Vizio Battling MPEG-2 Lawsuit from Mitsubishi and Company
Vizio announced this week that it is aware of a suit filed June 2, 2008 in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan by several electronics company competitors alleging that they failed to enter into a…
Samsung Meets Thomas Kinkade
Even traditional artists are getting into the HDTV craze. Samsung announced today that it has collaborated with The Thomas Kinkade Company to develop an LCD TV that would be able to shift between…
Toshiba’s New BD Attack Vector: Modify DVD for HD Content
When Toshiba ceded the format war back in February, one thing they made clear was that they did not plan to make Blu-ray players and that they would pursue other technologies such as NAND flash…
3 New iPhone Features We Want to See
It's only four days and a wake up before Steve Jobs gives his address at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. It's widely expected we’ll hear all the hub-bub about the new version of iPhone…
Online Game Coming to Sci-Fi Channel?
World of Warcarft players have finally been vindicated - The Sci-Fi Channel is planing on marrying a TV show and a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) scheduled to be released in 2010. The idea…
MediaDefender Attacks Revision3, Illuminates Legal Grey Area
MediaDefender is paid by the motion picture and recording industry to defend clients’ intellectual property by going on the offensive. But last Memorial Day weekend it may have gone too far as the…
Technology Allergy or just Crazy?
A group has banned together to try to stop Wi-Fi in public buildings because they experience negative physical symptoms they attribute to the electromagnetic field. The group is claiming that they…
Flexplay Self-Destructing DVDs - Take Two
Resurrecting a format that already died a quick death, Staples will begin carrying Flexplay Entertainment’s self-destructing DVD movies next month. These are the discs which, once removed from a…
Harman Kardon Introduces New HDMI 1.3a Receivers
Harman Kardon has finally released a new series of AV receivers which feature three HDMI 1.3a inputs and one output, allowing native internal decoding of all the new high definition audio formats…
Sharp LCDs - Plotting World Domination?
When we spot trends we like to point them out - especially when it's something that gradually occurs over time and might be missed as part of "the bigger picture" by consumers. Well, this week…