Monthly Archives: January, 2012

Universal is celebrating it's 100-year anniversary by restoring 13 classic titles from the studio's library to release on Blu-ray Disc. The first title (never before released on Blu-ray) will be To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition on Jan 31, 2012.

At CES Panasonic and NBC officially announced partnership in presenting the 2012 Olympics from London in 3D.

At CES 2012 the company officially announced a new line of entertainment-focused PCs boasting elegant design, multi-media enhancements, and "high-performance hardware."

A pair of iconic film classics from the 1970s have been green-lighted for Blu-ray treatment, and you won't have long to wait. First on the calendar is Universal's The Deer Hunter, starring Robert De Niro, John Savage, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken. The film is slated for a March 6 release with a very reasonable $19.98 suggested list price.

Make room for LG's BH9420PW, a 9.1 Home Theater in a Box system that also features their proprietary 3D Sound Zooming technology. LG says 3D Sound Zooming works to constantly synchronize the sound output with the location and movement of the on-screen 3D images on one of their Cinema 3D Smart TVs.

Samsung brought along a new product to CES this year which promises to "bridge the gap" between HDTVs with and without internet. The Samsung inTouch camera sits atop your HDTV and connects via HDMI, bringing Wi-Fi, Skype connectivity, 720p video, and other apps to your set.

Amazon's Prime Instant Watch service may not be overthrowing Netflix here in North America anytime soon, but across the pond their LOVEFiLM service has reached two million subscribers.

A Toshiba representative tells CNET that a model similar to the 55-inch sets already on the foreign markets will be available in the U.S. in the first quarter of this year. There are no other details available on the size or specs of the set, but the company's glasses-free 3D technology - said to be improved over last year's - is getting some floor time at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Going by unique users who connected to Xbox Live between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011, Black Ops reigned supreme, followed by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Modern Warfare 2, Halo: Reach and Battlefield 3. The first person shooter streak was stopped at #6 with Skyrim, followed by Gears of War 3, FIFA 12, FIFA Soccer 11, and Madden NFL 12 rounding out the top 10.

From here on out, it's a safe bet we'll be hearing at least one rumor a month about the next iteration of Microsoft's Xbox. January's first morsel has to do with a possible DVR in the next console, and it comes courtesy the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. On December 27, those fine folks granted a patent to Microsoft for a device that would serve as both a game console and a digital video recorder.