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Changes on the Horizon

You may have noticed a lack of updates on this site lately. Fortunately, this time around the dry spell is not due to my laziness. I’ve actually been somewhat productive this past month, it’s just been for another site. For the past month I’ve been freelancing at Daily Bits, a recently launched technology blog by [...]
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My First Week of HD-DVD

As I’ve recently mentioned, I recently stumbled onto a great Amazon deal for the Toshiba HD-A2–the cheapest model in their second generation of HD-DVD players. The player arrived last week before any of my three free HD-DVDs so I rushed to Best Buy after worked and picked up the Goodfellas HD-DVD. Armed with my [...]
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Why I Decided to Go HD-DVD

I’ve done it folks. After years of writing about the HD-DVD and Bluray format war I’ve finally decided to jump into the market courtesy of a sick deal that was floating around last week. For about $210 I was able to grab The Departed, 300, and The Fountain along with the Toshiba A2 HD-DVD [...]
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ABC First to Launch HD Video Streaming Online

So it seems that a few days ago ABC updated their online video player to stream high-definition video. This would make them the first major network to make the jump to streaming HD online. I know NBC and CBS offer high-definition episodes over on-demand with some cable services, but doing it online is an entirely [...]
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Is it Time to Give Up on HD-DVD?

I’ve been a fan of HD-DVD ever since this whole new format war started. The technology just made sense: At the time, we believed that it was relatively inexpensive to retrofit existing DVD pressing plants to print HD-DVDs compared to Bluray, which required new equipment. Then there was the ability to create double-sided discs which [...]
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