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Direct TV adds ESPNewsHD and others to high-def lineup
Well, it only took three days, but the brand new ESPNewsHD channel has been added to your Direct TV lineup. I didn’t get a chance to check it out before I left for work this morning, but I plan on checking it out the second I get home. Those of you who telecommute, go check [...] Continue →
Reminder: ESPNewsHD on Sunday morning!
Now, while I am reminding you guys that ESPNewsHD launches on Sunday, the odds that you are actually going to have a channel to look at that morning are slim. Apparently only 3.2 million homes will be getting the new channel at 8:00 AM EST on Sunday, a lot lower than the 17 million who [...] Continue →
Similarities to Terminator mythology freak me out
Perhaps I took in a little too much Terminator stuff this year, like The Sarah Connor Chronicles, or the Enitech viral website that had some pretty freaky videos that seemed too real at times. Continue →
At least all that stuff is fake and made up, so nothing to worry about. Continue →
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Confirmed: ESPNewsHD arrives March 30th
We reported it months ago, and showed you awesome screenshots last week, but now it’s been totally confirmed that ESPNewsHD will blast onto your high definition landscape on March 30th. Continue →
According to EngadgetHD, the providers that already have carriage agreements in place (which means they should carry it immediately) are Direct TV, Comcast and Time Warner. Continue →
Hollywood, HBO starting to handcuff DVR users
Thanks to a reader (the Cap’n of course) submitted tip, I came across this story about Hollywood and DVRs and it made me want to run down the street screaming hysterically. Continue →
Those of you with Direct TV may have noticed recently that pay-per-view movies suddenly have some with an expiration date. For example, I purchased a few movies awhile back, like Eastern Promises, The Brave One, etc., and they had these deletion/expiration dates set about a month in the future. Continue →
I'll never own a Blu-Ray player at this rate
So HD-DVD lost out, and that’s fine, I’ve gotten over it. My main course of action now is to watch the Blu-Ray players out there and snatch one up when they finally get low enough for me to feel like it’s financially OKAY to get one. My threshold right now for an immediate purchase of [...] Continue →
Hulu opens – Watch Firefly, BSG, Newsradio, Doogie, Arrested Development and more
Okay, I think my new favorite site is Hulu.com. Hulu went live today and the amount of free video they offer on it is unfathomable. Just check out the TV section: The entire SERIES of Arrested Development. Season 4 of The Office. All 14 episodes of Firefly. 22 episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. [...] Continue →
The first ESPNewsHD screenshots are here!
The only reason I don’t watch as much of ESPNews as I used to is because I’ve become an HD Snob, as my wife likes to put it, and rarely do I find myself watching something that isn’t in high-def. Well in case you all forgot, we mentioned back in late December that ESPNewsHD would [...] Continue →
Samsung kills my combo-player hopes
Well, our readers tried to warn me and I started believing them towards the end, but not until today did I fully grasp the meaning of “coasters” when it comes to describing my HD-DVDs. EngadgetHD passed on the bad news that Samsung is halting production on their new BD-UP5500 HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Combo drive player, and will [...] Continue →
Netflix sneaking in DVDs for HD-DVDs
Just a heads up out there if you are a Netflix subscriber and own an HD-DVD player. I know, there aren’t many of you dumb enough to have purchased an HD-DVD player like myself, but just in CASE one of you is, here is some crazy news. Awhile back we posted that Netflix was going [...] Continue →