Monthly Archives: June 2005

PVRWire’s PVR ownership poll

Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by MegaZone

Take the poll here.

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RTV Tried to Screw Me, so Screw It

Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by MegaZone

So I don’t have TiVo, I have RTV (ReplayTV). It’s pretty similar — I bought it because the unit was cheaper and some programmers had developed software that would allow me to pull shows right off the unit into my … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray, HD DVD merger talks scrapped

Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 by MegaZone

The two, rival blue-laser optical storage formats, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, will not be coming together, Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi admitted yesterday. Well, looks like this means war.

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Sanyo Joins Group to Develop High-Def DVDs

Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 by MegaZone

Japanese consumer electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. has joined a group of companies led by So Sanyo has decided to embrace Blu-ray in addition to HD-DVD. Guess they don’t see any unification coming either.

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Blu-ray Disk Enters Next-Gen DVD Race

Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 by MegaZone

A day after the announcement of a HD DVD-R disk format, Pioneer Corp. and Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co. Ltd. jointly announced development of write-once disk for the Blu-ray Disc format.

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