Practical Technology

I recently discovered that a neighbor had bought an HD-DVD player. Whoops. If only I had known I would have told them the last thing they should be buying is an HD-DVD player. The writing on the wall has been clear for some time now. HD-DVD is dead. Oh, you can still find HD-DVD players [...]

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Apple TV is hardily the only player in the IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) game. One other significant player, Vudu has a similar product, the eponymous Vudu Box. The Box, which had been going for about $395 and includes a 250GB hard drive, has been dropped to $295. This is, doubtlessly, a direct response to Apple [...]

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Today, you still can’t rent movies directly from your Apple TV. Apple promise that this will change real soon now. I’m betting that we’ll see the needed software update before Valentine’s Day. In the meantime, though, you can watch rented movies on your Apple TV if you use iTunes store to rent them. Here’s how [...]

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Renting movies, from all the major studios, will soon be a click away on the Apple TV. We knew that Fox was going to co-operate with Apple to rent movies, what we didn’t know was that, despite all the yammer about how the studios hated Apple, was that all the rest of them–Warner Bros., Miramax, [...]

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The arguments over which HD format was better started the moment they rolled off the factory floor. Now, they no longer matter. Blu-Ray has won, HD-DVD has lost and now there’s little more than waiting for the HD-DVD house of cards to finish falling down. What finally determined HD-DVD fate wasn’t which one was technically [...]

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