Dave Zatz

Tendon Cable Giveaway

Tendon USA, an economical online computer & AV cable distributor, sent me a few samples to evaluate. However, I’m giving them away and leaving the evaluation to you. Both cables are 4 meters – we’ve got HDMI<->HDMI and DVI<->HDMI. Leave one comment telling me which cable you could use, and when I get around to … Read more

The Simpsons Advertising Overload

The Simpsons Movie opens today. Which probably isn’t news to anyone, given their massive advertising campaign – I don’t recall a movie ever pushed across such different media like this. On my flight out to CA, not only was my television advertising The Simpsons (above) but every cocktail napkin was also imprinted with the message … Read more

Digital Media Bytes: Brad Linder Edition

A periodic roundup of relevant news… brought to us by Brad Linder. Upload Videos to YouTube with Verizon phones: Download Squad ABC launches HD online video player: TV Squad TiVo CEO Tom Rogers talks TiVo HD: TV Squad YouTube/CNN debate roundup: Brad Linder’s Digital Home

DivX Dumps Stage6

Later this year, DivX plans to divorce itself of video sharing site Stage6 – which will emerge as an independent company. I think DivX discovered what the founders of YouTube have already learned… Video-serving bandwidth expenses add up quickly. Not to mention Stage6 provides content at higher resolutions than most sites. The DivX release: We … Read more

Xbox 360 HD DVD Drops $20

Microsoft will be dropping the price of their Xbox 360 HD DVD player from $199 to $179 come August 1st. While a $20 discount isn’t very compelling, they’re also offering five free HD DVD titles. But with a Netflix subscription, who cares? If they really want to move these, MS needs to bring them down … Read more

Meta-Blogging: Schmoozing in San Fran

I’m visiting our Bay Area office this week, which gives me a chance to get a healthy dose of schmoozing in. (Not much goes on in the DC area.) So Sunday night, I took a circuitous route from the Oakland airport to Foster City by way of downtown San Francisco and Davis Freeberg. I introduced … Read more

What’s Up With Netflix?

The Netflix website has been down over 12 hours. Crazy! The Netflix web site is temporarily unavailable. It is anticipated that the site will be available again at 1:00 PM Pacific time. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes you. Please visit us again soon. I don’t suppose this means cool, new features are being … Read more