Print this guide and take it to your electronics store - it's all you need to get the right HDTV

If you were a Media Center 2005 user like us, you were eagerly awaiting Windows Vista's arrival for its CableCARD HDTV compatibility and recording. But January 30 has come and gone, but where are the cheap Vista DVRs? Nowhere, that's where. Microsoft's told us that there are no Vista Media Centers shipping as of right now with CableCARD support.

The State of the Union address last night was a snoozer, but we HDTV gearheads had fun jumping between the networks, checking out which net was able to deliver the best HDTV signal from lens to screen. We took an HD gander at NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and HDNet, to see who delivered the crispiest, most colorful and most gorgeous HDTV signal of all.

A FLIR Systems P65HS thermal camera was used to view a black, non-upgraded Macbook before and after yes > /dev/null was run for 5 minutes. The Macbook battery gets hot... 113-116 degrees Fahrenheit.

Ars Technica asks and answers the following AppleTV questions: Is the USB 2.0 for external storage? Is this HDTV only? Does it just scale down if hooked up to a regular TV? Can I buy directly from iTunes from the AppleTV? Can this stream DivX or Xvid, or WMV?