New Xbox Experience Dashboard Available for Limited Preview

Those who signed up for the early release can now begin downloading the update for the new Xbox Experience dashboard.

Netflix Teams With Roku to Release Standalone HD Streaming Box

Roku will be releasing a $99 dollar standalone Netflix player that will feature HD streaming, according to the company’s VP of Consumer Products.

Netflix Offers HD Streaming on Xbox 360 Before Other Formats

Netflix is gearing up to offer HD streaming of their content for the Xbox 360 platform. They currently offer streaming on PCs and Macs but the service is not in high definition. The service will be available when the new Xbox dashboard hits on November 19th.

Deal Alert - Sharp AQUOS 32″ 1080p LCD for $699 Shipped

6th Avenue Electronics is selling a Sharp AQUOS 32″ 1080p LCD television for just $699 shipped. It’s the lowest price we’ve seen for the unit by about $100.

New 360 Drive

Just a rumor and there is nothing to really substantiate yet, but it is being reported that Mark Bennett (Microsoft’s European HD DVD business director), announced that Microsoft would be shipping a new and improved 360 HD DVD drive in 2008 which would support HD DVD’s HDi interactive features.

Toshiba Makes 320GB 2.5-inch HDD, Keeps Up with Joneses

Toshiba didn’t want Samsung to get all the aclaim with its 1.8 inch 160GB HDD, so they went out and made a 320GB 2.5 inch drive. Yes, that would be the largest 2.5 inch drive, so essentially, Toshiba matched Samsung (short-lasting) record for record. What’s even niftier about the MK3252GSX drive is that, unlike its [...]

XtremeNotebooks Xtreme 917X - Doin’ the Quad-Core

I just love power, especially when packaged in mobile forms.That goes for cars, motorcycles, and, of course, notebooks. The XtremeNotebook Xtreme 917V (wihch is a bit to type) provides some serious power for a low, low starting price of $2,399. The specs:

17-inch display
Core 2 Quad processor
dual nVidia Geforce Go 7950 GTX graphics processors
Up to 4GB [...]

Lacie Biggest S2S RAID Tower - 5TB - 20TB, Nice!

This is nit-picking for a lovely device that provides 5TB of storage in a relatively compact form, but why did Lacie call it the "Biggest S2S"? What happens when they release a bigger one? Anyways, here are the specs:

Standard 5TB storage, scalable to 20TB (via links with other units)
Full RAID support
3Gb/sec eSATA interface
eSATA-eSATA direct connection
200MB/sec [...]

Sony Goes Insane, Adds SSD to VAIO For $Billions

Let me say that, even though I’m a sucker for ultraportable notebooks, and I think the Sony Vaio TZ18GN is a nifty machine with some nice specs:

11.1-inch LCD
32GB SSD
Core 2 Duo
1GB RAM
2.5lbs

I still feel that $4,300 is a lot to pay for a notebook that’s not some sort of crazy beefed-up 21-inch monster desktop gaming [...]

Dish Network to Add Real Functionality to DVR

I ditched DirecTV for, well, let’s just say "reasons." I’m now ready to ditch my cable company. And who comes to the rescue? Why, Dish Network, that’s who! They’ve added the ability to connect external storage to their DVR, the ViP622 HD model (for a fee, $39.99), and they’ve enabled updates over Ethernet, so an [...]