A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our other blogs: Motorola DOCSIS 3.0 Modems in the Wild: Connected Home 2 Go Tech Behind All-Digital Cable Transition: Connected Home 2 Go MPAA Intends to Close Analog Hole: Geek Tonic The Motorola Museum: Connected Home 2 Go Boxee Fix for Apple TV 2.3: Geek Tonic
Handbrake, my favorite media converter, has just been updated. Version 0.9.3 includes some significant improvements and features that make this a must-download, free application – for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Handbrake 0.9.3 changes include: Convert from all video types (not just DVDs) Improved video quality – uses latest H.264 encoding library improvements. Significant picture … Read more
While Slacker and Pandora are breaking out of the computer, FlyCast is expanding beyond mobile handsets and has just introduced desktop software. The Adobe Air application is both Mac and PC compatible and joins their initial iPhone and Blackberry clients. FlyCast streams a variety of free music and news programming, including many regional radio station … Read more
Announced about a year ago, the Nero+TiVo collaboration has finally borne fruit. Here in North America. Interesting, as this was originally positioned as a means of international TiVo expansion. (Europe may be on tap for 2009.) And now that Nero’s Liquid TV | TiVo PC DVR solution recently started shipping, I’ve been asked to give … Read more
The Microsoft Professional Developer Conference has been covering new features planned for Windows 7 and attendees have received an early version of the software for testing and feedback – so news and tidbits are leaking out onto the web. Last week many screen-shots were available to look at, but there wasn’t much in the way … Read more
Not to sound like a broken record, but Cooliris just keeps getting cooler every day. I fired up the plug-in to show my parents over the weekend, and noticed that the app now has an option for TV episodes. (I’m pretty sure it wasn’t there before, or at least it wasn’t separated out from some … Read more
There’s a new music store in town named Lala.com. TechCrunch and many others are calling it a possible game changer or revolution in music sharing/buying. I was pretty skeptical of the concept at first, but after trying it out I’m pretty impressed. It has potential to be a very nice service as a HTPC plugin, too. … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our other blogs: Transform Your AppleTV with Boxee: Brent Evans Geek Tonic Motorola STB Transfers Content to Cell Phones: Connected Home 2 Go WiMAX Interoperability: Connected Home 2 Go Video Trends in 2009: Connected Home 2 Go