Daily Archives: Monday, June 25, 2007

Intel does a 180 on OpenCable – and more OCAP news

As recently as November, 2006 Intel was opposed to the licensing terms for OCAP (the OpenCable Application Platform) and they opposed requiring consumer electronics (CE) vendors to support OCAP in general for two-way cable services. Well, things change, and apparently … Continue reading

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The iPhone Cometh!

So, yeah, the iPhone streets this Friday, June 29th. Every tech blog under the sun has covered it to hell and back, so I thought I should join the chorus… Only I really don’t care. I’m a classic early adopter … Continue reading

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Blu-ray / HD DVD war ravages Europe!

OK, maybe ‘ravages’ is a bit strong. ‘Mildly inconveniences’ is probably more like it. Variety has an article on the format war in Europe. Things are a bit different there than in the US. In the US, approximately 33% of … Continue reading

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We’ll be using a laser for that

Is there anything you can’t do with the proper application of lasers? I didn’t think so! Mitsubishi is putting them in TVs – big-screen, rear-projection, HDTVs. Mitsubishi is planning on showing of the sets at CES 2008 in January, and … Continue reading

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