CyberSurge

Although many people believe that Blu-ray is too little too late (I don’t agree with them) Blu-ray players actually outsold DVD players in Japan last month.
I’m not sure what this means to us Americans, Japan usually seems to be ahead in these types of situations and it may take us a little longer to purchase [...]

To most people Oppo isn’t a familiar name but for geeks, we know they make some of the best up-converting DVD players on the market. But now they are making a portable media player. The player has a 3-inch 400×240 touchscreen, 4GB of internal memory, microSD slot, and a video out port.
There are a few [...]

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 [...]

As you may already know the current iPhone is only capable of purchasing music from its iTunes Music store application when you are connected to a Wifi network. Well, Apple is in talks that would allow them to sell music to iPhone owners over the 3G data network as well.
The New York Times is reporting [...]

I have been thinking a lot about DVRs lately, mostly because I saw the Nueros OSD and thought it was pretty cool, but I started thinking about what would be the perfect networked DVR and here’s what I came up with.
The DVR would have an ATSC tuner and a H.264 encoder, this way the programs [...]

The RAmos V8 is a pretty nice looking PMP coming out of China (although I don’t know if it is going to be sold in the US) and I know it looks a lot like the iPod Touch, but it is still worth talking about.
The V8 has a 4.3″ screen and 16GB of storage but [...]

The rumors were going around early yesterday but now it is official, HBO content is now available for download through iTunes. What’s strange is that Apple has seemed to give in to the idea of variable pricing with HBO with most of their content being sold for $2.99 per episode (some content is still $1.99 [...]

Funai has just began shipping their first generation of Blu-ray disc players that will be branded with various names (Magnavox, Sylvania, Emerson, Insignia, Pye). Some of these players have already began showing up in Wal-Marts for $298, super cheap for a Blu-ray player.
Funai is currently the largest manufacturer of DVD players, accounting for over one [...]