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Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top box

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top boxBut what features will the customer get......meaning how many features will the cable companies disable, or charge extra for?Also what if I have a HDTV in my living and a regular TV in my bedroom what if?...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, TV & Home Theater, multi-room DVR, digital video recorder, Sling Media, EchoStar Communications Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., set-top box, set-top, cable

Discussion threads 2009-04-05

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FLVPlayer4Free 3.7 (Windows)

FLVPlayer4Free is an updated enjoyable application to play FLV, Youtube Video and other Video files. No need of Flash authoring tool and provides Drag & Drop support (from files, texts, browser links), Multi language function, Full screen and Full resizable options, an useful. Always on top function, volume, and mute...

Tags: FLV, YouTube Video, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Windows, Video, FLVPlayer4Free, Corporate Communications, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-10

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Those darned kids and their multitasking

Apparently, multitasking is a bad idea. Or so a media frenzy told us a month ago. Young people especially flip between tasks in what appears to be a completely natural way and seem able to take in multiple streams of information with aplomb. "Of course!" you say....

Tags: Job, Coffee, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-01

*FREE* Boosterpack 2 for DVD Catalyst 3 (Mobile)

The Boosterpack is a plugin for DVD Catalyst 3 DVD Catalyst 3 is the most powerful DVD conversion tool on the market. Boosterpack Features: *Free. If you own DVD Catalyst 3 (at $9.95, its a steal) the boosterpack makes the best even better, for free. *Faster conversions. DVD Catalyst 3...

Tags: DVD, Video, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Communications, Mobile, Boosterpack, DVD Catalyst 3, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Personal Technology, Tools4Movies

Software downloads 2009-08-19

News to know: FCC and Apple, AT&T; Windows 7; SAP; iPhoto vs. Picasa

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: FCC eyes AT&T, Apple rejection of Google Voice apps full text of letters Garett Rogers: Apple and...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Google Picasa, Apple iPhoto, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Federal Government, Operating Systems, Software, Government

Blog posts 2009-08-03

EC fines Intel record $1.45 billion in antitrust case for moves vs. AMD

EC fines Intel record $1.45 billion in antitrust case for moves vs. AMDChoice vs. StandardizationWith respect, Dietrich, the digital world is not as simple as freedom of choice. Freedom of choice is great for hamburgers, pizza, and toothpaste. But multi-state and global companies users and developers require some level of...

Tags: Strategic planning, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., uniformity, Apple Inc., OS Installed, PC, Linux, standardization, Intel Corp., antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Tax Refund Special: Home theater

If you wind up with the average household tax refund this year, you can set up a nice little home theater for around $2,500. Here's how I would configure it with that budget. HDTV ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Home Theater, Blu-ray, Kuro PDP-5020FD, Home Entertainment, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!

Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!Why they won't!A 32" HDTV sells for approximayely $550.00 to $750.00 not the $1,700 for their monitor. The margins on this type of product are very low. Apple doesn't do low marginsDoesn't matterNobody will be able to afford it...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, iPODS, Apple Inc., Apple HDTV, HDTV, big iPod!, iPod!

Discussion threads 2008-10-12

Comcast really does care (aka how Twitter helped save Nick at Nite)

Comcast really does care aka how Twitter helped save Nick at NiteYou are not the only one...Fresh Prince is still cool and funny. I did the same as you, but once I started making use of my media center in vista I was watching recorded shows of Inuyasha and Angel...

Tags: DVR, Fresh Prince, Comcast Corp., Nick-at-Nite, Twitter, CableCard

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook

Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista Ed Bott: You've got Vista x64 questions, I've got answers Jason O'Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x) Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs:...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Vyatta, Mauku, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

DiskInternals CD and DVD Recovery 3.5 (Windows)

Just finished burning CD or DVD, only to find out that some files appear to be corrupted or inaccessible? Power went out, while recording data? Added a new session to your CD/DVD and lost old files? Do not worry. DiskInternals CD and DVD Recovery, as the name implies is a...

Tags: Recovery, CD, Microsoft Windows, DiskInternals Research, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-06-23

iPod touch 2.0 anyone?

iPod touch 2.0 anyone?He's probably stressed it more than you haveI've crashed mine a few times, too doing stuff it was never intended for. Like using data URLs to create 4MB bookmarks. That will bring an iPod touch to its knees pretty quickly.NOT MOVIES??!!??!![i]I've thrown everything at it and have...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Archos, Archos 605

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Great news for Microsoft: Zunes stolen!

Great news for Microsoft: Zunes stolen!What do you think of this?http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=388038Seems like Microsoft are trying to improve Zune.The Zune is pretty coolMy wife and I each have a Zune 80GB and they are pretty cool. The Zune software is very slick and simple to use and the Zune Pass...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Zune Software, Microsoft Zune, GREAT News, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

Don't believe the low bit-rate 'HD' lie

Don't believe the low bit-rate 'HD' lieWhat IS HD?HD is not a standard, the term high-definition only refers to the resolution of the image that is displayed, not the quality of the image. So I can't fault apple for saying their content is HD, because, it IS.. it's a high...

Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, 1080p

Discussion threads 2008-01-18

The false choice of a la carte TV

The false choice of a la carte TVGovernment Regulation Called For; It has and will always be soRather than "Absurd for the government to be puttering around in America's television sets" the author of this article needs to consider the fact that TV has always been regulated and things really...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, goverment, cable, TV, Web 2.0, cable company

Discussion threads 2007-08-20

AMD 690G versus Intel G965 PC shootout

The integrated graphics market is one of the least glamorous platforms in desktop computing, but it is probably one of the most important since 90% of the PC market is dominated by integrated graphics.  Not only is the chipset itself a valuable price to AMD and Intel, but the chipset...

Tags: Vista, Intel, Energy efficiency, Processors, Servers, Desktop, Consumer electronics, Storage, Microsoft, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Apple, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-24

Set-top shakeup is in the cards

Set-top shakeup is in the cardsSelf Serving Pap from Paxton[i]"There really aren't any benefits to consumers," said Mike Paxton, an analyst with In-Stat.[/i]Bullshit. I have an HDTV with CableCard built in. Yet I still have to rent a box from Comcast because they won't make CableCard work right....

Tags: Network technology, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Set-top shakeup, cable, CableCard, set-top, cable card, Paxton, TV

Discussion threads 2007-07-01

DVRs impacting TV upfronts

DVR TV viewing behavior is disrupting the television advertising market: Nielsen Media Research has been measuring non-live digital video recorder viewing since last December, TiVo announced Monday an “upfront”, multi-million dollar advertising commitment from Interpublic Media’s Emerging Media Lab (TiVo offers interactive advertising during viewing pauses and a database of...

Tags: digital video recorder

Blog posts 2006-05-17