VUDU Quakes in Boots; Drops Price at the Knees of Apple

Sorry folks, but even though VUDU was planning on domination of the living room; Apple has come out with AppleTV. What did this mean to the execs at VUDU? Rather than hold it's ground and find ways to technologically best AppleTV; they've dropped price. To the average consumer, this signals that VUDU is of lower quality thn the AppleTV and it couldn't stand it's ground.

I'm not saying that all price drops from startup companies are consessions that their quality is less than adeqaute compared to a better known brand which is throwing a new entry into the startup's arena where they've never competed before; but VUDU is just flat out kneeling at the alter of Apple. For pete's sake, mix it up a little before you make your own product look like a cheaply made piece of shit.

They've impresed the customers they won over with the product they first released; they would have benifited from good word of mouth. Sure Apple nuts will automatically gravitate to AppleTV; but look at the PC world? Apple has a nice product; but they have well less than 10% of the market.

Dropping prices? Bad Move. For more info, click here; thanks to CrunchGear

iphone: Who's The Best Video Conversion In All The Land?

The guys at Gizmodo had a little showdown to see which video conversion software was the best to transfer video to the iphone.

So which one won?

None other than Roxio Crunch, which make the conversion in just 4 clicks, it also works well with AppleTV and ipods. So you'll be watching all of your Battlestar Galatica reruns in no time. See the other software standouts on Gizmodo's site, and see how they stood up.

Check out the product page of the winner after the jump. [Roxio Crunch]

Cowboy Up With New HDD Video Player

So you're sick of all things Apple right about now. You're looking for a media HDD player, but you would rather die than buy an AppleTV, and give that bastard Steve Jobs another dime.

In comes Digital Cowboy!!!

The latest device from Digital Cowboy provides you with Full HD at 1080p video and music player. It supports a ton of formats such as: AVI, ASF, DivX, WMV, TS, MPG, MPEG, M2P, ISO, IFO, VOB video formast, as well as MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC and M4A. It even has an HDMI output for your HD pleasure.

This is a very good alternative to the AppleTV.

Hit the jump for the product page. [Impress PC Watch via Gizmodo]

Unconfirmed, The iPhone's 12th App Is YouTube

YouTube has been going crazy converting all their video to the H.264 codec.

Of course, Google claims doing all that work just so AppleTV owners can watch YouTube...which seems like a lot of work for such a small install base, especially when compared to the bajillions of online users watching YouTube in Flash.

Since Google Maps integration is already the premier offering of the iPhone, Apple is clearly comfortable with the prospect of promoting Google properties on the Jesus Phone.

New 160GB Apple TV a prelude to HD?

Apple resently started selling a 160gig AppleTV, which is about time!!!

But I'm wondering why the 160gigs? Why would you possibly need this much space in an Apple TV for, other than HD video? Which makes me think that the rumors that have surround AT&T and AppleTV have some basis.

AT&T and Apple are working on adding IPTV capabilities to the Apple TV beginning sometime next year. With the hopes of HDTV coming with the IPTV, Apple may have increase the storage capacity of the AppleTV.

Lets keep out fingers crossed.

Check out the 160gig AppleTV after the jump.

Refurbished Apple TV, $250

For those of you who want an AppleTV but don't want to pony up the $300 for it, there is a Cow Bell deal for you.

Apple's fixed crap Special Deals store has been stocked to the brim with refurbished Apple TV units. They are selling for a cool $250, which is $50 off the regular price and includes free shipping.

Refurbished gadgets need love too.

Product page after the jump.

Ziova CS505 : Better than AppleTV?

This DVD player does a little something that most do not. Not only will it allow you to watch burned Divx movies on DVD, it also will stream it from your computer directly to your TV. No need to burn a DVD beforehand, the ultimate in convenience.

Although the AppleTV and the Ziova CS505 can both stream from your computer to your TV, they're in totally different classes. The AppleTV is for playing back movies and stuff purchased from itunes (unless you encode it). The Ziova is for every other non-Apple format that you what to stream without encoding again.

This thing plays everything.

There's DivX, of course, plus "Windows Media Video 9, XviD, Nero Digital™, MPEG-4, QuickTime MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DVD and other formats." Audio support isn't taking a nap either, with FLAC, OGG, AAC, MP3, WM9, CD and many others.

It's not as sexy looking, but this may truly be better than the AppleTV.