Category Archives: General Tech

ATI TV Wonder CableCARD tuner available from SonyStyle – for $299.99!

Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 by MegaZone

If you want to record digital cable, including high-def content, you don’t have many options. You can use a cable company DVR, a TiVo Series3 or TiVo HD, or a Vista Media Center PC – and that’s about it. And … Continue reading →

Posted in DVR, General Tech, HDTV, TiVo | 4 Comments

No surprise, Sony planning to bring audio and video downloads to PS3

Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 by MegaZone

The Financial Times reported on Sony’s plans to bring audio and video downloads to the PlayStation Network: “We are building a software infrastructure to distribute video and music, more particularly video, through the PlayStation Network,” said Sir Howard Stringer, Sony … Continue reading →

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Toshiba and Microsoft form “Advanced Interactivity Consortium”

Posted on Thursday, October 4, 2007 by MegaZone

This isn’t very surprising really. Microsoft and Toshiba developed the HDi interactivity platform for HD DVD, and MS has built it into Windows Vista. When Toshiba had HD DVD rubber-stamped by the DVD Forum, HDi was standardized as ‘Advanced Navigation’. … Continue reading →

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Liquid Rescale

Posted on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 by MegaZone

In August I posted about a new way to do image resizing, called Seam Carving, which really impressed me. Watch the video in that post to see what I mean. Well, today I learned that there is already a free, … Continue reading →

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A good reason not to buy a Hava

Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 by MegaZone

Hava is a line of place-shifting devices from Monsoon Multimedia, similar to a Slingbox. Well, apparently, they’re not being good net citizens. Monsoon admits that the Hava used code from the open-source BusyBox project, which is a toolset for embedded … Continue reading →

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