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    Happy Birthday HD Beat!

    That's right, roughly a year ago this blog kicked off, with posts that looked a lot like the ones we have now. We've decided to celebrate our birthday on July 4th (that's right, we're giving you a day off of work to celebrate HD Beat). It's been a great year of high-def news, from easter eggs to Entourage, from 1080p to Ultra HD, and we look forward to giving you even more in the next year. We'd like to thank our friend Kevin who brought us all to HD Beat, and of course you our readers and commenters. We'll recount a few of our favorite (and least-favorite) HD stories from the past year and we invite all to contribute in the comments.

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    Mac mini user reviews contest: Win $500 in Mac mini accessories (or $500 in cash)

    If we've learned one thing from our year-long adventure over here at Engadget, it's that our readers are really, really smart. Scary smart (and we're not just buttering you all up). We thought about hiring a bunch of folks to review products, but realized that a good number of you know so much about this gear already that we would be better off pulling a Tom Sawyer and asking you—the Engadget reader—to help paint the fence. For our first "User Review Contest" we're asking Engadget readers who have a Mac mini to write a review of the product. The best review, as judged by the editors of Engadget, will receive over $500 in Mac mini accessories including the Mac mini Skirt or Mac mini Tower, the Kensington Dome Hub, and an external 200GB hard drive—or $500 PayPal cash to spend as you will, however you want! Click for details on how to enter.

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    Sirius shows off Xact ReGo (record and go), announces video in 2006

    We're gonna tell you about their press conference a little later, but until then we've got a few details on the new Sirius Xact ReGo: interestingly, it plays back and records up to 4 hours' worth of MP3 audio (until we get some more numbers that could mean any amount of internal memory, depending on the recording bitrate), has a "flash card slot" (though they wouldn't say which format) that supports up to 1GB of storage and transfers via USB. They also followed up with a paltry few more details about their expected video in 2006 (which coincided with their partnership with Microsoft). Basically all we know right now is that we will see two or three channels delivered digitally (naturally) via WMV9—no word yet on the hardware side of things.

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    Sirius Mel thinks Howard Stern will do Sirius video, Dallas Cowgirls come to celebrate

    So we checked out the Sirius press conference where they showed off the Xact ReGo, discussed Sirius Video, mention Howard Stern 30 times in 30 minutes, and had the Dallas Cowgirls storm the stage.The press room was packed to capacity, and the excitement at Sirius compared to XM is stunning. Sirius definitely wants you to think they're taking over the world, and that XM dropped the ball. Click to read on.

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    Hugh Panero, CEO of XM, on losing Howard Stern to Sirius Radio

    We just got back from the XM press conference at CES and we got to ask him two questions—we made them zingers of course: Question one: "What impact do you think Howard Stern going to Sirius is going to have on your business, and how close did you come to signing him?" Video one here, and as you can see from his expression he was really excited about answering this one). Question two: "Dr. Laura over the past couple of years said that gay people are biological errors. You talked before about decisive programming (i.e. Stern), I wonder what XM's position on hate speech was and if you condone it. And why would you associate yourself with her after you said you wouldn't associate with Howard Stern because of controversial issues. Are you going to lose subscribers, and do you feel gay people are biological errors?" Video two here

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    3D games on cellphones… are we supposed to be excited?

    The New York Times reports on how 3D perspective games are starting to find their way onto to cellphones today, using the upcoming Spiderman release for the N-Gage (proving there's at least one N-Gage fan out there) as an example. Nvidia is working on the hardware, as you might suspect, and has licensed a 3D engine from a developer in Japan called HI Corporation. The Times thinks that being able to play first person shooters on cellphones is going to be some sort of bonanza for game publishers, but we don't think any of this will have Nintendo (or Sony) shaking in their boots, especially since the Game Boy has been able to handle 3D for ages (at least in video game time).

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    Alienware doubles down on video card slots

    Alienware, the elite video game computer maker, is working on a potentially revolutionary technological advance in desktop video. In the 3rd or 4th quarter they will allow users to pop not one, but two, off-the-shelf video cards into their gaming machines. Double the result? Well, maybe not double but according to the company "significant performance gains" can be expected. Most Windows users would never need something like this, but for gamers looking to render their frags in maximum FPS this could become standard issue.

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