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Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?

Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?Considering TV viewing is dropping..like a rock, I think most people would probably agree that a 3-d turd is still a turd.How about better TV content?One reason why I didn't buy HDTVsI knew that 3d TV will be coming,...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, turd, TV, HDTV, TV Content

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Archos Wi-Fi media receiver includes DVR for recording TV content

Archos Wi-Fi media receiver includes DVR for recording TV contentIf it can't handle HD, isn't it obsolete out of the box?What am I missing?

Tags: DVR, Wireless LANs, Digital video, TVs, Archos Wi-Fi, Archos Wi-Fi media receiver, media receiver, TV Content, Archos, digital video recorder, Wi-Fi, TV

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

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Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Vuze 4.3.0.4 (Mac)

Vuze is the most powerful bittorrent software application to Find, Download, and Play HD video content on the Web. With the latest release, you get powerful new search capabilities, along with the ability to play your HD videos on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, Vuze, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Haihaisoft Universal Player 1.4.8 (Windows)

Haihaisoft Universal Player 1.4 offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. It supports playing more than 400 media formats and the media files protected by DRM-X. Haihaisoft Universal Player has its own online ActiveX Player which supports playing protected or unprotected...

Tags: WMV, Media, WMA, Microsoft Windows, Haihaisoft, Haihaisoft Universal Player, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Xilisoft iPhone Transfer 2.1.38.1030 (Windows)

As the all-around iPhone transfer software, Xilisoft iPhone Transfer can easily copy and export iPhone songs, videos, photos, podcasts and TV programs to PC/iTunes and import PC files to iPhone with ease. This iPhone copy software can manage and transfer files between iPhone and PC, and use iPhone like a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows, Xilisoft, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Live from Googleplex: Chrome OS details revealed

Ubuntu 9.10 has more immediate potentialMight I suggest trying Ubuntu 9.10? A phenominal OS with much more to offer then even Windows 7.Open source, free and ready to try today...http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1122http://www.tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparisonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgWE6Svpaghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-nad9N3pgNot that I have readI'd stick with 904immediate potential to sink in obscurityGoogle was Linux's last fleeting chance to turn...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

FCC to review regulatory and legal impacts to cloud services and identity management

FCC Overstepping its authority againWhy do we as a society, blindly ignore when the government overreaches its authority?The FCC only has authority to regulate the airwaves.The Internet and related technologies have nothing to do with the FCC, and they have no authority in this area.We need to wake up, people....

Tags: Federal government, Big Government, identity management, FCC, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

PBX Telecom IPTV 1.03 (Mac)

PbxTV is a multi-feature, multi-platform online video content streaming application built based on the community's suggestions and critics. PbxTV can deliver high quality full motion live TV signal at very low bitrates. This enables the product to be available on any kind of internet connection ranging from dial-up to ADSL...

Tags: Channel, Apple Macintosh, Mobile, PBX, Fightersoft Multimedia, PbxTV, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Cellular Phones, Broadband Internet, 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Firefox faces browser clone war in China

Come on ZDNet!!!!Is this really newsworthy????Newsworthy? That's not the point...ZDNet's intent was not to write about anything worthwhile. It's intent was to draw you in and to have you read further in order to get you to visit at least one more page in their web-site.If they had...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

MP3 Rocket 5.3.4 (Windows)

MP3Rocket the fastest file sharing download software for mp3 music and movies. Award winning software providing the smartest and fastest access to millions of songs, MP3s, movies, TV shows, live channels and games. MP3Rocket combines powerful Gnutella and BitTorrent technologies with effortless live channel streaming to give you the world's...

Tags: MP3 Rocket, Microsoft Windows, MP3Rocket, Advertising & Promotion, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Apple contemplating free, ad-supported iPhone?

Apple has no tasteOh, wait, no, that was Microsoft that had no taste because there are Windows 7 desktop themes available that have images of Coke cans in them. Isn't that right tigertank? For some reason that I can't wait to hear, this move by Apple, however, is very tasteful.Cue...

Tags: advertisement, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Vizio VO320E

Photo gallery: Vizio VO320EVizio chose to adorn its VO320E 32-inch LCD with claims of environmental consciousness, saying the little set exceeds Energy Star guidelines by 15 percent. But that's not a very high standard, and according to our tests the Vizio, while definitely no power hog, sips just...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, Vizio, Vizio VO320E

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Toshiba 32AV502U

Photo gallery: Toshiba AV502U seriesWhen we say the Toshiba AV502U series can produce relatively deep black levels, the key word is "relatively." It's perhaps more accurate to say that its shade of black outdoes most other less-expensive, lower resolution small-screened LCDs we've seen by a narrow margin. It...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, menu system, Toshiba AV502U, Toshiba Corp., LCD

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Rupert Murdoch's Google taunts are a bid to unite publishers - content will be king

Rubert Murdoch, go away.He is an old man from the last century. Why doesn't he just retire rather than being a super ludite mucking up and fighting modern technology?And why does he seem to need the money that he will never be able to enjoy. It is very...

Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, Rupert Murdoch

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

GOOG could lose more than Murdoch

Thanks, this was insightfulWhat if Murdoch and minions stroke a deal with a more desperate Google competitor - and blocked Google. That would be a very real threat. If users suddenly finds that Google returns fewer quality results than competitors, Google could lose search share, fast. That would strike directly...

Tags: Operational accounting, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Apple nukes Psystar

Why is this legal?What I want to know is *why* is it legal for Apple to say "OSX can only run on hardware we provide"? Wouldn't that constitute a monopoly on OSX since they stifle competition and someone else can't provide OSX software systems? Isn't that the literal...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, OSX, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Samsung Mythic SGH-A897 (AT&T)

Even though AT&T launched its live mobile TV service more than a year ago, but few support it-- the last one we saw was the Samsung Eternity, which was released in October 2008. Now it seems that AT&T may be looking to breathe fresh life to the service by releasing...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Telecom & Utilities, NOW IT, phone dialer, Mythic, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., home screen, phone, AT&T Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-14