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Are you an Amazon Student member? Need a new PC? Have a free Xbox 360!

Now through September 3, 2011, if you’re an Amazon Student member and you buy a selected PC from Amazon you’ll receive a free 4GB XBox 360. This sounds like a good deal for those looking for back-to-school hardware, and there … Continue reading

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Sling Media Licenses SRS WOW HD For SlingPlayer

Well, it seems that Sling Media has licensed SRS WOW HD audio technology from SRS Labs to incorporate into SlingPlayer for Windows. It looks like this will be used as part of the work to enable surround sound streaming from … Continue reading

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DivX Releases DivX 7, Closes The Circle

DivX has come full circle, what started out as a reverse engineered version of Microsoft’s non-compliant implementation of MPEG-4 Version 3 over ten years ago with DivX 3.11 is now a full-featured product based on H.264 (aka MPEG-3 AVC) with … Continue reading

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SuperSync 3.03 Released, Improves TiVo Support

I reported on the release of SuperSync 2.3 back in April, but now version 3.03 is being announced in conjunction with MacWorld. SuperSync is an iTunes library manager for PC, Mac, and iPod. SuperSync makes it easy to create a … Continue reading

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TiVo Desktop Has Serious Bugs

I’m really getting tired of this. I’ve mentioned this before, but I just have to mention it again since I was just burned, again – TiVo Desktop is terribly buggy. Some of the bugs are annoying, but some of the … Continue reading

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