If you've got a thing for cutting-edge LCD HDTVs, you've come to the right place. Starting with the big boy, we've got the 65-inch LN52A750 (also available in 40-, 46- and 52-inches), which sports a 1080p resolution with 120Hz Auto Motion Plus technology. Additionally, you'll find an Ethernet connection for accessing customizable RSS feeds, 1GB of internal flash memory that "includes interactive content such as cooking recipes, children's entertainment, HD artwork and more," a four-millisecond response time, four HDMI 1.3 sockets with CEC and a USB 2.0 port for connecting PMPs and the like. Also on the way is a slightly downgraded 6 series sans flash memory and side mounted USB port, due in March in the same sizes.

Your old Moto 6412 DVR from Comcast might soon be replaced with state of the art HD set-top boxes from Panasonic. The new cable boxes will encode in both MPEG-2 and H.264. It has USB 2.0 for connecting digital cameras and MP3 players. Best of all though, these boxes comply to the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP). This is the most important feature, even more then the 250 GB hard drive, as it allows people to interact with their HDTVs a bit more then ever before including using a single remote for a Comcast box and Panasonic home theater equipment.

Think of OCAP as an operating system that interacts between the devices on the cable network: video on demand and a variety of interactive services. This system has been in test markets (New York; Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wis.; Lincoln, Neb.; and Waco, Texas later this year) for some time now and it seems to be going well.

Note to developers of OCAP: we would like RSS feeds on our widescreen TVs. This cannot be that hard to do. Eventually we would except to see teleconferencing like in the current season of 24; work on the RSS feeds first though.

If you could add features or benefits to your cable system, what would they be?

AkihabaraNews is one of our favorite sites, the best English language site I know of for tech news in the land of "gadgets we'll never see here", aka Japan. They also feature video downloads of some of these cool items, and now will be showing them off in stunning high definition.

So if you could, please stop by and check out the test clip they're distributing via BitTorrent (uTorrent is the best client out, period), and look forward to some sort of Sanyo HD surprise on January 11th.

This is long overdue: having television shows delivered to you in the format you want to watch when you want. Plenty of "you's" in there, but isn't that what "you" want? Sure you do and so do we! That's why we're excited about tvRSS, a young site that shows a ton of promise and a ton of television shows.

tvRSS uses RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, to BitTorrent files to you as they become available. When a new episode of "Lost" is found, your computer will automatically pull down the file if you've subscribed, for example. We'd love to see this type of functionality built in to Windows Media Center, but alas, Microsoft doesn't appear too keen on supporting the file formats you'd see here.

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