Dave Zatz

Hands On with HAVA Mobile (N810)

While many probably think of me as a Slingbox homer, I’m also a HAVA owner. However, while employed by Sling, you might not have trusted me to objectively cover competitor Monsoon Multimedia – so I largely steered clear. (Like the Slingbox, HAVA boxes ($100 – $250) stream content from a variety of set-top boxes over … Read more

The SanDisk 8GB microSD Card Giveaway

In honor of Elephant Day (memory!) and SanDisk’s SlotMusic announcement, we’re giving away a new 8GB microSDHC card with USB adapter (MSRP $60). According to SanDisk: SanDisk® introduces SanDisk® Mobile Ultra™ memory cards supporting fast data transfer speeds provide mobile phone enthusiasts a complete high-performance solution for better management of large numbers of songs, videos, … Read more

Best BitTorrent Clients?

Lifehacker documents their top five BitTorrent software packages: uTorrent (Windows) Deluge (All Platforms) Transmission (Mac OS X/*nix) rTorrent (*nix) Vuze (All Platforms) As someone who steers (mostly) clear of P2P file sharing networks, when dabbling on the dark side I use (and recommend) the simple BitTorrent client built into the cross-platform Opera web browser download … Read more

Sony Launches Life with Playstation

Sony’s out with an interesting PS3 offering today. The Folding@Home download has been updated and rebranded as Life with Playstation. In addition to crunching away on molecular proteins, the add-on now presents current worldwide news (Google) and weather (Weather Channel) accompanied by music (bring your own). But I don’t really want to talk about the … Read more

More Moxi Promises from Digeo

TWICE reports that Digeo will be releasing a HD CableCARD set-top box to MSOs beginning later this month and offering a retail DVR direct to consumers in January. Though I have to say the author was quite kind in his coverage. No mention that this cable box (or a precursor) was expected in 2007 or … Read more

The Constitution Day TiVo Giveaway

In honor of Constitution Day, we’re giving away a few goodies that I picked up prior to TiVo killing their referral program. The prize package, valued at one million dollars, consists of: TiVo Glo remote TiVo coasters TiVo antennae Entering the giveaway is simple. Register for a comment avatar (Gravatar) if you don’t already have … Read more

DECE: The DRM Clearinghouse

I’ve enjoyed watching the DECE (“Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem”) discussion unfold – it makes for good entertainment. A decent amount of the commentary has been the typical knee-jerk “DRM sucks” response you’d expect. And while it may be partially true that this industry alliance (Sony, Best Buy, NBC, Comcast, etc) was formed to fend off … Read more