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Satellite Companies Drop HD Fees
DirecTV and Dish Network have both ditched their monthly HD surcharges, cutting about $10 off monthly bills, High-Def Digest reports. It's a key step to compete with cable for customers. More »

Paramount Recalls Saving Private Ryan Blu-ray, Sending Out Replacements
For once, a recall that doesn't tell you a product was trying to trap your babies in crib rails, sicken your children with lead paint, catch your car on fire or poison you via over-the-counter medicine. Paramount announced the Saving Private Ryan Blu-ray that came out last week has some audio-syncing problems, so the studio issued a recall and will send out replacement discs, High-Def Digest reports. More »

Join In The Fight To Help Poor DirecTV Customers Get AMC HD
If you're a cable subscriber like me you probably had no idea DirecTV customers didn't have access to AMC HD. That means they must suffer the indignity of watching Bryan Cranston make meth in his underwear and Jon Hamm sleep with every woman he meets in fuzzy standard definition. More »

Behold, 'HD Lighting'
Will spotted this amazing new invention, which lets you light stuff in HD. He writes: More »

HD Sunglasses Use The Power Of Stupidity To Increase Real World Resolution

—>Did you know your eyes have probably been viewing things in only 480 vertical lines of resolution? Thankfully someone out there isn't as stupid as the rest of us, and realized that if our television sets can be upgraded to HD, so can our eyeballs. At least they can with the help of these special sunglasses.  More »

No HD Red Zone Channel For You, Comcast Tells Chicago

—>There are three ways in which HDTV blows your mind: It lets you read too-small text in video games and movie subtitles, makes the picture on DVDs take up the entire screen, and in football games lets you see more of the field, and in such stunning detail you can make out the tears on Buffalo Bills fans' faces as their team blows 11-point leads in the final two minutes.  More »

LG Electronics Offers Customer Amazing Service On Broken Plasma TV

—>If you owned an expensive TV that stopped working, and you were years out of warranty, you'd assume the manufacturer would have nothing to do with you, correct? LG doesn't play that game—Tim's experience with them when his LG set went kaput is a mind-blowing example of a company practically coddling its past—and almost certainly future—customers.  More »

A reader tried to send in his shipping info to Monster Cable yesterday to receive their free HD informational DVD, The Higher Definition Home Theater Experience (see second to last paragraph), and discovered the address wasn't working. Now it is, so if you got your email bounced back, try again. More »

Where Things Stand In The Hi-Def DVD Format War

—> After Time Warner Inc.'s announcement today that they've chosen to support Blu-ray exclusively, here's the current breakdown of studio support for each format—and things aren't looking good for HD DVD.  More »

There's still no decisive victory in the high-def format wars, but here are the current standings: Sony's Blu-ray outsold HD-DVD in the U.S. by a 2-to-1 margin for the first 3 quarters of 2007, but analysts say the trend could reverse in these last few months due to high-profile titles (like "Transformers") being released in high-def exclusively on HD-DVD. The verdict? It's still either format's game. [Reuters]  More »

HOWTO: Buy an HDTV

Looking to buy an HDTV? Overwhelmed by nerd ninjas throwing 1080i ninja stars from behind darkened computer monitors, chuckling as you trip over cords and incomprehensible guidebooks?  More »