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On the Cutting Edge: HD on a Home Theater PC

InterVideo has released the first, legal HD-DVD and Blu-Ray player for Windows XP and Vista. InterVideo added HD movie support to WinDVD 8 on Friday the 15th via a $26 upgrade.
Home theater PC owners will need to have a Windows XP or Vista system with a dual-core 3.0+ ghz processor and video card that is [...]

OPPO DV-970HD: Best Upscaling DVD Player

So, you have an HDTV and want to watch movies on it. These days, you have a few choices.

Get a Blu-Ray player. The first-generation players (Samsung BD-P1000, Panasonic DMP-BD10, Philips BDP9000, Sony BDP-S1, Pioneer BDP-HD1) is getting very mediocre reviews, but Pioneer’s player appears to be on top if you have $1500 lying around for [...]

Apple’s iTV: Doomed to Fail

Steve Jobs announced iTV this September as a way for your living room TV to display content from your computer. Simply put, iTV is a little box that will plug into your TV and play movies and songs from a computer with iTunes.
iTV will be about $300. I like the idea, but I really do [...]

Panasonic TH-42PX60U: Best Value 42″ Plasma

If you are considering buying a new HDTV, then I would seriously consider the Panasonic TH-42PX60U. The 42″ set is priced to kill at Tweeter currently (who would have guessed?). It is $1299 after you add it to your cart. Also, the salesman at my local Tweeter said he would give me the online price. [...]

How to get HD Content

Did you just buy a nice new shiny HDTV?
If you have cable TV (e.g. Comcast), you can get HD content for free. Your TV needs to have a QAM tuner inside of it. You can also buy external QAM tuners. Best Buy or Comcast will not tell you anything about QAM tuners. In fact, I [...]