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  • An ironic goodbye to HD-DVD - Tuesday Paramount releases the last 2 HD-DVD's before switching completely to Blu-Ray

    Paramount are due to release their final 2 HD-DVD's on Tuesday. The final titles will be 'Into the Wild' and the ironically named 'Things We Lost in the Fire'. However if Paramounts final release wasn't Ironic enough. The first movie released on DVD was Twister back in 1996. It also happens to be the...
    Posted to Microsoft Coder's Media Life by SteveLindsay on 03-02-2008
    Filed under: Paramount, Twister, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray
  • Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war

    Sad day for HD-DVD owners and for consumers in general as Toshiba kills HD-DVD. While it's good that the format war is over I can't help thinking that HD-DVD was more consumer focused (think Managed Copy). I say forget physical disks and go with digital downloads BBC NEWS | Business | Toshiba drops out...
    Posted to Ian Dixon's Blog by Ian Dixon on 02-19-2008
    Filed under: HD-DVD
  • The Media Center Show Extra #7

    This Extra show looks at Vidabox's HD-DVD Media Center Server with Steven Cheung, its the first time I have seen HD-DVD close us and I was impressed. Then in the 2nd part of the show I look at the new Vista version of TVTonic with Michael Sprague, it really makes good use of the new development platform...
    Posted to The Digital Lifestyle Video Show by Ian Dixon on 01-17-2007
    Filed under: HD-DVD, TVTonc, Vidabox
  • The Media Center Show Extra #6 CES Part 1

    This is my first video from CES. Tim Cutting from Niveus and I walked around the Microsoft and Intel booths with the video camera. We saw HP's new touch screen PC "HP TouchSmart" with a Media Center photo application, we looked at HD-DVD on a Niveus Media Center Server and the played with the new Sideshow...
    Posted to The Digital Lifestyle Video Show by Ian Dixon on 01-12-2007
    Filed under: Video, Sideshow, Niveus, HP, HD-DVD, CES
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