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HES 2007 Scores a Home Run
HT Staff  |  Jun 05, 2007  |  0 comments
The Home Entertainment Show 2007 held May 11-13, 2007, at the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel in New York City, will be remembered by exhibitors, consumers, and visiting media as a well-attended showcase of some of the finest home-entertainment products available.
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Consumers to Cable: You Stink
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 04, 2007  |  0 comments
Consumers aren't happy with their TV providers. Cable and satellite television companies have scored the lowest of any sector of industry in the latest American Consumer Satisfaction Index.
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Pirates BDs Outselling The Matrix
 |  Jun 03, 2007  |  0 comments

In a story line that's becoming all too familiar for HD DVD supporters, news circulated on the web late last week showing that the Blu-ray release of the first two <I>Pirates of the Caribbean</I> movies are handily outselling the HD DVD box set releases of <I>The Matrix</I> by better than three to one. Home Media Magazine was the source of these estimates, pegging the combined sales for the <I>Pirates</I> flicks at over 47,000 total units with the sales of the two <I>Matrix</I> trilogy sets at just under 14,000 total units.

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Managed Copy on the Way
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 01, 2007  |  0 comments
The entertainment industry has always been dead set against home recording. However, in what potentially may be a major departure, the security specs for Blu-ray and HD DVD may soon be altered to allow legal copying under limited circumstances.
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SED Bites The Dust
 |  May 31, 2007  |  0 comments

After months of legal wrangling and no-shows at trade shows, Toshiba and Canon ended the suspense late last week and announced that the introduction of the SED (Surface-conducting electron-Emitter Display) flat panel TV is postponed indefinitely.

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Patent Troll Menaces DTV Standard
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 31, 2007  |  0 comments
Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, cable operators and television networks may have to pay out huge amounts of money to a private company if they want to go on delivering digital television in the government-approved DTV standard.
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Runco Acquired by Planar
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 29, 2007  |  0 comments
Runco, arguably the high-end projection television brand, has been acquired by Beaverton, Oregon-based Planar Systems in a cash deal worth $36.7 million.
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Blade Runner, Kubrick Films Coming To HD
 |  May 27, 2007  |  0 comments

Warner slipped a tantalyzing insert into the <I>The Ultimate Matrix Collection</I> box set released earlier this week, a two-sided affair offically announcing that <I>Blade Runner</I> will hit HD DVD this October on one side and touting a "Kubrick Collection" as coming soon to both HD DVD and Blu-ray on the other.

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Patent Suit Hits Blu-ray
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 25, 2007  |  0 comments
Blu-ray has reached another milestone. The infant format has attracted its first patent lawsuit, reports GameSpot.
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CEA to NAB: We Got Your Boxes Right Here
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 24, 2007  |  0 comments
Members of the Consumer Electronics Association will support the transition to digital television with timely delivery of digital-to-analog set-top convertors, the head of the organization says in response to a public challenge from the National Association of Broadcasters.
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PS3 Update Adds DVD Upconversion, 24p Output
 |  May 24, 2007  |  0 comments

By chance last night I downloaded firmware version 1.8 for the Sony PlayStation3 and took some time to see if any new significant video features were added (a gamer I'm not). Lo and behold, two very significant updates were indeed found in the menus: the PS3 can now upconvert DVDs, and it offers 24p output.

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Will Box Shortage Mar DTV Transition?
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 22, 2007  |  0 comments
TV station owners are worried that a lack of convertors may let analog sets fade to black after the transition to digital television.
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ABC to Stream Free HD
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Free HDTV are two words dear to the hearts of videophiles. We'll have a new source of it this summer when ABC launches a free online high-def channel at abc.com
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The $299 HD DVD Player Arrives
 |  May 20, 2007  |  0 comments

Over the next four weeks Toshiba is embarking on an aggressive promotional campaign for HD DVD, timed to coincide with this Tuesday's release of the blockbuster <I>Matrix</I> trilogy, one of the most anticipated franchises to hit either HD format. The campaign will feature in-store rebates for HD DVD players, and will also have HD DVD promo trailers running in movie theaters with this summer's hottest movies, including, in a heavy dose of irony, Sony's own <I>Spider-Man 3</I> (wonder if anyone at Sony or the Blu-ray Association is wondering why he didn't think of that).

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Did Wal-Mart Kill the TV Business?
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 18, 2007  |  0 comments
At the root of recent woes in the TV-retailing business is the legendary "Wal-Mart effect," according to a news analysis by Business Week.
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