Digital Media Bytes

A periodic roundup of relevant news… DirecTV SAT+GO! brown box does portable satellite TV: Gizmodo AOL offering free holiday movie downloads on Saturday: TechCrunch Wal-Mart joins the digital movie download fray: Engadget Better Options than Verizon-YouTube Lite: GigaOm Descriptions and prices of various media extenders: PVRWire

CNET Editor James Kim & Family Missing

Horrible news… James Kim and his family have not returned from a Pacific Northwest road trip. They were last seen Saturday in Oregon driving their silver 2005 Saab station wagon with California tags of “DOESF.” See the documents below for more detailed information and contact numbers. :( James and Kati web page San Francisco Police … Read more

Digital Media Bytes: TiVo Q3 Edition

A periodic roundup of relevant news… Wall Street hits pause on TiVo: CNN Money Struggling TiVo insists the sun’ll come out tomorrow: USA Today TiVo beats expectations again: Forbes Earnings Call Transcript: Seeking Alpha Third quarter results press release: TiVo SEC 8-K summary: TiVo

Digital Media Bytes: PSP Edition

A periodic roundup of relevant news… PSP 3.01 software update released Buy PSone games online via Playstation3, view music animations, and disable UMD auto-start. Sony PSP Internet Video Guide Learn how to use PSP Video 9 to get YouTube and Google Video onto your system. DVR Playground PSP sales up Hardware sales up 280% and … Read more

TiVo Heads South Of The Border

Cablevision has entered into a relationship with TiVo to distribute Spanish-language DVRs to their Mexico City customers in the first half of 2007. No bundled hardware/service pricing details or technological specifics were given. (Which units? Will TiVo have an operations center in Mexico? Will TiVo software ultimately run on hardware Cablevision provides? etc.) When I … Read more

Mac Slingplayer Needs GUI Refresh?

There’s been a decent amount of discussion regarding the (beta) Mac Slingplayer’s non-standard OS X interface. For example, MacWorld writes: The Mac SlingPlayer software works essentially like its Windows counterpart, and that’s good as well as bad. The first public beta of the Mac software, released Tuesday, makes no attempt to hide its Windows origins. … Read more