Get Connected Giveaway

I came away from the Monster blogger event with a few goodies. So Outlets to Go 6-port (I travel with the 3-port) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest on Blu-ray are up for grabs. Leave one comment telling me which you could use, and in a day or so I’ll randomly pick the … Read more

Xbox 360 HD DVD Drops $20

Microsoft will be dropping the price of their Xbox 360 HD DVD player from $199 to $179 come August 1st. While a $20 discount isn’t very compelling, they’re also offering five free HD DVD titles. But with a Netflix subscription, who cares? If they really want to move these, MS needs to bring them down … Read more

HDTV Rebate Deals

Chances are if you read this blog you already have digital cable, or satellite TV, or FiOS or U-verse, or some combination of the above. However, if you don’t, or if you’re looking to make a switch to digital cable, you can now get a combo deal on cable service plus an HD TV set. … Read more

Why Go HD?

HDTV is booming, but not for the reasons you might expect. Apparently Americans aren’t getting high-def sets primarily to watch TV, but for gaming and screening DVDs. In fact, a recent CEA study found that only 44 percent of HDTV owners subscribe to HD programming from a cable or satellite TV provider. Of course that … Read more

Where the Holidays Start in July

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It’s that time of year again. We’re more than halfway to the holiday shopping season and CES 2008, which means CE companies are starting to panic about what they can get on to store shelves or at least out of production in time to take advantage of the year’s biggest buying season and biggest PR event respectively. Without doing any in-depth research yet, here’s my list of what we might see around Black Friday time:

Retail Moxi DVR – Dave’s already covered this extensively, and I can’t wait to see how Digeo brings its two models to market. What are the price points? Who will sell them? Has Digeo had any problems with CableCARD certification?

Touchscreen iPod/Nano iPhone – The rumor is some iPod/Nano mash-up will come out later this year. I don’t think it will make my X’mas wish list. A touchscreen on a device smaller than the existing iPhone? I’d need tinier thumbs.

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HD DVD Enables Web Features

Toshiba’s latest firmware update, available via download or mail-order disc, for newer HD DVD players facilitates the viewing of movie-related web content and reportedly squashes the chroma bug. Blood Diamond is the first flick to to enable web access and according to High-Def Digest: Taken as a whole, while the interface is certainly nice and … Read more

Digital Media Bytes

A periodic roundup of non-iPhone news… from our other blogs: Ten Things Only Industry Insiders Believe About CableCARD: Connected Home 2 Go Blockbuster <3 Blu-Ray or Shotgun Wedding: Davis Freeberg Intel on Board with OCAP: Connected Home 2 Go MySpaceTV to Compete With YouTube: Web TV Wire

155,000 Xbox 360 HD-DVD Drives Sold

The UK edition of CNET pressured Microsoft into revealing some Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive sales figures. While they didn’t get a global tally, they did learn MS hass moved 155,000 units in the US since the November launch… Which strikes me as a large number, indeed. And probably why we rarely see discounts on this … Read more