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Friday, January 11th, 2008At CES, staffers from the tech blog Gizmodo went around with a TV-B-Gone remote, shutting down vendors’ display screens on the show floor. They did this during presentations as well. The web community knows about this because they “confessed” on their site yesterday. The confession and its accompanying, unconvincing, apology were presented next to video [...]
Paramount Feeling Blu?
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008It look likes things are going to be happening pretty quickly as the HD disc format war wraps itself up. Today the Financial Times reported that Paramount may have an escape clause from their recently-signed exclusivity contract with HD-DVD. The clause seems to be contingent on Warner Brothers going Blu-ray exclusive. If [...]
The Gates Keynote at CES… Just Add Excitement
Sunday, January 6th, 2008I just watched the Bill Gates keynote at CES and I’m feeling underwhelmed. It’s not that they didn’t talk about anything cool. The multi-touch table computer is very cool. It’s just not terribly new, as technology goes. I’ve seen videos demonstrating this stuff for many months. And everything else just [...]
HD Format War Nearing an End?
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Yes, I’m following up the last two posts about video with a post about… video. Indulge me; this is a passion of mine. In case you didn’t hear, yesterday’s big news was a thundering shot in the HD disc format war. Warner Brothers, owner of a huge catalog of films, past and [...]
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