Yearly Archives: 2011

Along with several other new products including an android-based tablet and fresh lineup of 3D TVs, Vizio has announced two new HDTVs capable of displaying the CinemaScope 2.35:1 aspect ratio in full screen (meaning, no black bars).

Our Blu-ray Disc picks for the week start with the Matt Damon/Emily Blunt thriller "The Adjustment Bureau" that comes packaged with a standard-def DVD and digital copy for your laptop or mobile device. Another suggestion is "Unknown" starring Liam Neeson and January Jones which also comes with a DVD and digital copy.

Sprint will start selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 this Friday online, over the phone, and direct ship through Sprint Stores. (However, the tablet will hit Sprint retail stores a month later on July 24th.) The Android-based Galaxy Tab features a 10.1-inch touchscreen at 1280x800 HD resolution, 16GB harddrive, 1GB RAM, and cameras on both sides.

Comcast has started its expansion of Xfinity services in the state of Vermont, where the company's 3-pack of services: Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet and Xfinity Voice, are now offered.

If you stay at a hotel with HDTV and DirecTV, you might never want to leave your room after the satellite company expands its lineup to include 100 HD channels. The company is also addressing hotel room bacteria by providing an anti-microbial remote for guests, a first for DirecTV.

Paramount will release a 25th anniversary edition of Top Gun, the 1986 film which won an Oscar for Best Music, Original song and was nominated for three others. Top Gun stars Tom Cruise as an Navy pilot who gets sent to the Top Gun school at NAS Miramar,after disobeying orders at sea. Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Kelly McGillis, and Meg Ryan also have major roles in the film.

After a couple years of testing video game rentals at select kiosks, and expanding to several thousand kiosks last fall, Redbox has now expanded the service to 21,000 kiosks nationwide. Video games will cost $2 a day, which is slightly more than movie discs at $1 for DVDs and $1.50 for Blu-ray Discs.

GameStop announced they're taking pre-orders on the Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation DLC due to hit download queues on June 28. The DLC is the third available for Call of Duty: Black Ops and will sell for $14.99. The pack will include the four new multiplayer maps: Hangar 18, Drive-In, Silo and Hazard. A new challenging Zombie map called Shangri-La will also be included.

Walmart's VUDU service has added seasons of AMC's "Mad Men" to its library, which will soon include Season 4, that according to Variety. The first three complete seasons of "Mad Men" can already be purchased in three different resolutions that include SD ($22.99), HD ($27.99) and HDX ($27.99).