Russell Shaw weighs in on Fox TV’s new ad-supported full-length, high quality videos of eight popuarl TV shows. Odd thing, but I only watch two of these eight, including my fave Bones, but now that it’s online, I might watch Til Death as well. Problem is, the Full Throttle media player plays in a web […]

PureVideo.com is a search portal for online video content from numerous sites. It searches through the meta information that videos are usually tagged with, but it’s not particularly intelligent. I searched for dead rockstar Marc Bolan, and it found one video, even though I know there are several at YouTube alone. (The video was at […]

Ted Wallingford at Signal to Noise points to a Mac Rumours forum thread that says Apple’s new wireless iTV IPTV device, announced earlier this month at an Apple press conference in San Francisco, might incorporate the new, faster “N” (802.11n) wireless specification. That means a full-length movie could be transmitted to an iTV (TV over […]

Imagine an LCD (liquid crystal display) panel that can show three different images to three different people at the same time, provided they view the screen at different angle. In terms of in-car use, such a panel could be used for navigation and video playback, among other things, at the same time. Well Sharp Corp […]

Okay, maybe I’m not as much of a TV junkie as a I thought. I certainly don’t have a TiVo, and certainly not the big TiVo Series3 unit (US$800, or $1,000 with transferred lifetime subscription) that’s pictured over at Engadget. Apparently, though, there are some problems with using TiVos with plasma TVs. It has something […]

Apple only announced their iTunes movie download service last week, but they’ve already pulled in US$1M in sales [CIO]. And that’s despite the limited number of studios (all financially related to Disney) and films (75). Then again, at the current download prices, that’s only 125,000 downloads/ sales. Not exactly record-breaking numbers. However, they are limited […]

Actually, CNBC TV just showed some clips of the device. It has a three-inch screen, 30 Gb of space and integrated wireless capability. In fact, they also showed a clip demonstrating two Zunes communicating, with one transmitting songs to the other. Toshiba will also manufacture the device under the name Pyxis.
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