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VidaBox Media Servers Now Provide HD DVD & Blu-ray Storage and Streaming Capabilities

WESTBURY, NY – March 5th – VidaBox LLC is proud to announce new HD DVD & Blu-ray storage and streaming abilities on their line of premium media center systems. Unencrypted titles can be copied onto a VidaBox server, and then streamed to VidaBox extenders. These capabilities will be debuted in Demo...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Mar 5 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD, Media Center PC's, Blu-ray
Short Bits: Xbox HD DVD, Stage6

Microsoft made it official that the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive is now dead . If you wanted one, I hope you got it already. You will likely find stock marked down all over the place, some retailers going as low as $50 now. DivX Inc has pulled the plug on their streaming service Stage6 mainly do to the high...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Feb 25 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Xbox, HD DVD, Streaming
Fact or Fiction: Microsoft and Blu-ray

I’ve gotten a fair amount of reaction to the various articles I’ve posted on Microsoft and Blu-ray, and it still seems the overall consensus on the web is that Microsoft will fall head over heels for Blu-ray in their products. I want to preface this post by saying that I’m not advocating Microsoft not...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Feb 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Xbox, HD DVD, Extenders, Streaming, Blu-ray
Short Bits: Media Center Show, On10, PowerDVD, more

Ian Dixon had Microsoft’s Steve Lindsay on the Media Center Show today talking about various including Windows Home Server, Extenders, Home automation and his new blog . Some other stuff that I have not talked about, On10 has videos with S1Digital , Inteset , and Niveus Media . The Windows Mobile team...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Feb 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Media Center Show, HD DVD, Blu-ray
Blu-ray Now Available on Niveus Media Servers

Customer demand and format war influences Niveus to add support for Blu-ray Disc playback and to cease production of HD DVD-based servers. Milpitas, CA – February 15, 2008 – Niveus Media, the leading manufacturer of high-performing digital entertainment solutions for the connected home, announces support...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, Feb 15 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD, Media Center PC's, Blu-ray
Short Bits: Hulu Invites, Netflix BD, USB Card Reader

I’ve got five (5) Hulu invites that I’m giving out. If you want one, reply to this post saying that you would like an invite and put your e-mail address as your URL . I will randomly select five people tonight and send you an invite. It look like Netflix is dropping HD DVD and going with Blu-ray only...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Feb 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Other, Digital Media, HD DVD, Blu-ray
Short Bits: HD/BD, Inteset, More

I’ve been busy as of late, but have some really interesting articles lined up as soon as I can finish them up. If you didn’t hear, Vista SP1 is officially coming in March . Derek Flickinger has a great article up on CE Pro about those pesky interactivity layers in HD DVD and Blu-ray . Much like some...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, Feb 5 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Windows Vista, HD DVD, Blu-ray
More Thoughts on Native Blu-ray/HD DVD

Ben at Engadget HD picked up my post about the lack of native HD DVD/Blu-ray in Media Center today . I’ve been reading some of the comments the post is getting and wanted to add a few thoughts. First, I’m talking about native support . This means that it works without launching an external application...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, Jan 25 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD, Blu-ray
Short Bits: Softsled, Windows 7, Native HD DVD/Blu-ray

Mike at Missing Remote wrote a great article on why Softsled, as a software Extender will never happen . Foucsing on Mike’s last point in the article, the reason Softsled will never exist is because it doesn’t need to. Instead, since every copy of Vista Home Premium and Ulitmate includes Media Center...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, Jan 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD, Blu-ray
Niveus Media Introduces Sierra Edition

Powered by Intel technology, the eco-friendly and award-winning Sierra Edition Media Server makes its official debut at CES 2008. Las Vegas, NV – CES 2008 – January 7-10 – The Venetian Suites – Niveus Media, the leading manufacturer of high-performance digital entertainment solutions for the connected...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sat, Jan 5 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD, Media Center PC's
Passive Technologies Intros Blu-ray and HD DVD Combo lifeStation hd

Passive Technologies present the lifeStation hd , offering an immersive audiophile quality experience for all your Standard and High Definition media. For Passive its all about being able to handle any media anytime. Whether you want to play a cd, a DVD, Standard HD or BluRay, a DivX, an Mpeg, or a WMV...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Dec 19 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD, Media Center PC's
Short Bits: Vaio LT, Album Art, HD DVD, Plug-ins

In October, Sony will start selling their Vaio LT HD PC/TV . It’s an all-in-one PC 22-inch LCD TV with a PC built-in. There will be a standard and an HD model that includes Blu-ray and CableCARD, I’m assuming only a single tuner though. Cool idea, but I don’t see this pushing too many units. Sony, like...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Aug 29 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Player, Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD, Media Center PC's, CableCARD
Short Bits: HD DVD, TV Toolbox, HDMI Audio

If you haven’t heard, Paramount has dropped Blu-ray support now opting for HD DVD only. A great plus for HD DVD, but don’t think for a second that this is all over. Content is king, and HD DVD needs more support to win. It does say a lot that Paramount is switching it’s support to HD DVD only, and I...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Aug 20 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, HD DVD
Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Moves to $179

Xbox LIVE to promote HD DVD versions of “300” and “Heroes: Season 1.” SAN DIEGO — July 26, 2007 — Today at Comic-Con International 2007, Microsoft Corp. announced it will lower the price of the popular Xbox 360™ HD DVD Player from $199 to $179 ERP (United States only) starting Aug. 1, 2007, and will...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Jul 26 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Xbox, HD DVD
VidaBox Now Shipping CableCARD Systems w. Blu-ray & HD DVD Support

WESTBURY, NY – June 8th – VidaBox, a manufacturer of premium media center systems, is proud to announce that it is shipping CableCARD-ready systems for customers looking to tune & record HD Cable directly on their media centers "We're absolutely excited to finally ship systems with CableCARD...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, Jun 8 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, HD DVD, Media Center PC's, CableCARD
Okoro Media Systems Introduces the 2007 BX Series with Blu-ray & HD-DVD Support

Okoro Media Systems, manufacturer of digital entertainment systems for the high end audio video market, is pleased to introduce the 2007 BX100 & BX300 digital entertainment systems. The new 2007 BX series now support HD-DVD and Blu-ray play back from a single drive allowing customers more freedom...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Jun 7 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, HD DVD, Media Center PC's
What Content Will Be Crippled When Output in Vista?

There are tons of people out there not understanding all of this “Vista DRM”, mainly because of less than accurate media reporting. That’s completely understandable, but lets run down a quick list here of some of the popular content out there. DVD Rip (DivX, XivD, etc) downloaded from Bit Torrent/IRC...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Jan 25 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Windows Vista, HD DVD, CableCARD
VidaBox to Offer All-In-One Systems with CableCARD, Blu-ray, and HD DVD

VidaBox to offer all-in-one systems with CableCARD, Blu-ray, and HD DVD | GARDEN CITY, NY – January 23rd – VidaBox, a manufacturer of premium media center systems, is delighted to announce that it will be offering a new CableCARD option to its line of media center products. With dual internal digital...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Jan 22 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Windows Vista, HD DVD, Media Center PC's, CableCARD
Microsoft Replies to Vista Content Protection

Windows Vista Content Protection - Twenty Questions (and Answers) | In case you missed it, Microsoft replied to that great Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection with a good piece that summarized all of the information that has been out for the better part of a year. It’s important to remember...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Jan 22 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Windows Vista, HD DVD
Niveus Adds HD DVD | Shows Off Companion Software

[CES] Niveus Successfully Adds HD DVD to Windows Vista (CE Pro) | Niveus looks like it’s close to shipping HD DVD support in there new Windows Vista systems. Cyberlink’s software is used so it opens on top of Media Center, Brian Paper from Niveus says “tighter integration is planned for the future.”...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Jan 10 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Windows Vista, HD DVD, Media Center PC's

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