Several electric utilities have looked at what happens to energy use when individuals either buy Individual House Display (IHD) units for their homes or volunteer to use devices donated by the utilities.

FORBES: Paying Attention To Energy Use

The recently-formed Media Experience Trade Association (META) is hoping to "improve consumer acceptance of emerging formats" by slapping "META Seals" onto discs that clearly inform consumers of certain usability benchmarks and by "creating digital media standards" that would help the faltering iHD Advanced Navigation and BD-Java features blossom.

ENGADGET: META seeks to push HD DVD / Blu-ray formats, features HD

Well you may have missed this particular feature in your rush to pick up Polk's I-Sonic Entertainment System 2 table radio, but like its upcoming iHD brother from JBL, the ES2 is one of the first HD Radio models to feature a new iTunes tagging option that lets users bookmark over-the-air tracks for later purchase.

ENGADGET: HD Radio rolls out iTunes tagging