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LG Electronics and Netflix on Monday announced a partnership to provide streaming video content for broadband-enabled high-definition television sets, making LG sets the first to stream Netflix content without a separate external device. The sets were unveiled during the Consumer Electronics Show in...
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Golf Channel Swings Into HD The Golf Channel’s high-definition channel has launched in nearly 16 million homes, TelevisionWeek reported. The channel will feature coverage of the first three events of the PGA Tour from Hawaii, marking the first time the events have aired in HD. Other HD programming, including...
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Blu-ray Player Sales Triple During Black Friday Week Sales of stand-alone Blu-ray players tripled during the week of Black Friday from the previous week, Video Business reports. Machines dropped below $200 during that week to spur post-Thanksgiving sales. Nearly one in four disc players sold during Black...
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Mojo HD Officially Ceases Broadcast A month and a half after parent company inDemand announced its cancellation, Mojo HD ended its transmissions on Dec. 1, tech blog Engadget reported. Despite the cancellation, Mojo HD original program “Three Sheets” will air a 45-minute “New Year’s Eve Pub Crawl” online...
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Wal-Mart Boasts Lowest-Priced Blu-ray Player for Black Friday Wal-Mart is unveiling the Magnavox Profile 1.1 Blu-ray player for $128 on Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving. That’s the lowest retail price ever for the format, Home Media Magazine reports. The low price was first reported at bargainlist...
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BBC HD Is Out of the DOG House After several viewer complaints, DOGs, or digital on-screen graphics, will be gone as of this weekend on BBC HD, according the network’s blog . Citing frustration at cluttering up the HD on-screen action, BBC HD will remove the lower-corner logos from all movies and some...
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Sharp Releases TVs With Built-In Blu-ray Recorder Sharp has released the Aquos DX, a flat-screen LCD TV that comes with a Blu-ray recorder/player built in, technology blog Gizmodo reported. The recorder allows a user to record television directly onto a Blu-ray disc. Ranging from 26-inch to 52-inch models...
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Pricing for Blu-ray movie rentals online will change for the worse, but consumers willing to travel to their grocery stores to pick up a title are getting a break. Blu-ray users will being paying $1 more per month for rentals on Netflix, as the company announced Wednesday a price increase citing the...
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With U.S. consumers expected to buy about 2 million 3-D-capable televisions this year, such TVs will account for about 5% of the total. “It’s way in front of the consumer,” Bruce Leichtman, president of Leichtman Research Group, said of 3-D TV sales. “It may be like 1998 for HD.” U.S. sales of 3-D-capable...
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AT&T, DirecTV Partner, Leaving Dish Network Out in Cold After Jan. 31, AT&T will begin selling co-branded versions of DirecTV’s satellite television service, leaving former partner Dish Network without a major reselling partner, Multichannel News reported. AT&T will honor its deal with Dish...
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Entertainment Studios Launch Six HD Nets Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, an independent producer and distributor of first-run syndicated content, is launching six targeted HD channels through Verizon’s FiOS TV, the company said . The six channels, Cars.tv, Pets.tv, Comedy.tv, Mydestination.tv, Es...
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While Blu-ray disc players promise the ultimate in picture clarity for movie-disc buyers with high-definition televisions, the prognosis is murkier for how fast the next-generation players will be adopted in the U.S. Global sales of stand-alone Blu-ray players will triple to 2.38 million units this year...
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U.S. satellite companies’ statements that their so-called “full” high-definition broadcasts are as clear as Blu-ray may be murky, according to at least one analyst, who says Blu-ray growth won’t be hindered by such claims. As HD disc and disc-player sales gradually pick up in the months since Sony’s...
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Until last February, the most publicized battle relating to high-definition DVD players involved Sony’s Blu-ray format vs. Toshiba’s HD DVD. Now the primary contest seems to be between the optimists and pessimists. This week, ABI Research reported that about three-quarters of U.S. DVD owners may delay...
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Dish May Restart Merger Talks With DirecTV Dish Network CEO Charles Ergen may restart merger talks with larger competitor DirecTV after his company this week reported the first quarterly subscriber loss by a U.S. satellite television service, the Wall Street Journal reports , citing people familiar with...