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3 ways for Emusic to gain market share
iTunes dominates the digital music arena. The number 2 service is Emusic, which I believe has a lot of untapped potential. I like the site and I love that the songs do not have any digital rights management (DRM). The catalog of music is impressive, but the site is about 90% [...]
Continue reading...Barenaked Ladies successfully stick it to the recording industry
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
The Barenaked Ladies are offering their latest album, “Barenaked Ladies Are Me,” as a download from their website without digital rights managment. All audio downloads are available in the popular MP3 format, encoded at 196kbps. Some audio has also been made available in FLAC file format, which is a lossless format. [...]
Continue reading...Washington Post: Cheers and Jeers for iPod’s 5th Anniversary
Sunday, October 22, 2006
The Washington Post is running a a series of articles today on the iPod to celebrate its 5 year anniversary. Most of the articles praise the iPod but a couple highlight some problems with the omnipresent device. Overall, I think it is a good read though nothing too groundbreaking. In some [...]
Continue reading...Why is the Sonos Digital Music System not more popular?
Saturday, October 21, 2006
By all accounts, the Sonos Zone Player is a great piece of hardware for digital audio. Why is it not more popular? I recently came across a review of the Sonos whole house audio system done by the Wall Street Journal. From the article: Both Sonos and Rhapsody were originally designed to work with PCs. [...]
Continue reading...Update: Floppyhead.com is two weeks old
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Floppyhead.com is 2 weeks old (since my first real post). In those 2 weeks, the site has had 620 visits and over 1500 page views. We are on target for over 1000 visitors in one month, which would be a good start. The main traffic drivers are Digg.com and Reddit.com, which is [...]
Continue reading...5 tips on watching broadcast HDTV on your laptop
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Most widescreen laptops are perfect for watching high definition video. Watching HDTV on a laptop does have advantages, mainly being portable. ATSC, a digital broadcast standard, is available in many areas of the United States, especially in most major cities. Her are some quick tips:
Continue reading...Advertising-based downloads to fight digital piracy?
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
The dilemma facing any owner of copyrighted works continues to be how to compete with online piracy, mainly torrent sites that offer online versions of books, music, and videos. The usual response is some sort of digital rights managment, which is frustrating for the user and actually provides little protection against piracy. [...]
Continue reading...Will you upgrade to Microsoft’s Vista media center?
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
This is the question asked by Chris Lanier on his blog. The responses were all over the place. I am thinking about it when Vista comes out. I think the real reason to upgrade is CableCard support, and I am curious to see how well Microsoft implements that support. How [...]
Continue reading...Network2.TV: a new network television “station?”
Monday, October 16, 2006
Network2.tv is an internet video aggregator, attempting to be the next network television “station.” This website is like a compiled TV guide to Web-only, independently produced episodic video shows.
Continue reading...7 reasons why Apple will lose the living room war to Microsoft
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The way we watch TV is going to change dramatically over the next 5 years, with Microsoft and Apple vying for real estate in your living room. Apple has not done a good job to date leveraging their lead with the iPod and the company is finding itself trailing behind Microsoft, which has been [...]
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