Daily Archives: Monday, February 4, 2008

Onkyo ‘Suspends’ HD DVD Player Production

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 by MegaZone

Toshiba’s price cuts seem to have scored an own-goal on Onkyo, which could be considered the third case of friendly-fire taking out an HD DVD player vendor. Early on Thomson/RCA sold a re-badged Toshiba player, but they dropped HD DVD … Continue reading →

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Spain’s Manga Films Goes Blu, And Germany’s Singulus Sees Higher Blu-ray Demand

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 by MegaZone

Spanish distribution company Manga Films, which had earlier indicated an intent to release on HD DVD, has instead dropped all HD DVD plans and will be releasing films on Blu-ray, with their first titles, John Rambo and Mr. Brooks, due … Continue reading →

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TiVoCast Adds Finding America

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 by MegaZone

Stephen Mack announced that TiVoCast has added another PodShowTV channel, Finding America. Finding America follows Trucker Tom as he travels the US. As the page says: What if you had the chance to travel every major road in the USA? … Continue reading →

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DVRs And Streaming Media Grow

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 by MegaZone

The LA Times published a quick ‘By the numbers‘ today with numbers from Nielsen Media Research. They report that 22% of homes have a DVR, up from just 2% two years ago. And streaming media seems to be big with … Continue reading →

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Circuit City HD DVD Player Clearance An Error

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 by MegaZone

Despite photographic evidence Circuit City says they are not putting HD DVD players on clearance, and that the stores that did tag players with Clearance tags did so in error. Toshiba HD DVD players were being sold at clearance prices … Continue reading →

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