Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection

Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: HDTV DVDs, TV | 2 Comments »

The Yankee Group may be predicting that TiVo won’t be around in 2010, but apparently, Citigroup doesn’t share the same dismal outlook. According to an 8K filing made this afternoon, TiVo announced that they’ve negotiated a new $50 million revolving line of credit with the bank. The line of credit will remain in effect until [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, TiVo | 2 Comments »

Compete Graph Hosted on Zooomr This week’s winner of the site of the week contest is compete.com. On the surface, Compete is a just another search engine on the web. They use Yahoo! to power their search results and while their interface looks a lot cleaner than the Yahoo! home page, when it comes to [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Netflix, Site Of The Week | 2 Comments »

Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by Davis
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As a digital enthusiast I love home theater systems, but as a TiVo fan boy my head almost exploded when I saw that the TiVo Community Forum was keeping a list of photographs featuring TiVo Series 3 home theater set-ups. So far there are 5 pages of photos and from looking at the list, I’m [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by Davis
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I’m not really sure whether to classify this as NSFW or not, but it did make me feel a little weird watching it.

Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by Davis
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It didn’t take long for the hackers to figure out how to get around the new copy protections on the HD-DVD discs and now it turns out that, it didn’t take much longer, to crack Blu-Ray either. Given how paranoid the studios have been about letting HD content online, I’ve got to imagine that there [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by Davis
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This week’s winner of the site of the week contest is the television graveyard known as Jump The Shark. The site is dedicated to uncovering television shows that are currently (or have been previously) locked into the downward spiral of mediocrity. It’s name came from an episode of Happy Days, where the Fonz tried to [...]

Posted on January 19th, 2007 by Davis
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Video: The Verve Bittersweet Symphony

Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Davis
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I’m not sure how I found this, but I was clicking away like crazy on the internet today and somehow I ended up at a page where Netflix is keeping a list of DVDs that contain hidden Easter eggs on over 50 films. I had no idea that DVDs even used Easter eggs to begin [...]

Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Davis
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