I think giving away free stuff is always a good thing!

Pick Me!

I'll take one... It would work nice in my Sanyo 720p digital camcorder.

All of the major broadcasters in Dayton, OH are switching on Feb 17 no matter what...
WDTN (NBC)
WHIO (CBS)
WBDT (CW)
WKEF (ABC)
WRGT (FOX)

I remember when I first saw a Laserdisc player... 14 years ago when I was in 3rd grade. lol

MLB Network is available on Time Warner Cable here in Dayton, Ohio on Digital Standard Tier channel 178... It was added on December 30 and is playing a promo launch video until they go live on January 1.

Obama was on 7.1... McCain was on 7.2... Both flipped back and forth on analog 7...

The 7.2 is typically a weather channel and it is available on the lowest basic cable service in almost every area in the Miami Valley so basically everyone has access to it.

I own blu-ray and still buy regular DVD movies unless it is a "blockbuster" movie that I really enjoyed... Still waiting on The Matrix series on blu-ray. Trying to save wherever I can.

I'm still waiting for my Samsung BDP1400 to come back to me... The power board inside it went out within two weeks of owning it. I'm apparently not the only one having the same issue with the BDP1400 model as I see many reports of the same thing on the internet. Samsung made me pay to have it shipped to their repair center too.

Cable companys do not have to shut down their analog service when 02/17/09 arrives. Some cable companys are using that date to go "all-digital" but it has nothing to do with the over the air analog broadcast shut off. Some cable companies are just using that date as well to create less confusion to subscribers.

TWC Albany, NY seems to have the best lineup of all cable companies... They have the "standard" 80 channels in analog, the same 80 available in SD-Digital, and then some of the same channels in HD-Digital format. If you head over there and check out their channel lineup, it is IMO the best lineup of all cable companies.

Also if your cable company has a Free HD on Demand channel, check that out because my local company does not have Speed HD on the lineup but they do have a decent selection of shows from Speed on Demand available in HD.

I enjoy the new navigator much more than passport... My number one thing is that when I am watching a 4:3 show, the bars on the left and right side are no longer that annoying grey color anymore... Black now which is SO much less annoying.