HDfury2 Strips HDCP From HDMI Connections

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HDfury2 is a brand new adapter that allows users of displays without HDMI (or with HDMI that doesn’t support HDCP) to watch 1080p content via VGA or Component video.
The device has a built in deciphering converter that makes whatever HDMI box that you plug into it think that it has an HDCP connection with the [...]

Roku Releases Netflix Players Source Code

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Roku has open sourced its Netflix player for all of you clever hackers and developers to play with. This means that you should be able to build your own applications built for the box, or modify the software on the box to do whatever you want it to.
This would be good enough news but Roku [...]

Region Free Blu-Ray Players Now Available

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A website is now selling what it claims to be region-free Blu-Ray players. The site wants €499 ($785), for the Panasonic DMP-BD30. The price for this player, unmodded, is around $475 so you’re paying quite the premium for the ability to play Blu-Ray discs from other regions.
If you’re good with a soldering iron you could [...]

Roku and Netflix Release Set-Top Box For Streaming Video

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Yesterday Roku and Netflix released the first of a few set-top boxes that stream content from Netflix’s Watch Instantly service. The service which began early last year allows subscribers with the $8.99 plan and up the ability to stream a set of movies and TV shows from the Netflix library
This Roku Netflix Player is available [...]

Get Yourself a $35 ATSC/Clear QAM Tuner For Your PC

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I’ve been debating on purchasing a TV Tuner for my PC for the longest time and this deal may actually get me to purchase one. The KWorld PlusTV ATSC 340U, which Buy.com has on sale for 34.99, is a great little tuner.
The PlusTV is an ATSC/Clear QAM tuner and comes with a small antenna so [...]

Future Shop Get In On The HD-DVD Player Trade In Bandwagon

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Future Shop has announced that between March 7 and April 3, customers who own HD-DVD players have been invited to return their players to Future Shop and receive $100 off either an LG or Samsung Blu-ray/HD-DVD combo player.
Future Shop will even accept players that haven’t been purchased from Future Shop.
Unfortunately the offer is for a [...]

Circuit City Accepting HD-DVD Player Trade Ins

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Have you been screwed by another format war? Well Circuit City is here to help, if you purchased your HD-DVD player within three months of Toshiba’s announcement of the end of the format war and you also purchased your player at Circuit City, then you may be in luck. There have been some reports that [...]

DTV Coupons Start Arriving

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In early January I posted about the TV Converter Box Coupon Program that would be giving out coupons worth $40 towards a digital TV converter box.
Last week reports started coming in that people started receiving their DTV coupons.
There isn’t much to report on here, I haven’t gotten mine yet but as soon as I get [...]


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