Well I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Without HD DVD as competition Blu-Ray would increase in price. According to Pricegrabber.com Blu-Ray players are starting to creep back up in price. Granted they are about the same price as what they were a year ago, they average around $400, but they are still to much.

Imagine for a minute if there hadn’t been HD DVD at all. The price for Blu-Ray would be insane, well even more insane then they are now. As long as your gonna be buying a Blu-Ray player might as well just buy a PS3 it’s the same price.

Thanks Gizmodo 

Just thought this was a cool thing for all you pwnrs our there. Turns out it’s a t-shirt too.

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Think Geek features a number of cool geek apparel and this is no exception. The latest t-shirt they’ve done is a proximity based light up heart shirt. What that means is you’ve got to buy two. One for you and one for your lover. While wearing the shirts, the closer in proximity the two shirts become the more hearts light up. In contrast, hearts will begin to dim the farther you are from each other. Less love. Check ‘em out at Think Geek. If you’ve got a girl that’ll share her love in this geekery than I say hold tight and never let go.

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Did someone say Meat Cube? Holy crap I love tech and graphics. See, I’m the kid that just built stuff with my Legos, I never really played with them afterwards. Did I say I love technology. Not as much as you you see. But, I do love technology.

Anyway, watch this video if you like cool stuff. Watch it in HD if you like cool HD stuff. The demo shows off a large crowd system, improved destruction, super realistic water and liquids, improved lighting, and a giant meat cube, ’nuff said.

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The 1 GB iPod Shuffle is now at the low low price of $49. Why the price cut? Because there will now be a 2 GB Shuffle for $69. I would think that the extra 20 bucks is worth it for double the storage space. The 2 GB Shuffle will be available later this month.

Apple and Nintendo together at last? Fanboy heads would explode around the world if only it were true. While the two companies have a similar design style and taste, the likelyhood of them getting together and making babies is far from realistic. However, I saw this post over at DSFanboy and wondered myself what it would be like if the two did come together in an amalgam of beautiful design. This is what I came up with. Really it’s just a super thin DS, ala the Macbook Air. Add in a camera and wide screen, and boom, instant hit. Enjoy the photo, cause you’ll never see anything like this in the wild.

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How’s that $99 HD DVD player you bought for Christmas doing? Watching all those sweet HD movies on your nice Toshiba HD DVD player? Well enjoy it while you can because it’s just about over for HD DVD.

Today Netflix users were informed that Netflix will be only stocking Blu Ray titles from now on. Fear not you will still be able to get HD DVD’s that happen to be stock but they will be phasing them out over the next year. The reason of course is that most of the major studios are going Blu Ray so of course it makes sense that a movie rental service would go that way.

So this day seems pretty awful for the HD DVD camp, could it get worse? Guess what it gets worse. Best Buy has announced that they will also be pushing Blu Ray. Starting in March the company will push all Blu Ray hardware and software even to the point of suggesting it when asked which is better.

Is anyone still hanging on to hope that HD DVD will make a stand and not die? Well this pretty much puts the last shovel load of dirt on the grave. Goodbye HD DVD we hardly knew ye.

Thanks Engadget

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This has to be the coolest fake PSP design ever. If not the best general gadget mock up ever. The detail is amazing, though, if it was the real thing it would probably have different colored buttons. That was the only thing I noticed that didn’t look perfectly detailed. The creator even goes as far as detailing the ‘memory stick’ logo on the corner.

Best of all, this design brings the much needed dual analog joysticks, something Sony should have done from the beginning. I absolutely love this idea. What do you think?

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Why Have I Not Heard of this Before? We’ve seen the recent geek shirts lately, like the wifi detection t-shirt, and the music EQ visualization bar t-shirt, the T-Qualizer, but this is better than those. It’s Lumalive, an advanced LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology embedded right into different fabrics without any hardening effects to the fabric itself. The tech behind LEDs has been around for quite a while and while that’s nothing new, the ability to weave the tiny lights directly into different cloth and apparel is.

Philips sure does love lighting technology. They’re the ones behind the interesting and I think pretty cool, Ambilight tech for their series of HD Flat-Panel TVs. If you haven’t seen this before check it out. They’ve also got some other videos demonstrating Lumalive here. It may not exactly be new, but I just found out about it and thought you might like it reader.

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Former Google alumni launches Howcast, a web 2.0 ‘How To’ video site. For an in-depth analysis of the site Tech Crunch wrote a great story about the new site. The site, Howcast.com, is a really cool, and actually very useful version of YouTube.

So, if you see the name of the site, Howcast, and still don’t know what the site is, well, it’s an instructional video site. Sign-up is free, as it is with most web 2.0 companies. Even before you sign-up, however, you can view any videos and wiki’s available on the site. Once signed up you have access to some great other features, such as suggesting ‘how to’ topics for future videos. you can also review and rate other users suggestions. If you’re feeling particularly generous and knoledgable on a subject, you also have the ability to upload your own ‘how to’ videos, although, I guess they’re called ‘howcasts’.

A good number of the videos so far are done in house by the Howcast staff. They look very professional and polished with on-screen graphics and professional voice overs. They seem to be the best production wise, of course. I would like to see some additional features. Maybe some kind of option to include the Howcast on-screen graphics into an uploaded how to video. Maybe even some minor editing tools of some sort. Then all the videos could have some form of professionalism. That would be great.

So, if you’ve ever wanted to know how to do something or you know how to do something people need to know, Howcast.com seems to be a great new place on the web for sharing and helping.

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