Monthly Archives: November 2005

TiVoPony (re)confirms TiVo’s HDTV plans for 2006.

Posted on Saturday, November 19, 2005 by MegaZone

Buried in a thread on TiVoCommunity.com was this post by TiVoPony, aka Bob Poniatowski, a long time TiVo employee in Product Marketing at TiVo. The gist is: There’s a dual tuner HD box coming next year that will work with … Continue reading →

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Completes First Full-Length Blu-ray Disc

Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 by MegaZone

From PRNewswire…

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Panasonic preps Blu-ray, DVD, CD chip

Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 by MegaZone

Panasonic will next month begin sampling what it claims is the first optical drive control chipset capable of writing to any recordable or re-writeable disc format. Well, all except HD DVD, that is.

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NetFlix declares Blu-ray the winner of the format war

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 by MegaZone

“As many know there’s been a format war. Two formats have been proposed as a successor to DVD, one sponsored by Warner primarily and one sponsored by Sony. Warner is HD-DVD and Sony is Blu-Ray. I think it’s pretty clear … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray group, HP at odds

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 by MegaZone

The Blu-ray Disc group, which aims to set the standard for next-generation DVDs, says it will not adopt a proposal from Hewlett-Packard by the launch of the technology, leading the PC maker to say it may back a rival in … Continue reading →

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