If you haven't yet sprung for a high-definition TV set, the week before the Super Bowl is a good time to make the upgrade. Sports look great in HD, and football in particular is easier to follow on a big, sharp screen.

Toshiba has scheduled a 30-second commercial for HD DVD during the Feb. 3 Super Bowl. That's according to an article in this week's Home Media Magazine.

The commercial will highlight Toshiba's HD-A3, HD-A30 and HD-A35 players, all of which received sharp price cuts in the last week. (The HD-A3 HD DVD player is now available for $127 at Amazon.com.)

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The Boston Herald reports that the Massachusetts Department of Corrections has purchased 117 new High-Definition TVs for inmates to watch this Sunday's Super Bowl. The sets, which include 32-inch LG sets and 26-inch Sharp LCDs, cost the state $76,958 at a time when Massachusetts is laying off workers

Providing some competition for Sharp's DX series, Mitsubishi has taken the wraps off of its REAL Series LCD HDTVs, including a set with built-in hard drives and Blu-ray recorders, plus a few more that lack the recording, but throw in super resolution upconversion that claims to make even the worst SD look better than ever.

European households have been quick to adopt high definition but are ill-served by the lack of HD television services, according to a new report Wednesday.

Research from Screen Digest said that 18% of Europe's 165 million TV homes had HD by the end of 2007, but fewer than 1% of households actually watched high-definition broadcasts.

According to a new report from Media Control GfK International (cited by Video Business), global sales of video game software reached $32 billion last year, growing 20 percent in large part thanks to the booming Wii business. At the same time, sales of DVDs and Blu-ray movies combined fell by six percent,

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Comcast, and its VOD ratings measurement partner, Rentrak, today gave TVPredictions.com a list of the Top 10 HD VOD shows for the week of August 4-10.