Warner Home Video through their WBShop.com website has announced that they will now allow HD DVD owners to exchange their old Warner HD DVDs for the Blu-ray version. This may be the last chance for owners of the now defunct high definition format to salvage some worth from their film libraries before sacrificing the discs [...]

It’s been a long time in coming, but Amazon Video on Demand is finally available in high-def. Owners of TiVo HD/Series 3 DVRs, the Roku Digital Video Player, the Sony Bravia Internet Video Link, and Panasonic VieraCast TVs (and, presumably, VieraCast-enabled Blu-ray players) will be the first to enjoy Amazon’s content in HD (software [...]

HABEY announced its latest high performance full HD 1080p blu-ray capable Intel N270 Atom processor based platform, Model BIS-6540HD.  It has a built-in ultra low power HD AVC/VC-1/MPEG-2 hardware decoder, capable of full HD real-time decoding of H.264, VC-1 media contents at up to 40Mbps, MPEG-2 at up to 125Mbps.  The BIS-6540HD is capable to [...]

HABEY announced its latest high performance Intel N270 Atom processor based 1080p HD platform, Model BIS-6550HD.  It has a built-in ultra low power HD AVC/VC-1/MPEG-2 hardware decoder, capable of full HD real-time decoding of H.264, VC-1 media contents at up to 40Mbps, MPEG-2 at up to 125Mbps as well as playback of Blu-ray.  Playing back [...]

Not satisfied with simply introducing a new platform that’s more diminutive than the already tiny Mini-ITX, VIA has stepped in with an all new media system processor that aims to bring power efficiency to 1080p-capable systems. The VX855 MSP offers up hardware-based H.264 video acceleration in a staggeringly small, highly integrated single chip package with [...]

More support that Apple is working on what we’ve been calling the “iPod touch HD” — a touchscreen, portable Internet device that’s bigger than the iPhone: “Taiwan-based Wintek will supply touch panels for Apple’s new netbook, and shipments will start in the third quarter this year,” DigiTimes reports, citing the Chinese-language Commercial Times. DigiTimes also [...]

A new company called ZillionTV says it will soon introduce a new service that will enable cable and satellite subscribers to cut the cord and get subscription-free movies and TV shows right on their TVs from the Internet. The company, which officially launched on Wednesday, has struck deals with some major Hollywood movie studios and [...]

Verismo Networks recently announced that its VuNow Internet TV platform was voted “Best New Product idea” during informal polling by cable technology executives gathering at the CableLabs Technology Forum 2009 held February 8-11 at The Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs.
Attendees at the CableLabs Forum included, but were not limited to, executives from Comcast Cable Communications, [...]

Introduced at CES 2009, the Samsung BD-P1600 is an entry-level, relatively cheap Blu-ray player with one admittedly not-entry-level feature: playback of streaming Netflix videos for Netflix subscribers.This player also supports BD-Live, but word on the street is you’ll need to install at least 1 GB of external USB storage to use it. And if you [...]

TiVo announced two partnerships Monday intended to provide its customers with improved video on demand (VOD) availability, and to enable smaller multiple system operators (MSOs) not using tru2way to access TiVo content. TiVo has partnered with SeaChange on VOD and Alticast on set-top box software.The SeaChange deal will allow TiVo to integrate VOD services into [...]