Archive for the ‘Digital Home’ Category
Friday, January 25th, 2008
A game console is in essence a computer with a "gaming operating system". Sony PS3 specs outshine most of our PCs at home, and not only in Graphics power:
CPU: Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 218 GFLOPS
GPU: RSX @550MHz - 1.8 TFLOPS floating point ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
An effective architecture for the Digital Home requires two main elements: a centralized shared storage for media files, and a Media Player that connects to each of the displays at home: TVs, LCD, Plasma screens in different rooms.
We reviewed the shared storage for media, be it a NAS ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
As we anticipated in our 2008 predictions, the demand for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) devices at home is rapidly increasing.
Apple announcement of Time Capsule, even if not a proper NAS, goes into that direction.
There are two trends we all recognize in our digital style-life:
1) An increasing number of media files (photos, ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
2008 Apple's keynote has introduced great products: MacBook Air, iTunes Movie Rentals, AppleTV Take 2, new applications for iPhone and iTouch, and Time Capsule.
Keynote highlights in nine minutes from YouTube:
If you only have 60 seconds to view the 90 minutes keynote, click here.
For the full keynote go to events.apple.com
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Blue-ray is winning the battle for the next-gen DVD. Warner has announced that they will release high-definition movies only in Blue-ray format starting July. With Warner announcement, Sony has secured support for Blue-ray from most of the big film studios.
This is a big win for Sony, specially for the push ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Technologies that will transform our lives in 2008
Telecom
Wimax. Asia will lead in 2008, where greenfield operators will deploy Wimax networks in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Malaysia. Wimax has strong support for end-devices, with Intel and Taiwanese vendors among others, and the spectrum efficiency is superior to 3G. Incumbent wireless operators ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Two more impressive videos to enjoy with the possibilities of Linux MCE.
Many people will be reluctant to move to linux because of lack of official support. Yet you can get tons of support from the many Linux Forums.
On the other side, other options fighting to be the center of home ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
You can download this video in high-def with the text sharp and readable: http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Video
Running on Kubuntu, Linux MCE is probably the most advance Media center in the market, and probably the best option for your digital home... if you are a Linux savvy.
I must admit that installation for the ...
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