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YouTube Slowly Sundances Into New Rental Territory January 22, 2010 
The movie industry loves a gala premiere, with red carpets, paparazzi and Klieg lights sweeping a glittering marquee. YouTube's announcement this week of its new movie rental strategy is about as far away from that scenario as you can get. YouTube said this week that it would make available for streaming rental five movies from this year's and last year's Sundance Film Festivals.
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Some of the Best CES Stories That Didn't Make the Headlines January 18, 2010 
Last week, I spoke about how CES was back, and I gave some of the highlights. However, there always are discussions and trends going on behind the scenes, almost-invisible products, and impressions that take a while to form that can be even more interesting. There were a couple of little companies, for example, that looked like they may be on the verge of becoming really big.
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Wii Completes Netflix's Video Game Trifecta January 13, 2010 
It's a triple crown for Netflix. Beginning in the spring, the Wii will become the last of the three current video game consoles to get instant viewing of Netflix movies and TV shows over the Internet. Wii owners who have a broadband connection and a Netflix subscription that costs at least $9 a month will be able to watch those programs with no extra charge.
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3-D TV Gets Ready for Prime Time January 09, 2010 
This is supposedly the year 3-D television becomes the hot new thing: Updated sets and disc players are coming out, and 3-D cable channels are in the works. However, it's not clear the idea will reach out and grab mainstream viewers. Besides having to spring for expensive new TVs, people would have to put on awkward special glasses to give the picture the illusion of depth.
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3-D Mania Today, Format Skirmishes Tomorrow? January 07, 2010 
Three-dimensional television has been hot this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, JVC Kenwood and Samsung were among the consumer electronics companies announcing new products in this line. Behind the scenes, however, a battle is brewing, as there are few hard and fast standards for the industry yet.
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All 3-D TV Net in the Works January 06, 2010 
Sometime within the next two years, you'll feel like ducking for cover the next time the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" team blows something to smithereens. Yet you'll be in the comfort of your living room, wearing oversize glasses while watching a new 3-D television channel whose very existence was first announced Tuesday.
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MIPS Puts Android on TV January 06, 2010 
MIPS Technologies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday its plan to develop a new line of set-top boxes with Android inside. The new product base provides the company's OEM customers and partners with a viable Android platform ready for individual customization for digital home devices such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray disc players, digital TVs and VoIP products.
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Skype Brings Video Chat to Flat-Screen TVs January 05, 2010 
Skype's new strategy for 2010: Your flat-screen TV in your living room can now be your phone. Or, if your tastes run more toward "The Twilight Zone," think of it as your TV watching you -- as you watch TV. The makers of popular software that allows users to make free phone and video calls via the Internet announced new deals Tuesday with LG and Panasonic that put Skype inside new Web-connected versions of their HDTVs.
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Glasses On, Wallets Out: 3-D's Coming to Blu-ray December 18, 2009 
3-D is definitely not just for cheesy drive-in movies anymore. It's done great box office with animated films, and that big 3-D sci-fi action movie "Avatar" coming out this weekend has won over a lot of early reviewers, at least on a technical level. But one of these days you won't have to go out to a theater to see 3-D movies -- you'll just have to shell out thousands of dollars for a state-of-the-art home system.
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Blu-ray 3-D Coming Soon to a Tricked-Out Home Theater Near You December 17, 2009 
The Blu-ray Disc Association released the specifications for 3-D Blu-ray on Thursday, just over a year after Panasonic first publicly demonstrated its application of 3-D Blu-ray technology. The specifications are backward-compatible with standard 2-D Blu-ray players, and disks and will run on Sony PlayStation 3 consoles.
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Dexim Dock Links iPod, iPhone to Home Entertainment Center December 14, 2009 
Just in time for the holidays, accessory maker Dexim has beefed up its product lineup with a new entertainment dock and a compact battery extender for the iPod and iPhone. The entertainment dock adds more muscle to a product released by the company earlier this year. It allows audio and video to be played or streamed from an iPhone or iPod to a home entertainment system.
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WiGig Alliance Cranks Out Speedy New Data Standard December 10, 2009 
Home entertainment systems could soon see much higher wireless transmission speeds -- possibly of up to 7 gigabits per second -- if the plans of the Wireless Gigabit Alliance continue on course. The Alliance, members of which include companies in the chip, mobile phone and telecommunications industries, announced the completion of its unified wireless specification on Wednesday.
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Home Sweet Networked Home, Part 2 December 03, 2009 
So far, most home networking deployments are one-off or are limited to a certain function, such as entertainment. Home networking becomes truly interesting when it is applied to all of a house's systems and its energy supply, said Raoul Wijgergangs, chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance.
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Home Sweet Networked Home, Part 1 November 25, 2009 
By now many of us -- even some of us who once couldn't program the clock in the VCR -- have installed a WiFi router somewhere in our homes to use a laptop on the front porch or in the back den. If you fall in this group, congratulations. Whether you know it or not, you have joined the home network revolution.
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Clicker Cuts Through Web Video Chaos November 23, 2009 
Let's put this simply: If you want to stream free, professional videos online, Clicker makes finding the video easier than most other solutions I've seen. In fact, it's one of the few online television and video search guides that I've felt compelled to create an account with. Why? Easy. It targets the content I want.
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Outstanding Tech Gift Ideas for Under $500 November 23, 2009 
With Black Friday only a few days off, I thought it would be timely to list a few of the products that I think stand out this year and, given that the economy is what it is, focus on things that are relatively affordable. In my mind, half the fun of a gift is the sparkle you see in the eyes of someone who is truly excited about what you have given.
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