Nobody told me that three years on I would only get to watch DVDs rather than go to the cinema.
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Either way, it seems like a pretty big waste to watch upconverted DVDs on a 100k home theater, when you could be enjoying true 1080p with master quality audio.
Announced May 17 with the cryptic model name PCV-RX490TV, it's a personal computer that lets you watch TV, DVDs and home videos on its monitor.
Well, we're not sure we're going to get a straight answer here, since this early reviewer didn't have any HD DVD discs, and ended up using the player to watch upscaled standard DVDs.
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Otherwise, we just watch on TV or on DVDs that we have been sent.
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"For those who still own DVDs and want to watch them on their computers, the iMac isn't the ideal solution, " Fortune's JP Mangalindan wrote in a review of the new iMac.
For one low monthly price, Netflix subscribers can get DVDs delivered to their homes and can instantly watch movies and TV episodes streamed to their TVs and computers, all in unlimited amounts.
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At the same time, another player making it even easier for consumers to watch content by streaming it over the Internet could further devalue DVDs, according to Greenfield.
Asked why, 75% said Netflix is a good value for the price, 61% liked the bundle of physical DVDs and streaming movies and 53% said they like the ability to watch on multiple devices.
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According to recent report from Knowledge Networks, 21% of consumers in the U.S., age 13 to 54, watch TV and movies on a videogame console at least once a month (including DVDs, Blu-ray discs and via Internet connection).
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