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Thanks to Texas Instruments and projectiondesign, your home projector may be getting a big boost in image quality and resolution. They’ve just announced the world’s first wide WUXGA projection chip. What does this mean, exactly? We’re glad you asked. WUXGA produces the highest possible projector resolution available, with a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 [...]

By some weird stroke of luck, cruelty, or fate the movie Hitman has shown up for free on iTunes. You can access the film by heading to the Movies section of the store, hitting the browse button, and navigating to the "thrillers" genre section. There, at the bottom of the list, is the movie Hitman. [...]

It’s only Tuesday and this has already been quite a week for mobile software updates. Sling Media is continuing the trend with some solid new updates of its oh-so-great SlingPlayer Mobile application. The lucky platforms? Windows Mobile PocketPC, Windows Mobile Smartphone and Symbian S60. Here are some highlights:

Added support for additional handsets (Nokia N95 8GB, [...]

What could possibly be better than your 52 inch Sony XBR5 TV? The XBR6, XBR7, and XBR8, of course! If there was any doubt about Sony’s seriousness with the XBR line, we can safely put that to rest right now. We’ve just got a hold of the product roadmap for this year, in addition to [...]

A series of patent filings from October 2006 were recently uncovering, revealing a logical next step for Apple’s increasingly popular Apple TV service. The patents essentially cover the integration of TiVo-like DVR features into the set top box that would provide guide, recording and playback-control functionality to the user. DVR integration would certainly go a [...]

Hating on Monster seems to be the latest craze but if you’re a music lover and a tech lover, then there’s no denying that the iSoniCast is a cool piece of gear. Monster’s latest gadget is sleek and well-designed, convenient and surprisingly cheap as well. iSoniCast is a wireless audio bridge that allows you to [...]

As news trickles across the web that Apple may have fallen a bit short of their movie rental targets, word of a new player in the online movie store game is surfacing once again. Rumors of Sony’s entry into online movie downloads has been floating around for over a year now, but apparently Sony is [...]

If you are like us, you just can’t go without your TiVo. It puts every and any set-top box from your local cable company to shame. The Series3 price tag was a little hard to swallow for some folks, so the TiVo HD picked up some of that lower-cost slack. Well, it’s getting a little [...]

It might look like a Nokia 5700 that has been tortured on a medieval stretch rack, but the SR1500 from tvCompass is actually a Digital Media Remote. Short of a cellular antenna, this jack of all trades actually packs most of the functionality of a mid-level mobile phone into a universal remote. Powered by a [...]

We kind of told you this yesterday, but we’ve just received exclusive confirmation from Sling directly. Sling Media has not received any sort of iPhone SDK and while we’ve been told they are exploring options, nothing is confirmed. Here’s what company spokesman Dave Zatz had to say: "The iPhone is an exciting platform and we’re [...]

Even though for the moment the Blu-ray / HD-DVD war looks like it coming to an end, it might be smart to cut your losses and dip your feet in both ends of the pool. The LG BH200 Super-Blu player is a hybrid device that allows you to play both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs from [...]

Well, CES is definitely making companies bring out the guns! Then again, did we really think they weren’t? Sling Media’s recent product announcements are pretty good too. We’ve been waiting for the SlingCatcher for god knows how long? It’s basically a set top box that receives the video instead of the SlingBox where it transmits. [...]

Welcome to the age where your remote could very well be the most sophisticated piece of technology in your home theater setup and beyond. The upcoming vPad by VidaBox slaps a 1024 x 786 resolution 10.4-inch touchscreen onto a remote with 802.11b & g support that’s less than 1 1/2-inches thick! The vPad allows you [...]