Originally announced as an agreement between Sony and the cable industry, and then signed by additional CE vendors, the tru2way MOU has now been signed by LG Electronics. They’re planning to release tru2way-enabled HDTVs starting in 2009.
Press release below:
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They’re also offering $1 off three films: The Onion Movie for $2.99, Batman Begins for $1.99, and 27 Dresses for $2.99.
And, finally, we have a Summer Movie Sale. 14 films to purchase, not rent, for $5.99 each: Snatch, Layer Cake, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, XXX, The Glass House, The Big Hit, Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle, The Devil’s Own, Donnie Brasco, The Quick and the Dead, Stealth, Desperate Measures, Cliffhanger, and Still Crazy.
And as a special deal, you can buy both Charlie’s Angels and Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle for a combined price of only $10.99 – you buy Charlie’s Angels for $9.99, and then receive a code to purchase Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle for just $1. Details here.
As a side note, I thought I’d mention that The Ultimate Matrix Collection on Blu-ray is now available for pre-order. That’s a seven disc set – five BDs (The three live-action movies, The Animatrix, and ‘The Matrix Experience’) and two DVDs of bonus material. All for $90.95.
Over at Blogcritics, Barbara Barnett has published a Technology Review of her experience using a TiVo Series3 for the past several months. She’d upgraded from the Comcast cable DVR, and as she says:I will never, ever look back. I’ve been “TiVo’d.”
She highlights the features of TiVo that have made her, as a non-geek user, a TiVo convert, such as the Season Pass, the advanced search capabilities of WishLists, the Thumb Ratings and TiVo Suggestions. All of the features usually touted as making a TiVo more than just a standard DVR. She also highlights the more advanced features added by connecting the TiVo to a network, but also prosaic things like being able to undelete a program, which while simple is something most DVRs don’t provide.
It is nice to see a blog from a non-geek user about that features they really use, and why they love their TiVo. It is a chance of pace from the usual parade of geeks – myself included. 
TiVo is looking for feedback on their monthly email newsletter (which I also repost here). So if you have any thoughts and want to provide feedback, you can take their survey.
This is a bit meta, but as you may know if you’re a regular reader of this blog, since April 7th, 2008 I’ve been working for Sling Media as a Beta Program Manager. We’re expanding my department, and currently have a position open for a Beta Program Manager & Quality Assurance Liaison at our main office in Foster City, CA. I think Sling is a great place to work, and I’m visiting the main office for the first time this week and I’m really looking forward to moving out here in the next couple of months to work in the office full time. (I’m currently primarily working from my current home in MA.)
I figured there might be some interested candidates out there reading this blog and thought I’d share the opportunity.
