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Netflix drops its used DVD store

A few days ago a friend called letting me know Netflix was doing away with its used DVD store. As a Netflix member and collector of DVDs, I have used the used section of the Web site a number of times to pick up movies mostly for $5.99.
Netflix started selling used DVDs a few years [...]

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I love Twitter but …

Like many tech philes I have been enamored with the service “Twitter.” It’s a difficult thing to explain but I think this video does it as good as anything.

Video by Common Craft.
I have been using Twitter myself for quiet a while, since it was just a little birdie as it were, going back to early [...]

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TiVo + YouTube coming soon?

I’ve been hearing some rumors around the Web that we’re soon going to see video sharing site YouTube sharing its content on TiVo. This isn’t a new situation for the Google owned YouTube as content can be watched on devices like the Apple TV.
As a user of TiVo, this is somewhat exciting news. The idea [...]

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Blu-Ray prices rise without HD DVD

One of the fears I had when HD DVD announced it was calling it a day was the already absorbent prices of Blu-Ray players would skyrocket with the lack of competition. In the months leading up to the demise of HD DVD, prices of the Blu-Ray competitor were falling dramatically, with players priced under the [...]

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Talk about something interesting

If you don’t follow the tech community closely you probably missed it. An interview that has implications that were larger than the audience in attendance for it. It involved a Business Week columnist/author and the creator of Facebook.com.
It was billed as an interesting keynote address for SXSW, a conference that brings together technology, music, art [...]

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Other functions for HD DVD players

Best Buy is advertising one of Toshiba’s HD DVD players in an interesting way. Hey, it’s an Upconverting DVD player! – oh yeah and it plays HD DVDs too, if you want it to, I guess.

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HD DVD ends, Web uses greatest villain to comment

I just pushed a soon-to-be released HD DVD movie to the top of my Netflix queue, the first I’ve added since Warner announced last month it would end support for the format later this year.
When the announcement came days before the Consumer Electronics world entered its big trade show in January, the end of HD [...]

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Cleaning up my downloads folder

Earlier today I downloaded a QuickTime video from Tekzilla, a Revision3 video podcast on technology. I watched the 30 some odd minute HD video talking about MacWorld and some of the fun things that were introduced.
After watching it I went to my downloads folder to delete it, finding a folder filled with nearly a gig [...]

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Gizmodo seeks attention, gets it?

The Consumer Electronics Show seems to draw more and more attention from main stream media each year. With the popularity of HDTVs exploding and every other person owning an MP3 player, technology is no longer relegated the the geeks and nerds in the AV room.
With more media outlets and the growth in the tech blogging [...]

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Give me Sling or give me something

I’ve been out of commission for the last few days with headaches and colds but that hasn’t stopped me from keeping an eye on things at the Consumer Electronics Show. The big CES event this year showed off a couple things that caught my eye.
SlingBox has been a product I’ve been interested in for a [...]

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