Blockbuster's looking to release an STB to compete with the likes of the AppleTV. According to the article, Netflix is also working on such a box in conjunction with LG. Renting movies on discs may be set to hit the history books...

"The product would be an offshoot of Movielink, the online film service Blockbuster acquired last year that allows consumers to watch films licensed from the major studios on their PCs."

My question while reading this was, "so what about the comparison to DirecTV?" Am I alone in thinking that the Comcast/DirecTV HDTV channel penis size commercials are really getting old...? At any rate, compression is nothing new, but if it affects PQ as badly as those shots suggest, it's yet another "feather" to add to Comcast's cap.

"A thread at AV Science Forum updated last Monday details what appears to be compression of up to 38%, allowing Comcast to deliver more HDTV channels per line while using the same amount of bandwidth."

Seems that ASUS' announcement of their el-cheapo sound card that can do EAX5 has gotten Creative's panties all in a wad. Check out the full statement, & an informative thread over at BluesNews.

"Asus sound cards do not support EAX 5, nor do they support EAX 3 or EAX 4."

Rambus may be making a come back, but not where you might think. Toshiba's planning to use their XDR memory interface in their upcoming 65nm HDTV chipsets, which sport 12bit color. Interesting.

"The XDR architecture operates at 4.8 Gbps for image processing."