 3:02am) |
| The past year has been very eventful for Blu-ray. Many new Blu-ray products have been shown at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this year, where just a year ago Blu-ray jumped ahead of its former rival HD DVD. "It turned out to be a phenomenal year for Blu-ray," said Tom Adams of Adams Media Research. In the fourth quarter of 2008, which is only too important for te ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sony adding in-game XMB access and Trophies to PS3 "soon" thanks to 2.40 firmware update (Tech Digest, 6/18/2008 2:40pm) |
| Finally, a year and a half after PlayStation3 launched in some bits of the world, Sony is adding the in-game messaging features its fans have been gagging and pleading for every single day since PS3 first flopped into big, unwanted piles on shop shelves. Confirmation was given on the Official PlayStation Blog, where Sony Network top-cheese Eric Lempel said "We're happy to officially report that ... (Read Full Article) |
| Hybrid Fibre Optic Camera Cables to SMPTE 311M (PR Web via Yahoo! News, 12/16/2005 12:00pm) |
| London, UK (PRWEB) December 16, 2005 -- No other medium can cost-effectively challenge fibre optics for bandwidth, unrepeated transmission distance and noise immunity in SD or HDTV camera systems; and as for bulk, an SMPTE fibre cable can be half the weight of a comparable (and much stiffer) triax camera cable. ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDMI to Achieve Deep Color, Higher Speed And Greater PC Convergence (Digital Broadcasting.com, 1/09/2006 3:34pm) |
| Las Vegas - The seven HDMI Founder companies (Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Philips Consumer Electronics International B.V., Silicon Image, Inc., Sony Corp., Thomson, Inc. and Toshiba Corp.) highlighted key capabilities under development for the next version of High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) targeted for the first half of 2006, including support ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray will be half of market sales by 2012, says Futuresource (AfterDawn, 6/28/2009 4:31am) |
| According to Futuresource Consulting, despite slower than expected growth, Blu-ray software sales will account for 50 percent of all home entertainment business by 2012.
Additionally, the company lowered its expectations for 2009, from 95 million discs sold to 75 million discs, specifically citing weak attachment rate with PlayStation 3s, which remain the most popular Blu-ray players. According ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV to be supported by more than 50% of the flat panel TVs shipped from Taiwan this year (Digi Times, 2/10/2006 9:22am) |
| With global demand for high definition (HD) TVs growing dramatically, more than half of the flat panel TVs (LCD and PDP TVs) shipped by Taiwan-based makers in 2006 will support HD standards, according to Taiwan-based system makers Kolin, Sampo and Amtran Technology. ... (Read Full Article) |
| REVIEWS: LG BD370 Blu-ray player (Pocket-lint, 7/16/2009 2:23pm) |
| A networked player that brings a new dose of fun
Over the past year we've seen many devices that offer some form of internet connectivity, stepping beyond the still rather youthful BD-Live services, to a more comprehensive offering. The LG BD370 is such a connected player, with YouTube getting a firm slot on the Home page menu.
Leaving this new level of connectivity aside for one m ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The 3DS Is Being Hacked, And Why This Is Good News (Kotaku, 12/31/2012 6:00am) |
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Over the past [...] (Read Full Article) |
| MTV Networks Music Group Launches New HD Channel in Dolby Digital 5.1 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 2/21/2006 1:00pm) |
| SAN FRANCISCO----Feb. 21, 2006--Demonstrating the continued momentum for high-definition television, MTV Networks Music Group launched its first HD channel, MHD, this past month with Dolby® Digital 5.1 audio. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sony's 1.80 PS3 firmware enables 1080p upscaling for games and movies (Engadget, 5/23/2007 4:16pm) |
| Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home EntertainmentHot on the heels of an 80GB Korean-bound (and US, too?) PlayStation 3 comes news that Sony is planning on seriously upping the abilities of the PS3 with a forthcoming firmware update. Compared to minor changes that have occurred in the past, this one looks to be fairly substantial, so we'll cut to the chase and give you the skinny. First off, firmware ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | A new strategy RPG called Natural Doctrine is in the works for PS3, PS4, and PS Vita. (Kotaku, 9/09/2013 11:50am) |
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A new strategy RPG called Natural Doctrine is in the works for PS3, PS4, and PS Vita. Kadokawa Games, publisher of Killer is Dead and Lollipop Chainsaw, announced the game today with a rather [...] (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV: Clearing up the confusion: Glossary of HDTV terms (WNDU 16, 1/31/2006 8:00pm) |
| The FCC has put together a glossary of HDTV related terms. Visit www.dtv.gov for a complete list of terms. Analog TV Analog technology has been in use for the past 50 years to transmit conventional TV signals to consumers. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | If Playing Animal Crossing is as Boring as Watching the Movie, I'm Out (Kotaku, 6/11/2013 10:00am) |
| This past week saw the Western release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the 3DS. Despite having never played an Animal Crossing game myself—largely due to its part in (Read Full Article) |
| Wynn Las Vegas Providing Wedding Ceremonies Captured In HD Wedding salons of Vegas newest resort equipped with (Digital Video Editing, 7/27/2005 9:04pm) |
| Past the magnificent gardens, spectacular lake and on-site Ferrari and Maserati dealerships in the new Wynn Las Vegas are two, elegant wedding salons. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | A Direct Comparison Of The New 3DS Zelda And Link to the Past (Kotaku, 4/17/2013 8:30pm) |
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Looks like the newest 3DS Zelda game—announced today as a sequel to Link to the [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Region Code Workaround for PS3 Discovered (Format War Central, 1/25/2008 8:35pm) |
| We read on the AVForums that someone has discovered a workaround for region coding on Blu-ray titles.
He has found that it works on New Line titles and essentially uses controller commands to jump past the warning to the main menu.
It will be interesting to see if this workaround can be applied to titles from other [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| Canon Expands HD Line of ENG/EFP Lenses HD line of portable lenses expands to seven as HD ENG moves to center stage (Digital Video (Digital Video Editing, 5/16/2005 5:10pm) |
| High Definition program origination of sports, documentaries, special events, prime-time sitcoms, and dramas has been expanding for the past few years as the Digital Television transition continues to accelerate. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Image Entertainment drops HD DVD (AfterDawn, 3/07/2008 8:40pm) |
| Image Entertainment has announced that it has canceled its upcoming HD DVD releases and added that it was dropping HD DVD completely to focus on Blu-ray.
Image is one of the biggest suppliers of independent titles and had supported both HD formats. Over the past two years the company released a large variety of music, special interest and theatrical releases on both formats.
Of the more not ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Massive Dynamics Announces Newly Appointed CEO’s 3D Strategy (Business Wire, 5/17/2013 10:00am) |
| CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a Letter to Investors, newly appointed Massive Dynamics Inc. (OTCQB: MSSD) CEO, Jonathan J. Howard, addressed past challenges and future opportunities for the company. Howard has established a “process†for [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Vaguest Hints About The Wii U's First Original Zelda (Kotaku, 6/19/2013 4:30pm) |
| After the fall 3DS sequel to the classic Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, after the fall Wii U release of a Wind Waker remake, we will eventually get an original Zelda game on Wii U. It's [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Recorders Outsell DVD Recorders in Japan (Format War Central, 12/10/2008 3:01pm) |
| Blu-ray Disc Recorders have exceeded 50% market share for DVD Recorders in terms of units sold in the first week of November 2008, according to the latest GfK Retail and Technology Japan numbers.
A year ago Blu-ray Disc Recorders held for a market share of only 10%.
It is also interesting to note that Blu-ray Disc Recorders are replacing DVD Recorders one and a half times faster than DVD Recorde ... (Read Full Article) |
| New HD and SD camcorders added to our Ratings (Consumer Reports, 7/29/2009 4:00pm) |
| Sony's HDR-SR12 HD camcorder is just one of the many models you'll find in our latest Ratings of high-definition camcorders. (Click to enlarge.) [ Photo: Consumer Reports ] We've just added more than a dozen new camcorders to our Ratings, including nine high-definition and five standard-definition models. The new batches reveal a number of trends that, for the most part, will benefit consumers: Both HD and SD camcorders are cheaper to buy: About 18 months ago, the cheapest HD camcorder in our Ratings was $590. Now, there are three models available for less than $575. (The cheapest is the Sanyo VPC-CA9, for $375.) Manufacturers are producing more flash-based and hard-disk models and fewer MiniDV and DVD disc models than in the past. However, we still have at least four models of each of these older formats, and they're generally less expensive than the flash and hard-disk models. More optical zoom: SD models have optical zooms as high as 70x. HD models have also increased, with some models including 16x optical zoom lenses. Most models are smaller, lighter and easier to carry. Some can almost slip into a pocket. However, with this reduction in size comes some trade offs, such as the elimination of a viewfinder. This can be a problem when trying to shoot on a bright day, since the sun can wash out the image on your display, making it a challenge to compose your video. One common problem we've found in nearly all HD and SD camcorder models of the past was that they didn't perform well in low light. But our newest batch has some exceptions to this rule, at least among the high-def models. Look to our Ratings to see which HD camcorders excelled in low light. You can check out the latest HD and SD camcorders on our Ratings pages. Also, stay tuned for our upcoming coverage of high-def pocket camcorders, which are smaller still than any of the models in our main Ratings. —Terry Sullivan (Read Full Article) |
| Canon HJ18e x 28b Compact HDTV Camera Super Telephoto Lens (I4U, 11/15/2005 10:36am) |
| This some serious professional gear from Canon coming in 2006. The Canon HJ18e x 28b is a Super Telephoto lens for HDTV TV cameras selling for about $36,000. The new Canon HJ18e x 28b weighs about 2.5kg, which is apparently only half the weight of i... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Tomodachi Collection is One Odd Little Game (Kotaku, 5/17/2013 8:30am) |
| I spent this past week playing what is currently the best-selling game in the world: the Japan only 3DS game Tomodachi Collection: New Life.
After (Read Full Article) |
| Dell's new W3706MC 37-inch LCD HDTV (Engadget, 10/19/2005 1:15pm) |
| Dell just keeps the good times rolling with their television line . The latest member is the W3706MC 37-inch LCD with a 1366 x 768 resolution and some nice HD inputs. They’re selling it for $2300 at their online store, along with the 50-inch plasma we spied just recently. Only an 800:1 contrast ratio, and our pals at HD Beat haven’t been too impressed with Dell displays in the past, but ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | LED TV Deals: Panasonic 55-inch TC-L55E50 120 Hz 1080p Smart HDTV: $898.98 Shipped (Big Picture Big Sound, 2/22/2013 8:33pm) |
| Amazon is doing a bit of pre-spring cleaning, clearing out this 2012 model for almost half off the list [...] (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV 101: What you need to know (USA Today, 3/01/2007 10:22pm) |
| In the past few years, television has undergone a revolution. Thanks to HDTV (high-definition television), we can get unbelievably clear pictures. But choosing an HDTV set can be confusing. High-definition refers to the resolution of an image. There are a couple of HDTV resolutions: 1,920-by-1,080 pixels (1080i and 1080p) or 1,280-by-720 pixels (720p). ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | All of the downloadable costumes and characters for Injustice: Gods Among Us that PS3 and Xbox 360 p (Kotaku, 7/03/2013 12:45pm) |
| All of the downloadable costumes and characters for Injustice: Gods Among Us that PS3 and Xbox 360 players have been enjoying for the past couple of months are finally available on the Wii U, along with the Japanese Ame-Comi [...] (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 sales pass 2 million in Japan (Joystiq, 4/11/2008 10:20am) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
The PS3 rode the Blu-ray past the 2 million sales mark in Japan recently according to Media Create. GI.biz reports the PS3's little milestone was severely overshadowed by the incredible sales the PSP is currently pulling off due to Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, which surpassed 1.5 million units sold in two weeks since l ... (Read Full Article) |
| CES showfloor HDTV spyshot roundup (Engadget, 1/08/2009 6:52am) |
| We've been busy shutterbugs while wandering around the CES showfloor, and here's a rundown of some new TVs that drifted in front of our lens. Take a stroll with us past the break and see what we picked up.
Continue reading CES showfloor HDTV spyshot roundupFiled under: CES, HDTVCES showfloor HDTV spyshot roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:52:00 EST. Please see our ... (Read Full Article) |
| Flat panel prices in free-fall (Engadget, 11/25/2005 4:25pm) |
| We already sort of expect electronics prices to just keep falling and falling, but PC World has the goods on just how much prices on flat panel displays have plummeted this year. In case you haven’t been paying close attention, it turns out that prices have dropped a ridiculous amount over the past 12 months, mainly because of firece competition from budget labels like Syntax and ... (Read Full Article) |
| State of the art: Blu-ray on the Mac (Computerworld, 9/23/2009 3:54pm) |
| It may have beaten out HD-DVD in the bloody battle to be the high definition optical drive standard, but in the roughly year and a half since the format wars ended, Blu-ray DVD has yet to gain any real traction in the desktop computer realm. Indeed, Apple has done its best to downplay the relevance of any kind of optical drive in this new world of streaming media--the MacBook Air ships without an internal optical drive, its DVD Studio Pro application has been almost totally ignored in the last two Final Cut Studio releases, and the company provides no way of playing movies released on Blu-ray on Macs running OS X. (Read Full Article) |
| Look Past the Living Room: How to Sustain HDTV Sales (TechNewsWorld.com, 3/01/2007 12:09pm) |
| Ask a sales associate at a big-box retailer which section of the store has the most traffic this year, and more than likely he will point to the rows lined with big HDTV screens. Yes, those slim, shining flat-panel HDTV sets are irresistible. Even the bulkier digital-light processing and rear-projection TVs are on the Slim-Fast diet this year and appear trimmer and slenderer than their ... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Today on Amazon: Call of Duty: World at War 360, PS3 for $35 (Joystiq, 12/29/2008 3:47pm) |
| Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360
Still holding onto Call of Duty 4 as your war-time shooter of choice? Amazon's video game deal of the day might change your opinion. The online retailer is offering World at War for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for $35 today, almost half off the usual price and a lot cheaper than last year's Modern Warfare, which is still sporting a $60 price ta ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Samsung's 105-inch curved UHD TV and 85-inch bendable screen hit retail this year (Engadget, 1/09/2014 4:05am) |
| If you dug the 105-inch curved Ultra HD TV and bendable 85-inch UHD screen (above) Samsung debuted this week, we have good news. They'll both hit retail sometime in the second half of this year, according to the tech giant. If you were expecting [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New Nintendo eShop releases: Zelda Oracle games, Mega Man X, Ghosts N' Goblins (Joystiq, 5/30/2013 5:00pm) |
The eShop cup spilleth over this week, with lots of great new releases for Wii U and 3DS. The Legend of Zelda gets two links to the past in Oracle of Ages and Oracle [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Samsung LNT4065F 40" 1080p LCD HDTV (Technorati, 11/29/2007 6:05pm) |
| Lcd reviews Samsung LNT4065F 40" 1080p LCD HDTV [IMG ] Dollar for dollar, there is currently not one single better LCD on the HDTV market. In fact, I take that back, money aside, this is absolutely the best 40 inch LCD out there right now. Let me start of, by saying that I am a huge Sony TV fan. I have probably owned the latest and greatest from them for the past 10 years or so. I was in th ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Intel roadmap leak outlines Bay Trail-based Atom for tablets in detail: 3D cameras, half the energy draw (Engadget, 11/19/2012 8:39pm) |
| Intel isn't having much success keeping its upcoming (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Aonuma: New 3DS Zelda will have light and dark world (Joystiq, 5/03/2013 12:45am) |
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Nintendo's 3DS sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past will, like the original, feature both light and dark worlds, [...] (Read Full Article) |
| PS3 hits new milestone in Japan (AfterDawn, 4/11/2008 10:54pm) |
| The PlayStation 3 has surpassed another milestone in Japan, passing the 2 million units sold mark after a strong sales week.
Sony's popular handheld, the PSP, had a very strong week as well in the territory and sold 121,000 units for the week ended April 6th. The Nintendo DS sold under half of the PSP, with 55,000 units for the week. The usually strong Wii sold a little less than usual at 44, ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | New Nintendo eShop releases: Rush, Double Dragon, more Sega 3D Classics (Joystiq, 12/12/2013 5:30pm) |
Dear Santa,
Seriously, guy, where is my The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on Wii U? (Read Full Article) |
| PQI mPack 600, HDTV portable media player (Engadget, 10/21/2005 8:15pm) |
| Power Quotient International is a Taiwanese firm who will be releasing the “mPack P600†on November 12th in Japan. We’ve addressed the mPack 600 in the past — it’s a portable media player that features and integrated 20GB hard drive and 1.8-inch LCD. It can play MP3, WMA, AC3, M4A, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis audio files, and MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, and AVI video files. So why bring it up agai ... (Read Full Article) |
| Libraries' video offerings on the rise but little interest for Blu-ray (AfterDawn, 5/13/2008 3:15pm) |
| Over the past few years public libraries in the US have steadily increased the number of titles offered in that format. Some of the nation's larger libraries have in excess of ten thousand titles available. Also on the rise is the availability of downloadable titles, which comprise a much smaller, but growing area of interest among library patrons. Despite all this interest in digital video, it a ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The New 3DS Zelda Is Called A Link Between Worlds (Kotaku, 6/11/2013 2:54pm) |
| The 3DS sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is called The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Check out this new [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Broadcasters and movie studios look to Congress to save the broadcast flag (Engadget, 5/09/2005 3:51pm) |
| A federal appeals court may have struck down the broadcast flag this past Friday (check out Demystifying the Broadcast Flag for some background on all this), but you don’t seriously think a little something like a court decision is going to stop the alliance of broadcasters and movie studios that pushed the FCC into adopting the rule in the first place, do you? The industry has been ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 and PS3 price cuts coming this fall (AfterDawn, 6/28/2009 3:51am) |
| According to a "mole" speaking to Arstechnica, both Sony and Microsoft will introduce new hardware packages this fall, in addition to price cuts.
This is all considered rumor for the time being, but the "mole" has broken a lot of stories in the past that have eventually been absolutely correct so keep that in mind.
From Sony's end, across the board price cuts are coming as well as the i ... (Read Full Article) |
| Analyst: PS3 price cut won't help Sony in short term (Joystiq, 3/17/2009 10:00pm) |
| Despite the rallying of software publishers, EEDAR Analyst Jesse Divnich thinks a PS3 price cut won't be that beneficial to Sony in the short term. In his retail sales preview for February 2009, Divnich calls the hypothetical, analyst-expected June price drop "unlikely to propel sales ahead of last [fiscal] year for the first half of 2009." Even though he says the PS3 has "an impressive holida ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Consumers Seek, Embrace Built-In Features in HDTVs, CEA Study Finds (HDTV Magazine, 1/05/2013 1:50am) |
| Consumers Seek, Embrace Built-In Features in HDTVs, CEA Study Finds Nearly half of 3DTV owners watch 5+ hours of 3D content a week ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consumers are seeking high-definition televisions (HDTVs) with the latest built-in [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Next 3DS Zelda Is Set In The World Of Link To The Past (Kotaku, 4/17/2013 2:37pm) |
| Nintendo is developing a new Zelda game for the 3DS. In Japanese, the game is called The Legend of Zelda: Kamigami no Triforce 2. You probably remember the first Kamigami no Triforce game's [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | A Darker Look At The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Kotaku, 8/07/2013 2:47pm) |
| The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is set in the same world as its predecessor, A Link to the Past, but it's way in the future, and the Link you'll play on the 3DS this October is [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Video Games On Demand Via Cable (Slashdot, 4/06/2005 10:45pm) |
| Gamespot reports that this past week, a portion of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association was set aside to show off a system called gameNET. The group intends to promote video games on demand via current cable setups. From the article: "With the convention proper focusing heavily on the emergence of HDTV and on-demand video services, gameNET followed suit by addressing both issues. (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray discs sold hit 9 million milestone (AfterDawn, 3/27/2008 8:18pm) |
| Citing strong sales of 'No Country for Old Men,', the Blu-ray camp has now topped 9 million discs sold since its launch.
BD sales for the first 11 weeks of 2008 is about 3 million units, adding to the 6 million that the format had sold since its inception in Q2 2006. The sales are clearly stronger than past years and analysts predict 16 million sold total for 2008.
For the week ended March ... (Read Full Article) |
| Xbox 360 passes PS3 on Japan sales chart on strength of exclusive title (Ars Technica, 11/12/2007 5:46pm) |
| <p>A price drop and big-name release propel the Xbox 360 to higher sales than the PlayStation 3 for one week, but it remains to be seen whether the momentum can be maintained as Sony readies its own price drop.</p><p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071112-xbox-360s-surge-past-ps3-shows-that-exclusive-titles-selleven-in-japan.html">Read More...</a>< ... (Read Full Article) |
| JVC unveils LH905 1080p LCD HDTVs, includes Genessa Premium engine (Engadget, 1/28/2008 12:53pm) |
| Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
It wasn't quite a year ago that we saw JVC gush all over its own LH805 series of LCD HDTVs, but now, those are simply livin' in the past. Introduced today, the LH905 series steps things up a notch with the included Genessa Premium 36-bit video engine. Additionally, the 37-inch LT-37LH905, 42-inch LT-42LH905 and 47-inch LT-47LH905 will all feature ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion: 15th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review (Big Picture Big Sound, 8/07/2012 8:57pm) |
| Two half-wits go high-def in this 15th anniversary [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Kotaku Holy Hell, This Guy Re-Created All Of Baldur's Gate In 3D | Gawker NYC Couple Who Hosted Self (Kotaku, 6/05/2013 9:15pm) |
| Kotaku Holy Hell, This Guy Re-Created All Of Baldur's Gate In 3D | Gawker NYC Couple Who Hosted Self-Help Radio Show Found Dead [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Consumers Continue to Buy HDTV Sets at Strong Rate, But Many Pass On HD Service (HDTV Magazine Bulletins, 11/25/2008 1:29am) |
| Frank N. Magid Associates' recent study of high-definition television set owners reveals that fewer first-time HDTV set buyers are arranging for high-definition program service from cable and satellite providers than ever before. Among the 12 percent of U.S. households who purchased a new high-definition television in the past year, 41 percent still need to arrange for high-definition program ser ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | The Legend of Zelda 3DS runs at 60 frames-per-second in 3D mode (Joystiq, 6/09/2013 12:30am) |
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Nintendo's forthcoming 3DS sequel to [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Dead-Finger Tech: Panasonic HD front projector (Storage Bits, 7/30/2009 6:43am) |
I like my toys. Dual monitors on a quad-core, 12 GB Mac Pro. Blackmagic Intensity Pro HDMI capture card. 4 TB of local disk, including my favorite, a 300 GB WD 10k Velociraptor system disk. Logitech Trackman Wheel and a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite.
Canon HV20 and Kodak Zi6 HD camcorders. Final Cut Studio and Shake. [...]
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| Lcd HDTV - Ready or not, HDTV offerings are set to skyrocket Tom Dorsey - Louisville Courier-Journal (1 HDTV Blog, 11/03/2007 5:30pm) |
| Ready or not, HDTV offerings are set to skyrocket Tom Dorsey - Louisville Courier-Journal Ready or not, HDTV offerings are set to skyrocket Tom Dorsey Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Oct 11, 2007 One of the most eye-opening statistics indicates that close to half the people who buy HDTV sets ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDGuru finds the new 'King of HDTVs' (DVICE, 7/27/2009 5:14pm) |
| Football season is coming up, and we don't want to be caught short with a second-rate HDTV. Trusted HDGuru Gary Merson says the Panasonic TC-P54V10, a 54-inch plasma 1080p set, is "the new king of HDTVs." In his eyes-on review, he lauds the THX-anointed plasma panel's excellent image brightness, low energy consumption, deep black levels, judder-free film reproduction, and impressive "pop."
Judging from his impeccable credibility in the past, if the HDGuru says this $2300 HDTV as the world's best, it probably is. He even says this is comparable or better in nearly every criteria than the revered (and unfortunately, discontinued) Pioneer Kuro plasma HDTVs. We want. Our advice? Wait until next month for the release of Panasonic's 65-inch version of this new "King of HDTVs."
Via HDGuru (Read Full Article) |
| Philips Sets Flat-Panel TVs Free with U.S. Launch of Wireless HDTV Link (HDTV Magazine, 10/21/2009 2:57pm) |
Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHI) today confirmed U.S. retail availability for its much-anticipated Wireless HDTV Link (SWW1800/27) that uses innovative technology to wirelessly deliver superior high-definition TV picture quality (up to 1080p) without ruining the aesthetics of the home. Unsightly wires are a digital burden of the past with the Philips Wireless HDTV Link which replaces the cables that connect the HD cable set-top box, HD satellite receiver, Blu-ray player and gaming console to a HDTV.
Just in time for holiday gift-buying, Philips Wireless HDTV Link is currently available for...
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| NEWS: Blu-ray not coming to Xbox 360... yet (Pocket-lint, 10/23/2009 8:30am) |
Ballmer got it wrong
Kids, Steve Ballmer is lying to you. Yesterday we brought you the news, straight out of the man's mouth, that the Xbox 360 would be getting Blu-ray accessories. Today, Microsoft's PR team has swung into action to try and say they don't exist without explicitly saying "Ballmer was talking out of his arse".
Instead, a Microsoft spokesperson said: "Steve was referring to Blu-ray accessories for the PC.?As we have said in the past, we have no plans to introduce a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment starts this fall when Xbox 360 becomes the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies".
Given that Ballmer was responding to a question about the Xbox and said "You'll be able to get Blu-ray drives as accessories", we doubt that accessories for the PC had anything to do with what he was saying. More likely Microsoft is trying to firefight some of the damage that Ballmer caused with the casual statement.
We wouldn't be surprised at all if Blu-ray accessories arrived for the console, particularly if Blu-ray movies begin to sell in reasonable numbers at some point. Microsoft just isn't ready to announce that yet.
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| Sony's Blu-ray MegaChanger hits the streets next month with new ES standalone (Engadget, 7/23/2009 8:00pm) |
When we first got our hands-on the 400 disc MegaChanger pictured above we'd hoped it would be out a little earlier; but never the less the wait is almost over as Sony officially announced plans to release the BDP-CX7000ES in August, for the hard to swallow price of $1,900 -- about $400 less than rumored. The good news is that it does just about everything we can think of, like handle any Blu-ray Disc, DVD or CD with ease, and of course works with the latest codecs delivered via bitstream or LPCM. Now if you just have to have a Blu-ray changer, but wish it was half the price, you can wait a few more months for the BDP-CX960 for $800. You will however have to be willing to forgo things like RS-232 and IR-in, as well as the ES badge. Also shipping in August with the ES MegaChanger is the BDP-S1000ES. This standalone Blu-ray player is at the top of line and for $700 you get just about every feature and spec Blu-ray has to offer, as well as built-in WiFi and a DLNA client. The full details of all three are in the release after the jump.
Continue reading Sony's Blu-ray MegaChanger hits the streets next month with new ES standaloneFiled under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentSony's Blu-ray MegaChanger hits the streets next month with new ES standalone originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments (Read Full Article) |
| NEWS: ViewSonic launches Blu-ray home theatre PC (Pocket-lint, 7/23/2009 4:39pm) |
pc mini VOT550 looks awfully familiar
The last of a slew of ViewSonic launches is the pc mini VOT550, although, again as with the previous two mini computers, this one comes in two different models with its more basic sibling going under the name of VOT530.
The VOT550 comes with Windows Media Centre and is intended as a home entertainment or home theatre PC and as such, ViewSonic has equipped the top of the line model with a Blu-ray drive. We're not sure how big of a selling point this is, especially as this is a rebadged system from AOpen that we've seen sold under several other brand names in the past.
In terms of features, the VOT550 has a mobile Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of memory, a 320GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, eSATA and a DVI port. A dongle is supplied that turns the DVI port into an HDMI port which allows for easy connectivity to your HD TV.
The VOT530 shuns the Blu-ray drive in favour for a DVD super-multi drive and both models feature slot-in type drive, similar to those in a car CD player. Price wise the VOT530 is going to set you back £494, while the Blu-ray equipped VOT550 ups the price to £678, making both fairly poor value for money compared to the other mini PCs that ViewSonic has just launched.
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| Samsung rolls out Amazon, Blockbuster video store access across HDTVs, HTIBs and Blu-ray players everywhere (Engadget, 10/14/2009 9:42pm) |
Just as promised, the (still SD only) Blockbuster OnDemand service is now available on a slew of Samsung hardware via firmware update, while the Internet@TV lineup (LCD and Plasma HDTVs Series 650 and above and LED HDTVs Series 7000) has a brand new toy with the Amazon VOD Yahoo! widget (which does support HD.) Both services offer a slew of rental and/or purchase options for the digital delivery fanatic, though we still hunger for the audio and quality of VUDU plus the all you can eat goodness of Netflix Watch Instantly, of the millions of TVs out there, there's surely someone willing to sift through those menus for the ease of viewing Ghosts of Girlfriends Past without resorting to cable VOD -- or getting up from the couch. The "convenience" goes both ways, since they'll also be able to pick up compatible Samsung blu-ray players at Blockbuster stores, right next to the TiVo section -- check for exact model #s supported in the PR after the break.Continue reading Samsung rolls out Amazon, Blockbuster video store access across HDTVs, HTIBs and Blu-ray players everywhereFiled under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentSamsung rolls out Amazon, Blockbuster video store access across HDTVs, HTIBs and Blu-ray players everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments (Read Full Article) |
| Microsoft denies Blu-ray on Xbox 360 (AfterDawn, 10/25/2009 9:18pm) |
Earlier this week we reported that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made comments that implied that the company would be bringing Blu-ray accessories to the Xbox 360.
At the time, the notoriously tongue-tied Ballmer had said: "Well I don't know if we need to put Blu-ray in there -- you'll be able to get Blu-ray drives as accessories."
The company has since released a statement denying the rumor and adding that Ballmer was speaking instead of PC accessories.
"During an interview yesterday, Steve Ballmer was asked about Blu-Ray and the Xbox 360. I wanted to clear something up. Steve was referring to Blu-Ray accessories for the PC. As we have said in the past, we have no plans to introduce a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment starts very soon when Xbox 360 becomes the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies. With a library of thousands of TV shows and movies to choose from, Xbox 360 owners can instantly watch the movies they want, when they want, in the highest form of high definition," says the post on MajorNelson.
That should put the Blu-ray on Xbox 360 argument to rest, at least for the time being.Permalink | Comments
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| HDI concocts 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV, calls rivaling technology child's play (Engadget, 9/17/2009 1:48pm) |
Look, we've seen an awful lot of HDTVs in our day -- one lap around the average CEDIA show floor makes your local Best Buy look awfully small -- and to this day we've yet to put our peepers on a more stunning set than Mitsubishi's LaserVue HDTV. Sure, it's fat, ugly and expensive, but the image is otherworldly. Before Mitsu can even take the logical next step, a California startup has arisen to introduce what it calls the world's first laser-based 3D HDTV. We're talking 1080p 3D like you've never seen before, with CTO Edmund Sandberg noting that this production is smoother than RealD, Dolby, film and pretty much every other 3D solution. The secret here is in the speed; this set is so fast that the image "no longer needs to flash from one eye to the other," and no flashing should equate to no headaches. Too bad there's no planned release date, but we're still cautiously optimistic for a sneak peek (in addition to the video past the break) at CES 2010.
[Via OLED-Display]Continue reading HDI concocts 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV, calls rivaling technology child's playFiled under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentHDI concocts 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV, calls rivaling technology child's play originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments (Read Full Article) |
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