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The tend towards an open STB continues.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea.  Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced.  [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · Film Making · IPTV · Microsoft · Sony · Standards

Music Downloads, a panel discussion with downloaders and Artists.

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Recently “Insight” an SBS TV show that holds panel discussions did a story called “MiTunes“.  This panel is made up of younger confessed downloaders.  A number of local semi successful artists and some heads of record labels and industry organizations. Unfortunately, there was considerable miss-information based around the fact that most of these people are [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV

Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.

June 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Philip Hodgetts is a well known Digital Media Guru.  Over the years we have formed a friendship based around our passion for digital media technolgies. Following is transcript of a recent discussion about future trends on digital TV. It has some good points so I thought I would share it with you. James On Wed, [...]

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Tags: Apple · IPTV · Standards

Predictions for Apples upcoming announcments with 3G-IPhone

June 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

The iPhone again is generating huge hype.  With the soon to be released 3G version.  Other rumors revolve around a new touch pad type device.  All this is very interesting, but I personally think its quite easy to predict Apples products. The rule of thumb I use when predicting what Apple will do goes like [...]

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Tags: Apple · IPTV

Opening up Apple OSX to non Mac Hardware.

May 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Recently I have a discussion (Bordering on heated argument ) about Apple releasing OSX for NON-Mac hardware.  This all started when OpenComputer/OpenMac by PsyStar started selling a beige box running consumer PC hardware with OSX running on it. This generated a louder than expected amount of noise/news in the Blogosphere.  So much noise, in fact, [...]

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Tags: Apple · Post Production