Cost | What to Enjoy | Features | Video | News & Updates | Sales Info | Press Releases | Buy | Editor’s Assessment Cost: $299.99 (120GB) What to enjoy: Sony’s PlayStation 3 comes with a built-in Blu-ray player, which continues to play a major role in pushing Blu-ray sales (in the past, it helped [...]

Cost | What to Enjoy | Features | News & Updates | Sales Info Cost: $199 What to Enjoy: Currently, Nintendo Wii offers very few options for watching video content, however later this year Nintendo will offer a video channel for owners to download content. By all accounts it should operate much like Xbox LIVE [...]

Cost | What to Enjoy | Features | Video | News & Updates | Editor’s Assessment Cost: VUDU – $149 | VUDU XL – $499 What to enjoy: No, we’re not talking about a mystical religion, rather the VUDU box is your solution to downloading permanent Blu-ray quality movies. VUDU boasts 16,000+ built-in movies and [...]

Beyond your cable box there’s TiVo, a digital video recorder that has been one of the top-selling devices of its kind. Now, most cable companies offer their own version of DVR, but TiVo still stands out by brand-recognition, even if the number of subscribers fell during 2008. This may have to do with the proliferation of digital media online, but TiVo keeps on trucking regardless, and still is earning a profit.

Roku offers Netflix Instant and Amazon On Demand streaming through their set-box allowing movies when you want them delivered to your TV set. And now, with the addition of MLB.tv Roku has started its first live broadcasts, streaming Major League Baseball games from around the U.S. for a price that’s much cheaper than your cable provider wants you to pay.

As more and more consumers buy and rent movies via Apple’s iTunes store, Apple really needs to push Apple TV, their set-top box that serves as an entertainment hub that syncs directly up to your iTunes account, allowing you to rent or buy movies or TV shows, which can then be downloaded to watch on your TV….