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Toshiba announces HD DVD surrender: War is finally over!
The high definition disc format war that has raged for the last two years ended in the wee hours of Tuesday morning. Toshiba announced it would stop development, manufacturing and marketing HD DVD…
HD DVD Conceding Defeat This Week?
Strong industry rumors are leading many editors to believe that this week will mark the end of the high definition DVD format war. If things go as suspected, and industry insiders are correct, then…
Blu-ray Lawsuit vs Samsung
A consumer group charges that Samsung has knowingly sold defective Blu-ray players since June 2006 and is looking for $5 million in compensation. Samsung sold lead plaintiff Bob McGovern a BD-P1200…
The Hobbit Scrapped?
New Line Cinema is again finding itself on the wrong side of a lawsuit involving the lucrative Lord of the Rings trilogy. It seems that the Tolkien estate is alleging that the studio hasn't paid them…
Call of Duty 4 Triggers Iraq Flashback in Marine Veteran
It was the movie Rambo that may have drawn our popular culture's attention to post-traumatic stress disorder. It was also widely reported that certain dark, realistic films like Apocalypse Now and…
Netflix goes Blu-ray Eliminates HD DVD Titles
Reuters is reporting today that the online DVD rental company Netflix has announced that they will only stock Blu-ray discs. Until now, Netflix has supported both high definition formats. With four…
New Right-Angle Connectors from Impact Acoustics
Cables To Go (with its Impact Acoustics audio/video line) has just released new "port savers". With right-angle or rotating connectors, these cables, adapters and connectors will protect those…
Addicted to video games, it’s all in your brain
According to recently published research in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, male brains exhibit functional differences that appear to account for the predisposition to video gaming in the…
Miller & Kreisel Loudspeaker Brand Revived
It seems the recently defunct Miller & Kreisel Sound Corporation (M&K) has a new lease on life after a group of Danish audio veterans invested in the brand according British AV news site AV Zombie.…
Mitsubishi trademarks - LAZRTV, LOL
Mitsubishi unveiled its Laser HDTV at CES last month and we have a good idea what the company is going to call its new line. Taking a nod from the text messaging dialect known as L33T SPEAK, Mits has…
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