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DLO HomeDock HD Comes Home
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 24, 2008
So, you've downloaded a ton of HD movies and TV shows to your iPod or iPhone. Good for you. So now you have a really great picture on a really tiny screen. Not exactly what the developers of HD had in mind, now, is it?

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YouTube with HD Video - Hulu Beware
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 21, 2008
The one claim - okay, one of a few claims - that Hulu had over YouTube was the quality of the video. But, crafty YouTube viewers have scrounged around and found a few HD-quality videos mixed into the regular, pixelated, sputtering content we all know and love.

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Vudu: More HD than Anyone Else
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 17, 2008
The on-demand movie business is alive and well and living in the set-top box business. And competition is fierce. Climbing above the fray, Vudu is claiming to have more HD movies than anyone else. More than Netflix, Xbox 360, Apple TV, and remarkably close to the amount of HD available than you can get on Blu-ray. Amazing.

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Audiovox HDP100: HDMI Through Powerlines
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 4, 2008
You know the drill. You go to install some new equipment, but you're faced with a dilemma. Do you run cables across the floor, put the TV screen in a non-ideal position, or even giving up the idea of having HDTV in a room that doesn't have a satellite receiver.

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Microsoft and Akamai deliver HD streams
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 28, 2008
You settle in to watch the latest HD streaming content only to be constantly interrupted by stutters and stops as the buffering stalls your video. Nothing like taking an hour and a half to watch an hour long (or 44 minute long) show, right?

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Blu-ray Makeup?
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 28, 2008
We all know Hollywood has a certain image to maintain. When you see an actor on the big screen, up close and personal, you can see right into their soul. Good lord, let's hope you don't have to see every brush stroke of liquid foundation or flakes of powder makeup.

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Apple TV in HD
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 6, 2008
Apple TV's latest update, version 2.2, has gone HD. In addition to security updates (always a good thing) and Genius features, Apple TV has HDTV options. Looks to me to be the same things offered through the iTunes Store, and this gives you two versions too.

What are the two versions?

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High Definition . . . Come On Down!!!
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 24, 2008
After 37 seasons, The Price is Right is going high-def. Woohoo! The newly designed set will look brighter, the contestants will sparkle, and Drew Carey will never look better.

What else will be different?

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Hotels: HDTVs without HDTV
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 16, 2008
This would seem like a small mistake if it wasn't so prevalent. Hotels across the nation are upgrading to flat-panel HDTVs, tossing out those bulky CRT sets and slapping either LCD or plasma sets on the walls. Should look great, right?

Seems like most hotel chains haven't gotten the big picture. They have HDTVs, but no HD service. Oops.

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"The Frame" Fine Art Channel
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 13, 2008
Canada's Shaw Cable just launched a new HD channel that will really show off the true art of HD. "The Frame" is a 24/7 channel that will showcase fine art and photographs from 16 galleries across Canada. The galleries will shift every thirty minutes, and each individual image will be displayed for thirty seconds. Music will accompany, chosen to add to the theme of the images.

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DirecTV Goes 1080p
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 28, 2008
DirecTV is fighting back against the competition, in a big way. Starting August 14, DirecTV will add another 30 HD channels, for a total 130 HD channels. All programming will have Dolby Digital soundtracks and be transmitted in the MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard.

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Mark Cuban's Saving The Internet. Again
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 16, 2008
It seems like everyone has a blog these days. (Insert cute winking smiley-face thingy here.) Internet billionaire Mark Cuban is no different. He has a plan to save Internet video.

Whew! Good thing, and just in time. What would Hulu, Netflix, and all the movie studios that will have already committed to streaming and downloads do without Mark Cuban saving the day?

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