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>> MySpace builds a social network for the political debates, Hoolu [assumed spelling] launches more HD shows, and designer phones from fashion labels are here to stay. It's Wednesday, August sixth, I'm Natalie Del Conte, and it's time to get Loaded. Hoolu now has full episodes in hi-def. They had some HD content before with promos and pilots, but not full episodes. In Hoolu go to the HD gallery and you'll find shows like 24, Thirty Rock, Heroes, and The Office. This is a special promotion, so for now the videos are ad free. Hoolu is calling this 720P, but remember the term high definition is being thrown around loosely here. They are most certainly clearer than normal Hoolu videos, but George Ow [assumed spelling] from ZDNet points out that streamed HD content comes at a very low bit rate compared to even standard definition DVDs, let alone Blueray discs. So enjoy the clear video, but let's not make it an Emperor's New Clothes situation. Delta Airlines is putting Wi-Fi on its entire fleet. We've seen various airlines testing Wi-Fi on a few planes at a time, but Delta is biting the bullet and installing Air Cell's Wi-Fi network on its three hundred and thirty plane fleet. The network is called Go-Go, and it allows for internet access, VPN access, emailing, SMS texting, and instant messaging. It costs nine ninety five on flights of three hours or less, and twelve ninety five on flights of more than three hours. MySpace has been officially sanctioned as the social network for the Presidential debates. The commission on Presidential debates tasked the company with the job of launching MyDebates.org. It will stream the debates live, archive them for on demand viewing, host polls, and track the candidates' positions on various issues. The site is said to launch some time today well in advance of the first debate on September twenty sixty. MySpace has always tried to be a big player in the election. My only concern with giving them this job is interface. I would just hope that MySpace wouldn't design MyDebates like their home site, yuck. The network DVR had a win in court this week. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York ruled that a DVR that can record shows to a server rather than to a local hard drive does not violate copyright law. Various cable providers and TV studios have been fighting the whole notion of this box for two years now, because they find it threatening to have their content stored on a server that they don't own. It's silly though. A network DVR would save so much time and money. I'm glad to see this moving along. It won't really make a huge difference to consumers, but it may mean that you won't have a buggy hard drive to deal with when you tape CSI. Google's free music engine has launched in China. This is the site where you search song name, artist, or album, and Google directs you to a place where you can download a licensed copy for free. Vido [assumed spelling] has been doing that for a long time, and that's why Google could never really quite break the company's lead. Google announced that they would do this back in February, and its site, Top100.cn launched this week. Why can't they do that here for us in the US? I mean I know they can't because of licensing, but I sure wish they could. There are three new Motorola Rockers on their way, but only two of them are coming to the US. These are music centric phones. The EM30 is a candy bar phone that uses the mode shift technology to switch from music to phone calls. It has high fidelity audio, MP3 playback, and can download songs from over two hundred music stores, but of course not iTunes. The EM28 is a clamshell phone that has touch sensitive keys that only appear when you need them. It has a pretty good looking music display on the front, 3D sound, and an audio equalizer. The EM25 is the one that won't come to the US. It's a slider phone with FM radio, and something called FM Share where you can share your favorite stations with your friends. These are all really nice phones, but they've got to come with more internal storage to really be compelling as a music phone. There's no word on how much they'll have just yet, but I'm guessing it won't really compete with the sixteen gigs on my iPhone. The saying used to go PCs are for business, Macs are for fun. That's not so much the case any more. A new study by The Yankee Group shows that more corporations are using Macs these days. A survey of seven hundred and fifty IT administrators found that nearly four in five businesses have Macs and or OS ten at work. Not exclusively of course, but at least some Macs at work somewhere in the office. This is the highest level of Mac [inaudible] since the eighties. Get ready for more couture in your gadgets. A study by ABI Research says that designer phones and gadgets are here to stay. Christian Dior recently introduced its own line of mobile phones, Prada has had one for a while, Tagure [assumed spelling] has one on the way, I've even heard wind about Channel coming out with their own. ABI Research says that luxury branded handsets will be an eleven billion dollar market next year, and have revenues of forty three billion dollars by 2013. Labels are coming to the geek world, whether we like it or not. I'll admit, I like it. These phones will be so great with my shoes. Those are all your headlines for today, but I will be back tomorrow with more. Thank you for watching. I'm Natalie Del Conte with CNET TV, and you've just been Loaded. ^M00:04:40 [ music ]