media Archive

  • AS-iP70: Kenwood’s iPhone/iPod-compatibe 7-inch “multimedia system”

    AS-iP70: Kenwood’s iPhone/iPod-compatibe 7-inch “multimedia system”

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Kenwood Japan has announced [JP] the AS-iP70 today, a swiss army knife of sorts for various media. The device serves as a dock for your iPhone or iPod but can also be used as an AM/FM radio, music player, alarm clock, and a digital picture frame - thanks to its 7-inch LCD screen.

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  • Nationite HDVP-2 wakes up in the morning to stream your media

    Nationite HDVP-2 wakes up in the morning to stream your media

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    These stand-alone media streamers... Why wouldn't you buy a PS3 or Xbox 360, then have a video game system in addition to a cheap-ish way to stream all those scene releases of "The Pacific" you downloaded? (That, or put together a full PC if you're feeling adventurous.) Be that as it may, let's just quickly highlight another option that's out there, the Nationite HDVP-2. Not the snappiest name in the world, no.

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  • Shock study: Kids spend a lot of time online, using their phones

    Shock study: Kids spend a lot of time online, using their phones

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It was only five years ago that kids between the ages of 8 and 18 "only" spent 6.5 hours online. Today, these same kids (well, the same age group) now spend some 7.5 hours online per day between the computer and their mobile. That may not sound like a much until you ask: where did these kids find an entire extra hour to mess around online? It's even crazier when you consider that many of these hours are spent multi-tasking—watching YouTube while listening to iTunes, for example. If you think of it like that, then you can say that kids today are cramming 11 hours of media consumption per day into that 7.5-hour window. Remember: it was only a few years ago that these same kids would have been working in the textile factories of Manchester, so let's not feel too bad for them.

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  • The D-Link Pebble will play your streamed media files on your fancy TV

    The D-Link Pebble will play your streamed media files on your fancy TV

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Squint hard enough and you'll see the D-Link Pebble, a streaming media player that should play “virtually all” of your media files on your big screen TV. You sync the Pebble up to your network, then plug her into your TV, and off you go.

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  • Boxee + Clicker = so close, yet so far

    Boxee + Clicker = so close, yet so far

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    I don't watch a lot of television programming, and I'm not particularly patient with the way "Big Media" treats me, the consumer. I really wanted to like Flash Forward, but it's pretty clear that the show is more interested in hitting that 100 episodes mark to earn syndication than it is in delivering an interesting, gripping story. So I gave up on that, and on a lark decided to try Fringe, to kill some time. Unfortunately, Hulu doesn't have the beginning of the series, let alone the beginning of the current season. I'm not excited about jumping into the show midstream. I'm also not interested in navigating the various network websites to find their hosted copies of the shows I might watch. Isn't that what Hulu was supposed to do for me? Enter Clicker.com. "Clicker aims to become the complete programming guide to Internet television." Indeed, they have an impressive catalog of more than 400,000 television episodes from 7,000 different shows, not to mention movies and original web content. They've been around for awhile, but today they're unveiling their new Boxee app, allowing you to access their impressive catalog of content from within Boxee.

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  • A DVD that lasts 1000 years (but is it scratch resistant?)

    A DVD that lasts 1000 years (but is it scratch resistant?)

    Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
    New kid on the block Cranberry claims that their new DVD will last 1,000 years. Of course no one will be around to dispute that claim, and by then we'll be using some kind of organic memory light data cell, but hey! Who knows, maybe future generations will want to see those vacation photos you took of Grandma Rhoda and Aunt Suzy.

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  • Disney announces new DVD Killer technology

    Disney announces new DVD Killer technology

    Posted on October 21, 2009 | No Comments
    I love companies like Disney. They seem to think that just because they want something some way, it'll happen. Take for instance their latest scheme. Instead of allowing you to "buy" their movies on DVD, Blu-ray, or even VHS, they are going to allow you to buy access to their content.

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  • Peter Moore: Yeah, disc-based games will go the way of the [insert extinct animal here]

    Peter Moore: Yeah, disc-based games will go the way of the [insert extinct animal here]

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like EA finally understands what we've been talking about for a while now: that, in just a few year's time, we'll look back at disc-based media (here, video games) and be all, “Man, how quaint.” Peter Moore, who's the president of EA Sports (no minor position, that), called the disc-based distribution model a “burning platform,” and that companies are either staring in the face of “probable” death or “certain” death, depending on how they want to go about things.

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  • What “on-demand” media really means and why your cable company should be scared

    What “on-demand” media really means and why your cable company should be scared

    Posted on October 17, 2009 | No Comments
    I’ve been angling to get rid of my TiVo and cable for some time now and I believe I’ve finally figured out a solution that works best for me. It involves a lots scripting, Sabnzbd, and HandbrakeCLI and I’ll tell you what I ultimately did next week once it’s stable but it seems to be [...]

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