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The boundary between television and the internet blurred a little further on Monday, when Hearst-Argyle Television and YouTube announced a deal that would bring local news to the popular video-sharing service.

The bitterly contested race between rival high-def disc formats has heated up with the announcement of the lowest-priced Blu-ray player yet, the Sony BDP-S300 for $499. Though the PS3 had hit the same price, this is a new low for a standalone Blu-ray player.

Sony announced nine new BRAVIA LCD flat panel HDTVs today. The new models are in screen sizes of 40", 46", and 52" in both the W and XBR series. All are full 1080p, with 10-bit panels with 10-bit processing, and, in some models, Motionflow 120Hz high frame rate technology and x.v.Color.

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.

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.

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.