Paul’s Soapbox: Vista Gadgets, Mario Kart, and Kevin Rose
Paul’s Soapbox is a regular feature of TechConsumer where I sound off on various tech topics/products that I’m interested in (or hate). This is juRead More…
Category: Tech News
Best Buy Giving $10 Million in Gift Cards to HD DVD Buyers
Best Buy is giving $50 to anyone who bought an HD DVD player from Best Buy before February 23. The company said that customers “won’t have to do aRead More…
A Tale of Two Betas: Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8
I am going on record that, unless Mozilla changes the direction they are heading, Internet Explorer will push Firefox back to single digit market sharRead More…
Blu-ray in the News: High Prices & No Microsoft Love
Since Blu-ray became the next generation movie disc format of choice, the consumer supposedly has been better off. But Tom’s Hardware claims that prRead More…
YouTube Video Quality Soon Will Not Suck
Apparently YouTube is on the verge of making a big announcement since there seems to have been an announcement about the announcement (nice way to getRead More…
Amazon Drops Price of HD DVD Player to $99, Upconvert DVD w/ Free Movies?
For anyone keeping score since Blu-ray won the next generation movie battle, HD DVD players are now $99. And that’s with 7 movies included. ConsiderRead More…
TC News: Wii Fit Unvelied, Amazon Now Prefers Blu-ray, Top Tech Companies Create Gaming Alliance
TechConsumer News is a feature we started out of a hobby of tracking the latest happenings within the consumer related technology sphere. The goal is Read More…
It’s Official: Toshiba Announces Death of HD DVD
Toshiba today announced that, “it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” March 2008 will be the month when Read More…
Twitter Review: Waste of Time or Extremely Valuable?
So I finally gave in and started using Twitter this past weekend (if you’re on Twitter, follow me at twitter.com/bobcaswell). What is Twitter? It’Read More…
Netflix Chooses Blu-ray, Big Blow to Any Chance of an HD DVD Comeback
Notwithstanding the price slashing Toshiba has been doing (HD DVD player with 7 movies for $129 compared to Blu-ray players starting in the $300’s),Read More…