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Microsoft Silverlight Pits High Def WMV Against Flash For Web Streaming

Seeing as the rise of YouTube and Google video has pretty much made Adobe’s Flash the de facto standard for Web streaming, you’d have to be a fool to try and introduce a browser plug-in for a new format. Either a fool, or a company with deep pockets. How deep? Try “This is madness! This…

Tech News Jason Chen

Dealzmodo: Six Months Free Mercora Streams Music From PCs to Your Windows Mobile Phone

If you’re not familiar with Mercora, it’s a player you load on your Windows Mobile phone that lets you stream music directly to your set over your cellphone data connection. You can either grab streaming radio, 3.5 million tracks of music, or stream music from your own computer. We’re most excited about the computer-music streaming,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony’s $200 Cube Brings Music Streaming to Your Bravia System

Sony’s been on a roll lately with their Digital Media Port accessories. Their latest one, the TDM-NC1, connects to your Bravia’s Digital Media Port and lets you stream music from your PC straight to your home theater. Sure, it looks cool, but for $200 all you get is music support, and it won’t even play…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

If you’re not familiar with Orb, it’s both a streaming and a broadcasting solution to get audio and video onto your TV. They’ve just introduced a new version of Orb MyCasting that works with the Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 game consoles. This means you can now play back pictures, music, and movies sitting on…

Tech News Jason Chen

Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor

The equivalent of the 1992 US Men’s Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That’s right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don’t want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide…

Tech News Jason Chen

Netgear 1080p Digital Entertainer HD Official

Netgear’s EVA8000 that we saw in January has finally become official. Not only does the Digital Entertainer HD have 802.11g and can stream MP3, WMV, WMA, MPEG1/2/4, AVI, WMV, and XviD, it can play back video at up to 1080p over HDMI or component. https://gizmodo.com/netgears-1080p-streamer-caught-on-video-229621 Its other cool features are a PVR extender for PCs…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Pioneer Music Streams Music Around your Pad Wirelessly (kind of)

Pioneer’s Power Line Communication Music Tap can stream your tunes all around your house using the power lines, but the features don’t end there. The main base station, the XW-PSS01, has two USB inputs and three auxiliary inputs and supports MP3, WMA, MPEG-4 and AAC. Plug the base unit into the wall power outlet and…

Tech News Travis Hudson

AppleTV Delayed Til March: Aaand the Hold Up Is?

AppleTV is delayed until mid March. We knew this…but then we didn’t. Now it’s officially late. Lynn Fox, Director of Mac PR, says: https://gizmodo.com/rumor-appletv-not-shipping-until-march-235561 Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected So what’s the hold up? The device looked pretty ready to go a few weeks ago. Are they…

Tech News - Brian Lam

Former Diamond, Musicmatch, and iRiver Execs Band Together To Make Captain Planet-Level Music Player

What do you get when you combine three execs from companies that didn’t quite make as huge a dent on the portable media player industry as Apple? A company called Broadband Instruments with plans to release some sort of ultimate music player that’s based on an “internet radio ecosystem”. What’s supposedly special about this is…

Tech News Jason Chen

World’s First Peer To Peer DVR From NDS

A company called NDS seems to have made the first Peer to Peer Digital Video Recorder that lets users share recorded videos with anyone on the P2P network. What does this mean to you? Well, here’s an example. Ever since our good friend moved to the east coast, we’ve had a hard time watching episodes…

Tech News Jason Chen

YouTube Finds Step 2 1 In Profit Plan: Will Pay For User Vids

Step 1: Upload Videos to YouTube. Step 2: YouTube rolls out profit sharing plan where they reward uploaders with shares of ad sales based on number of views. The ads will come in the shape of short clips in place of the actual YouTube video, which you presumably have to watch before getting to the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Stream iTunes To Your Wii With Orb

With a simple hack to Orb’s streaming software, a Swedish Wii owner made his iTunes stream music and photos directly to his Wii. Thanks to Orb’s acceptance of third-party addons, they’ve accepted this as an official feature. All you have to do is download Orb to your Windows-based PC and you’re set. At our count,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Peiker BlueTouchMusic: Music from Cellphone to Car via Bluetooth

You might have completely up-to-date, 2007-era gear everywhere else, but what if your car is still stuck in 1995? That’s where you can hook up the Peiker BlueTouchMusic system, linking your cellphone to your car’s music system via Bluetooth. It lets you wirelessly play back tunes from your cell phone with A2DP Bluetooth streaming, do…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony Vaio WA1 Wireless Music Streamer: Expensive for What it Does

Somehow last week we missed the Sony Vaio WA1 Wireless Digital Music Streamer. It’s a simple (and not necessarily new) concept: the device taps into your pre-existing Wi-Fi connection and streams the music that’s directed toward it. For example, you’ve got a PC loaded with music in your bedroom but you want to hear Sleater-Kinney…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Modeo/HTC Smartphone TV Hands-On

Still currently being beta-tested, this HTC smartphone is the de-facto phone for Modeo Mobile TV. Instead of designing a client that’s usable on any smartphone, Modeo’s gone and partnered with HTC to design a phone just for watching video. https://gizmodo.com/modeo-releases-uber-smartphone-165885 From what we saw—the stream was coming locally because of the lousy meeting room location…

Television Jason Chen

Sonos Now Supports Zune, Napster, Yahoo!, AOL, and MTV

Sonos is spending like Web 2.0 Bubble money is going out of style, and announcing they’ve bought support for almost all the major internet music stores. Along with Zune, there’s Napster, Yahoo, AOL and MTV support, which makes streaming pretty simple. Current owners can download Sonos 2.1 software which adds support for these new music…

Tech News Jason Chen

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

New developments coming out of the Netgear/BitTorrent partnership: breaking into the universal streaming media market, Netgear’s Digital Entertainer HD tries to make good by packing a cornucopia of features into its rather large box. Using draft-N, it’s able to stream video in 1080p, as well as most any other media content (MP3, WMA, AAC and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cingular to Demo Streaming Video Calls

Although the formal “unveiling” won’t be until summer of ’07, Cingular will demo live video streaming through handsets at CES next week. With a video-capable handset, streams can be started over standard audio calls by just pressing a button on the cell. “The parents receive an invitation asking if they want to view the live…

Tech News Jason Chen

Japanese Digitally-Counted Breast Bounce Contest: NSFW and Proof Why We Need the Venice Project

Chen and Om like the Venice Project video service’s concept: Use a P2P system to support bigger, faster, higher quality downloads. Here’s proof why we need this, like, yesterday. This video of a breast bouncing contest, where two well-endowed, bikini clad women face off to see who’s got more bounce. The contestants warm up with…

Tech News Brian Lam

Venice Project Hands On: This Is Going To Kill YouTube

The guys who brought you KaZaA and Skype are at it again, and their upcoming Venice Project Peer to Peer streaming will show YouTube how video is really done. Just like KaZaA was a disruptive force in music sharing, and Skype was a disruptive force for phone calls, the Venice Project will kill current online…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Silverlight Pits High Def WMV Against Flash For Web Streaming

Dealzmodo: Six Months Free Mercora Streams Music From PCs to Your Windows Mobile Phone

Sony’s $200 Cube Brings Music Streaming to Your Bravia System

Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3

Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor

Netgear 1080p Digital Entertainer HD Official

Pioneer Music Streams Music Around your Pad Wirelessly (kind of)

AppleTV Delayed Til March: Aaand the Hold Up Is?

Former Diamond, Musicmatch, and iRiver Execs Band Together To Make Captain Planet-Level Music Player

World’s First Peer To Peer DVR From NDS

YouTube Finds Step 2 1 In Profit Plan: Will Pay For User Vids

Stream iTunes To Your Wii With Orb

Peiker BlueTouchMusic: Music from Cellphone to Car via Bluetooth

Sony Vaio WA1 Wireless Music Streamer: Expensive for What it Does

Modeo/HTC Smartphone TV Hands-On

Sonos Now Supports Zune, Napster, Yahoo!, AOL, and MTV

Netgear, BitTorrent Box Streams 1080P To Your TV

Cingular to Demo Streaming Video Calls

Japanese Digitally-Counted Breast Bounce Contest: NSFW and Proof Why We Need the Venice Project

Venice Project Hands On: This Is Going To Kill YouTube

Dreame Pocket Pro Hair Dryer Is Now Over 3x Cheaper Than Dyson’s Deal in Amazon’s Prime-Exclusive Spring Sale

Pompeii Study Confirms Roman ‘Wine’ Ritual Previously Known Only From Texts

JBL Clears Out a 5.0-Channel Compact All-in-One Soundbar at a Record Low Beyond Its Portable Speaker Deals

Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern ‘Trek’

Anker Solix C2000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station Is 50% Off as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes Into Its Final Clear-Out

Anker’s USB-C Docking Station With Detachable Hub Hits an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Likely the Last Chance Before Prime Day

The Sadie Sink ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Rumors Just Keep Swirling

This Kindle Paperwhite E-Reader Now Costs About as Much as a Few Paper Books, While Amazon’s Spring Sale Price Still Holds

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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