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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Entertainment

TiVo Search is The Future of TiVo

3:01PM Gizmodo US Edition | The redesigned TiVo Search does away with the Swivel Search and now makes show searching more efficient and HD friendly.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Entertainment

In Spite of Downloadable Movies, I Still Choose Blu-ray

7:20AM Mark Wilson | Since Blu-ray was announced, there’s been a lot of talk about its impending obsolescence in the face of digital downloads. Just last week, Samsung took a low blow at the format, predicting its lifespan to be only five years. Sony fired back, claiming that the “Blu-ray format will not only coexist with the networked era, but will actually enhance it for many years to come.”
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Online

Comcast’s Video Download Store Is Wholly Unremarkable

3:10AM Mark Wilson | Comcast’s internet video site, Fancast, used to be a place to check out Hulu clips and waste away your data cap along with your brain. Now it’s a place to buy and rent full-length movies a la Amazon Unbox or iTunes to play on your Windows PC (and up to two other authorised computers). Filled with the same US$3.99 rentals and US$13ish purchases, we wouldn’t be writing about this service if Comcast weren’t behind it…hopefully with plans to improve things down the line. [Fancast via Zatz Not Funny] More »
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