Category: Home Theater
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Superslim CRTs Expected to Compete Against Flat Panels in TV Market in Mid-2005
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out a CNet report that says superslim cathode-ray tubes will hit the television set market soon at significantly lower prices than flat-panel displays. Pioneered by LG.Philips Displays, these superslim CRTs are at least 20 to 30 percent less deep than traditional CRTs, are expected to be priced at…
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“Amazon Theater” Debuts as an Entertaining Vehicle for Holiday Product Promotion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust in time for the holidays, Amazon.com is releasing a series of five short films that highlight products in their vast catalog. The first film, Portrait, stars Minnie Driver, Amanda Detmer, and a number of products including: handheld gadgets: the Jabra FreeSpeak 250 Headset, the Nokia 6600 Mobile Phone, and the…
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Fox TV Season One DVD Sets on Sale at Amazon.com in Time for the Holidays
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBuffy the Vampire Slayer–The Complete First Season is onsale for $14.99 at Amazon.com.A number of other first season DVDseries for Fox shows are on saleas well. Slickdeals.net reported that Amazon.com has Fox “Season One” DVD Series on Sale for $14.99. The DVD sets on sale include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer –…
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Netflix and TiVo Join Forces to Develop an On-Demand Movie Service
Reading Time: < 1 minutePVRblog reports that Netflix and TiVo formally announced the development of a “joint entertainment offering”, which is expected to be an on-demand movie service with content delivered securely via the Internet. The service is expected to debut sometime in 2005. This venture joins two of the most popular consumer-oriented entertainment technology…
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TiVo Releases Updated Desktop Media Server Software
Reading Time: < 1 minutePVRblog pointed out that TiVo has released version 1.1 of TiVo Desktop, a PC and Macintosh media server software-utility that’s compatible with TiVo Series 2 Personal Video Recorders with network adapters installed. This means that TiVo users with recent-model PVRs can steam MP3s and view photos through their home theater systems…
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Maytag is Running a Weblog for the SkyBox Personal Beverage Vendor
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOperation Gadget first mentioned the SkyBox Personal Beverage Vending Machine from Maytag back in February. At the time, my thought was, “Who wants this sort of thing in their home theater room?” I’m starting to think I was wrong. Back then, the product was just rolling out and I hadn’t seen…
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Sam’s Club to Begin Selling Humax TiVo DVRs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCNET News.com reports that Sam’s Club plans to begin selling TiVo Digital Video Recorders beginning with the HUMAX T800 Digital Video Recorder, a TiVo Series 2 model with 80-hour video storage capacity. TiVo is also planning to offer a $100 rebate on TiVo DVRs purchased between August 11 and September 30,…
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DirecTV to Offer PVR Alternative to TiVo in Early 2005
Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog has repeatedly pointed out the increasing possibility that DirecTV will stop offering its customers settop boxes with TiVo capabilities. The latest development occurred on Monday, when DirecTV announced that it would offer an alternative settop box with PVR capabilities in early 2005. Some analysts believe that the direct satellite broadcaster will…
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NFL and Motion Picture Industry Trying to Block TiVo-to-Go
Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog reported on the preemptive attempt by the National Football League and the Motion Picture Association of America to stop the marketing of TiVo-to-Go, a product that has not hit the market yet, despite the fact that products such as the Microsoft Portable Media Center and PC-based video recording software that are…