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Cal Spas Creates Ultimate Outdoor Theatre
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Misc. Tech, Movies, Music, Video Games,
Cal Spas has dreamed up an Ultimate Outdoor Theatre for the ultra-rich. Featuring an anti-glare, anti-fog 63-inch LCD HDTV with surround sound, a Sirius satellite radio receiver, hook-ups for your fave game system, an iPod docking station, and a DVD/CD Player. It also contains a 5-burner barbecue grill, a wet bar with bar stools, 2 weatherproof recliners and 2 fire pits. We’re thinking that although Cal Spas has not yet released a price, if you have to ask what it costs, you probably cannot afford it.
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| Cal Spas via technabob
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Dacos To Release iHolic MultiMedia Player
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Movies, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Transportation,
South Korea’s Dacos Technology has launched the iHolic, a complete media player with audio, image, and video capabilities. It can be bundled with a remote and cradle for mounting on your car’s dashboard or table placement. Containing 2 GB of internal memory, it features a T-DMB receiver for digital TV signals, a 2.4-inch TFT LCD display, a 512MB flash memory, and a SD slot for additional storage. Equipped with a retractable antenna, the iHolic carries a MSRP of 188,000 So. Korean Won (~US $201.00.) Contact Dacos for future availability.
Read More | Dacos Technology via Aving
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The Bleeding Edge 148: iRecord Video Content Recorder and Transporter
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Home Entertainment, Movies, Portable Audio / Video, Videocasts, Videos,
|Download| - iPod-formatted H.264
|Download| - Apple TV High Resolution
|Download| - MPEG-4
Read More | The Bleeding Edge
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The Bleeding Edge 147: First Look at iriver Unit2
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Home Entertainment, Movies, Portable Audio / Video, Videocasts, Videos,
|Download| - iPod-formatted H.264
|Download| - Apple TV High Resolution
|Download| - MPEG-4
Read More | The Bleeding Edge
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Nielsen Studies DVR Viewing Habits
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment, Movies, Music, Portable Audio / Video, Transportation,
Ratings company Nielsen recently completed a study on DVRs and mobile video viewing. The company focused on sample households who owned DVRs during three weeks in January and has come to these conclusions:
- The majority of DVR viewers watch in groups.
- Viewers will sit through more commercials when watching programs that are closer to the original air date.
- Mobile viewing is still a mostly niche market.
At this point, only 19% of households own a mobile video device, whether it is a portable DVD player, video iPod, or video enabled cell phone. Those that utilize iTunes spend 95% of playback time in audio, rather than video.
Read More | B & C
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iTunes Store Features Lionsgate Films
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Apple, Home Entertainment, Internet, Movies,
Apple’s iTune store now has Lionsgate films available for purchase. Downloadable titles include “Terminator 2,” “Basic Instinct,” “Dirty Dancing,” and “The Blair Witch Project.” The online store carries over 4 million tunes, 350 TV shows, and now over 400 movies when you include their current distributors Paramount and Disney. Each flick can be yours for $9.99 at resolutions of 640 x 480 in what Apple claims is “near-DVD” quality. At that price, Arnold can let you know he’ll “Be Back” over and over again.
Read More | Apple
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MySpace Offers Free Indexing
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Movies, Music,
MySpace has announced that as of today, it is providing free indexing to content producers who want to block users from uploading their copywritten videos. They will do the filtering by utilizing technology called Motional Media from Audio Magic, acoustic fingerprinting invented by David Stebbings. MySpace has already been doing this on a limited basis for the past year by blocking users from uploading audio or video files not authorized by the Universal Music Group. It remains to be seen if this will finally shame Google and YouTube into taking up that same gauntlet.
Read More | Audible Magic
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The Bleeding Edge 137: Two Minutes Explaining HD DVD
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Movies, Videocasts, Videos,
|Download| - iPod-formatted H.264
|Download| - Apple TV High Resolution
|Download| - MPEG-4
Read More | The Bleeding Edge
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The rich just keep getting richer. This year the Grammy gift baskets include a free 6-month subscription to NetFlix, a year long membership to The Sports Club/LA, a Gibson guitar, a designer jean jacket and eyeware, and a two-night stay at the Morongo Casino Resort Spa in Cabazon, Ca. Distinctive Assets, the LA-based marketing company that produces the baskets, is in its seventh year of providing those-that-have with those-that-get-more. Do we sound spiteful towards all that opulence? No, not us.
Read More | Showbuzz
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Wal-mart Offers Movie Downloads
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment, Internet, Movies,
After a trial run a couple of months ago, Wal-mart has reached agreements with Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox, and are now offering downloads of DVD Releases. They come in 640 x 480 resolution, 1,500 to 1,700 kbps rate for PC, X 240 resolution with 500 to 810 kbps average for portable devices, and a combination download for PC and portables that requires 30% more storage. Considering that the costs can be as much as $19.88, don’t work on iPods, and that the site is still in the beta stage, we think we will just stick to our unlimited Netflix. After all, you can only watch those pirates so many times.
Read More | Wal-mart Media Download
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