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You can now download the popular ABC TV show "Lost" from the Xbox Live Video Marketplace. Not only can you get the latest episodes as soon as they air, you can also pick up any episode from the previous three seasons, which is very useful for reviewing the prior clues! You can choose to…

Last week, Netflix began rolling out a new feature that allows subscribers to watch some titles in high-definition when streamed to the web via Silverlight. The update, supported on both Mac and PC platforms, allows the HD streaming to occur in the browser by way of the Netflix player. Now that…

This NFL football season, NBC will be hosting full HD (720p) live streaming video of all the Sunday Night Football games on their NBC Sports website. The video streams, powered by both Silverlight technology and IIS Smooth Streaming will use HTTP adaptive streaming technology for an amazing online…

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…

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…

Amazon and Microsoft are teaming up to make it easier for independent filmmakers to distribute their movies on High Definition DVD's. These types of partnerships mean great opportunities for creative people. Not long ago it was prohibitively expensive to buy cameras and editing…

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…

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…

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…

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…