 | AOL Free E-Mail a Step Toward New Business Model (E-Commerce (E-Commerce Times, 5/11/2005 6:20pm) |
| America Online is stepping into the free Web mail game today with the second beta of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) version 5.9. The mail service will be linked to AIM and features a whopping 2 GB of storage. Also included are spam filters, antivirus protection and the ability to drag-and-drop messages into folders. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Ofcom Annual Lecture (ADSLguide, 7/20/2005 12:22pm) |
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 | New HDTV comes with a lot of feedback (Chicago Tribune, 11/20/2006 11:38am) |
| Last week's column about my two-year search-and-acquisition mission for a high-definition television generated such an avalanche of e-mail. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Video Networks rolls out MPEG-4 AVC video codec (ADSLguide, 8/30/2005 7:22am) |
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| (Unranked) | Vampires Brood Even In Skyrim (But It's Still Better Than Twilight) (Kotaku, 8/16/2013 5:00pm) |
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| (Unranked) | Watch Shaft Be A Badass And Take On Minecraft (Kotaku, 8/02/2013 5:00pm) |
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 | Too little, too late: HD DVD player finally breaks the $100 barrier (CNET Blogs, 2/20/2008 12:37am) |
| (Credit: Circuit City)The HD DVD fire sales have begun! Circuit City has the Toshiba HD-A3 for $99.99 shipped, plus 7 free movies (two in the box, five by mail). If only this had happened six months ago, it might be Blu-ray hanging up the gloves.So let's ...]]> ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | This Fallout Film Is So Fantastic, You Might Mistake It As Official (Kotaku, 7/12/2013 4:00pm) |
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 | HomeChoice launches first channel to use MPEG-4 encoding (ADSLguide, 4/20/2005 11:50am) |
| Your email address will be kept private at all times. We will not send you any unsolicited mail. For more information, please read our privacy policy. HomeChoice has announced that the children's animation channel Toonami is to be added to its platform. (Read Full Article) |
| Add an HDTV tuner to your PC for $29 (after rebate) (CNET News, 12/12/2007 1:00pm) |
| Turn your PC into an HDTV with the KWorld PlusTV HD Hybrid Stick, a USB TV tuner that's on sale for $29 (after a $40 mail-in rebate). ... (Read Full Article) |
| New Free Blu-ray Offer From Sony (High-Def Digest, 11/14/2007 7:00pm) |
| It's not the most straight-forward deal we've seen, but as part of a new mail-in offer, Sony is giving away a free Blu-ray disc with proof of purchase of two others. In an under-the-radar promotion that...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/184718385" height="1" width="1"/> ... (Read Full Article) |
| Look at the big picture when deciding on cable or satellite (Centre Daily (Centre Daily Times, 5/23/2005 7:15am) |
| Q: I am thinking of changing from cable TV to satellite and would like to know what you think about Dish Network versus Comcast. I\\\'ve seen a lot of advertisement spam and snail mail about Dish that promises the world, and I need the real word from someone I trust. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Better Business Thursday (KROD News 13, 7/07/2005 9:57pm) |
| A WARNING FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS IN THIS WEEK’S BETTER BUSINESS THURSDAY REPORT; IF YOU RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED CHECK IN THE MAIL FOR A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY, YOU MAY WANT TO THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU CASH IT. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Stringer Stresses Support for Blu-ray (allthingsHiDef, 11/26/2007 9:29pm) |
| Sony Corp. CEO Sir Howard Stringer affirmed the company’s support for, and belief in, Blu-ray Disc , saying in an exclusive e-mail interview that the Sony-developed, next-generation disc format has both “the momentum and the scale†to ultimately triumph over rival HD DVD. ... (Read Full Article) |
| DirecTV offers Voom customers a lifeline (Engadget, 4/25/2005 4:40pm) |
| If you’ve been following the soap opera that’s been going on with Voom , you know its customers are about to lose their HD service at the end of the month. Not about to let that decline in civilization transpire (or a good marketing opportunity go to waste), DirecTV is offering Voom customers a $200 mail-in rebate on their current Voom HD equipment if they go in on a DirectTV HD system before (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Quickflix to Stream on Xbox 360 (Home Media Magazine, 11/13/2012 8:32am) |
| Quickflix, Australia’s by-mail disc and subscription video-on-demand service, Nov. 13 said it has inked a license deal with Microsoft. Under terms of the deal, Quickflix’s SVOD service will be available to about 1 million Xbox 360 [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD Player $389.99 + 3 Free HD-DVD Movies (I4U, 2/22/2007 1:00pm) |
| Toshiba and Amazon.com want to make it very easy for you to buy into HD-DVD. You can buy the new Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD Player for only $389.99 and Toshiba is giving you 3 free HD-DVD movies after Mail-in rebate if you purchase the HD DVD Player by Februar... ... (Read Full Article) |
| VOOM DOOM: DIRECTV Tosses Lifeline to VOOM Customers (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 4/22/2005 4:48pm) |
| VOOM customers, despairing over the loss of their HD service, which goes dark at the end of this month, have been thrown a lifeline by DIRECTV. DIRECTV is offering a $200 mail-in rebate on its HD equipment exclusively to VOOM customers who will be without service when the company ceases operation on April 30, 2005. (Read Full Article) |
| $300 BluRay high def movie player from Samsung on Amazon (Technorati, 12/10/2007 2:55am) |
| If you are ready to take a side on the nasty war between HD-DVD and BluRay, and you are leaning towards BluRay, this may help tilt the scales: The Samsung BD-P1400 BluRay player for $298 and free shipping at Amazon. You also get five BluRay highdef movies after mail-in rebate. This player plays 720p, 1080i and 1080p. 1080p is through HDMI only. There are 38 customer reviews on this one at Amazon ... (Read Full Article) |
| Does the Samsung Instinct HD really shoot HD video? (Consumer Reports, 10/08/2009 7:02pm) |
| The Samsung Instinct HD. [PHOTO courtesy of Samsung] The Samsung Instinct HD, available from Sprint for $250 with a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate, is the first cell phone we've seen that claims to make high-definition video recordings. It also boasts a 5-megapixel still camera with flash. That camera is a step up from the flashless, 2-megapixel camera found on previous Instincts, also from Sprint, including the S30 version now in our Ratings, available to subscribers. We’re evaluating the Instinct HD now, and will post full test results on it to our Ratings later this month. Meantime, our initial results on its imaging are promising, albeit with a few quibbles. The new Instinct’s camera is easy to access, thanks to a dedicated camera button, conveniently located on the lower right side of the phone. Pushing the button activates the camera’s still mode. Tapping a camera icon on the upper left of the largish (1.78 x 2.66 in.) display switches the camera to video mode. Tapping again summons controls for auto-focus, exposure, and other camera functions. The Instinct HD claims it can record video resolution of 1280 x 720p, which is a true HD format—although, as we often point out, HD format alone does not assure images of pristine, high-definition quality. To assess quality, we shot a series of videos on the Instinct and hooked it up to a 50-inch Panasonic plasma television using the optional ($30) HDMI cable. Our findings: Color was good in the MPEG4 videos, though they lacked fine detail and texture. They blurred even more when we panned the camera to the left or right. In short, they couldn’t rival the image quality you’d enjoy from full-sized HD camcorders in our Ratings, available to subscribers. But such camcorders are much bigger and pricier than the Instinct HD, and do nothing except shoot video and stills. The high-def video quality of the Instinct was comparable to what you’d get from a standard-definition pocket camcorder, such as the Flip. And that's still way ahead of the video we've seen any other camera phone. A few details and quibbles: The HDMI cable has a proprietary connector that works only with the Samsung HD, so you may have trouble finding a replacement if it's lost while you're on vacation. You can't use the cable for showing stills on your TV. If your TV has an SD memory-card slot, you can play photos and videos off of the phone's 4GB microSD memory card (the phone comes with an SD memory card adaptor). Unfortunately, accessing the card is a pain. You have to open the phone's back cover and remove the battery, which shuts off the phone. And the still-image performance of the Instinct? Pictures were sharp and well-defined, with good color overall on the TV screen, though shots taken in low light still looked dark—even with the flash. Camera controls were fairly responsive for a phone, with an acceptable next-shot delay. Our photo engineers are currently giving the Instinct HD's... (Read Full Article) |
| Netflix CEO Hastings speaks about YouTube, iPhone, Xbox 360 (AfterDawn, 9/23/2009 4:09am) |
During an interview with Reuters, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke out about the future of the physical DVD, as well as Netflix's plans for the iPhone, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and possible competition from YouTube
The interview in its entirety:
Reuters: What will Netflix subscribers gain from the improvements in the recommendation system?
Hastings: ItÂ’s doubling the quality of our movie recommendation and that helps our subscribers get more enjoyment from movies. Because more often they love the movie they watch. More often the movies recommended will will turn out to be movies that you love. If you watch a couple of movies and donÂ’t like many, you start to watch (sports and other programming). If every movie is incredible, you start to watch more.
Reuters: Netflix video streams on MicrosoftÂ’s Xbox Live system. What about the PS3 and Wii?
Hastings: Eventually we want to be on all the game consoles, all the Blu-ray players, all the Internet TVs. So we are working in parallel with all of those efforts. Currently our Xbox deal is exclusive and we havenÂ’t characterized it more than that.
Reuters: Any plans to work in partnership with Apple and the iPhone?
Hastings: itÂ’s something thatÂ’s likely to come over time. But nothing in the short term. (With) movie watching, we are not focused on mobile yet, but (instead) on the TV, on Blu-ray and on the video game consoles. We will get to mobile eventually, including the iPhone.
Reuters: What of YoutubeÂ’s potential movie service?
Hastings: I think there will be a lot of competition in this market: Hulu, Apple, Amazon, Youtube, Blockbuster. Internet video is a huge opportunity. And there will be a lot of people engaged, and that is going to be great for the consumer. All of us are going to innovate and compete with each other and provide more and more value to the consumer.
Reuters: How far along are we on the transition to all digital video watching?
Hastings: There will be people doing DVD-by-mail in 15 or 20 years, so I think DVD will last a long time. Our best guess is that DVD will peak for us in 5 or so years. But it is continuing to grow. And the streaming is exploding. So we are getting nice growth in the DVD side and huge growth on the streaming side.
Reuters: What do you make of BlockbusterÂ’s store closing plan?
Hastings: Blockbuster and Redbox really compete on doing the inexpensive new releases, and we are much more the streaming and the catalog. Their closings donÂ’t really benefit us. It will benefit Redbox more than it does us.
Reuters: Have you been approached about an acquisition or partnership?
Hastings: We donÂ’t comment and any acquisition prospects.Permalink | Comments
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