Vudu opens the gates with high-def streaming movies
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The theme of this year's CES could very well be "Leaving the Format War Behind," as already Sunday morning, the emphasis from manufacturers has been centered around device connectivity and streaming service.
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Cable operators have been fighting bandwidth limits to squeeze in more high definition content. A new system aims to assist in that fight without sacrificing quality.
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To compete against cable, Verizon is rolling out video and Internet services over its FiOS service, plans high-def video.
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âThe Bourne Ultimatumâ is the first of many HD movies Vudu plans to deliver online at the same time DVDs become available.
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A new product from Swarmcast monitors data flow to optimize video quality.
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Gefen's new HDMI CAT-5 MS Extreme enables users to put up to 300 feet between a high definition video source and its display.
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High Efficiency codec recommended to network, content providers
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The promise of Internet-based video has long been hamstrung by copyright and piracy worries, slow dial-up connections, technical challenges and consumer disdain for watching blotchy videos on their home computers. But a Silicon Valley startup is tackling those obstacles, hoping to become the first major provider of cinema straight from the Internet to the living room boob tube.
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HDTV Wonder snags free high-definition transmissions for budget viewing.
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Downloading movies over a high-speed Internet connection offers the promise of convenience, but promise is the operative word for this new method.
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The DVD rental site serves 5 million video streams. Wait, that's newsworthy?
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While the resolution of the high-def disc format war may end up with few consumers winning, if any, another battle may have bigger consequences: It's about high-bandwidth digital interfaces for connecting PCs, consoles, and displays.
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Send your video throughout your house--wirelessly--with new gateways and media adapters.
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Cool but pricey Portable Media Center devices now available.
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It may not be exactly possible for high-definition discs to pick up where their lofty goals of 2005 left off. Transmission technology has evolved very rapidly during that time, partly due to the format war's very existence.
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Among professional sports leagues, high definition video is a permanent fixture, both inside the new stadiums where fans congregate and on HDTVs that fans are watching. But there's confusion there today, it seems, over wireless technologies.
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Toshiba claimed yesterday to have developed the first DVD that is capable of playing both conventional and high-definition content, in the latest move in the race for the next generation of optical discs.