For the low low price of $300 you can buy yourself into the format wars. Amazon is selling Samsung’s BD-1400 BR player for $299 and free shipping. This certainly puts it within sniffing distance of the HD DVD camp. Spec wise, the BD-1400 has some sexy goin’ on. 1080p/24 for Blu-ray, 1080p upconversion, HDMI 1.3, and support for Dolby TrueHD […]
Read moreOf note: divx support. Yay! Bad news: it’s for the dashboard only, not the extender portion. WTF?! There are also a lot of other video and some audio fixes/additions. Take a look. Xbox ]}* Improved Video Library. * Improved visuals and descriptions. * Users can now sort movies and TV Shows in the video library by Title or (Download) Date. […]
Read moreCan’t say I am too upset on this one. Although I don’t loathe Apple, they never intended to enter this market until they saw how popular MCE became. Just MHO. Gizmodo So do they blame the marketing? No, plenty of internet-using adults know about the product (around 50%), but only 5% of those people know what it does.
Read moreHere comes the first cards to sport the recently finished display port. Hot Hardware Now that monitors with DisplayPorts are starting to hit the market, you’re going to need a compatible graphics card to get in on all that high-bandwidth action, and it looks like ATI is first of the mark with the RV635 XT board that Hot Hardware recently […]
Read moreVista has a big advantage in the PC DVR marketplace by being the only option for digital cable tuners. How can SageTV and BeyondTV compete? Floppyhead I wonder how much Microsoft has actually fought with CableLabs about its DRM-scheme. Publicly, they appear to be butting heads but privately, Microsoft has a lot to gain by being the only option on […]
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Chris Lanier has reported that Dell has taken and finally grown a set of stones and taken a stance on their CableCard offerings. Unlike some others, *cough* HP, Dell will be making all XPS 420 desktop PCs CableCard ready. This means they will have the proper OS w/ CC support, proper BIOS support and the ability to select CableCard tuners. […]
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Let me start off by saying we were all very impressed with the entries for this contest. It was a very tough decision and after several hours of beating each other, we have arrived with our decision. 1st place – nwtp13 – Congrats you get your choice TF8, TF5 or TF11 AND TF-TFT, TF-HDD, OLED, and IR/UNIT 2nd place – […]
Read moreComforted by the warm glow of the of the OLED on my TF-11 display, I listen to the storm rumble through this sleepy prairie town. As usual, whenever my satellite sees anything more then a heavy mist I lose a signal. It’s a good thing I have this HTPC loaded with shows and DVDs to keep me company and then […]
Read moreFor those looking for a cooler quieter faster and affordable os drive, you may have to wait a bit more but there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel. Zdnet "Put those two factors together, and it could be possible to come out with a 64GB solid-state drive for close to US$300 toward the end of 2008, […]
Read moreKIRKLAND, Wash. December 6, 2007 Digeo, Inc., makers of the Emmy®-award winning Moxi digital media recorders (DMR), today announced Moxi TV for PC, a software application enabling PC users who have a TV tuner card and Windows XP to use their personal computer as a DMR. With Moxi TV for PC, users can watch, record and play TV content from […]
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