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[atmaspheric | endeavors] Cablecard delivers a superior picture (no cable box compression) and the 2.0 version will give you two-way control so you won’t need a box for VOD or enhanced services if your provider supports this function. It’s also good news for third party DVR makers like TIVO and will hopefully be the path to HDTV on HTPC’s like MCE.
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Russell Beattie Notebook] Random Tech Thoughts: As soon as someone comes out with a mass-market Airport Express-like device which uses my Computer’s hard drive and OS in the other room as the brains behind the system, instead of having to have a dedicated box, there’s going to be serious trouble for TiVo. Sony is trying to brand the PS3 as some sort of media center as well as a game machine.
[The Nears] Who is Peter Near?: The international Tivo hacks looked too risky and like they probably wouldn’t meet my needs, and I stumbled onto the Windows XP Media Center information somewhere along the line. I started hanging out in microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter looking for information on the new offering, and got involved in sharing rumors, hopes and thoughts about Media Center in the newsgroups.
[atmaspheric | endeavors] Media Center Limitations: Supposedly a more stable beta is coming later this year and as soon as I can get MCE and WMP to import my large library I’ll be testing out the speed and hopefully we see an improvement. Matt Goyer from Microsoft said we would, but like you I’m waiting to see it with my own eyes before buying off on it.
[Ed Bott’s Media Central] More on MCE and HDTV: Chris Lanier has an excellent response to the ongoing discussion over HDTV in Windows Media Center Edition 2005. I don’t agree with 100% of what he’s written, but I agree with most of it, and I think most of our disagreements are based on market approaches more than technical facts.
[atmaspheric | endeavors] Media Center: I’d really like to see MCE (or a system from Apple) succeed in this category but it has to work for more than just simple users. Tivo (outside of DirectTV and $1000) does not support HDTV.
[tekniaXP News] Orb "home station" - Remotely Access Your Home TV And Radio Channels From Anywhere With Your Cellphone, PDA Or Laptop: Team or family members can be added to your Orb account allowing each person to customize their Orb preferences without impacting others in the group. This can provide a tremendously effective means to remotely access a centralized database of rich-media content that needs to be accessed by field people from anywhere, or by a mobile team equipped only with mobile phones and PDAs.
[Ed Bott's Windows Expertise] HDTV, MCE, DRM, and DCMA: In fact, Thomas asks rhetorically, “Would a better solution be to create a technology to capture a HDTV stream between the cable box and the TV, record it without restriction (remember BetaMax?), and fight the bastards in court? Would a better solution be to completely empower the consumer and scorch and burn the rest of Hollywood…?”
[Pvrblog.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: What's really interesting is that while Verizon is laying down fiber to many major cities and competing with Cable and DSL companies for internet service (Verizon offers 5, 15, and even 30Mbps connections), fiber has plenty of bandwidth left over for sending data like HDTV. While this review is brief and light on details, it looks like Verizon is using a similar Motorola DVR box as Comcast does for HD.
[Blogmaverick.com] HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future - Blog Maverick - www ...: Handwringing: But I'm troubled by the amount of "Who is going to develop the next generation of x?" comments in your blog and responses. Why are next-gen hardware and distribution media/systems someone else's problem?
[Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo - Home Entertainment: And a whole bunch of other sound-tastic gadgets that are impossibly beautiful. His latest is this Mellotron keyboard powered by classic Walkmans.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Tivo, PVR, Plasma TV News
Posted at October 20, 2005 07:58 PM
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