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Betamax to HD-DVD Converter is Already Obsolete
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ThinkGeek recently announced their latest electronic gadget, a device that can easily convert your old Betamax Tapes to brand-spankin’-new HD-DVD discs. While it won’t handle transfers of DIVX, MiniDisc or SelectaVision Videodiscs, the BetaMaxHD will convert between two of the most undoubtedly out-of-fashion consumer media formats money can (or can’t)… |
April 8th, 2008
HD DVD Gets Buried by Best Buy and Netflix
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For all of you who’ve been holding out hope that HD DVD might stage a comeback in its stand against the rapidly gaining Blu-ray format, I think that it’s time to count HD DVD down for the count. |
February 11th, 2008
Space Ace Gets the High Def Treatment
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While I’m not a huge fan of many of those old full-motion-video (FMV) games, I have to keep a place in my heart for Space Ace…, a surprisingly entertaining FMV laserdisc-based game created by some of the industry’s most respected animators. While the game has been resurrected numerous times |
February 6th, 2008
Xbox 360 Ultimate in the Works?
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Is Microsoft getting ready to announce a new Xbox SKU? The guys over at Stuff.TV are reporting that the company is readying a new top-of-the-line console model called the Xbox 360 Ultimate. Aimed squarely at Sony’s Playstation 3 high-end hardware features, the Ultimate console is rumored to include built-in HD-DVD… |
January 2nd, 2008
Toshiba HD DVD Players at Wal-Mart for Under $99
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According to this ad circular that’s floating around the web, your friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart will be flooding the market with super discounted Toshiba high definition DVD players. After dropping the price on Toshiba’s HD-A2 HD DVD player to $199, there’s now an ad that shows an unbelievable price of $98.87.… |
November 1st, 2007
HD Vmd Players Hit Stores for Under $200
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By now, we’ve all heard plenty about Blu-Ray, HD DVD and the so-called HD “format wars”. Now a little upstart disc format known as HD VMD has started to ship their very first players for |
October 8th, 2007
Shuttle D’Vo Home Theater Pc: Small Package, Big Boom
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Shuttle is well known for their small-form-factor PCs. Their latest models are perfect for a high-end home theater, and can be loaded up with everything you’d need in a single, compact box. The top-of-the-line Shuttle D’VO SG33G5M Deluxe features 1080p high-definition video output via an HDMI output. 7.1-channel surround sound… |
October 8th, 2007
High Def Hqv Benchmark Disc Finally Available
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One of my biggest frustrations with high definition television has been the lack of decent test materials for verifying image quality. Up until now, pretty much all of the test and benchmarking discs out there came in lowly 480i resolution, designed for playback on standard DVD players. Fortunately, Silicon Optix… |
June 7th, 2007
Will Wal-Mart End the HD Format Wars?
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According to a recent post over on AVS Forum, Wal-Mart is reportedly working with Taiwanese manufacturer Fuh Yuan to crank out HD DVD players for a wholesale cost of just $50 per unit, based on an initial commitment of 2 million players. For those of you who flunked math, that’s… |
April 20th, 2007
Venturer Shd7000: HD DVD on the Cheap
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With all the recent buzz about how Blu-ray is leading HD DVD in the high definition “format war,” there’s a new wildcard that could shake things up. While Sony certainly has a leg up on the race with millions of PlayStation 3 consoles out there, one big road block to… |
March 25th, 2007
