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Samsung and Blockbuster Get Hitched
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 16, 2009  | 
With Netflix signing streaming deals with everyone in sight, it was only a matter of time till Blockbuster cut a streaming deal with a major manufacturer--and Samsung is pretty major. Blockbuster streaming will come to Samsung HDTVs and Blu-ray players with the first models coming this fall.
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HD Travels to Theater via BitTorrent
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 15, 2009  | 
What's the best way to get super-high-res HD movies to your neighborhood moviehouse? An experiment in Norway suggests an unlikely answer: BitTorrent.
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Product Promotions Proliferate
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 14, 2009  | 
As the economy continues to stutter, what novel ideas are manufacturers coming up with to tempt cost-conscious consumers?
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Blu-ray Is a Memory Machine
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 13, 2009  | 
Panasonic has marked the launch of its Blu-ray recorder line in the United Kingdom with an academic study that puts a price on memories.
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Some DTV Stations Suffer in Transition
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 10, 2009  | 
Some DTV stations are having trouble reaching their viewers in the wake of the DTV transition.
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Copyright War Continues on Several Fronts
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 09, 2009  | 
The war among copyright holders, consumers, and other parties continues on so many fronts that it's hard for us to cover them all. Here's a smattering from the last month or so.
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New Pirate Bay to Pay File Sharers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 08, 2009  | 
Let's say you've just paid $7.7 million to purchase Pirate Bay, a Swedish site popular with copyright-oblivious torrenters all over the world. What new business model would you devise to make it a legit business? How about paying people to engage in file sharing?
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File Sharing Court Brawl Continues
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 07, 2009  | 
The long-running legal battle between a single mom and the recording industry's trade group continues with the defendant's latest motion.
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Better Netflix Brings Cool Million
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 02, 2009  | 
If it gets easier to find what you want on Netflix in the near future, you can thank a team of experts who came up with an improved search algorithm. Unless someone else can do better, Netflix is about to thank them too--to the tune of a million bucks.
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Sharp Shows Five-Color LCD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 01, 2009  | 
Sharp has developed a new five-color LCD that, according to the company, "faithfully reproduces the real surface colors that humans are capable of perceiving."
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Broadcast DTV May Poach Cable Customers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 30, 2009  | 
More than half of viewers say they may switch to over-the-air digital television from cable or satellite service.
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Will Toshiba Support Blu-ray?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 29, 2009  | 
Toshiba may be contemplating a move into Blu-ray. If it happens, the move would be quite a turnaround for the company that developed Blu-ray's superb (but ill-fated) competitor HD DVD.
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4K DLP
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 25, 2009  | 

Following on the heels of recent agreements between Sony and two theater chains—<A href="http://www.ultimateavmag.com/news/4k_coming_to_a_theater_near_you/">AMC</A> and Regal—to deploy Sony's 4K SXRD projectors, Texas Instruments has announced it will provide 4K DLP imaging engines to its three projection customers—Christie, Barco, and NEC—for their next-generation digital-cinema projectors. No indication of a rollout timetable was given in the announcement.

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Smaller DTVs May See Renewed Focus
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 24, 2009  | 
The outlook for DTVs includes a renewed focus on smaller sets and higher sales for sets with double or quadruple frame rates, which reduce image lag in LCD displays.
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Blu-ray Gets Online Database
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 24, 2009  | 
If you're a hardcore film buff, you're probably used to looking up information online during or after a movie, when the curiosity bug bites. Thanks to a new BD-Live feature, you won't have to use a computer to do it.
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