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Entries from December 2007

Audio-Video is Dead, Long live ONLINE GAMING

December 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Xbox has sold well this Christmas. I good sign on this is the Xbox-Live servers straining under the load.
Also this christmas, Xbox and PS3 both began to support DivX. Xbox being the better and more compatible version. (Sony can not do a thing right with the PS3)
I also got my hands on [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Itunes dominance in Music will erode

December 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

This morning news that Warner music was added to AmazonMP3 as DRM-free. (TechCrunch coverage) (Routers coverage)
A lot has been said written about how Apple became so dominant in online Music and how it is likely to stay there.  In my opinion, Itunes will likely to always be a dominant player but will, over time, erode [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM

More on AppleTV and being Open

December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Today I got a responce from Luck Kanthatham.  He has written a blog about opening the AppleTV.  It is a good post, giving a good deeper description of how Apple may open the AppleTV product.
See it at http://appletvsource.com/content/view/464/
But, I also had a lot to say about this post (I actually got up on my Soap [...]

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Tags: Apple · IPTV · Microsoft · codecs

Your Own TV Network. Get it now at Adobe.

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Adobe is about to release “Flash Media Server 3“. (The web site says it has, but the download area still has version 2, for 3 weeks now. Waiting….)
This is great news especially because the PRICE has come down to a resonable level.
This is a “Change the internet event”. Mainly because it will allow [...]

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Tags: Adobe · DRM · IPTV · codecs · flash · flex

Bill Gates dreams to be Darth Vader

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

For my christmas post, I wanted to talk about a theory I have been considering for some time.
Bill Gates dreams to be Darth Vader.
How so? Well lets look at some history and make some comparisons.
Being of the age of 38 and using a computer from the age of 12, one could say I have seen [...]

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Tags: Microsoft