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digital TV coupon

January 3, 2008

In one year, our analog TVs become junk – unless you get a digital converter box. The federal government is issuing vouchers for $40 off these boxes, which will be available at most retail electronics outlets. Just sign up online. In just two days, they’ve already received 500,000 applications!

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HD-DVD is not region-free

December 12, 2007

in teh great battle of nextgen DVD formats, one piece of information seems to be conventional wisdom: that HD-DVD, unlike Blu-ray, will not have region-coding. At AICN, Massawyrm cites being region-free as one of his main motivations for choosing HD-DVD, for example. But it’s been known for over a year that despite initial reports that [...]

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Toshiba HD-A2 for $199

October 25, 2007

The price keeps dropping on HD-DVD; the Toshiba A2 is probably the best known player out there, and it currently sells at Amazon for $227; now comes word that on Nov. 3rd, Walmart will sell it just under the $200 mark. Still, not much point in going for it unless you’ve got an HDTV, but [...]

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I choose HD-DVD

June 5, 2007

A few days ago, HeadGeek at AICN declared he’d taken sides in the nextgen-DVD format war: he chose HD-DVD. I am inclined to follow his lead. At present I am in no position to purchase a HDTV (without which the choice of DVD format is moot), but I am confident enough in HD-DVD to make [...]

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laser HDTV

April 7, 2007

My inlaws recently bought a plasma HDTV – a nice 50″ Samsung model. The purchase was the impetus for me to learn a little about the various flavors of HDTV out there; plasma, LCD, etc. In a nutshell, I learned that DLP had the best picture and color, and is thinner than old-style CRT but [...]

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