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March Will Be Madder than Ever
via Zatz Not Funny! by Mari Silbey on February 13, 2008
I love March Madness. But even though I no longer trek to an office, it’s difficult to be near a TV during all of the match-ups I want to see. After all, we are talking middle-of-the-work-day, middle-of-the-work-week broadcasts.Luckily, this year CBSSports.com is expanding their free web streaming serviceMarch Madness on Demand (MMOD) to include all tournament games. Meaning, even if I’m in...
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Dave Dumps HD DVD
via Zatz Not Funny! by Dave Zatz on January 30, 2008
Yep, I’m putting my money where my mouth is - my HD DVD player is listed on ebay and my Netflix account has been updated (above). Toshiba may have purchased a $2.7 million Super Bowl ad spot, but that’s the last gasp of a dead format.In this next-gen optical disc battle, HD DVD “bought” consumers by selling hardware at a loss while the Blu-ray camp “bought” the studios. I’m not...
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Amazon Grabs Audible
via Zatz Not Funny! by Mari Silbey on January 31, 2008
Amazon announced today that it is acquiring Audible.com, the best known digital audiobook company around. The resources of Amazon behind Audible? That’s great news for consumers. And for Amazon itself, what a way to build up digital content. As Brad Linder over on Download Squad points out, we’re seeing an Apple vs. Amazon arms race. With Audible.com and its growing selection of DRM-free...
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Picture of the Day: Perfect Patriots
via Zatz Not Funny! by Mari Silbey on February 04, 2008
What happens when the virtual world gets ahead of reality. (Thanks, KJ)
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Super Bowl Party Disaster
via Zatz Not Funny! by Brent Evans on February 05, 2008
When I host a Super Bowl party the things I usually worry about is having enough food, making sure my TV and audio are in working condition and there is enough seating. What else could go wrong?Picture this. You have a group of people coming over to watch the most watched game of the year - the Super Bowl game on your home theater, projection screen system. Everything is going well, the...
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Vudu Pulls The Trigger On HD
via Zatz Not Funny! by Dave Zatz on February 06, 2008
Last week, Vudu (now available for $295) rolled out system software 1.2 in conjunction with HD movie rentals. For the instant playback touted by Vudu, you’ll need about 4Mbps download throughput. Unfortunately, the bedroom segment of my LAN is experiencing some sort of bottleneck. According to a Vudu engineer who pulled my logs, my session was capping out at 2.6Mbps - resulting in frequent...
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Apple TV HD Versus Vudu HD
via Zatz Not Funny! by Dave Zatz on February 15, 2008
Vudu has thrown down the gauntlet… They contacted me yesterday to emphasize their “quality of HD video is better” than what Apple TV provides. The claim is based on Vudu’s resolution of up to 1080p versus Apple’s 720p. Of course, the pixel count doesn’t tell the whole story… How well are these movies compressed and encoded, what bitrates are we talking here? Ben Drawbaugh of...
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Toshiba Kills HD DVD
via Zatz Not Funny! by Dave Zatz on February 19, 2008
With the exception of ~1 million owners, the HD DVD story pretty much concluded today when Toshiba pulled the plug:Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to...
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Automatically Embed Album Art Into MP3 Collection
via Zatz Not Funny! by Brent Evans on February 22, 2008
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got a large collection of MP3 music files on your hard drive(s). Some of my MP3s were acquired from places like iTunes and Amazon, while others were ripped from my CD collection. The end result is a pile of MP3s - some with album art, many without.At home I listen to music via SageTV’s HTPC application and on the road I use an iPod - and it’s always...
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Deal of the Day: USB HDTV Tuner @ $45
via Zatz Not Funny! by Dave Zatz on February 22, 2008
Both Mari and I have a Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick, though neither one of us is currently using it. However, don’t let that deter you… If you have a need, this is a decent product and a decent price (refurb): $45 shipped via Woot. In addition to using it with Pinnacle’s software, I believe it’s also successfully powered my Windows MCE and BeyondTV. The antenna is nicer than you generally...
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