Voom Software update
July 29, 2004
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Home Theater news July 26th
July 26, 2004
Toshiba and NEC’s HD-DVD format took a step forward with the announcement of the first eight titles to be released on HD-DVD. Pony Canyon Inc, the largest DVD distributor in Japan, added significant weight to the heated battle for HD DVD’s final format. The titles announced were mainly nature and travel oriented but titles nonetheless. [...]
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Home Theater news July 22nd
July 22, 2004
DirecTV announced an increase in the number of NFL games broadcast in HDTV, for the 2004 season, by as much as five times over the 2003 season. The move is seen by some as an answer to the challenge posed from Voom, which currently offers more hi-def programming than DirecTV. A DirecTV executive, Stephanie Campbell, [...]
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Voom Review Update
July 20, 2004
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Voom acquires additional satellite spectrum licenses
July 18, 2004
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Home Theater news July 15th
July 15, 2004
Several major DVD makers and film studios, have teamed up to begin work on an encryption protocol, that will be used in high def DVD’s. Advanced Access Content System, AACS. The new system offers more than one level of protection such as copy freely, copy once or no copying. Denon has introduced new home theater [...]
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HD-DVD news
July 12, 2004
The Blu-Ray and HD-DVD battle may just be heating up, but what does it mean to the home theater enthusiast? Well if the VHS/Betamax war was any indication, the early adopters may be the ones on the losing end, if the studios and manufacturers can’t agree on one, high quality format. Sites such as dvdsite.org [...]
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Voom Satellite Review
July 10, 2004
I’ve had Voom Satellite for a little over a week now. Overall I’m more than pleased with my investment, aside from a few quirks like some off the air channels not mapping (Voom is correcting the problem) and a few random video artifacts on certain channels. As well as programming that indicates as being Dolby [...]
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Home Theater News July 6th
July 6, 2004
I ran across an ‘amusing’ article over at the Tallahassee Democrat. It’s about remote controls, the home theater learning type specifically. In a nutshell even the guy who invented the remote control has a hard time with today’s models. And from contracostatimes.com the subject reads “HDTV fever takes hold as prices come down“. It’s a [...]
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HDTV news July 4th
July 4, 2004
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