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Director Steven Soderbergh is mad. And he has every right to be. His work is being deliberately butchered for television. This was once routine in a world where widescreen films had to fit onto a 4:3 screen. Yet even now, in the age of 16:9 and high-def, widescreen films continue to be cropped in ways that horrify the artists who made them.

It measures 160 feet wide and 72 feet high, and is the largest 1080p HDTV in the world. Cowboys Stadium, the newest stadium in the NFL, is home to this massive screen, which just showed its first football game on Saturday. Granted, it was a game of...

This will be the year when Toshiba introduces its first Blu-ray products.

If you've been waiting for Gladiator to hit Blu-ray your wait is nearly over. Pre order it here for a great price and check out more great HD and gadget deals* after the jump. Samsung PN50B650 50-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV for $1,399.00...

Earthquake Sound has just announced the newest addition to its Titan series of speakers, the Telesto towers. These full-range loudspeakers run the gamut from 30Hz to 35KHz, with 5 drivers built into its glossy black profile (produced by a 3mm-thick...

When the phrase "video revolution" was in vogue, a generation of viewers weaned on commercial broadcast TV suddenly found they could skip ads in a whole bunch of new ways. With a VCR, they could time-shift programming and fast-scan through ads. They could rent ad-free movies at a video store (trailers don't count). And they could subscribe to pay-TV channels, paying for hipper programming almost without ads. But the heirs to those technologies--DVRs and video on demand --are increasingly overrun by ads, even though consumers have paid to avoid them.