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Home A/V Quickies: TiVo, HD DVD, and Giant LCDs

ExtremeTech has a nice article about the joy of truly discovering TiVo for the first time. If you're a TiVo doubter or are on the fence, give this a read.

Gizmodo links to an AP story announcing the adoption of HD DVD as the approved format for high-definition DVDs. While Sony, Panasonic and Philips won't be too happy (they backed the competing Blu-ray format), NEC and Toshiba are likely celebrating today. I'm just happy we can now move forward towards getting HD movies on rentable media.

Finally, DVDRecordable.org provides some details on Samsung's latest salvo in the size war in LCD panels. Samsung's 57-inch LCD panel is the largest in the world...for now. LG/Philips had the record at 55 inches last month. Now if you guys would just start actually making TV's out of the these things...sheesh.