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- A membership organization devoted to defining DVD standards for read-only, rewritable, write-once, video and audio use. Members participate in working groups to develop new standards. Based in Tokyo,...
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- Intel unveils the Net-savvy CE4100
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Eric Kim, senior vice president at Intel, revealed a new Atom-based CE4100 chip. It is designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players, and advanced set-top boxes by integrating different processors to handle graphics, displays, networking, and video...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Internet, DVD, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Intel unveils the Net-savvy CE4100
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Eric Kim, senior vice president at Intel, revealed a new Atom-based CE4100 chip. It is designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players, and advanced set-top boxes by integrating different processors to handle graphics, displays, networking, and video...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Internet, DVD, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, CE4100, Interl Developer Forum, Atom, Eric Kim
- Videos 2009-09-24
- 3D football, anyone? Intel offers peek at 21st Century television
- TV isn't TV anymore. It's out of the box. It's off the wall and it's not going back anytime soon. That was the opening line of the final keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, delivered by Intel exec Justin Rattner, who took to the stage to talk...
- Tags: 3D, Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- MSI X340 might be the best laptop you've never heard of
- Glossy LCD? No thanksA Lenovo X300 from the Lenovo Outlet for about $1100 seems to be the best deal to me. For an extra $400 beyond the MSI you get a fast SSD, higher resolution non-glossy display though the viewing angle and contrast is rather disappointing, a second processing core,...
- Tags: Notebooks, MSI web site, MSI, laptop computer, MSI X340
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Media Center gives digital cable tuners a new lease on life
- Blu-ray ...... I'm surprised to see you mention Blu-ray ... While I have Blu-ray capability, I've taken the upscaling route because I have a vast DVD library and after objectively looking at it, can't see the benefits. Going from DVD to upscaled DVD is an improvement, but when I compare...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Consumer electronics, Media Center PC, CableLabs, digital cable tuner, cable, cable tuner, DVD, CableCard, BIOS, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Iomega ScreenPlay Pro HD Multimedia Drive - digital multimedia receiver / HDD recorder
- could have been a contenderThe Screenplay Pro HD is a great idea with well executed hardware and poor execution of software.The image quality is excellent with both 720P and 1080i HD support for component and HDMI.Network access is very slow, it takes several hours to transfer a DVD sized file....
- Tags: Network Access, hard drive, multimedia, Iomega Corp., HDMI, HDMI Audio, recorder
- Discussion threads 2009-08-22
- High drama and low points in RIAA trial
- High drama and low points in RIAA trialRichard, can you shed some light on a couple things.I don't know all the details of this trial so I'll talk in general terms about downloading files from a P2P or other source.Ask anyone in this forum and they will tell you I...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, original work, P2P
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'
- Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Papercuts? More like deep stab wounds that require major surgery.You can't polish a turd. It still has linux underneath it. The problem is there is no fixing linux. Its inner workings of being a mesh of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" ad
- Microsoft's latest "Laptop Hunter" adAnother joke from MicrosoftYou can get a laptop for $300 dollars, why did they give her $2000? Since the quality, user experience, usability, stability, resale value, ownership costs, capabilities, etc never seem to fit into this lines of commercials, what is the use of giving $2000?...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, advertisement, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Windows 7 RC ready for public download
- Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadIt's the most highly anticipated OSIt's the most highly anticipated OS so it had to happen. However downloads aren't being interrupted :)RE: Windows 7 RC ready for public downloadI'm downloading now and I seem to be getting near my max speeds on a 7megs...
- Tags: Operating systems, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows 7, public download, Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- FileSalvage 6.1.7 (Mac)
- FileSalvage is an extremely powerful data recovery tools designed to restore files that have been accidentally deleted, have become unreadable due to media faults, or were stored on a drive before it was re-initialized or formatted. It is device and file system independent, allowing the users to recover files from...
- Tags: Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Free Space, Intel Corp., FileSalvage, Storage Management, Apple Mac OS, Databases, Desktops, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-05-02
- Why Is Change So Hard for Some People (Especially Older Ones?)
- Why Is Change So Hard for Some People (Especially Older Ones?)I'm no expert, but......maybe the older people would rather spend their time actually being with a group of people...you know...in reality, than posting pictures and chatting in a faceless virtual forum.Perhaps it's not resistance to change, but a resistance to...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Professional development, tool
- Discussion threads 2009-02-06
- Editing Crowd Sourced Content: the Wikipedia Discussion
- Best Buy, the retail box store and internet source for electronics, televisions, DVD players, home & car audio, computers, cameras, music, movies, software, games etc is at the cutting edge of modern online technologies and facilitating their use by as many purchase prospects as possible. The embedded...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- How the Wii saved Christmas
- How the Wii saved ChristmasSony has failed to market the PS? appropriatellySony missed the boat marketing the PS3 and PSP.People unfamiliar with those consoles still think they are just game consoles.Whoever uses one to the full potential realizes that they are personal entertainment centers. Gaming is just one component. This...
- Tags: Games, Game players, probelm, Nintendo Wii, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, console, Microsoft Xbox, game
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
- CES 2009: Intel recruits Comcast, Samsung, Toshiba for its Widget Channel Internet TV initiative
- While Yahoo has been grabbing headlines this week with its partnerships with TV makers like Samsung and Vizio to bring its Internet TV widget platform to new sets, Intel wants to make sure people remember that it also introduced the underlying API with Yahoo last fall at the Intel Developers...
- Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Internet TV, Comcast Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Boot Up Times (Windows 7 build 6956 performance test)
- Boot Up Times (Windows 7 build 6956 performance test)Apple Uses Unix, Linux is a Unix Clone -- This is what we needMicro$oft makes the worst software on the face of the Earth. Open Source is changing the world. Just look at Wikipedia. Get Linux and all of...
- Tags: Operating systems, Performance management, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Micro$oft, Microsoft Windows 7, BOOT UP TIMES, Microsoft Windows, performance test, Linux, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
- Panda Internet Security 2009
- Panda continually reinvents itself. This year it got it right. Not only does the Internet Security suite look better, but it runs better, too, as evidenced by results from CNET Labs and third-party testing. The new interface is clearly a nod to Symantec Norton 360. Panda steps up the comparison...
- Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, Network security, Web Content Control, Panda, Panda Internet Security, Panda Internet Security 2009
- Product reviews 2008-12-09
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09But what about...But what about the main loser OSes? You know, the ones that have only a tiny fraction of Vista's marketshare, even though they have been on the market longer?http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=108&qpnp=11&qpdt=1&qpct=2So, to extrapolate based on marketshare, the response would then go something like:OSX (being...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OSX, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- AVG and Rising signatures update detects Windows files as malware
- AVG and Rising signatures update detects Windows files as malwareAnd why would they not?Many Windows files are indeed malware, Rootkits, and spyware. Anything Microsoft places on a PERSONAL computer to control or manipulate the computer or the PERSON, and furnishing zero benefit to or approval of the user person, is...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, malware, Windows File, AVG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, virus, antivirus
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Schmartz PS3IR-PRO
- While the Sony PlayStation 3 is one of the best values for high-def movie buffs, it's always been somewhat of a pain to integrate in a standard home theater because it lacks an IR receptor. That means popular universal remotes, such a Logitech Harmony, can't control the PS3 and you're...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Cable, Schmartz PS3IR-PRO, Sony PlayStation 3
- Product reviews 2008-11-03
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