Those PVRWire Guys are a great resource for PVR and DVR news, they seem to have the scoop on everything TiVo and PVR:). Their latest scoop is coverage of Comcast's less then stellar PVR. Head on over to the article and find out why Comcast is wishing they owned TiVo. From the article: Apparently John Batelle isn't the only person […]
Read moreHigh-Def Digest has a couple of reviews up of HD DVDs. First up is their review of The Wild which is Disney's first H.264 encoded movie. From the article: 'The Wild' comes to Blu-ray in a 1.85:1 widescreen, 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video transfer, and the results are rather lovely. This certainly is one of the best-looking animated films I've seen yet […]
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Speaking of Flachbar, he has released a Version 6.3.0 of Sage MC 16X9. The big feature is adding in Sage Video compression and of course other numerous bug fixes and features are available. From the article: Changelog for version 6.3.0: added TV Editorials and TV Series Info full integration of Dynamic Menus as the Main Menu re-work of Music Library […]
Read moreLG, a 2006 mover and shaker, has introduced their PC Blu-ray drive to the market. The cost is up there, 499 GPB to be exact. Being an early adopter is painful, and this case even more so because the burner can not burn dual layer BR media :(. From the article: The GBW H10N boasts the fastest currently available Blu-ray […]
Read more1080p front projectors are still out of the price range of many, however, 720p projectors have had significant price drops in the last several months. An example of this is Optoma's HD70 720p projector that comes with a $1000 price tag. It also has enough features to satisfy most including an HDMI and VGA connector, relatively good brightness, 3,000:1 contrast […]
Read moreVia EngadgetHD, MHD is going to premiere a new concert in HD for the rest of 2006. 5 or 6 concerts is not a huge number but any HD content is in the right direct. Personally I am looking forward to concerts being released on one of the next gen DVD formats. From the article: MHD's concert premieres include: * […]
Read moreCE Pro copntinues their hot EHX coverage with a talk with Harmony and their Harmony 890 control. Is this remote worth 10 more of the 880? Well you will have to watch the YouTube video to find out. Here are a few hints, it retails for about a 100 more dollars that its sibling, it supports RF and has X10 […]
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This is great news for the consumer, and from what I can recall reading, Vizio is actually a fairly decent brand name. Especially if you can buy it at Costco & take advantage of their awesome return policy in case anything happens. Vizio is getting a jump start on Black Friday by unleashing a legion of new HDTVs. Delivering the […]
Read moreOrb is really doing a great job at being first to market on a lot of nice features, as well as making themselves some nice strategic partners. It's great to see as I frequently use it. Now if only it would play nice with Media Center!! Orb Networks today announced that its free MyCasting™ service is the first to take […]
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Apparantly only available for Series 2 TiVos so far, but still some nice updates for ya. I don't own a TiVo but could you really not set it to record a certain amount of time extra? Hey, maybe MCE did have some unique features afterall Thank you for your interest in the new TiVo Fall 2006 Service Update, […]
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