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Want Blue Ray for your Xbox 360? Don’t hold your breath!

Want Blue Ray for your Xbox 360? Don’t hold your breath!

  Microsoft has just debunked new rumors that it will integrate Blue Ray players into its consoles. The rumor came from within the storage industry that a company called Lite-On will be manufacturing a Blue Ray add on for the 360. Microsoft claims that consumers can still enjoy their HD content from the download store. [...]

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Pimp My Home Theater: Microsoft’s Ultimate Install Contest

Pimp My Home Theater: Microsoft’s Ultimate Install Contest

Microsoft just announced that they will be holding a contest to find the most creative home theator setup that incorporates Windows Media Center. Here is a quote from the site. “Microsoft is looking for the finest and most creative installation utilizing Windows Media Center in a residential system. Submit your best Windows Media Center project [...]

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HD-DVD – Death is getting even better…

This an an update to a post made earlier this week, entitled: HD-DVD: 5 Reasons Why Death Is Good. It seems as though the HD-DVD add-on has been axed by Microsoft, so now you can get it for only $50. So if want want to take the plunge, HD-DVD’s and HD-DVD players are dropping in [...]

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HD-DVD… 5 Reasons Why Death is Good!

I’m sure if you come to this website, you may have already heard the news. HD-DVD is dead. So the question now is, if you were one of the early adopters of hd-dvd, what do you do with all of your hd-dvd stuff, and what does dead really mean? Well, to tell you the truth, [...]

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Receiving Free Over-The-Air (OTA) HDTV With a USDTv Box

Receiving Free Over-The-Air (OTA) HDTV With a USDTv Box

Before hearing anything about USDTV, I had bought a USDTV box on craigslist for like $30 bucks. I took it home and hooked it up to my projector, expecting HDTV bliss and to my supprise, the screen was stuck saying that it could not pick up a USDTV signal. I was pretty frustrated and immediately [...]

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HD-DVD vs. BluRay: A Practical “Real World” Comparison

HD-DVD vs. BluRay: A Practical “Real World” Comparison

HDDVD or BluRay. Ever since the release of the next generation media players, there has been a heated debate going on between both parties. Those HD DVD hard core supporters, and the Blu Ray fan club. They argue about image quality, player availability, publishing houses that support thier format, movies made just for thier format [...]

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Great Video Conversion for your Xbox 360 Via Encode360

Great Video Conversion for your Xbox 360 Via Encode360

So as you know from my previous posts, I’ve been using Windows Media Center and Transcode360 to stream video files from my computer to my Xbox 360. But this leaves out the group that is still running Windows XP. I have made a few posts about sharing media via Windows Media Player 11 and Microsofts [...]

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HiDef Projector Screens: Home Theater Showdown – Battle 1

This is the first post in our hometheater showdown where we take two of our bloggers “home theaters” and compare a specific item. In this “Home Theater Showdown” series, you will find out who has the biggest, the baddest, the cheapest (inexpensive), the loudest, the brightest, the highest quality-ist home theater out there. Get ready [...]

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