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I finally decided to get a site up and running for the Dog House Army. This is now up and running on http://www.thedoghousearmy.com/. I got the basic infrastructure up and running and now Big Daddy Matt and Mr. Goodbar are running it day to day.

Currently the Army is rallying the troops to fight a Pro-Imus campaign, because in a post-Imus world a show like The Dog House has no future. . .

I stopped by the Circuit City in Glendale and noticed that they advertise the HDTV’s in two fashions (720p & 1080p). Every model I cross referenced online that were labeled 720p were also capable of 1080i. I think it’s fairly obvious that this is a marketing scheme to make the 1080p screens look 360p better in peoples minds. Forget the fact that there are no native 1080p broadcasts. . .

Word to the wise, do your own research before spending a ton of money on an HDTV. Do not rely on commission based sales people.

Since Amazon gave every user a $15 credit for Unbox + TiVo, I thought I’d give it a shot. My final verdict is a solid not bad. The quality of the downloaded video is just sub-DVD quality. All of the videos I tested were in 4:3 native aspect ratio w/ black bars on top and bottom for a total 16:9 aspect ratio. I just used the “Aspect” button on my Series 3 to resize this fill my entire screen.

As I have a Series 3 TiVo w/ CableCARDs, I have no PPV available to me. The Amazon+Unbox appears to fill that niche okay. With a 5 Mbps connection from Charter, it takes just a little over to download the full movie.