"Many consumers don't realize they can get these channels over the air in HD for free, or for a small fee from your cable provider, " said Avner Ronen, chief executive of Boxee.
In the meantime there's always the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on, or deciding which free HD DVDs to get.
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Skype created a customized app tailored for Kindle Fire HD that is ready to use out of the box for free HD video calls at home and abroad.
Late this year, the first big screen consumer glasses free HD TV sets will enter the market.
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What would the FCC have to do in order to make you happy to give up your free HD?
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But then we saw this Multichannel News story and it really got us thinking about the ramifications of killing free HD as we know it.
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Libon users will enjoy completely free HD quality voice calls between Libon users, wherever they are, in the same country or on the other side of the world.
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Last month, DIRECTV HD customers received a free software upgrade enabling them to have access to the 3D channels on DIRECTV.
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Protune is included free with the latest HD HERO2 camera software update available here.
The result is a highly tuned WiFi network that optimizes overall wireless performance and delivers the experiences you want, such as fast downloads, clearer voice calls, uninterrupted HD video, and lag-free gaming.
ENGADGET: Netgear 802.11ac update adds beamforming, delivers up to 60 percent faster WiFi
Throughout 2013, the best players on the planet will compete in the League of Legends Championship Series, a professional gaming league with teams from North America and Europe, featuring multiple regular season matches each week, and HD streaming broadcasts available globally for free.
While the overall Ultraviolet sign-up process and its multiple logins hasn't gotten any easier, once we created a ParamountMovies.com account we were able to stream a copy of Hugo unlocked by the Blu-ray 3D version in HD just by signing into the free app (XBL gold subscription required) on the Xbox 360 -- no antiquated discs necessary.
ENGADGET: Paramount Movies Ultraviolet app released for Xbox 360 HD
Would free basic cable (with HD of course) make it ok?
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All films will be shown ad-free and uncut, and in HD, device and title-permitting.
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In conjunction with the GoPro App, GoPro is also releasing Protune, a free professional video mode for the HD HERO2 camera.
There aren't many around that're bigger fans of free over-the-air HD than us, but we're also really big fans of wireless technologies.
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On both sides of the Atlantic, the ubiquity of fast internet connection that can support HD streaming, along with antiquated rules around free-to-air offerings, is creating a bit of a wild west feel.
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Enjoy tens-of-thousands of free movies and new releases in stunning HD from premium movie services.
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The non-HD incarnation of Galaxy on Fire ended up becoming free to play, and its high-definition cousin will no doubt follow the same decay curve.
Judging by last week's titles, (not counted here) we'd expect much of the same next week, unless of course all those new HD DVD owners finally got done watching all those free titles and finally start buying movies to actually help red's cause.
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The Lumia 800 contains an instant-share camera experience based on leading Carl Zeiss optics, HD video playback, 16GB of internal user memory and free SkyDrive storage for storing images and music.
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The Prime Instant Video library now features more than 36, 000 movies and TV episodes including fan-favorite shows such as Downton Abbey, Fringe, and The West Wing and blockbuster movies including Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Rango and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, for Amazon Prime members to stream, commercial free at no additional cost on Kindle Fire HD, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U, among other devices.
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Live Free or Die Hard on the Apple TV to HD VOD and witnessed exactly what we'd suspected: cable did look worse.
Users will enjoy steady Web browsing and HD video streaming, speedy music and video downloads and stutter free multitasking, allowing users to play music, download files and surf the web simultaneously with ease.
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For instance, the new 3:1 sales figure being touted by the Blu-ray Disc Association in regards to Blu-ray to HD DVD sales is claimed by Wynendaele to be artificially inflated by free Blu-ray movie vouchers being redeemed by PlayStation 3 owners.
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FiOS TV VOD also features more than 1, 400 HD titles per month, more than 1, 100 of which are free.
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Corsair says that the drive itself can be partitioned for any operating system, and the media can be accessed traditionally or via a free app for Android or iOS. The device can stream HD content to up to 5 devices simultaneously.
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Both long zooms have similar features, but the STYLUS SZ-16 iHS is optimized for moviemaking with 1080p Full HD video and Multi-Motion Movie Image Stabilization to record virtually blur-free videos even when the camera is moving.
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Front-facing HD camera for taking photos or making video calls, including a custom Skype application for free video calling from around the world.
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