[mathewingram.com/work] Cisco buy TiVo? Dream on, TiVo fans: CNet.com has a piece up on its website that talks about how networking equipment giant Cisco Systems might be looking to acquire TiVo, the digital-video recording pioneer. The article, which is labelled “news analysis” ”” which in the journalism business is code for “speculation” ”” starts off with Cisco’s recently announced $6.9-billion

[Harga-blog] A network for TiVo?: TiVo’s announcement today, in case anyone missed the headlines (e.g., Yahoo), lays out a nice role for TiVo: enabling you to view your recorded programs on an iPod or Sony Playstation Portable. This is a big leap forward, if they can pull it off, and they’re hinting it should be ready the first quarter of 2006.

[topdvrsites.com] Toshiba (DVR) Qosmio G25-AV513 (CNET)Combining: Combining TV, DVR, stereo, DVD player, and high-performance PC in one big laptop, the Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513 delivers the most complete multimedia experience available in a laptop.

 [News.com.com] New DVR drops jaws in London | CNET News.com: He said that not long ago, the notion of TiVo recording 15 hours of television was revolutionary. And now, he said, technology has reached the point where it's possible to imagine recording 30, 60 or even 90 days of programming.

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 [Greatestjournal.com] Planet Hamster: Jon and I had lunch with Vernon's sister Serena: she told us about Wheaton life at a conservative Christian college (Megan told us that there were both marriages and divorces), music, Westminster Choir College life, craving Chinese food while in Princeton, getting free toilet paper from someone, and various security-related anecdotes after 9/11. It was pretty much all interesting, except for when Jon and Serena got into specialized music discussion: she's not marrying a musician, since she'll need a break from that sort of thing!

 [Woodyocean.blogspot.com] Milky's Daily Ramblings: March 2005: Milky's uncle, being sooo nice, gave her a $50 voucher to dine at Crystal Jade by the end of March. Milky loves food, especially the mango pudding from Crystal Jade.

 [Urbanvancouver.com] PubSub: Vancouver Yaletown | Urban Vancouver: don’t miss the Tandoori-crusted tuna tataki with mango-papaya pickles. best sellers include miniature prehistoric Sago Palms (see page 47) and hand-tied .

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 [MacHelp from Maui] Faster, Faster!: Between bagels this morning I was wandering the web in search of good blog-fodder. There weren’t any a coffee spitters, outside of the usual groaners on Fark.com, but one press-release brought up a couple of points that I’d like to expand on.

[Who the hell is Ashwin] DVD Recordable Formats: Well you should get the same speed as your DVD Burner supports. If you get slower than what it supports do note try to burn with a higher speed than what the disc says on it or you will probably end up with a coaster.

[mediageek] How Good Is Your DVD-/+R media?: I’ve been burning DVDs since the first DVD-R burners came out six or seven years ago. And, generally, DVD burning has been a dicier, more error-prone proposition than CD burning, whether it’s just data DVD-Rs or video DVDs.

[HD For Indies] Pioneer launching Blu-Ray burners at CES next... : The home entertainment market is waiting on PS3 to come out in spring and attach that to their LCD, plasma or whatever kind of HDTV they have, even though most can only do full 720 and don't come near full 1080. As for burning blu-ray movies from your own work, most of that will be done in 720 since like you said Varicam and the much cheaper HVX-200 can only do true 720.

[Video Equipment] Introducing the PlayO 2.4X Double Layer DVD +R... : Introducing the PlayO 2.4X Double Layer DVD +R by Abcron TMCnet - Dec 20, 2005”¦ new contender in the consumer electronics marketplace, announced today a new addition to its line of optical media products the 2.4X PlayO Double Layer DVD +R. ”¦ New Review: RiDisc 16x Silver & White Printable DVD-R DVD-Recordable - Dec 9, 2005In this review he

 [Videoguys.com] Videoguys -Pioneer DVR-R100 $75! DVR-610 $55!: The BDR-101A Blu-ray Disc writer will write and read single-layer BD-R and BD-RE discs (without cartridge), and read single-layer and double-layer BD-ROM discs (without cartridge). Also, featuring proprietary Pioneer optical technology, such as the Ultra Dynamic Resonance Absorber and the Multi-Effect Liquid Crystal Tilt Compensator, the new writer will ensure high reliability in high-density recording and playback with Blu-ray Discs as well as DVD discs.

 [Oreillynet.com] Buying the Best DVD-R Media: Weblog authors are solely responsible for the content and accuracy of their weblogs, including opinions they express, and O'Reilly Media, Inc. disclaims any and all liability for that content, its accuracy, and opinions it may contain.

 [Compreviews.about.com] DVD Burners: All of the recorders pretty much support 16x speeds for DVD+R and DVD-R media. The major differences in them comes from the speeds for dual layer media and .

 [Hardwaresecrets.com] How to Buy a DVD Recorder | Hardware Secrets: So, if you have an older 2x DVD+R burner, insert a DVD+R 4x media in it and your unit doesn't recognize the disc, watch out! Accordingly to DVD manufacturers if you try to make an older DVD unit to read a new kind of media incompatible to that unit or if you forget this incompatible disc inside the unit, you can destroy the media or even your DVD unit!

 [Hothardware.com] Dual-Layer DVD Burner Roundup - HotHardware.com: the performance of dual-layer drives and media until Blu-Ray and HD-DVD .They're still a far cry from the $.50 per blank DVD-R that you can find .

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 [[unsanity] Weblog - Unsanity - Makers of Haxies, small useful utilities that enhance and redefine how Mac OS X works.] Lost in Transition: Overcane of Antflower Milk: Intel CPUs actually use a 64-bit data path (part of the FPU) for the 128-bit SSE2/SSE3 registers, which means more than one micro-op is necessary for each instruction (2-cycle latency is typical). (Also, this implementation detail shows up in the form of a couple of strange quirks in the instruction set.) In practice, whether this matters depends on a number of factors, and only benchmarking specific apps on specific hardware can tell you which platform is superior for your particular needs.

[Macandstuff.com] MAS Weblog: The external PX-716UF includes a dual interface that supports both Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and full-speed compliant IEEE-1394 FireWire®, enabling a Plextor customer to easily share a single external high-performance DVD/CD recorder among multiple Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows-based personal computer systems. Burst data transfer rates of 480 Mbps (USB 2.0) or 400 Mbps (FireWire) allow a user to burn a 4.7GB DVD+R disc in approximately six minutes.

 [Videoguys.com] Videoguys -Pioneer DVR-R100 $75! DVR-610 $55!: Among the key features of the PRV-LX1 is its real-time video recording capabilities, which streamlines the DVD video capture, compression, authoring and recording processes while operating with the simplicity of a VTR. Users now have an alternative to high end PC-based DVD authoring systems because the PRV-LX1 is designed to easily transfer video and audio content to DVD while offering the ability to customize DVD menus and chapter points - a first for a standalone video recorder.

 [Desktopvideo.about.com] 10 Best DVD Burners for 2006: Sony DRX-710UL External Dual Layer DVD±RW Writer .THe drive can create a 4.7 GB disc on DVD media in about 6 minutes.

 [Physorg.com] Sony Hits Sweet 16X With New DVD Burners: Both of Sony's Double Layer drives come bundled with award-winning Nero(R) DVD video authoring software, as well as with DVD/CD burning software for creation of data, music, and video DVDs and CDs. The full-featured software suite also includes packet-writing software for users to easily record files and folders by dragging to the icon of a DVD+RW/CD-RW disc.

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[Darknet] Index: Fellow bloggers helped inform my understanding of the digital culture wars, especially Dave Winer, Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen, Jenny Levine, Marc Canter, Rebecca Blood, Meg Hourihan, Evan Williams, David Sifry, Joi Ito, Jon Lebkowsky, Anil Dash, Mitch Kapor, Seth Finkelstein, Donna Wentworth, James Grimmelmann, Robert Scoble, Mark Cuban, Halley Suitt, David Rothman, Susan Mernit, Mary Hodder, Kevin Heller, Frank Field, Sheila Lennon, Denise Howell, Steve Rubel, Ben Edelman, Tim Jarrett, Derek Powazek, Christopher Lydon, Leonard Witt, Tim Porter, Morrie Johnston, Lisa Rein, Matt Haughey, John Patrick, Mitch Ratcliffe, Om Malik, Christian Crumlish, Ben Hammersley, Scott Matthews, Dave Farber and his mailing list, and countless others.

 [Ehomeupgrade.com] eHomeUpgrade | Connected Home & Digital Lifestyle News [Digital ...: new version of its award-winning DVR software that supports DivX, FM Radio, .SnapStream Media, Inc.

[Byopvr.com] SnapStream HDTV BeyondTV 4 Now Shipping! :: Build Your Own PVR ...: November 10, 2005- SnapStream Media, Inc., a leader in digital home entertainment products, announced today the launch of Beyond TV 4, a completely new version of its award-winning DVR software that supports DivX, FM Radio, recording of over-the-air (OTA) digital and HDTV content, and a new browse by category feature, as well as numerous stability and performance improvements.

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 [Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo - Home Entertainment: There is a fair amount of hype, Microsoft seems more committed to the Japanese market (example: the Xbox Lounge) and they are employing the clever tactic of making as much of a fanfare about the improved Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI as possible, which will drag in a good chunk of hardcore gamers like wide-eyed primates to the monolith.

 [Buyinghdtv.blogspot.com] 1080eye: Mark Kersey's HDTV News Blog: It’s difficult to say exactly how many choose to receive their digital signals over-the-air - or just use their new big-screen to watch DVDs - but most estimates conclude that fewer than half of all HDTV owners subscribe to HD service. That’s a substantial missed opportunity for HD service providers and programmers, and unlike a year or two ago, the gap cannot be blamed on HD service availability, as the NCTA reports that high-def programming is available to 90 million cable homes passed in 177 of the nation’s 210 TV markets.

 [Edbott.com] Ed Bott's Windows Expertise » Making the case for the CableCARD: Cable is only now reluctantly offering their own PVR technology and is not willing to innovate and provide the type of services available that the PC and CE manufacturers can and will at the consumer and free market demand.

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 [Tips & Tricks] Setting Up a Wireless Entertainment Network: Additional features provide extras such as sound leveling, balance controls, special indexing and searching, Internet radio access, streaming audio from online sources, and so on. The main thing being added to this class of software at the moment is access to music libraries that let you download music.

 [Talkontalk.blogspot.com] Talk on Talk: Yes, it's a fantastic deal, but not one you're likely to find in stores. Save the driving & standing in line, plus get a better deal when you order from our online cellular store.

 [Gigaom.com] Om Malik ”” The Next Generation Internet.: So far there has been a little buzz on the company because for one simple reason - many of the bloggers are Mac users. I have argued in the past that a start-up short on cash to spend on PR efforts should try going the Mac route first, because it brings in early adopters and influencers.

 [Sramanamitra.com] Sramana Mitra on Strategy: Read this great article from Business Week on Movie Marketing by targeting specific grassroots websites and blogs via Google: a case study on how a low-budget indie movie has grossed $22.5 Million so far, led by Interactive Marketing Executive Amy Powell, and powered by Google.

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 [Forum.digitalspy.co.uk] Digital Spy Forums - RGB Input Selection: American TV News - Broadcasting Forum - DVR Forum - Home Theatre Forum .Ah, I think I misunderstood then, the AV1 socket initially defaults to .

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 [Us.gizmodo.com] MobiX USB TV Tuner - Gizmodo: Here are the goods: it’s ultra-portable, USB-compatible, has DVR capabilities and records in a common MPEG2 format. And the bad: It looks stupid as hell and it is expensive, nearly $200 dollars expensive, and it has to be shipped from the UK.

 [Chris.pirillo.com] HDTV Happiness (Chris Pirillo): Even OnDemand doesn't give me high definition access (thanks again, Comcast). For the first time in my life, I'm underwhelmed with the quality of DVDs - they used to look phenomenal on my old televisions.

 [Funponsel.com] My Other Side of the Stories: IBM recently demonstrated their technology for the low-cost high-resolution 3D images from a rear projector television or home-cinema projector at the 22nd annual Flat Information Displays conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Nov. To achieve the 3D effect, viewers must wear passive polarized glasses like those seen in IMAX theaters.

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 [FrankLog] TiVo Losing Internet Buzz Steam: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/tv_nm/tivo_dc">TiVo brand appears to be losing it's luster, at least among users who have commented on Digital Video Recorders on any of 80,000 web sites and discussion groups on the topic. The beneficiaries of this change of attitude seem to be Dual-Tuner and High Definition DVRs such as Motorola's DCT-6412, distributed through Comcast and other cable providers.

 [Tips & Tricks] Setting Up a Wireless Entertainment Network: If you want to incorporate a device like the Motorola SURFboard® Wireless Cable Modem Gateway SBG1000 shown earlier into your entertainment network, you will need to do so yourself. The world of set-top boxes offers a unique opportunity to computer vendors, and everyone from Microsoft (with the Windows CE operating system), to Linux, to Sun with Java wants to penetrate this market.

[Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection] New Speculation that a TiVo / Comcast Deal is Still Alive: USATODAY.com - Deal could allow Comcast to use TiVo's software on DVRs USA Today is reporting that TiVo is close to an agreement with cable giant Comcast that would allow Comcast to run TiVo's software on their boxes according to an unnamed source. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting a possible Comcast deal citing unnamed people "familiar with the matter."

 [Erik.thauvin.net] Erik's Linkblog: The city of Mountain View decides to lease Google some space on light posts, thus kicking off construction of Google's free citywide Wi-Fi network.

 [Gigaom.com] Om Malik : On Broadband, VoIP & The Next Generation Internet: Instead if you went for this other offer, which gets you a 40-hour box for $49.95 if you sign-up for a year at $12.95 a month you pay $205.35. With the latest plan, TiVo is essentially giving a $2 discount, and making noise with the word “FREE.”

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 [Coldforged.org] coldforged.org » 2005 » September: Hell, I don’t know how we allowed ourselves to survive it before the DVR days. (Note: I realize that television watching is hardly a divinely mandated right and that people are suffering the world over and couching anything having to do with such germane a task as watching a television show in the terms of “survival”

 [Jessey.net] si-blog: This is the personal weblog of Simon Jessey - web designer and standards evangelist. Find out more about Simon, his family, and his interests.

 [Volokh.com] The Volokh Conspiracy - Terms That Have Become Unmoored from Their ...: One more that I came across in this article on FNC about the beginning of the beatification process for Pope John Paul II: "Devils Advocate." 1) Apparently the term itself is no longer used (JPII, of all people, changed it), 2) the devil's advocate is not literally an advocate for the devil, it is more an "oppposing counsel" role in the sainthood process, the one that argues against beatification/canonizaton. (Besides, I think the devil has more than his fair share of lawyers to choose from as is.)

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 [B.Mann Consulting | Technology Consulting in Vancouver] TiVo in Canada and other PVR info: There have been PVR  options available in Canada before this from all the major players, but TiVo has long been acknowledged as the best user interface, as well as a large number of add on options for working with recorded shows on your computer or elsewhere on your home network.

 [TP.c] BUILD YOUR OWN OPEN SOURCE DVR: If I build my own PVR, all I can do is look for other like-minded individuals who have either posted the same or similar problems or who have made themselves available to help people. You can’t get mad at them or they won’t help you.

[ODBlog] Open Sourcing Home Theater: Even thought the Mac mini is nothing more than a headless G4 iMac, lacking the screen and G5 of the iMac, it's generating lots of interest on the net. I see lots of thinking about how to integrate a Mac mini into a home theater setup, coordinating digital media and acting as a personal video recorder.

[Pvrblog.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: I'd done the DirecTV thing for the past couple years and their HD offerings were pretty minimal (and required buying a ~$500 box) though they claim they will have the most programming by 2007 when their new satellites are operational. I decided to go with Comcast, since it was simple, cheap, and here right now.

 [Anandtech.com] AnandTech: The Mac mini as a Media Computer: To do what with, who knows - some wanted it for their parents/grandparents, others wanted to try out Mac OS X and never had a cheap way of doing it, and another group of PC users didn’t know why they wanted it - it was small, it looked cool and they, well, just wanted it.

[Pvr.blogs.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: After five years of being a happy TiVo customer (first with standalone units, then with DirecTV units) it was time to finally try out HDTV and to do that meant I had only a couple options in my area: try a cable company HD DVR or a satellite company HD DVR. I'd done the DirecTV thing for the past couple years and their HD offerings were pretty minimal (and required buying a ~$500 box) though they claim they will have the most programming by 2007 when their new satellites are operational.

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[Krunker] Logitech LDR-PCA880 Portable 4x DL DVD Burner: Logitec has a new set of portable DVD burners out - the LDR-PCA880U2 (supporting USB 2.0) and the LDR-PCA880F/M supporting IEEE1394. These drives support DX DVD DL+/-R burning and will also burn regular DVD+/-R at speeds of up to 8X.

 [Dvdsanta.com] dvdSanta: dvdSanta is an All-in-One software that lets you copy, create, convert and burn your DVD movies. It can copy 9GB double layer DVD movies into a 4.7GB DVD-R disc, can turn your photos into DVD movies with Hollywood style motion effects, can convert other video formats(avi,wmv,vob,asf…) into DVD video, can transfer miniDV camcorder tapes directly to DVD video.

 [Woot.com] Woot : HP Athlon 64 Desktop with DVD Burner: It handily provides a heroic processor (an AMD 64 bit 3200+, to be honestly precise), a hard drive with 200GB of holding power, a hella primo DVD+R/RW drive with CD writer capabilities, and a highly potent 512MB of RAM.

[Macandstuff.com] MAS Weblog: The external PX-716UF includes a dual interface that supports both Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and full-speed compliant IEEE-1394 FireWire®, enabling a Plextor customer to easily share a single external high-performance DVD/CD recorder among multiple Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows-based personal computer systems. Burst data transfer rates of 480 Mbps (USB 2.0) or 400 Mbps (FireWire) allow a user to burn a 4.7GB DVD+R disc in approximately six minutes.

 [Reviews-zdnet.com.com] Burner buying guide - ZDNet: Reviews: Also coming down the pike (albeit slowly) are blue-laser drives and discs that can pack 3 to 5 times the capacity of a DL DVD onto a single disc, which is the key for recording high-definition video. Format wars reminiscent of the +R/-R clashes have been raging between two camps: the Blu-ray disc faction supports a disc (and the accompanying drive technology) capable of holding 50GB, while the HD-DVD group touts a disc that holds about 15GB but uses technology that more closely resembles current DVD technology.

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[Pvrblog.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: Dave Zatz talked to founder Micke Langberg, who said I can’t see that there should be any legal concerns related to our service, since it is exactly the same thing as asking your neighbor to record a TV show for you. The FAQ on the site expands on this:

 [Reviews.cnet.com] DVR app for Web radio - Alpha - Blog.CNET.com - CNET.com: Everybody seems to have a DVR app for recording TV programs to their computer's hard drive, but what about Web radio? Recording audio streams has always been technically possible with a little internal rerouting of your PC's audio signal chain and a sound recording app like Sound Forge, but now Magix, better known for its programs for musicians and DJs, has a simple solution for recording Web audiocasts.

 [Thelastminute.typepad.com] The Last Minute: The ol PVR to tha DVR: PVR stands for Personal Video Recorder and DVR stands for Digital Video Recorder. They both refer to any device that records tv shows for viewing at a later time. 

 [Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog: The MediaReady 5000 is a prettied-up Linux box that supports audio and video shares through Windows and OS X and includes a DVR, scheduler, photo viewer, and even a web browser (Firefox) and email client (Thunderbird). They’ve done a good job of making it nice and user friendly and it even includes a keyboard with scroll wheel a la WebTV.

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[Edn.com] Mobile video headlines at NAB 2005 - On The Verge - Blog on EDN ...: In this blog, EDN Editor-at-Large Maury Wright focuses on digital consumer-electronics gadgets and the converged networks that feed them with video, audio, and data.

[Dailywireless.org] Daily Wireless: Verizon already delivers video clips to mobile phones as part of its V-Cast, .A DVB-H radio receiver in the handset sends 15 Mbit/s of data per 8MHz .

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