I am glad to see industry leaders get together to form an association to help stear and develop IPTV standards. We don't need 20 different standards in different countries that will require different equipment depending where you. Let the service do the talking. Hopefully this will allow consumers not to get tied down to hardware and mini-monoplies. tvover.net The group […]
Read moreChris pointes out that Charlie Owen, a member of the MCE Team, got in a little hot water for pointing out some of the features that maybe in the next version of Vista MCE. The blog post in question has since been wiped clean with the only evidence of it at a ZDNET blog. Nothing to interesting really but he […]
Read moreTHe Matrix Trilogy coming to HD DVD has to be one of the biggest announcements yet for the HD DVD team. On May 22nd, two box set collections of the Matrix trilogy will be hitting stores. However, it won't be an exclusive, Warner plans on releasing a Blu-ray version once the specs for BD Live are finalized. Expect to pay […]
Read moreCharlie Owen has a post in his blog welcoming questions about Windows Media Center and the MCE Team! Here is you chance to ask a MS employee about whatever is on your mind! Since this post there has also been a couple of follow up response to questions posed to him. Retrosight Blog Leave your question as a comment for […]
Read moreIf you were on the fence about buying a Blu-ray player, perhaps Amazon's 50% deal on Samsung's player might persuade you. Perhaps Samsung is preparing a new entry into the next gen market orrrr Amazon simply can't move enough of them. EngadgetHD Yeah you buddy. Wanna cheap Blu-ray player? Amazon is selling Samsung's BD-P1000 for a mere $499. While we […]
Read moreEither way, the voice of this video is an absolute horrible idea. I love the idea of this application, but the video is ridiculous. I had to stop it at 12 minutes because it was getting absolutely ridiculous. That being said, there were some neat features of this app, but since the site's down due to digg, we'll have to […]
Read moreNot content to let Blu-ray walk away with the format war, Toshiba is set to make anothe round of price drops on its HD DVD players. For the small sum of $399 you can walk away with the A2, for $499 the A20 and the XA2 for $799. It is starting to look more affordable all of the time :). […]
Read moreGood to see them making such quick improvements on these, but it's a shame they can't be improved via firmware. Wouldn't you hate to spend $800 on one of these only to see it trumped by a new version 6 months later? TG Daily According to the manufacturer, the new player supports the 7.1 channel surround sound formats Dolby TrueHD […]
Read moreThis podcast features a couple of folks from Control 4 talking about Zigbee, the new wireless home automation protocol. A good listen if you are interested in delving into the HA world. Pod Tech Network Adding a home automation system to an existing home used to require tearing out drywall, installing thousands of feet of wire and surviving the battle […]
Read moreSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies ; STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the leader in set-top box chips; and Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK), a provider of high-performance wireless and wireline broadband communication silicon solutions, today announced their collaboration to launch a revolutionary set-top box, which supports high-definition (HD) TV quality based on […]
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