In case you didn’t stick around for the pilot of Eli Stone, after tonight’s episode of LOST, the main thing you missed was the URL for a new tie-in site. The faux commercial showed several women dressed as Oceanic flight attendants talking vaguely about their exotic destinations when someone appears to break into the transmission to tell you not to trust them while a text bar appears at the bottom of the page briefly showing the URL. Oh, and don’t expect to see anything on the site just yet, it’s getting swamped. Imagine that! 🙂
Is HD-DVD dead?
PC World – Warner’s Blu-ray Endorsement Boosts the Buzz at CES
I seriously considered whether to buy an HD-DVD or Blu-ray player this Christmas, but in the end I decided to hold out a little longer. I’ve gone back and forth over this a lot the past year, but up to this point there has just been too much uncertainty about which format would win. Warner’s announcement supporting Blu-ray definitely gives an advantage to Sony’s format, but I don’t know if I would call it the winner just yet. I’ve been leaning towards a PS3 anyway, but with the new models lacking full backwards compatibility I’m thinking I may have to look for a used model. Either way, this is good news as one format finally has a major advantage over the other. Another point of interest: I noticed recently that LG has a CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray writer that can be found for about $250. Not a bad way to go if you already have a media center type PC.
Fed defrays cost of digital TV
Now up for grabs: Federal funding for your digital-TV upgrade | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
In case you don’t remember, traditional analog TV will cease to exist (in the U.S.) next year. For many people, that’s still going to be a problem. With the price of even the cheapest digital TVs still over $100, many people will either purchase a tuner, or lease a converter box from their local cable/satellite provider. Thankfully the federal government is providing up to 2 coupons to those that apply before the cutoff date or whenever they run out of coupons. The coupons are good for only $40 each, but at least it’s something.