TiVo has lifted the lid off of it's monster 150-hour HD unit, & it's sporting a Western Digital 1TB drive. Hit the link for plenty of photos, including internal shots.

"Hot on the heels of their renewed DirecTV relations, TiVo unveils a new stand-alone unit for cable (or OTA antenna) customers. The $600 TiVo HD XL will be available from TiVo.com today, followed by appearances at Amazon.com and Magnolia stores in the coming weeks."

EETimes takes a look at the three main competitors for transmitting HD signals wirelessly: WirelessHD, WHDI & UWB. Going to be a while before they're consumer-ready, but it'd sure be nice to do away with that rats nest of wiring...

"Transmission of uncompressed 8-bit-color, 60-frame/second video requires 1.4-Gbit/s data in 720p resolution, 1.5 Gbits/s at 1080i and 3 Gbits/s at 1080p. A data rate of at least 80 Mbits/s is required to transmit compressed video."

Yet another article talking about the lack of potential for Blu-ray. Though I tend to agree with these articles, I've yet to see a solid replacement technology tip up. Streaming's definitely not there yet... Flash media?

"Although Blu-ray Disc (BD) has become the world's next-generation blue-laser optical standard following Toshiba's decision to stop promotion of HD DVD early this year, the prospects of the platform are not as rosy as some in the market think, according to Digitimes Research..."

Netflix has delivered their streaming box, albeit without HD for now. Online delivery of HD movies could get very interesting if ISPs go through with plans for bandwidth caps. Those 250GB/month limits wouldn't seem as plentiful with a couple of HD streams thrown in the mix.

"Netflix says that the current library available for streaming to the device includes about 10,000 movies and TV episodes. Anyone subscribing to Netflix can watch as many of the available shows and movies as they want for no additional fees."