Toshiba will debut its prototype 50-inch Cell Regza 55X1 FullHD LCD TV in December.  This prototype features a hard disk drive capable of recording up to eight channels of digital terrestrial broadcasts simultaneously. The display features a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1 and LED backlighting divided into 512 zones yielding a brightness of 2.5X over typical models.

NASDAQ warned Sirius XM of a potential delisting from the stock exchange as their stock traded below $1.00 for 30 consecutive days.

Jim Thiel, 61, co-founder and co-owner of Thiel Audio, recently passed away.   A generous and genuine man, Jim’s speaker designs won many awards and customers.  He will be missed.

First announced in January at CES, Audiovox plans to ship its combination Sony PlayStation/Audiovox overhead car monitor in mid- to late October 2009.

Sales of video games continue to slow with July marking five consecutive months of decline.  July sales were down 29% from 2008 sales.

Ok some short items not worthy of a post of their own but hey, interesting anyway.

Sears is launching “Blue Electronics” as a spinoff of their “Blue Appliances” department.  Sales associates dress in blue polo shirts and well, try to sell you stuff. Um, ok, we don’t get it either!

Radio Shack might be dropping the “Radio” from its namesake.  Of course many will continue to call it “Rat Shack” as they walk by it into Best Buy.

Ritz Camera’s own CEO, David Ritz, out bid two other parties in a bankruptcy auction to retain control of Ritz.

In some menagerie, Sears opened its first Sears-branded major appliance shop inside a Kmart store.  Yes, its all so clear now.

Microsoft will open its first retail store this fall to market Windows 7.  Prior to entering the store, you must agree to the EULA.

Our beloved url shortener, tr.im, unceremoniously stopped development and no new url’s can be shortened.  The tr.im homepage reads that existing urls will still redirect but the service is ending.

tr.im states that all efforts for monetizing the service failed and further that bit.ly is clearly the Twitter market leader.

Sorry tr.im, we will miss you!

Over a year since the Bluray/HD-DVD format war has past with victor Bluray on shelves everywhere.  Toshiba, the largest backer of the now obsolete HD-DVD format has announced that it will have Bluray products for TVs and PCs for this 2009 holiday season.

Struggling Dish Network announces 2nd quarter profits down 81%.  Rival DirecTV showed record levels of re subscribers bringing its subscriber base to 18.3 million.

Do you have a need for long, long life storage of your mst3k videos, 1980’s mp3 collection,  or other BOFH backup need?  Fear not, a new startup company is in final patent and licensing with Philips to release a DVD that can be read for 1000 years, as compared to the 3-12 year span of typical DVD burns.  Dubbed M-ARC, a special burner with an enhanced laser and enhanced media is used but the discs can be read by conventional DVD/ROM drives.