Show #52

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HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY
TO US!

News

• Nintendo Market Value Tops 10 Trillion Yen (85 billion)
• Nintendo has jumped from 5th place in total value to the third in Japan
• The new value is triple what the company was worth before the release of the Wii and DS
• It is also a 5 fold increase from 2 years ago.
  
• HDTV Makers Want Consumers to do Their Homework
• There has been a shift in purchasing HDTV systems at normal audio/video retailers to club, warehouses, and mass merchants.
• The prognosis for rear projection TVs is not good, based on the success of LCD and Plasma
  
• Apple to Drop the Price of the DRM free tracks on iTunes to $0.99
• iTunes DRM Free tracks were previously $1.29
• This price drop brings Apple more in line with the competition (Amazon.com's MP3 Store) which has tracks for around the same price
• However, DRM Free tracks from iTunes is still severely limited to only tracks from the EMI music group (only 1 of the "Big 5")
• While there will be some new DRM-Free tracks from some of the selection of independent artists available on iTunes, the selection is still limited.
• However, with Amazon getting tracks from some of the other labels, we might see a surge in the total number of available DRM-Free tracks on iTunes
  

Software / Hardware / Power Web Picks

• Sansa Review/Prices (Show #1)
• 1 year ago 8GB Sansa cost $205 (cheapest via Nextag), now you can get them for as low as $149
• Also 1 Year ago, Zune's were just announced, now with the new versions of Microsoft's media player on the way, lets listen to what we had to say on the first generation 1 year ago.

Penny Pinchers

• http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
• http://www.farecast.com/

Gamer's Corner

• Playstation Eye - Comes with Eye of Judgement,($65.99 @ Amazon.com Oct, 23rd) reads cards, allows video blogging, and keep your "EYE" out for more cool stuff coming
  
• EyeCreate - With EyeCreate you can capture darn near anything and make your own personalized videos, much like the examples I’ve included below. You can also add all sorts of cool effects, record your own sounds and export your video to the XMB. Some of the coolest features include the time-lapse capturing and the stop-motion functionality. If you want to show off your videos, you can drop your creation on a memory stick or USB drive and share it with other PS3 users. The increased resolution of the PSEye and the multi-array microphone combined with the huge storage capacity of the PS3, make the possibilities endless. And last but not least, EyeCreate will be available for FREE download on the PlayStation Store on October 23rd. To get an idea of what EyeCreate can do, check out videos made by the Sony Team.