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WE7.com offers DRM-free digital music for free
We7.com is a new type of online music store. Instead of selling songs, they place ads at the beginning of mp3 files. For the first 30 days you have the song, the ad will play. After 30 days, you will be allowed to download an ad-free version of the same song. [...]
Continue reading...EZTakes: DRM-free movie download service
27. April 2007
Distributing video content to consumers via a web site is a simple idea that has yet to be perfected. Many of the major online movie stores, including Movelink and Cinemanow, have onerous digital rights management (DRM) and software requirements that greatly limit what you can do with the movies you have bought. EZTakes is a [...]
Continue reading...OQO and Slingbox stream content anywhere
25. April 2007
In February, I talked about the OQO Model 2, a micro-PC capable of supporting Microsoft’s Vista Ultimate. The OQO model 02 is loaded with features like a USB 2.0 port and a HDMI-out. These features got me excited about the potential of the Model 2 as a HD Tivo since Window’s Media Center [...]
Continue reading...CBS and ABC offer full screen streaming video of prime time shows
15. April 2007
ABC.com and CBS.com now offer full screen streaming of their prime time shows. All four major U.S. networks offer some type of free streaming for their marquee shows, but ABC and CBS are unique in that they offer a full screen version. I watched the latest episode of Lost (that Juliet sure is [...]
Continue reading...Kaleidescape wins DVD Ripping Lawsuit
30. March 2007
One of the main appeals for media centers PC is the ability to store all of your movies digitally on a hard drive, eliminating the need to place a DVD in a player. Thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ripping a DVD is technically illegal. One brave company, Kaleidescape developed a [...]
Continue reading...HP z565 Digital Entertainment Center streamlines home entertainment
24. March 2007
With the release of Digital Cable Receivers, Microsoft will be relying on OEMS like Hewlett-Packard to deliver quality Vista-based media centers that are approved by CableLabs. Hewlett-Packard over the last year has begun to release some very cool media center-based products, like the TouchSmart IQ770 and the HP z565 Digital Entertainment [...]
Continue reading...Google increases free Picasa Web Album storage
8. March 2007
Google has increased the free storage of Picasa Web albums from 250 MB to 1 GB. Picasa is a great way to share files with friends and families. From the Google blog: We have a few long-awaited improvements at Picasa Web Albums today. A new Community Photos search feature helps you discover and explore the [...]
Continue reading...Network area storage for media centers
25. February 2007
The lure of media centers is having all of your movies, music, and pictures on your computer’s hard drive and have them available throughout your house. With the impending increase in the availability of high definition content, hard disk space is becoming a significant bottleneck in the overall performance of HTPCs and media centers. High [...]
Continue reading...New Episodes of Daybreak at ABC.com
7. February 2007
Daybreak, ABC’s canceled serial drama with Taye Diggs, has resurfaced at ABC.com with new episodes every Monday. Daybreak, originally planned as 13 episodes, stepped into the time-slot left vacant by “Lost” when that popular show went on hiatus. Following in a recent trend of streaming episodes of cancelled television series online, ABC started streaming [...]
Continue reading...Fox Sports offers college football bowl games for download
29. December 2006
Are you going to miss your favorite college football team’s BCS bowl game? Do you want to savor the victory at your own leisure? FOX Sports might just have the thing for you. I came across this press release from Fox Sports (via PVRwire): FOX Sports today announced that, for the first time ever, full-length [...]
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