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Hitachi is implementing Natal like technology on their new HDTV lineup. Looks like the 3D motion sensing technology is the new trend; as Hitachi demonstrated their prototype of a gesture control at CEATEC JAPAN 2009. You can see how the user can navigate through the menus and tuning the sound volume up and down using [...]

Panasonic gets the three-dimensional ball rolling
It’s no secret that Panasonic has been prepping digital technology for the home. The company showcased its pre-production technology at this year’s CEATEC show in Japan.
Panasonic has made its bid for 3D supremacy official this week, however, by submitting a proposal to the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association) for a new [...]

Source: CNET news

In its boldest bid yet to win the affections of emerging businesses, Microsoft on Wednesday announced a program that will allow some start-ups to use its server software free of charge.
Dubbed BizSpark, the program will be open to private companies that have been in business for fewer than three years and [...]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 announcement earlier today was followed up by an extensive demo of the new features during the PDC keynote, and since then even more info about the new OS has flooded out, so we thought we’d try to wrap up some of the more important bits here for you. Microsoft seems to [...]

(Credit: Samsung)
Samsung is adding the ability to stream Netflix videos and Pandora’s online music service to its latest Blu-ray players. Starting today, a free firmware update will add both services to the BD-P2550. (The nearly identical BD-P2500 will get Netflix support, but not Pandora.) The Samsung players join the LG BD300 Blu-ray player, the Roku [...]

EngadgetHD has been keeping a close eye on the prices of Blu-ray players, and recently noticed that both the Samsung BD-P1500 and Sony BDP-S300 have fallen below the $200 mark at certain stores (RadioShack and Amazon, respectively.) This is right in line with previous reports of falling Blu-ray prices, and while the BDP-S300 is pretty [...]

A new site, Wirewize, tells you how to connect the gizmos in your home entertainment center. You tell it what you have, and it tells you which cables you need and then, very specifically, where to plug them.
It’s a great idea, since most entertainment systems are unique in one way or another, and the manuals [...]

From blu-ray.com:
Representatives from SonyNEC Optiarc, the optical drive arm of the joint Sony and NEC collaboration, have revealed that they predict prices of Blu-ray combo drives – which can read Blu-ray discs and write DVD and CD – will reach sub-$100 prices by this upcoming holiday season. Additionally, it is expected that similar notebook drives [...]

For those looking to get a new HDTV, PS3 or XBOX 360, I think you should see this first before spending tons of money in HDMI cables and connectors:
http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/marketplace/packing_the_deal.wmv
In a report by CBC’s Erica Johnson, three HDMI cables were rounded up for testing and supplied to Maxine Caron, a CBC production engineer. The group consisted [...]

Just read an article in the new Home Theater magazine about the upcoming War between Blu-Ray and High Definition Downloads (HD Video-On-Demand). Now that the format war is over with Blu-Ray the winner, it was quite interesting reading different scenarios threatening new champion. It is fair to mention that even those new HD Video-On-Demand (VOD) [...]