This could be the deciding factor in the next generation DVD format war – what is Sony thinking? According to Digital Playground (an adult film production company) Sony is blocking the production of pornography on its Blu-ray format. This is exactly how Sony lost the last great video format war between Beta and VHS. Regardless of how you ...

One of the biggest internet stories in 2006 was the purchase of YouTube by Google.  It acknowledged the site’s viral popularity, derived from content including Guitar Hero sessions, mock Star Trek comedies, and general confessions of the soul.  Now it appears YouTube may be ready for the small screen, with Vice President Kevin Donahue ...

Things aren’t looking good for HD DVD at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Monday quickly became “Blu-ray Day” at the convention, with Sony and Samsung’s format receiving a flood of highly anticipated titles, including the latest bond flick, Casino Royale. At least three major studios announced huge support for Blu-ray, ...

Samsung has launched the first volley in what's likely to be a move to keep its product competitive with Sony's PS3. It's the first first price drop of its BD-P1000 of the New Year. The reduction is only by $100 at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City. But, Amazon.com has dropped the price even more reducing it by an amazing $330 US ...

Go BIG! According to Consumer Reports editor Paul Reynolds, a survey of recent HDTV buyers showed the most common regret was not getting a larger screen size. In the weeks after the holidays many will seek out the gifts they really wanted and many of those gifts will be brand new HDTVs. Most new HDTV shoppers have only owned smaller standard ...

Don’t discount the picture tube just yet! Polls like the one at the Home Theater Shack, which asks home theater enthusiasts what display they like the best, are coming up pro-CRT. Even with the myriad of digital and fixed pixel display options available to consumers nowadays, the good old CRT still wins out by a wide ...

HD DVD is the cheapest route to a high definition video disk and you already knew that. But how do you get HD DVD for as cheap as possible? There are two budget options for the frugal fan of high res video. Xbox360’s HD DVD add-on is only $200 if you happen to already have an Xbox360. Toshiba’s HD A1 is very cheap too, now on sale at most ...

Enjoy the occasional movie-film?  There’s nothing quite like popping a rad VHS into the fan-dangled VCR, fast-forwarding through the previews, and watchin’ some kick-ass Goonies action! Fast forward from 1988 to December 2006 and you’ll find that a lot has changed in the way we watch home movies.  Okay, so no one really referred to ...

The Motion Picture Association of America wants you to pay $50 if you own a home theater. Or so a story recently posted on BBSpot News suggested. But the story is a hoax. It’s funny. A friend sent it to me and as I read it, it sounded too scary to be true. The only real evidence that it was a satire was the “Related News” headlines that ...

 “Thank God for the Internet,” Director Richard Donner says of the grass roots movement that made this film possible. According to the featurette Superman II: Restoring the Vision, they had to sift through several tons of film that arrived by truck from Warner Brother’s studios. Superman II is almost 30 years old so much of the film suffered ...