Archive for August, 2009

Aspire Revo: The Ultimate STB?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I came back from Taipei, and instead of an Asus Eee Box I dreamt about, I got a much cheaper box with much better specs: the Acer Aspire Revo. For around  180 Euro this is what I got: Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz 2GB DDR2 RAM 250 GB HDD nVidia ION Integrated with HDMI Wifi b/g/draft-N 6 ...

The Ultimate STB!

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I will be in Taiwan in a few days, and I do not plan to leave without one of these boxes. I already posted about it. The newest Asus Eee Box is a great product. Small-form that can be (VESA) mounted on the back of the TV, quiet, low power, ...

Why Is Google Acquiring On2?

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Google has announced the acquisition of On2, the company that owns some of the video compression codecs widely used in online video, but that were recently losing ground in favor of h.264. Why is Google spending $106 million in purchasing the owner of  decaying codecs? 1) Google has high hopes for HTML5, ...