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“We have not given up on a unified format. We would like to seek ways for unifying the standards if opportunities arise,” Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told an annual shareholders’ meeting.

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Despite persistent online rumors saying Samsung was joining with Toshiba to release a dual format player, Samsung has confirmed they are only planning to release a high definition Blu-ray player. Anything else you hear, is just a rumor.

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Are you going to download them on your computer and then watch them on your TV or an iPod? Continue to buy or rent DVDs? Order them through a video on demand service from your cable company?

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Samsung and Toshiba have joined forces to end the format wars for good. They are releasing a hybrid player that plays both Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats. But that not all! Sony and NEC are also releasing a dual-format player of Blu-ray and HD-DVD. This is back-up for Sony, since they did lose miserably with Beta.

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Toshiba is losing approximately $200 or more on each sale of its HD-A1 HD-DVD player, an analyst firm said Friday.

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Unlike all the others, Streamick.com aggregates the TV channels and keep them updated costantly (with descriptions and schedules), and it uses a “streamrank” relevancy system for the new channels and reports of unworking streams. In less then 2 clicks you could be watching ABC news or ESPN or a movie. No software is needed.

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1. Nobody likes false starts..

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I think this is a great idea, basically you have a box for your TV connected to the Internet, and you put movies in your Que, then it downloads the movie for you overnight. How great would that be?

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A source close to Microsoft has revealed that the Xbox 360 hardware team are now busy redesigning the chips supplied by ATI and IBM to cut costs and allow a price drop to coincide with the release of Sony’s Playstation 3. According to the source consumers can expect a price drop of almost $100.

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With the first Blu-ray player and discs officially making their market debuts tomorrow, High-Def DVD Digest has posted the first reviews of three of the first Blu-ray discs — The Fifth Element, 50 First Dates, and xXx. So what’s the verdict?

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