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Sony Announces PlayStation3 Pricing, Sets Release Date
 |  May 14, 2006

Sony shook up this week's annual gaming industry trade show, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), by announcing the final pricing and release date for its eagerly anticipated PlayStation3 gaming console. November 17th, 2006 is the day, and the prices are significantly higher than anticipated at $499 for a 20GB version and, gulp, $599 for a 60GB version.

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VIZIO P42HDTV Plasma
Joel Brinkley  |  May 14, 2006

VIZIO always offers surprisingly good products at extraordinary prices, and this new 42-inch plasma is no exception. It is loaded with features and comes at a price that used to be far, far below the competition. It lists for $1,699.99 and was on sale in March (for the NCAA basketball tournament) at about $200 less.

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E3 - Day 3
Geoffrey Morrison  |  May 12, 2006
Just a few last games on this, the final day of the show.
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Ears On
It's Simplay Mahhh-velous!
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 12, 2006
The HDMI interface promises to deliver high-def video and surround through one wire. But this potential garden of electronic delights is more a desert of frustration for anyone whose DVD player won't talk to a newly purchased HDTV. How to protect yourself? One thing to look for is Simplay certification from Simplay Labs, a subsidiary of Silicon Image, a major player (though not the only one) in the development of HDMI. There is of course a Simplay website and the featured products page lists a dozen Mitsubishi LCD panels and DLP projectors, four Thomson DLP rears, and a lone Sanyo 32-inch CRT. Covering mainly the HDCP content security system, Simplay may not be the final word in HDMI compatibility—among other things, it doesn't cover all potential audio-related issues—but it's a good start.
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This Week's Report: Creative Zen Vision:M Portable Media Player
 |  May 11, 2006

Report for 05/12/06:

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Geoffrey Morrison Blog
E3 - Day 2
Geoffrey Morrison  |  May 11, 2006
Saw a lot of cool games today, and several were total surprises.
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Industry News
 |  May 11, 2006

<B>The Force Will Be With You- For Three Months</B>
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The Lucasfilm Empire has announced that on September 12th of this year it will release the "original unaltered" <I>Star Wars</I> Trilogy- <I>Star Wars</I>, <I>The Empire Strikes </I>, and <I>Return of the Jedi</I>- on DVD. Each film will be available as a two-disc set with the 2004 digitally remastered DVD versions that have already appeared. Taking a page from Disney, these original trilogy releases will only be available until December 31st.

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Hey, Watch my Internet Video on Your TiVo
Darryl Wilkinson  |  May 11, 2006
Internet TV service provider Brightcove and TiVo, have agreed to enable broadband video published through Brightcove to be distributed directly to TiVo subscribers' set-top boxes. The new agreement could help push Internet TV one step closer to being the end-all, be-all of digital entertainment. (Or, it could just be another highly hyped deal that sounds cool but doesn't really amount to much.)
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Young Ears Ride Old Grooves
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 11, 2006
Teens love vinyl, says a Canadian researcher. A Ph.D. candidate who interviewed them for his dissertation found they love analog sound, respond to the visuals of big LP jackets, get a kick out of older music, and like all collectors, enjoy the thrill of the hunt. Surface noise? ¡No problemo! Their "active involvement in negotiating the pops, skips and crackles endemic to most second-hand records" was cited as part of the experience. And then there's rebellion, of course, something that every generation of kids is good at: "Through their retrogressive tastes and practices, these youth effectively disrupt the music industry's efforts to define and regulate their consumer identities," said the researcher, David Hayes. His findings were published in the Feb. 2006 issue of Popular Music and Society (though the text is not online).
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May Music, DVD, and Game Reviews
 |  May 10, 2006
Music | DVDs | Games
MUSIC
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