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AllthingsHiDef BlogAllthingsHiDef BlogBlogs about high definition technology. Reviews of high definition movies and products including Blu ray, HD DVD, HDTVs, plasma and lcds. Articles about how to get free over the air HD transmissions. Retail site specializing in only high definition p Articles
Blockbuster's Big Blu Hype
2007-06-19 20:59:00 Blockbuster announced today that it would be offering Blu-ray Disc rentals at 1,700 stores. This set off alerts in the hi def world as news such as this could tip the scales in favor of Sony's Blu-ray Disc format. More About: Hype , Block , Big B , Lock
Blockbuster's Big Blu Hype
2007-06-19 13:59:00 Blockbuster announced today that it would be offering Blu-ray Disc rentals at 1,700 stores. This set off alerts in the hi def world as news such as this could tip the scales in favor of Sony's Blu-ray Disc format. More About: Hype
720p vs. 1080p? Go with your eyes.
2007-06-15 23:26:00 720p vs. 1080p? The Samsung 32" LN-T3253H vs. the Sharp Aquos 32" LC32D62U . A real life story. There I stood at the crossroads. Two 32" LCD HDTVs, both on sale for $1299. One a 720p, the other 1080p. "1080p?, "For the same price?" Every tech bone in my body said "1080p, 1080p, 1080p". I hadn't originally thought about 1080p as it wasn't in my budget. But now there was a chance to get 1080p for what I was going to spend anyway! More About: Eyes , With You
720p vs. 1080p? Go with your eyes.
2007-06-15 16:26:00 720p vs. 1080p? The Samsung 32" LN-T3253H vs. the Sharp Aquos 32" LC32D62U . A real life story. There I stood at the crossroads. Two 32" LCD HDTVs, both on sale for $1299. One a 720p, the other 1080p. "1080p?, "For the same price?" Every tech bone in my body said "1080p, 1080p, 1080p". I hadn't originally thought about 1080p as it wasn't in my budget. But now there was a chance to get 1080p for what I was going to spend anyway! More About: Eyes , With You
HD DVD Movie Reviews for June 12, 2007
2007-06-14 01:27:00 This week's Word from the Street for June 12, 2007 includes reviews of these new HD DVD releases: Black Christmas: Unrated, Born on the Fourth of July, Breach, Bruce Almighty, Daylight, Harsh Times, Liar Liar, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Music and Lyrics, Sneakers, and Living Landscapes: The World's Most Beautiful Places . More About: Movie , Reviews , Movie Reviews
HD DVD Movie Reviews for June 12, 2007
2007-06-13 18:27:00 This week's Word from the Street for June 12, 2007 includes reviews of these new HD DVD releases: Black Christmas: Unrated, Born on the Fourth of July, Breach, Bruce Almighty, Daylight, Harsh Times, Liar Liar, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Music and Lyrics, Sneakers, and Living Landscapes: The World's Most Beautiful Places . More About: Movie , Reviews , Movie Reviews
More Blu-Ray Price Cuts Are Coming
2007-06-13 03:07:00 If you thought the price cutting on Blu-Ray disc players was going to stop for a couple of months, think again. Sony recently slashed the tag on its new, summer player entry, the BDP-S300 , from the initially announced $599 list to a nicer $499, even before the first units had landed at SonyStyle.com. More About: Ray Price , Price , Ming , Cuts
HD DVD Review: Born on the Fourth of July
2007-06-13 02:58:00 Born on the Fourth of July (Universal) [HD DVD] Featuring: Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Frank Whaley, Kyra Sedgwick, Caroline Kava, Raymond J. Barry and Jerry Levine More About: Review , Fourth of July
Blu-ray Movie Review for June 12, 2007
2007-06-13 02:11:00 This week's Word from the Street for June 12, 2007 includes reviews of these new Blu-ray Disc releases: Blood & Chocolate, Cruel Intentions, Daddy's Little Girls, Ghost Rider: Extended Cut, Music and Lyrics, Primeval, and Seven Years in Tibet. More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Project Kuro - Pioneer boasts new 20,000:1 Plasmas
2007-06-12 20:34:00 Pioneer's Project Kuro, which boasts 20,000:1 ratio in their 8th generation plasma HDTV's, released this short promo. The short features director Spike Lee, photographer, Elliot Erwitt, and Cinematographer Dion Beebe. More About: Plasmas , Pioneer
More Blu-Ray Price Cuts Are Coming
2007-06-12 20:07:00 If you thought the price cutting on Blu-Ray disc players was going to stop for a couple of months, think again. Sony recently slashed the tag on its new, summer player entry, the BDP-S300 , from the initially announced $599 list to a nicer $499, even before the first units had landed at SonyStyle.com. More About: Ray Price , Price , Ming , Cuts
HD DVD Review: Born on the Fourth of July
2007-06-12 19:58:00 Born on the Fourth of July (Universal) [HD DVD] Featuring: Tom Cruise, Willem Dafoe, Frank Whaley, Kyra Sedgwick, Caroline Kava, Raymond J. Barry and Jerry Levine More About: Review , Fourth of July
Blu-ray Movie Review for June 12, 2007
2007-06-12 19:11:00 This week's Word from the Street for June 12, 2007 includes reviews of these new Blu-ray Disc releases: Blood & Chocolate, Cruel Intentions, Daddy's Little Girls, Ghost Rider: Extended Cut, Music and Lyrics, Primeval, and Seven Years in Tibet. More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Project Kuro - Pioneer boasts new 20,000:1 Plasmas
2007-06-12 13:34:00 Pioneer's Project Kuro, which boasts 20,000:1 ratio in their 8th generation plasma HDTV's, released this short promo. The short features director Spike Lee, photographer, Elliot Erwitt, and Cinematographer Dion Beebe. More About: Plasmas , Pioneer
Where are all the Digital Converters?
2007-06-08 00:56:00 Does anyone realize what they are missing out on? Free digital television channels, some in HD , are buzzing through the airwaves just waiting to be captured by a set-top, rooftop, or even one of those attic antennas that my grandpa used to have. More About: Digital , Where , The D , Vert
Where are all the Digital Converters?
2007-06-07 17:56:00 Does anyone realize what they are missing out on? Free digital television channels, some in HD , are buzzing through the airwaves just waiting to be captured by a set-top, rooftop, or even one of those attic antennas that my grandpa used to have. More About: Digital , The D , Vert
HD DVD Movie Reviews for June 5, 2007
2007-06-06 21:00:00 This week's Word from the Street for June 5, 2007 includes reviews of these new HD DVD releases: Rio Bravo, The Cowboys, Trading Places, Coming to America, and Norbit. More About: Movie , Reviews , Movie Reviews
Blu-ray Movie Reviews for June 5, 2007
2007-06-06 11:08:00 This week's Word from the Street for June 5, 2007 includes reviews of these new Blu-ray Disc releases: Rio Bravo, The Cowboys, Blood Diamond, Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin, Hellboy, The Messengers, Rescue Me: The Complete Third Season, and Norbit. More About: Movie , Reviews , Movie Reviews
Universal Home Entertainment's Ken Graffeo makes the case for HD-DVD Page 2
2007-06-06 07:24:00 As to Mr. Gates? remarks, he tends to look out further, and see this as the last optical format. Nobody disagrees. But Microsoft sees HD-DVD as a five to seven year format. The Blu-Ray folks are talking a 10-to-15 year time frame and investment, which suggests how much longer they need to get their money back. More About: Home , Page , Case , Universal , Enter
Universal Home Entertainment's Ken Graffeo makes the case for HD-DVD
2007-06-06 07:22:00 What does Ken Graffeo know that the other home video execs don?t? Executive vice president of high def strategic marketing (worldwide) for Univ ersal Home Enter tainment, Graffeo is one of the studio?s ? and probably the world?s - strongest advocates for the cause of HD-DVD . More About: Case
Sony drops $200 off price of BPD-S1
2007-06-05 21:41:00 Sony cuts the cost of it's first Blu-ray Disc player by $200. The BDP-S1 , originally priced at $999, offers the highest image quality possible with it's 1080p native format. You can now get this player for $799. More About: Sony , Price , Drop
"The Simpsons Game" Goes Next Gen with EA
2007-06-02 02:13:00 There's been a long history of fairly good videogames over the decades based on "The Simpsons " TV show. Now, for the first time, an original game is being developed at Electronic Arts that will ship for high definition consoles PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this fall. I had a chance to check out some of the Xbox 360 game at a recent press event in San Francisco and it's pretty amazing what this partnership between Gracie Films and EA is crafting. More About: Game , Sons , The Simpsons Game
HD DVD Review: Peter Jackson's The Frighteners
2007-05-31 19:53:00 In the mid-90?s, based on his Kiwi horror films and the brilliant and tragic Heavenly Creatures , Universal Studios and producer Robert Zemeckis hired Pete r Jackson to direct The Frighteners , a convoluted ghost story with a darkly humorous edge. More About: Review , Peter
HD DVD Movie Review May 29, 2007
2007-05-31 19:31:00 HD DVD movie review for May 29, 2007. This week's Word from the Street includes reviews of these new releases: Dragonheart, The Frighteners: Director's Cut, Lost in Translation, Midnight Run, and The River. More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Blu-ray Movie Review May 29, 2007
2007-05-31 19:26:00 Blu-ray movie review for May 29, 2007. This week's Word from the Street includes reviews of these new releases: Basic Instinct, Chris Botti Live: With Orchestra and Special Guests, Curse of the Golden Flower, Weeds: Season One. More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Blu-ray & HD DVD Movie Releases: Week in Review May 20, 2007
2007-05-30 21:53:00 Though I wasn?t able to blog in a review of the last Blu-ray and HD DVD releases, let?s face it? each of these Blu ray releases deserves a spot on the top shelf of your hi-def library: Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks), Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner), Mission: Impossible (Paramount) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Buena Vista). Each of these is top-grade entertainment and looks great in hi-def. More About: Movie , Review , Movie Releases , Week , Lease
Dishing Out More HD Content: Dish Network HD Programming
2007-05-30 02:26:00 Dishing Out More HD Content : While DirecTV and cable rivals keep slugging it out in advertisements over who?s got better and more HD, satellite rival DISH Network just goes on its merry way, quietly layering on more HD content and maintaining the actual lead in national channels. More About: Programming , Dish , Shin
HD DVD Corrections: HD-XA1, HD-A1, HD-D1 and XBox HD DVD Player
2007-05-29 22:45:00 HD DVD Corrections : The day after Consumer Electronics Daily quoted a source at Meridian saying that Microsoft was funding the development of Meridian?s HD-DVD player, Microsoft?s resident DVD ?evangelist? Kevin Collins denied it. But he did allow that Microsoft was working with Meridian ?on the development side to bring an HD DVD player to market utilizing the Broadcom/Microsoft reference board.? That suggests Microsoft is lending its staff and expertise ? which is almost like funding the project, don?t you think? More About: Xbox , Player , Layer , Rect
Mitsubishi - new TV technology update
2007-05-25 21:27:00 If The Mits Fits: Update on new HDTV technology from Mitsubishi including DLPs, the "Diamond" line, 3-D Game features, X.v color technolgy and LCDs. More About: Technology , Ology , Bish
The Pioneer Touch
More articles from this author:2007-05-25 21:25:00 The Pioneer Touch : What does a plasma TV maker do when it has superior technology, but more limited production capability than its mass market competitors? Give up chasing the volume sales, and concentrate just serving on the connoisseur market. That?s Pioneer?s ambition with its new line of super grade 42-, 50- and 60-inch plasma screens, which it will tout as ?technology for serious entertainment junkies.? More About: Ouch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
