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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:52 PM

VidaBox Media Servers Now Provide HD DVD & Blu-ray Storage and Streaming Capabilities

WESTBURY, NY – March 5th – VidaBox LLC is proud to announce new HD DVD & Blu-ray storage and streaming abilities on their line of premium media center systems. Unencrypted titles can be copied onto a VidaBox server, and then streamed to VidaBox extenders...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 12:51 PM

Short Bits: Xbox HD DVD, Stage6

Microsoft made it official that the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive is now dead . If you wanted one, I hope you got it already. You will likely find stock marked down all over the place, some retailers going as low as $50 now. DivX Inc has pulled the plug on their...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:26 PM

Fact or Fiction: Microsoft and Blu-ray

I’ve gotten a fair amount of reaction to the various articles I’ve posted on Microsoft and Blu-ray, and it still seems the overall consensus on the web is that Microsoft will fall head over heels for Blu-ray in their products. I want to preface this post...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:40 PM

Short Bits: Media Center Show, On10, PowerDVD, more

Ian Dixon had Microsoft’s Steve Lindsay on the Media Center Show today talking about various including Windows Home Server, Extenders, Home automation and his new blog . Some other stuff that I have not talked about, On10 has videos with S1Digital , Inteset...
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Monday, February 18, 2008 11:31 AM

Blu-ray on Xbox 360 Not Going to Happen

Some websites are reporting “rumors” of Microsoft getting ready to add Blu-ray support to the Xbox 360. I’m not going to link to the main website in question, because nothing on that site has ever been true (unless there is an Xbox 360 with HD DVD intergated...
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Friday, February 15, 2008 4:31 PM

Blu-ray Now Available on Niveus Media Servers

Customer demand and format war influences Niveus to add support for Blu-ray Disc playback and to cease production of HD DVD-based servers. Milpitas, CA – February 15, 2008 – Niveus Media, the leading manufacturer of high-performing digital entertainment...
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Monday, February 11, 2008 9:57 AM

Short Bits: Hulu Invites, Netflix BD, USB Card Reader

I’ve got five (5) Hulu invites that I’m giving out. If you want one, reply to this post saying that you would like an invite and put your e-mail address as your URL . I will randomly select five people tonight and send you an invite. It look like Netflix...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:50 PM

Short Bits: HD/BD, Inteset, More

I’ve been busy as of late, but have some really interesting articles lined up as soon as I can finish them up. If you didn’t hear, Vista SP1 is officially coming in March . Derek Flickinger has a great article up on CE Pro about those pesky interactivity...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:10 PM

CyberLink Patent Included in HD DVD Essential Patent Portfolio

Taipei, Taiwan ----Jan. 31st, 2008----CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), today announced it is participating in the formation of a joint HD DVD patent license based on its ownership of a patent determined to be essential to the HD DVD standard. CyberLink’s patent...
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Friday, January 25, 2008 1:33 PM

More Thoughts on Native Blu-ray/HD DVD

Ben at Engadget HD picked up my post about the lack of native HD DVD/Blu-ray in Media Center today . I’ve been reading some of the comments the post is getting and wanted to add a few thoughts. First, I’m talking about native support . This means that...
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Friday, January 18, 2008 6:00 PM

Short Bits: Softsled, Windows 7, Native HD DVD/Blu-ray

Mike at Missing Remote wrote a great article on why Softsled, as a software Extender will never happen . Foucsing on Mike’s last point in the article, the reason Softsled will never exist is because it doesn’t need to. Instead, since every copy of Vista...
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:02 PM

Niveus Media Introduces Sierra Edition

Powered by Intel technology, the eco-friendly and award-winning Sierra Edition Media Server makes its official debut at CES 2008. Las Vegas, NV – CES 2008 – January 7-10 – The Venetian Suites – Niveus Media, the leading manufacturer of high-performance...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:19 AM

Passive Technologies Intros Blu-ray and HD DVD Combo lifeStation hd

Passive Technologies present the lifeStation hd , offering an immersive audiophile quality experience for all your Standard and High Definition media. For Passive its all about being able to handle any media anytime. Whether you want to play a cd, a DVD...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:46 AM

Short Bits: Vaio LT, Album Art, HD DVD, Plug-ins

In October, Sony will start selling their Vaio LT HD PC/TV . It’s an all-in-one PC 22-inch LCD TV with a PC built-in. There will be a standard and an HD model that includes Blu-ray and CableCARD, I’m assuming only a single tuner though. Cool idea, but...
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Monday, August 20, 2007 4:07 PM

Short Bits: HD DVD, TV Toolbox, HDMI Audio

If you haven’t heard, Paramount has dropped Blu-ray support now opting for HD DVD only. A great plus for HD DVD, but don’t think for a second that this is all over. Content is king, and HD DVD needs more support to win. It does say a lot that Paramount...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:29 AM

Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Moves to $179

Xbox LIVE to promote HD DVD versions of “300” and “Heroes: Season 1.” SAN DIEGO — July 26, 2007 — Today at Comic-Con International 2007, Microsoft Corp. announced it will lower the price of the popular Xbox 360™ HD DVD Player from $199 to $179 ERP (United...
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Friday, June 08, 2007 2:01 PM

VidaBox Now Shipping CableCARD Systems w. Blu-ray & HD DVD Support

WESTBURY, NY – June 8th – VidaBox, a manufacturer of premium media center systems, is proud to announce that it is shipping CableCARD-ready systems for customers looking to tune & record HD Cable directly on their media centers "We're absolutely...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:13 AM

Okoro Media Systems Introduces the 2007 BX Series with Blu-ray & HD-DVD Support

Okoro Media Systems, manufacturer of digital entertainment systems for the high end audio video market, is pleased to introduce the 2007 BX100 & BX300 digital entertainment systems. The new 2007 BX series now support HD-DVD and Blu-ray play back from...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:02 PM

DefectiveByDesign's Anti-DRM Campaign Gets Trashed by Digg Readers

Something that I personally find hilarious is that DefectiveByDesign, the Anti-DRM Group that was formed last year, is getting trashed by the growing user base that actually understands some of the problems behind content protection and DRM. This is a...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:57 AM

What Content Will Be Crippled When Output in Vista?

There are tons of people out there not understanding all of this “Vista DRM”, mainly because of less than accurate media reporting. That’s completely understandable, but lets run down a quick list here of some of the popular content out there. DVD Rip...
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