Interesting News Dave Hasn’t Covered

Never enough time… A video business ready to move beyond beta. (NY Times) Movie downloads remain a production worth skipping. (Washington Post) Fox attempts to thwart DVR fast-forwarding with static image. (AP) Apple iTV: What you need to know. (MacWorld) DivX goes corporate. (Davis Freeberg)

Interesting News Dave Hasn’t Covered

Never enough time… while under the weather. Second generation HD-DVD players on the way. (HDBeat) Turn your iPod into a PVR. (PVRWire) Hands on with Sonos 2.0. (LiveDigitally) Amazon Unbox licensing is evil. (Boing Boing)

Interesting News Dave Hasn’t Covered

Never enough time… Pirate content with PC HDMI capture card in October. (HDBeat) Video walk-thru of Media Center features on Vista. (RetroSight) DirecTV’s new HD DVR recalled? (PVRWire) Video sharing coming to Akimbo via Blip.tv. (Yahoo)

Sling CEO Interviewed, Additional OS Support Revealed

Blake Krikorian, Sling Media co-founder and CEO, was interviewed by The Guardian. It’s a good read in which he discusses where Sling is, where they intend to go, and the market in general. Of particular interest is confirmation that the Mac SlingPlayer beta is underway and that at least one other OS will be supported … Read more

iTunes 7 Web Roundup

The Good iTunes 7’s big new features. (TUAW) How to back up your music using iTunes 7. (TUAW) Use QTFairUse 2.3 to strip FairPlay DRM. (Engadget) The Bad iTunes doesn’t see all Nanos. (Apple) Streaming to SoundBridge is broken. (Roku) The Ugly iTunes 7 ate all my purchased music. (Wil Wheaton)

TiVoCast Adds NY Times

If you recall, broadband-connected Series2 (and later this year, the Series3) video downloads were branded ‘TiVoCast’ in June. As promised, the service has been expanding (you can probably skip Heavy) and the New York Times is now serving up content — up to 10 minutes a day, depending on what’s going on in the world. … Read more

Dave Covers Zune

blah blah blah Toshiba Gigabeat S blah blah blah plus MusicGremlin blah blah blah battle iPod/iTunes blah blah blah If you’d like more verbose coverage, I suggest Engadget: Zune player, Zune marketplace