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    Killjoy: Setting the highest price the market can technically bear? That's an exipred paradigm, MPAA. These days the market decides the price point beyond wh... more »
    MIKERIOSISAWHORE.COM: This shit just makes me want to go pirate every damn movie in existence... I mean, I still buy all my stuff or rent it off of netflix, yet... why do ... more »
    superberg: Hollywood: Riding a Ridiculous Power Trip Since 1929. I understand concerns over being paid for your IP, but the window system just gives rise to mor... more »
    Ioncloud9: new movies should skip the theaters entirely and go straight to the HD streaming. One can only wish... more »
    Yerzriknot: If you're gonna use one of these for an HTPC Linux is the way to go. You'll get far better performance with Debian then Windows 7. more »
    Slugicide: My brother bought one last month(ish) at Besty Buy for $199 with XP.Yours is $330 with Win7. I wonder how much they could sell them for if they shippe... more »
    franco1975: What games did you play Sean? This was a good review. more »
    njleclair: Good luck finding it anywhere. It's been out of stock or backordered for a long time. more »
    FuturePastNow: I paid $225 for my DVD player. Over ten years later, it still works perfectly. Perhaps there's something to be said for buying gadgets before they bec... more »
    SigmundTheSeaMonster: And yet automobile prices keep going up! $50K for a pick up truck! WTF! Yeah, BD players drop because, who wants to replace all their DVD collections... more »
    jinushaun: The problem is not price. It's that people don't want to re-buy all their existing movies. Unlike the VHS to DVD transition, I don't think consumers a... more »
    deciBels: This will sound like a pretty dumb couple of reasons but they are my reasons for sticking with DVD for now. The first is simply cost. To jump to BR, ... more »
    MrEvil: Y'know, the 3D movie thing would be alright, if they made the stupid glasses actually pleasant to wear if you wear glasses. EARTH TO HOLLYWOOD, not e... more »
    Cash907Censored: Just picked up a Samsung BD-P1600 for 99 bucks at Fred Meyer (they are also called Kroger in some parts of the country) Suck it bluray. more »
    madara: How about a chart showing DVD vs. Blu-Ray disc prices? more »
    RaphaelSpider: As i read these comments, i realize there are 3 groups of people when it comes to movies. 1) movie enthusiasts of today 2) movie enthusiasts of yester... more »
    crashfrog: Well, look. If I don't understand how cheap blu ray really is, it's because of this incredibly terrible graph you've created, which uses bar graphing ... more »
    axan: The only reason why I bought a Blu-ray player was because I wanted to see HD content on my 52" HDTV. Right now Blu-ray is the only way to get 1080p @... more »
    mantis350: I always cringe when I see people purchasing the low end blu ray players. Loading times are insanely slow, customer support is nowhere to be found an... more »
    uu_ugene: I can't even tell you how often I've had the following conversation: "$20 for a movie?!?!?!?! Noooooo! What's that? Why yes I did spend $1500 on my ... more »
  • #google

    Google TV Might Watch You, According to Patent

    A patent recently filed by Google for an interactive TV service is chock full of new details, but the most interesting is this one: "an image capture device (e.g., digital camera, video recorder, etc.) can be used to measure how many viewers are watching or listening to a broadcast." More »
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    GoogleTV Beta: A Total Hoax, but an Impressive Hoax

    So that GoogleTV Beta video that we posted last Friday is, unsurprisingly, totally BS. It's a hoax, a joke, a trick, all perpetrated on us by Fatal Farm. They usually make twisted remakes of 80s sitcom openings (which are actually pretty funny), but I guess they got tired of making Alf look like he was showing the Tanners hidden bathroom cam footage and decided to mess with Internet geeks instead. More »
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    GoogleTV Beta: Annoying Easter Egg or Shenanigans?

    Now this, my friends, is fishy. Some vidcast on YouTube called "Infinite Solutions," a show that just so happens to have posted all 4 of its episodes about 12 hours ago, claims to show us how to sign up for a super-secret beta of GoogleTV. You need to jump through a bunch of hoops, including having to log in and out of Gmail until a "random number generator" gives you an invite based on the number of times you've logged in. Right. More »