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I stopped by the LG booth at CES this year because first, I'm an LG fan and second they were showing off a one-hundred inch plasma TV.  There was a lot of buzz about the LG player that will house two competetive formats Blu-Ray and HDDVD.  There is no clear winner in the HDDVD, Blu-Ray…

HD TV's, Plasma screens, LCD's, huge TV's....this was definitely the theme this year at CES. I checked out so many that my eyes started to get blurry- but I'm not gonna lie, the Panasonic booth blew me away with their presentation. It was a live, loud, colorful barrage of music and dancing all…

One of the biggest questions I get about HD DVD is “when are there going to be more players other than Toshibas and Microsoft’s?” Today, we announced that we’ve been working with Broadcom to address that need. It combines Windows CE 6.0 running on the Broadcom BCM7440 SOC (System-on-a-chip)…

Hello all,Sorry there haven't been any posts in a bit. But this will be changing with CES.I'll be blogging with our news from CES here starting this evening.To catch up on everything Microsoft is doing and announcing at CES, check out:www.MicrosoftAtCES.comAmong other things, you'll be able to catch…

I'm always looking for ways to speed up the video editing process, and here are a couple pieces of hardware that can help do the trick. The Matrox RT.X2 is a add-on board that will allow you to edit HD without waiting for it to render. It also has a breakout box with HD analog component input, just…

Last week the HD DVD truck made a stop here on the microsoft campus and of course I had to go see it for myself.  The HD DVD truck is one of those fully decked out big rig's with plasma tv's, xbox 360's and everything else you hope to find in your stocking this year.  HD DVD has…

That IS the question at the Blog Business Summit.  Ok, they're talking about a lot of other things there too, but that one seems very interesting to me.HD is something we've been talking about for quite a while, but haven't been working on it aggressively for some of the reasons mentioned in…

I'm back down in Vegas for NAB (The National Association of Broadcasters), the premier Broadcast Association worldwide. The future of electronic media takes shape at the NAB show. Bringing together more than 100,000 attendees and 1,400 exhibitors from 130 countries, the NAB show delivers the most…