Monthly Archives: January 2008

Best Buy Mini-Blu-ray Sale, Pick Two Of Six Titles For $30

Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 by MegaZone

It doesn’t begin to compare to Amazon’s massive sale on 229 Blu-ray titles, but Best Buy is having a little sale of their own. Now through 1/19 pick and two of the following titles for $30: Stargate, Stir of Echoes, … Continue reading →

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Brave Or Pitiful? Toshiba Fights On With HD DVD

Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 by MegaZone

Personally this just seems sad to me in light of all the recent news. I think the decent thing for Toshiba to do is to admit defeat, join the BDA, and get on with devoting their not inconsiderable engineering talents … Continue reading →

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More From TiVo At CES

Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 by MegaZone

The best laid plans of mice and men… After visiting TiVo on Monday, the first day of the show, I’d planned to stop back in on Tuesday – but I didn’t make it. Thursday I was committed to visiting the … Continue reading →

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Amazon HD DVD Sale

Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 by MegaZone

I don’t know why anyone would want to buy a dead format, but if you are still buying HD DVD discs for some reason Amazon is having a sale on 84 HD DVD titles with prices as low as $14.99 … Continue reading →

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Sling Media At CES

Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 by MegaZone

On Wednesday at CES I managed to spend some time in Sling Media’s booth, including a nice sit-down with Dave Zatz for a demo of the SlingCatcher and the new SlingPlayer 2.0, including the Clip+Sling functionality. See my previous posts … Continue reading →

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