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HDTV Sales Set To Increase

There are 28 million U.S. households with an HDTV set, accounting for 25 percent of the population, according to a March 2008 Frank N. Magid Associates study.During the 2007 holiday season and the 2008 Super Bowl, 5.5 million households purchased their first HDTV set, while 3 million homes bought a second HDTV.Current HDTV owners are projected to drive demand. Close to 40 percent of HDTV owners said they plan to purchase a second HDTV set within the next year.

UC Berkeley Tightens Ties With YouTube

In September of 2006, UC Berkeley became the first university to have its own page on the Google Video site.  Now, a little over a year has passed, and the college is becoming the first to release videos of entire course lectures through YouTube.

Yahoo Japan Prepares HDTV Portal

Like the idea of high-definition TV?  So, it seems, does Yahoo Japan, which reportedly intends to launch an Internet portal serving HD-ready TVs.  And there are a couple points of interest even for those of us who live outside Japan.

Americans Buy HDTVs For Gaming, Movies

Around 16 million high-definition televisions (HDTV) will sell in 2007 predicts the Consumer Electronics Association, bringing the total number of HDTVs sold in the U.S. to 52.5 million. Thirty percent of U.S. households have an HDTV and the number is expected to increase to 36 percent by the end of this year. Among HDTV households, close to a third own more than one high-definition set, illustrating the healthiness of the market.

HDTV With Mark Cuban

Micro Persuasion: A Conversation with Mark Cuban:

Cool New Search Engine

Wow, check out this search engine: Exalead. Gary Price sent that one over to me. It's not perfect, but the UI shows that a lot more can be done than the big three have done with search.

Search Is FAR From Being Done

The dinner tonight was really fun. Renee and Paul Mooney put together quite a great group of more than 30 geeks.

Search Engines Don't Understand You

Heh, while I was stuck in traffic on the way home tonight my brother called. We had one of our usual heated conversations -- this time about search engines (he had read my post about PLAYing with search and thought I was nuts for wanting search engines to display stock quotes for terms like PETS, PLAY, etc).

Xbox360 AND HDTV: Dude I Gotta Have It!

Madden 2006 on the Xbox360 AND Samsung's new HDTV is gonna look so cool. Samsung and Microsoft are tag-teaming on this one and the benefits for the geek set will be unbelievable.It's going to be a hip offering and MTV will broadcast the event. New games will be available with a better graphics, sound, etc. But now Samsung will help them out just a little with its new HDTV .

Xbox AND HDTV: This is Gonna Rock!

Everyone knows Microsoft will kick out its new X-Box in May 13, which is just a few days away. It's going to be a hip offering and MTV will broadcast the event. New games will be available with a better graphics, sound, etc. But now Samsung will help them out just a little with its new HDTV offerings.