[Derek's Rantings and Musings] Video iPod And Such: If you can support HD content, playing that output directly onto a HDTV monitor is a nobrainer, no set-top-box required. (Although, admittedly, STBs will probably be a part of it, so that the computer doesn't have to be physically mated to the TV).

 [Digitalspy.co.uk] Digital Spy: Analysis: HDTV, future of DVD, and HDMI: Digital Spy's Alan Jay analyses the medium-term development of HDTV in the UK. The HD-DVD disk will come in 3 sizes when first launched.

 [Chris.pirillo.com] HDTV Happiness (Chris Pirillo): They are launching new satellites throughout this year that are MPEG4-capable, which essentially means they will be able to carry more HD channels. Specifically, they mention carrying the locally broadcast networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX) for each of the top 100 markets in HD.

 [Hdtvinfo.blogspot.com] HDTV Television: IRVINE, Calif., June 13, 2005 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, today reinforced its leadership position in the set-top box semiconductor market by participating in the world's first demonstration of MPEG-4 compressed, high definition (HD) live TV broadcasting over an operational ADSL2+ network. Alcatel, Broadcom, France Telecom and TANDBERG collaborated on the HDTV over ADSL2+ technology demonstration, which took place at the French Open Tennis Tournament at Roland Garros Stadium in France, June 2, 2005.

 [Electricdeath.com] [EED] Blog 817 - i want my hdtv!: How can we arrive at the ludicrous situation where I am downloading American television episodes on my broadband and these rips, off HDTV sources in the US and transcoded to MPEG-4 for nice tidy 350MB downloads, are substantially better quality than my own fucking subscriber digital television?! To say nothing of the fact that I'm sitting back here watching ReGenesis and it's got the original AC3 sound track so I've got the full audio experience too.

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 [Russell Beattie Notebook] Random Tech Thoughts: As soon as someone comes out with a mass-market Airport Express-like device which uses my Computer’s hard drive and OS in the other room as the brains behind the system, instead of having to have a dedicated box, there’s going to be serious trouble for TiVo. Sony is trying to brand the PS3 as some sort of media center as well as a game machine.

[The Nears] Who is Peter Near?: The international Tivo hacks looked too risky and like they probably wouldn’t meet my needs, and I stumbled onto the Windows XP Media Center information somewhere along the line. I started hanging out in microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter looking for information on the new offering, and got involved in sharing rumors, hopes and thoughts about Media Center in the newsgroups.

[atmaspheric | endeavors] Media Center Limitations: Supposedly a more stable beta is coming later this year and as soon as I can get MCE and WMP to import my large library I’ll be testing out the speed and hopefully we see an improvement. Matt Goyer from Microsoft said we would, but like you I’m waiting to see it with my own eyes before buying off on it.

 [Ed Bott’s Media Central] More on MCE and HDTV: Chris Lanier has an excellent response to the ongoing discussion over HDTV in Windows Media Center Edition 2005. I don’t agree with 100% of what he’s written, but I agree with most of it, and I think most of our disagreements are based on market approaches more than technical facts.

[atmaspheric | endeavors] Media Center: I’d really like to see MCE (or a system from Apple) succeed in this category but it has to work for more than just simple users. Tivo (outside of DirectTV and $1000) does not support HDTV.

[tekniaXP News] Orb "home station" - Remotely Access Your Home TV And Radio Channels From Anywhere With Your Cellphone, PDA Or Laptop: Team or family members can be added to your Orb account allowing each person to customize their Orb preferences without impacting others in the group. This can provide a tremendously effective means to remotely access a centralized database of rich-media content that needs to be accessed by field people from anywhere, or by a mobile team equipped only with mobile phones and PDAs.

 [Ed Bott's Windows Expertise] HDTV, MCE, DRM, and DCMA: In fact, Thomas asks rhetorically, “Would a better solution be to create a technology to capture a HDTV stream between the cable box and the TV, record it without restriction (remember BetaMax?), and fight the bastards in court? Would a better solution be to completely empower the consumer and scorch and burn the rest of Hollywood…?”

[Pvrblog.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: What's really interesting is that while Verizon is laying down fiber to many major cities and competing with Cable and DSL companies for internet service (Verizon offers 5, 15, and even 30Mbps connections), fiber has plenty of bandwidth left over for sending data like HDTV. While this review is brief and light on details, it looks like Verizon is using a similar Motorola DVR box as Comcast does for HD.

[Blogmaverick.com] HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future - Blog Maverick - www ...: Handwringing: But I'm troubled by the amount of "Who is going to develop the next generation of x?" comments in your blog and responses. Why are next-gen hardware and distribution media/systems someone else's problem?

 [Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo - Home Entertainment: And a whole bunch of other sound-tastic gadgets that are impossibly beautiful. His latest is this Mellotron keyboard powered by classic Walkmans.

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[Commons Music Blog] HD-DVD? Nah.: Not that the industry isn’t going to try to make it work (whichever format it ultimately agrees on), but DVD is already embedded in the marketplace. People aren’t going to see a reason to spend another couple hundred bucks on something that only would be able to be appreciated by a relatively small percent of the market.

 [Hdtv.engadget.com] Gateway’s SHD-3010 30-inch LCD TV - HDTV - hdtv.engadget.com: To take full advantage of HDTV's ability to render spectacular clarity and detail, you must find an LCD, plasma, or DLP device that has a native resolution of either 1,280 x 720 pixels (720 lines progressively scanned with a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio) or "1080i" (1920 x 1080), which represents a 16:9 widescreen image with 1920 pixels across each of 1080 interlaced scan lines. These are the only two High Definition formats defined by the HDTV standard.

 [Autoblog.com] Ever want to add a PS2 to your car? Nah, me neither - Autoblog ...: NEC Showing off new 20" HDTV screen at DigitalLife 2005 · Samsung should watch a Master ... Did you know: Amazon sells WMV-HD DVD's? HDTV last night: Lost ...

[Grimwell.com] Grimwell Online :: View topic - HD / DVD Recorder: Tobold decided to go to bed and record the last half hour of the film she was watching on TV, but then never got around to watch the taped end. Then there are the tapes where something with the recording went wrong, the film started early or late, and thus the tape holds the film minus the first or the last 10 minutes.

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 [Gaming & Tech News] Monday Gaming News 5/16: http://www.betanews.com/article/iPod_to_Connect _with_Xbox_360/1116012979 Microsoft& Square.../index.htm?ref=news&id=701618635 Kameo Screen Shots - Oh My Goodness http://www.xbox365.com/news.cgi?id... had an article a few days ago that said something like 14 or so games would be at launch) http

[Luke 'Duke' Newcombe AKA DCE] The Official Xbox 360 Blurb: was to change the way people think about video games,"said Robbie Bach, chief Xbox officer at Microsoft. "Starting today with Xbox 360, our ambition is to transform the way people play games and have

 [Gadgetmadness.com] GadgetMadness.com :: New Microsoft Xbox 360 with Wireless Controller: and access Xbox Live Marketplace to download demos and trailers along with new game levels, maps, weapons, vehicles, skins, classic arcade and card and board games, community-created content, and more to the detachable Xbox 360 hard drive — all right out of the box at no extra cost. Composed of user-generated information such as Achievements (rewards players have earned in games), Gamerzone (style of play), and a custom-created Gamertile (a visual icon to represent the gamer online), the Gamer Profile makes it easy to connect with the Xbox Live community.

[Microsoft.blognewschannel.com] » 2005 » May » 16 InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel: Xbox 360 officially will be backward compatible with the prior system’s top-selling games, said Microsoft’s Vice President Peter Moore. Microsoft will pick and choose only the most popular Xbox titles from its huge backlist of games and will most likely use emulator software for those limited titles.UPDATE 2: Major Nelson has put up a “blogcast”

[Joystiq.com] Joystiq - www.joystiq.com: Microsoft had previously announced the Lounge as opening in November, but this is the first official date. The Xbox 360 is not even being released in Japan until December 10th, so this is a great opportunity for Microsoft to spur last-minute pre-order deals and then maintain interest in the console long after its release.

 [Physorg.com] Xbox 360 video game console unveiled on MTV special: Celebrating the dawn of a new era in entertainment, millions of game fanatics around the globe came together for the televised unveiling of the Xbox 360 future-generation game and entertainment system from Microsoft. An audience of millions watched "MTV Presents: The Next-Generation Xbox Revealed" as celebrities, professional athletes, musicians and Xbox officials took the wraps off the much-anticipated system, ending months of intense speculation and satiating consumers worldwide.

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[Buyinghdtv.com] 2004 HDTV News Blog Archives: Cox currently uses the Explorer 8000HD DVR in markets where it offers high-definition DVR service, so it’s likely that it would be the first cable company to deploy the newer 8300HD DVR and its Multi-Room cousin (Comcast uses Motorola’s HD-DVR box). However, as it rolls out its HD-DVR service later this summer, Time Warner may elect to skip the older 8000HD DVR and deploy the 8300HD DVR right out of the gate.

[Edn.com] On The Verge - Blog on EDN - 150000015: Of course support wanes and strengthens with these standards each week, as Intel and Microsoft endorsed HD DVD last week (see, “Microsoft and Intel join forces to push HD DVD as industry choice for next-generation optical format”). But one of my previous post hinted at a reason that the two formats might coexists for years.

[Hometheaterblog.com] Home Theater Blog | Home Theater news & reviews: May 2005 Archives: With features like a built in HD-DVR, Gemstar TVGuide, program guide, FireWire capabilities, and more input options than you can shake a stick at, the WD-62825 would be on my shortlist of recommended sets to audition, for those looking for a no compromise home theater display. But there’s one more Mitsubishi I want to tell you about.

[Pvrblog.com] Comcast and TiVo seal the deal | PVRblog: Moto doesn’t have the incentive to do so (as a matter of fact, it has the direct incentive not to.) TiVo has the opportunity to move beyond the first phase of this technological evolution (pausing a fast forwarding live TV - whoopty %^@#$ing do!) and participate in the most important second phase of this transition, the movement to, as Jeremy Allaire puts it, the “Internet of Video.” This is the giant killer opportunity of this whole adventure, and I think TiVo is trading it in, for large part, because they got confused somewhere along the way about who they were building products for.

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  HD Beat: Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. (via Cosmos)

 [Forums.dvdoctor.net] DVdoctor.community - HDTV news, Mark Schubin: - Warren Communications News reported Wednesday that Texas Instruments thinks 720p DLP projection TVs could drop to $1500 this year, but consumer-electronics manufacturers "are skeptical." The story is no longer on their site:

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  Inside the Mind of a Nerd: Much like the rise of Google Local they've quietly rolled out this feature, which seems like a common strategy for them. Lastly, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is now out and the improvements include an auto-update feature and some security fixes. (via Cosmos)

  I'll Make You A Star: The advisory was dated September 7, 2005, a date on which Microsoft released no updates. The page listed links to updates for Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. (via Cosmos)

 [Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo - Home Entertainment: Ok, so it hasn’t quite been the revolution the HDTV originators expected. U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens today named 2009 the big year and hopes three Christmas buying seasons will give you slackers enough time to get up to speed.

[Wireless.weblogsinc.com] Wireless Credit Card Service From NTT Docomo Announced - The ...: It is the fastest, easiest and most secure way to access your PC from anywhere. The Wireless Weblog is part of the Weblogs, Inc.

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 [Displays.engadget.com] Plasma TVs outsell rear-projection sets in Q2 - Displays ...: But in terms of plasma panel suppliers, Samsung SDI is #1 with a 31% share, followed by Matsushita and LGE. We’d give you more details but we’re not about to fork over the nine grand DisplaySearch is asking for the complete report;

[Blog.activehome.co.uk] InterActive Home blog - your complete guide to home entertainment ...: variety of throw distances and support for Runco’sCineWide technology, which allows for movies to be shown in their native 2.35:1aspect ratio with higher resolution and brightness. No prices yet but theexisting high-end Reflection projector, CL-710 (pictured) costs £10,000.

 [Physorg.com] Cell Phone with Built-in Projector: There are two problems with this, the power requirement and since the projector is on your left wrist only your right hand is free to type. Either entering a character will be done with a stylus as is done on the Fossil, or there will be some way to enter characters with a finger.

 [Brightandsleek.com] Reviews TV HDTV DLP Plasma LCD Projectors Home theater speakers audio: While video inputs and picture-in-picture capability are fun extra features on LCDs, most office workers really need sharp text quality, adjustability, and adequate screen acreage. Sure, that sounds dull, but your eyes and back will thank you at the end of the workday.

 [Gizmodo.com] VDPF2 Digital Picture Frame Reviewed (Verdict: You Can Hang It On ...: Silva likes it well enough—besides the update to 1,024 by 768 from 800 by 600 resolution, the X3 sounds a lot like the older models—complaining mainly about the DLP rainbows that are just going to happen in lower-end DLP units. For me, it’s a promising sign that an affordable true 720p (1,280 by 720 pixel) DLP projector should be coming soon, which will probably be my stopgap purchase while waiting for 1080p DLP projectors to cost less than a car.

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[Hyperorg.com] Joho the Blog: MythTV: (Tivo also doesn't record HDTV, except through some deal with DirecTV.) Will going the MythTV route lock me out of recording HDTV if and when commercial recorders enable it? Will the free source of programming information, zap2it.com, continue as free or is there a reasonable likelihood that we'll be locked out of access?

[Blogmaverick.com] HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future - Blog Maverick - www ...: Sometimes I'll compress programs, but the compression programs are generally buggy, the resulting quality is usually not very good (especially when viewed on a good HDTV monitor), and it takes hours just to compress a few programs--which is why I bother to compress only those few programs that I hope to watch on my laptop on an airplane, where optimal video and sound aren't required. Since my Dell can't handle more than 4 internal harddrives, I've started attaching external harddrives via USB2 and firewire.

[Wilsonet.com] Fedora Myth(TV)ology :: HDTV: You could also try something similar with any of the modelines posted on Brandon Beattie's Linux HTPC HOWTO site, though not a single one of those modes worked for me (and I tried ALL of them, several times...). You can always ssh into your Linux/MythTV box if you want to copy and paste in different modes without having to keep switching over to a monitor (which is actually what I did for the bulk of my walk down this path).

[Linuxhdtv.org] linuxhdtv.org - Open Source Community for Linux Based HDTV DVRs: ... Updated: Patches for adding HDTV support to MythTV. ... OTA tuner, it would be the perfect HDTV PVR. ... a "native" digital TiVo for Cable similar to what is available ...

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[Blogmaverick.com] HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future - Blog Maverick - www ...: Since I was getting fired up about the possibility of putting HDNet content in a format that could be transportable and work easily with MediaCenter PCs, and in the not to distant future, USB or FireWire enabled TVs, PVRs and Setop boxes and even DVDs (yes, tvs with hard drives are right around the corner, and yes, all your CE devices with a future, will have storage and expansion ability), I decided to buy a portable 20gbs USB 2.0 drive that was about half the size of a pack of cigarettes. Cost me 150 bucks.

[Digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com] Best of WIN - The Digital Photography Weblog - digitalphotography ...: The Weblogs, Inc. network features over 100 independent, unfiltered bloggers producing over 1,000 blog posts a week across over 75 industry-leading blogs.

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[Blogmaverick.com] HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future - Blog Maverick - www ...: Get real, from a manufacturing point of view - a CD (and DVD) being a pressed disc cost pennies (sometimes less than even one penny) to manufacture. Hard drives (and flash memory I might add) cost substantially more to manufacturer, and the lowest rung (in your example the $10 keyfob, be it 32MB or 2GB whenever we are in time) is often sold to consumers at such prices as a means to clear out warehouses, and not at a profit (I have a friend who designs flash and DRAM and they keep making bigger chips, because only their highest end really break even and make them profits, their lower offerings they want to get rid of ASAP because of the financial drain they are).

[Digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com] New iPod Commercial - The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic ...: the one I was looking for, the newest iPod Shuffle commercial, is Jerk It Out by The Caesars, the others mentioned here are Ride by The Vines, Walkie Talkie Man by Stereogram, Saturday Night by Ozomatli, The Boogie That Be by The Black Eyed Peas, and, although not an iPod tune, Velocity Shift by Overseer.

 [Pbahq.smartcampaigns.com] Add new comment | The Progressive Blog Alliance HQ: watching from heaven on his super HD TV screen, Jesus will ask, "What the hell are you doing in MY name?"

[2004.sxsw.com] BITS & BYTES :: THE LATEST NEWS FROM SXSW INTERACTIVE 01/27/04 ...: "I think that factor at work is DVD, home theater and, HDTV. Sci-Fi lends itself to special effects and surround sound (5.1) and that's what consumers want to experience in their homes.

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[Unmediated.org] unmediated: Hasbro Projector, PVR, Other Gadgets for Kids: Hasbro also released four more products that we weren't too excited about but your kid might be: The VCAM NOW (a simple video camera for $79.99), the I-DOG (what sounds like a Sega iDog rip-off for $29.99), VideoNow XP (an interactive video system that plays interactive games, music videos etc. for $59.99), and a ChatNow two-way radio (with the ability to transmit text messages as well as pics, for $74.99).

[Ployer.com] Ployer: The first version of the Xbox 360 will feature a 12x DVD-ROM drive (Toshiba), as well as a 20GB hard disk drive. The device will be able to playback DVD Video movies.

 [Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo - Projector: In yet another cross-platform product announcement, computer-pro Acer is joining the CE masses with the PD113P Home Cinema Center, a wide-screen DLP projector bundled with a Philips Home Theatre System that includes 5.1 surround sound speakers with amps and a DVD player. Of course, you can also use the projector with other inputs, such as a portable DVD player, laptop or any other computer.

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[Blog.tmcnet.com] DivX and Meedio Demonstrate Solutions to Extend Digital Content ...: Leading video technology company DivX, Inc. and leading digital lifestyle software developer Meedio, LLC have partnered to demonstrate the DivX Connected Program today through September 7 at IFA Berlin.

 [Topix.net] Audio and Video News: IFA Berlin is one of the World's major trade shows, spotlighting the latest trends in consumer electronics and information technology .

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 [Hometheater.about.com] Sony DAV-FC7 Home Theater-In-A-Box - Product Of The Week - Home ...: HDTV has made great strides in the past year, both in sales of HDTV products and in the increase of available programming for consumers. However, while a large number of television stations across the country are broadcasting HDTV over-the-air, in many cases, their signals are not being passed through local cable systems due to a lack of financial carry agreements between the local broadcast stations and cable operators.

[Cybertheater.com] Home Theater: May 2005 Archives: Toshiba also announced a double-sided, dual-layer hybrid ROM disc comprised of dual-layer HD DVD-ROM side and dual-layer DVD-ROM side. The hybrid disc can store 30GB of high-definition content on the HD DVD-ROM side and 8.5GB of standard-definition content on the DVD-ROM dual layer side.

 [Videoguys.com] Videoguys Blog: Aspect HD v2.5 adds support for Sony’s new HDR-FX1 HDV™ camcorder, and will support Sony’s HVR-Z1U Professional HDV camcorder which is anticipated to ship in 1Q05. Aspect HD is widely praised by users and industry experts for its software-based technologies that deliver unmatched visual quality and real-time HD editing performance on affordable Windows desktop PCs running Adobe Premiere Pro.

[16nine.com] HDTV, Digital TV - Digital Television News and Reviews: The entry of Dell and Wal-Mart into the plasma TV market will broaden the appeal of .Both the Sony-backed Blu-ray format and the Toshiba/NEC HD-DVD group .

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