There is a clear trend in Japan, where all the relevant new TVs come from, and that's building devices to store programs into the hardware itself, i.e. HDDs or Blu-ray recorders.

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According to the broadcaster, it's apparently proven that "watching television programmes in high definition can combat the effects of the downturn depression".

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Forget boring old standard-def DVDs—movie pirates have moved on to selling high-definition discs in an effort to make money on the HD craze.

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Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.

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Last week, both ABI Research and The NPD Group delivered the news: the standalone Blu-ray player market did not suddenly rise up and walk after HD DVD quit the market. Instead, it remained in its bed and took a turn for the worse.

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Company says it will not be using Sony technology in its "game console."

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Hot on the heels of last week's report from ABI Research noting that many consumers may not see the picture quality difference between Blu-ray and standard DVDs comes the latest Blu-ray sales figures from NPD Group. And they're not pretty.

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As cable TV companies pack ever more HD channels into limited bandwidth, some owners of pricey plasma, projector and LCD TVs are complaining that they're not getting the high-def quality they paid for.

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India-based engineers of the San Mateo (California)-based Monsoon Multimedia have contributed core technology that went into the latest version of their TV place-and-time-shifting tool, Hava.

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Everybody clamoring for a cheap Blu-ray player now that the format war is over might wanna bide their time with a sweet DVD upconverter—the $200-player Blu-ray cavalry is at least a year away, according to Sony Electronics CEO Stan Glasgow, who we talked to today in New York.

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While the big holiday and Super Bowl TV-buying seasons are behind us, I still receive a lot of e-mail from readers agonizing over which TV to buy. Since I wrote columns on What's the best TV for gaming? and 720p vs. 1080p, I get a fair number of questions on those topics.

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Future Shop is a Canadian consumer electronics retail chain. Charlie used to work there, and has now passed along the 7 most common lies he heard salesmen use on unsuspecting customers. Whether you have a Future Shop in your area or not, you'll find these lies familiar.

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TV as we've known it has barely a year left to live. On Feb. 17, 2009, the analog broadcasts that have taken the networks into American homes for decades will end, replaced by a stream of digital bits that carry video and audio more efficiently and with higher quality.

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This morning, Wal-Mart finished HD-DVD off by announcing that it won't sell HD-DVD players or HD-DVD movies after June.

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In what can only be classified as yet another crushing blow to the embattled HD DVD camp, rent-by-mail giant Netflix has just announced its intention to only stock Blu-ray titles in the future.

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The Korean electronics company unveils sleek plasma and LCD sets it hopes will rival Sharp, Samsung, and Sony models in the digital TV stakes.

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Since we here at LostRemote know that Lost fans tend to find our website, let me point out that ABC.com has just posted the first 3 seasons of the show, in streaming HD, as a way to get you ready for the January 31st return of the show.

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Set research yields more confusion than clarity. In the nine years since the first high-definition TV sets hit store shelves, most things HD have gotten easier.

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A sense of order has been restored to the TV market this quarter.

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Earlier this year the HD DVD camp expressed optimism that this holiday season would prove big for HD DVD, particularly because aggressive pricing was expected to deliver a solid HD DVD player into the sweet sub-$200 spot.

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Walk through the entrance of the Pentagon City Costco, and among the first things you'll see on prominent display are stacks of 32-inch, high-definition television sets made by a company that was virtually unknown a year ago.

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OLED televisions are going to be a boon for picture quality and energy efficiency--someday, if you can afford them.

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As I previously reported the new TiVo HD has suffered from some video issues, primarily macroblocking on digital channels. TiVo released an update, 8.1.7b1-01-2-652, on August 1st to correct some of the video issues.

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The DVR pioneer hopes to gain customers with its price-slashed TiVo HD, but subscription costs and shrinking market share remain concerns.

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This week Comcast launched a major ad campaign that opened a new battlefront in the HD service provider war: comparative picture quality. Touting a study by Frank N.

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