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Time Warner Cable named Anaheim Ducks telecom provider

January 15th, 2010, 12:50 pm by

Time Warner Cable named official communications partner of Anaheim DucksTime Warner Cable has been named the official communication provider of the Anaheim Ducks and Honda Center.

What does that mean? It’s a business partnership, a sponsorship that essentially makes the cable provider the go-to telecom company for the hockey team and sports arena. If the Anaheim Ducks market any sort of cable TV, Internet or phone service, Time Warner’s name will be splashed all over the campaign.

What it doesn’t mean: Time Warner customers aren’t guaranteed access to every single televised game. That’s up to the TV networks.

But you could win stuff.

First up: the Home and Away Giveaway. The sweet grand price is 20 tickets to the Feb. 8 home game versus the Los Angeles Kings plus a catered party during the Feb. 4 away game. The latter includes a 46-inch Sony Bravia HDTV and home entertainment system, plus food from Oggi’s Pizza & Brewery and Ducks’ gift packs. Details at  AnaheimDucks.com/homeandaway. The contest ends at 10 p.m. on Jan. 29.

Time Warner, which has sponsored the Ducks in years past, is also a presenting sponsor of Ducks TV, which is part of the Anaheim Ducks Hockey Network. The company also happens to provide cable TV service to the venue.

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Contest: Win an HDTV, speakers that soften loud TV commercials

October 22nd, 2009, 4:47 pm by

SRS Labs giving away HDTVs, speakers.If you’ve been wanting to get your hands on a gadget that softens overly loud commercials, now’s your chance to get one for free — just tell your annoyingly loud TV commercial story in 500 words or less.

The contest is sponsored by Santa Ana-based SRS Labs, which I wrote about earlier this month. Its TruVolume technology has popped up in a few TVs and sound systems. It automatically lowers the volume of TV commercials. Read about my experience and watch the video at “SRS Labs’ gadget could end annoyingly loud TV commercials.”

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For long-time readers, you may remember that I used to offer a round-up of contests that awarded geeky prizes. This is definitely one of them. Plus, since it takes some effort, there could be few entries. Hmm… should I bring this feature back?

Ian Hamilton, who writes for the Irvine Business blog has the  contest scoop in his recent post, “Hate loud commercials? Write a story about it and win.” The prize is Vizio’s new sound bar, a $199 $350 speaker with TruVolume built in. SRS has three of them up for grabs.

For even less time and effort, you could win a Samsung HDTV with TruVolume. Just watch a silly commercial and vote at www.srslabs.com/truvolume. SRS is giving away a 22-inch, 32-inch and 40-inch Samsung HDTV to the lucky voters.

Good luck!

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Contest alert: Vizio giving away 500 55-inch HDTVs

February 5th, 2009, 5:59 pm by

If you were like me, you saw the Vizio TV commercial during Super Bowl, but kept watching TV instead of checking out the Irvine TV seller’s $1 million contest online. (In fact, some people thought the commercial was the worst commercial this year.)

The company sent me a reminder today. And it’s actually a pretty good contest worth mentioning to readers. Vizio is giving away 500 55-inch LCD TVs with 120 Hz refresh rate and 9 high definition inputs (drool). It plans to hand out 17 of the $1,999 XVT series TVs every week beginning Feb. 23 through Aug. 31. The last weekend it’s giving away 24, which makes a grand total of 500 TVs or $1 million.

All you need to do is enter at Vizio.com, or 70.32.72.72, which asks that you submit a “Your Vizio Story” on how you found Vizio and its impact on your life.  Tell them you heard about it on Gadgetress and maybe they’ll give you bonus points (kidding).

Apparently, many Super Bowl viewers did visit the site during or after the game. Visits to its site grew 400 percent after the commercial aired, the company said.

Last chance to enter the contest is Aug. 14, 2009. Good luck!

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Hey kids: Invent a game, win $10k and a publisher!

December 4th, 2008, 6:48 pm by

Winning $10,000 is always nice but the cool thing about this contest is that the winner’s game will be published by Electronic Arts as a free web game. 

The ”Invent-A-Game Challenge” is open to kids in the U.S. between 5 to 19 years old. Entry seems simple — come up with an idea and submit it to this web site, www.bkfk.com.

The competition is sponsored by Best Buy, Electronic Arts, The United Inventors Association and By Kids for Kids.

Now, what will it take to win? Some hints on the web site: It’s looking for “designs similar to, but not limited to” puzzle games like Tetris and Bejeweled; run, jump, avoid and adventure games like Super Mario Brothers and Fancy Pants Adventure; and strategy games like Billiards and Besieged.

All entries must be received online by March 31, 2009. 

Besides getting his or her game published, the Grand Prize winner also wins a $10,000 U.S. Savings Bond, trips to Best Buy and EA headquarters, and a $100 Best Buy gift card.

More details at www.bkfk.com.

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