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Consumer Electronics

Monday links

June 26, 2006

Digg goes to 3.0Third time’s the charm. Digg has updated their UI and added other categories including Science, Business, Entertainment, and Gaming. What, no Home and Garden? 10 Reasons High Definition DVD Formats Have Already FailedAKA why consumers hate format wars. Sofa Control and Remote BuddyTwo apps for the Apple remote control. [via Daring Fireball] [...]

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Monday links

June 19, 2006

Music Gremlin Review – Addicted to Digital Media – Verdict: Not ready for prime time. DirecTV Titanium – everything that DirecTV offers for a mere $7,500 a year [via HDBeat] XM Passport ship date pushed back – Twice – this tiny XM enabler was a highlight of CES this year [via Orbitcast] Why Apple won’t [...]

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The D: All Things Digital

June 19, 2006

The Wall Street Journal released their report from the Walt Mossberg’s CEO love-in from a few weeks back. (FYI – “The D” is a small conference for executives from large companies and essentially is a series of discussions and interviews conducted by the Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.) Interviews include Bill Gates, “who showed off [...]

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Ow! That Hz

June 13, 2006

I heard this story on the NPR Story of the Day podcast a couple of weeks back and then a friend sent me an article from the NYTimes yesterday. The gist is, in the UK, “inventor Howard Stapleton” discovered that teenagers can hear frequencies that many adults can’t and so he decided to turn those [...]

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ABC shows online today

May 1, 2006

As promised a few weeks back, ABC launched their experimental streaming television shows today. Launch shows include Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias and Commander in Chief. All shows come with 4 30 second ads from a single sponsor (reload if you don’t want the first one they give you. I’ve seen Tylenol, Toyota and Cingular) and [...]

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Yahoo! acquires Meedio

April 18, 2006

Ten foot interfaces. Microsoft has one and recently, so does Apple. And now, Yahoo! bought their very own. Meedio, one of the many television front ends for Windows XP, was acquired today by Yahoo! Strangely, tho, it appears that only the company was purchased but not all of their products, so it is unclear whether [...]

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Xbox 360 is in the house!

April 3, 2006

So, I’ve been secretly lusting for the Xbox 360 for some time. I told myself and others that I wasn’t going to hang out at Best Buy or Costco like the other nerds, but all the while I’ve made side trips into these dens of electronic goodness for the past several months. The persistence finally [...]

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Movie downloads compete with DVD

April 3, 2006

Movielink and CinemaNow announced today that they will have day and date releases with their DVD counterparts reports the Wall Street Journal this morning. Starting tomorrow with Brokeback Mountain, both companies will give users the ability to buy movies the same day they arrive on DVD. Both seem to limit what people can do with [...]

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Creative Zen review critique

March 29, 2006

Here’s a an email a friend I’ll call ‘iPodFan’ sent me today regarding the Creative Zen. You might remember, I played with the Zen:M back at CES and wished it didn’t suck. ——– My review of this review… and I’m completely unbiased!! ;) Creative ZEN Vision:M Media Player This is the same cost as the [...]

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Volume limit iPod update?

March 29, 2006

Hmmmm….. this sounds like a great idea. Apple has been getting flack for iPods having potentially ear damaging loudness – The move follows a class action lawsuit that was filed against Apple in a federal court in California in January, which claimed that iPods could cause hearing loss because they have the capacity to produce [...]

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New Tivo?

March 27, 2006

No Series 3 Tivo yet, but Amazon has specs on a SD dual cable tuner (one analog, one digital). Sounds like they may have one input for an external tuner and one internal tuner. Probably not the most straightforward thing to hook up, but Tivo has been pretty remarkable in the past making this stuff [...]

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XM adds 10 new music channels

March 27, 2006

Haven’t been paying too much attention to our pals over at XM lately, so here is a little update. After a little tiff with Clear Channel about adding advertisements to their channels (CC provides programming to several XM channels), XM decided to add genre channels that match the CC provided channels. Those new channels are: [...]

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Real Housewives

March 21, 2006

It’s Tuesday, and I’m a whore for the iTunes Music Store (hey, that rhymes). Continuing iTMS’ tradition of free downloads promoting not-yet-launched tv shows, this week we see Bravo capitalizing on the success of the “Desperate Housewives” with their launch of “Real Housewives of Orange County.” From Bravo’s website: “The Real Housewives of Orange County” [...]

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Windows MCE on a iMac

March 20, 2006

Not satisfied with just running regular XP on an Intel Mac, the folks over at the OSX86Project have gotten Windows MCE up and running on an Intel iMac. They don’t have the IR port working yet, but I imagine that it will only be a matter of time. Read (Via Matt Goyer’s Media Center Blog.)

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PSP get GPS and VOIP from Sony

March 16, 2006

One other bit of PSP news today that I missed yesterday – at Sony’s announcement yesterday, Ken Kutagari also announced a couple of cool add-ons for the PSP, namely the rumored GPS add-on and an Eyetoy for video VOIP. Both of these devices should give Sony’s PSP a long deserved shot in the arm, but [...]

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Google Video – now for iPods and PSPs

March 16, 2006

Need a little content for your iPod? Google has made its videos (not the ‘for pay’ videos, mind you) available for download reformatted for the PSP and iPod. Thank God, I can finally watch “Road Trip Prank,” “Shtanga,” “Indian Exotic Dance in Office 2” wherever I want! Check it out (Via The Unofficial Google Weblog)

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