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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...