Category Archives: General Tech

A new way to do image re-targeting

Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 by MegaZone

This isn’t the kind of thing I normally post about, but it was just too cool to pass by. TechCrunch posted this video of a demonstration of ‘image re-targeting’ by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan. Re-targeting is basically … Continue reading →

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CableLabs allows digital cable content out of its box

Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2007 by MegaZone

CableLabs has approved the DTCP-IP content protection system for digital cable content, which allows the content to be moved between devices over IP networks. Using DTCP (Digital Transmission Copy Protection)-protected secure links among consumer electronics devices, cable subscribers will be … Continue reading →

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Monsoon Multimedia Announces ‘Win a HAVA’

Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by MegaZone

As we’ve covered in the past, Hava is a lesser known, and generally lesser featured, competitor to Sling Media’s Slingbox. Hava has a couple of tricks the Slingbox lacks, but overall Sling is the leader. But free is free, and … Continue reading →

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TiVo’s disaster recovery plan

Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 by MegaZone

As part of my job (Director of IT) I skim a lot of newsletters and such each day to keep on top of the industry news. One of today’s Network World emails caught my eye since it mentioned TiVo. They’d … Continue reading →

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Roxio Popcorn 3 includes TiVoToGo support

Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 by MegaZone

Previously, the only official TiVoToGo solution for Macs was built into Roxio Toast 8, which carries a hefty price tag of $99.99 ($79.99 after rebate). Well, now Roxio brings TiVoToGo support to their lighter-weight application ‘Popcorn’, in the new revision … Continue reading →

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