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When a guy watches TV and has to ask the person sitting next to them “what the hell is the difference between 3G and 4g? Better yet, what the hell is the “G”?” you know you are getting old. Well maybe you ren’t, but it does show that even people who spend a lto of [...]

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Apparently, it was in Beta for the last month, and the privilage to use the Beta? Paying an extra $2 a month. Hulu Plus officially announced as open is now being dropped to $7.99 per month instead of the $9.99 a month all the suckers paid last month. New users will get 1 week free [...]

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A recent study suggest that the inexpensive plastic used in CDs, and DVDs could soon improve the integrity of airplane electronics, computers, and other electronics like iPhones. The U.S. Air Force has offerd a pair of grants to Shay Curran, associate professor of physics at the University of Houston, where his research team have demonstrated [...]

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A month back there was the introduction of the “Netflix” box from Roku which allowed owners to stream the “Watch it Now” movies from Netflix onto a television. Obviously this isn’t anything groundbreaking, as anyone with any sense can just hook up their TV to their laptop and do the same thing. In fact the [...]

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We were looking for a relatively inexpensive option to access data at home from our combined work office and decided to do a bit of browsing around the online stores to see just what would work for us recently. We didn’t really want to pay a monthly fee of any sort like the remote office [...]

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After being awarded the format victory earlier this year, it appears that blu-ray sales aren’t chugging along as one might expect. Sales were down 40% from January to February, and only increased by 2% in from February to March. This is for stand alone Blu-ray players and does not include the Playstation 3 version which [...]

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Probably the most anticipated game for me in quite some time. It is going to prompt me to buy a PS3 I guess too as I haven’t really found a need to get one yet. Just kind of trying to decide if I want to wait for the MEtal Gear Solid bundle in June, or [...]

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Obviously a price drop is out of the question this early for the PS3. Like the article states it was talked about as a cost reduction on the manufacturing side of things. Someone who doesn’t understand the term apparently decided to run with it. Anyone with basic knowledge of technology would understand that the cost [...]

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This format war has been raging for a couple years now and it looks like Blu-Ray has thrown a bit of a monkey wrench into the fold with a Blu-Ray Disc recorder. The battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray doesn’t seem to have any end in sight and it figures to be that both formats will [...]

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