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Must (not) see HDTV

By way of ZDNet reader Derek Flickinger comes the low down on why just about every monitor on the market is about to become obsolete for HD movie playback. Including many of those big screens hanging on your walls oops. From BeHardware, HDCP: The graphic card...

Tags: HDCP, monitor, High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection

Blog posts 2006-02-01

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Sony's new Reader lineup assaults Amazon biz plan

All good developments for the consumerMore competition equals more innovation and better pricing. I like their move towards a more open standard and it'll be interesting to see how Amazon responds to that. Yep, it's gonna be a heck of a battle with three competent players (Sony, Amazon and B&N)...

Tags: HD DVD, Notebooks, MORE COMPETITION, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

SeasideSoft MediaBook Publisher 2.0.2.7 (Windows)

Media book publishing software Key Features: You can publish high-quality ebooks with DRM. Ebooks can contain the multimedia data such as the photo, video, flash, music, text, remote data, Web page, and PDF. You can sell the published ebooks. Digital data in the ebooks...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SeasideSoft, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-11-10

TRO hearing today on RealDVD

Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...

Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to Know: Googlenomics; Windows Mobile 7 phones; Broadband hell

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Free Sourcefire tool pinpoints hostile MS Office files Apple security team finds code execution holes in Ruby Google using invalid security certificate Dancho Danchev: Phishers targeting Facebook users, fake logins...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Information Technology, Broadband, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Virtualization, Telecom & Utilities, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-23

A closer look at the HTC Shift from Sprint

I've been using an HTC Shift from Sprint for over a week now and as you can see in the more than 140 photos and screenshots found in my image gallery and quick and dirty post yesterday I have had a chance to try out most all aspects of the...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Microsoft Windows Vista, Sprint Communications, HTC Shift, SnapVUE 1.8, A/C Adapter Brick, Origami Central Application, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-20

MSDN+subscribers%3A+Vista+SP1+to+hit+by+the+end+of+this+week

MSDN+subscribers%3A+Vista+SP1+to+hit+by+the+end+of+this+weekTechNet subscribers will probably get screwed...Because we had the guts to complain in public.JUST PUT OUT SP1 ALREADYI swear, is Microsoft trying to make me go up and slap them! Just put out SP1 now, and allow people to download a disk image with SP1 already installed on the disk.......

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Corp., MSDN Subscriber

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

A dozen free & essential apps for Windows

Every time I build a new Windows computer, there are a dozen free and essential applications that I always install for other people. These applications all seem to fill essential functions and they all seem to be well-behaved installers and uninstallers, in other words it won't crash your computer or...

Tags: Application, DivXNetworks, Antivirus, Dr., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Skype Technologies S.A., Computer, FastStone, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Security, Software, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Scrabble ownership and the public domain

As reported recently, Facebook has been asked by Hasbro and Mattel to remove the "Scrabulous" game from its web site. Hasbro and Mattel jointly own the rights to the "Scrabble" game, something that most people have at some point in their lives played at least once. Scrabulous was a software...

Tags: Hasbro Inc., Mattel Inc., Domain, Scrabble, Games, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Could open source exist without the Betamax case?

Could open source exist without the Betamax case?RIAA is Over-ReachingI agree that the Betamax time-shifting decision was a very big deal. I don't think it has much to say for open-source software, since software wasn't even subject to copyright until the 1976 copyright revision. When that was done...

Tags: CD, open source, Sony Betamax, Betamax Case, RIAA, MP3 Ripping

Discussion threads 2008-01-01

Open challenge to Microsoft's Robbie Bach: If Zune is #2 after X-Mas, I'll shave my head

This is Microsoft's chance to get even with me for anything I've written that it doesn't agree with. It's all in good fun which we need more of in this industry and it's a great way to exhibit how passionate if not disputatious journalists and vendors are when it...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Story, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Digital Music, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-03

Sling Media Slingbox Solo

Hot off its acquisition by EchoStar, parent company of the Dish Network satellite service, Sling Media is back in the saddle with a new product, the Slingbox Solo. The latest Slingbox model is essentially a streamlined version of the Slingbox Pro. Like that 2006 model, the Solo ($180 list) can...

Tags: Smart phones, Microsoft Windows, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Internet, Slingbox, SlingPlayer, Sling Media, SlingPlayer software, phone

Product reviews 2007-09-27

FAQ: What does the digital-TV switch actually mean?

FAQ: What does the digital-TV switch actually mean?"the word of Bush administration officials"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!Oh, that was a good one. Anyway...Digital cable has been a step backwards with its typical audio/picture sync issues (at least with Time Warner Cable it's been typical). I'm hoping the broadcasters fair better with their...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, TV, DVD, digital television, cable, satellite

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)

This is the final installment in my series debunking Peter Gutmann's widely read and undeservedly cited paper on Vista content protection. (If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, go read them before you dive into this conclusion.) Today, I want to deal head-on with one of the most...

Tags: Paper, HDMI, PC, Digital-rights Management, Output, NVidia Corp., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, 1080p, Peter Gutmann, HD, Laptop Magazine, DVI, D-CINEMA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1)

Last month, I wrote about the FUD surrounding Windows Vista and DRM. The FUDmaster is Peter Gutmann, a New Zealand researcher who wrote a paper last December that made a series of outrageous and inflammatory claims about Windows Vista. Since then, Gutmann has expanded the paper to more than four...

Tags: Monitor, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., FUDmaster, Peter Gutmann, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-09-16

More on HD, DRM, and CPU usage

More on HD, DRM, and CPU usageSo answer the question, I was one of the quoted[B]f PowerDVD supplied the complete end to end protected pipe, then why did MS add it into the OS? [/B]You will also note that I put a ? mark at the end of the statement....

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows Vista, 1080p, PowerDVD

Discussion threads 2007-09-08

Busting the FUD about Vista's DRM

Is it bad reporting, bad research, or something worse?That’s the question I asked myself when I read this NetworkWorld account of Peter Gutmann’s presentation at the Usenix Security Symposium last week. Gutmann is a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand who...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Video, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Blu-ray vs HD DVD: game over

Blu-ray vs HD DVD: game overDid anyone except a different outcome?The cards were stacked against Toshiba since 2001. Everyone knew it was inevitable, they just waited for it to happen.Just Link BaitI think it will be a while before anybody can announce victory. All those Toshiba laptops sold with...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital rights management (DRM), Blu-ray, Sales strategy, Digital media, HD-DVD, Blockbuster Inc., digital-rights management, game

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

FTC nails online music store vendor BurnLounge as pyramid

FTC nails online music store vendor BurnLounge as pyramidFTC/BurnLounge - Follow the MoneyWhenever a government agency like the FTC goes after someone like BurnLoungeand before you make a personal judgment about the merits of the underlying issue; it's always best to ask yourself: "If the FTC is successful in shutting...

Tags: Food & Beverage, online music, BurnLounge, food, McDonald's Corp., Apple iTunes, FTC, Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2007-06-15

Apple, others draw legal threat over media players

Apple, others draw legal threat over media playersCopyright?!?Well lets leave it us to first say we need to protect the companies that make cds and etc. Now we are saying that we have to sue companies so that music can be pulled off of the CD that you payed...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., media player, MRT, digital-rights management, DRM Scheme

Discussion threads 2007-05-11