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Netflix Player by Roku launched: reviews overwhelmingly positive

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 20th 2008 4 Comments

Netflix are pretty much synonymous with mail-delivery films in the US, and the company is now trying to do the same for internet-streamed media.  The Netflix Player by Roku is the first piece of hardware promising to bring download movies to your TV, and going by the launch-day reviews it sounds like they’ve got a winner on their hands.  $99.99 gets you a compact set-top box that, when linked to your online Netflix account, lets you play from the company’s 10,000 strong catalogue of titles, automatically selecting the highest resolution your broadband can support.

Netflix Player by Roku

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Gigabyte M700 IPTV UMPC with digital tuner base-station

By Chris Davies on Thursday, May 15th 2008 No Comments

With the array of Eee-style budget notebooks clamouring to play the role of your companion PC, Microsoft’s UMPC format is being forced to think outside of its traditional box to score sales. Gigabyte have stepped up with the M700; while it may look like a typical 7-inch touchscreen slate, in actual fact it’s running VIA’s 1.2Ghz processor with the new VX800 chipset (with Chrome 9 graphics and video decoding hardware) and is part of the company’s latest IPTV push. The M700 is in actual fact a mobile media center, complete with a dock that packs a digital TV tuner and IPTV streamer.

Gigabyte M700 UMPC

Check out the video overview of the Gigabyte M700 after the cut

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Rumor: Xbox 360 might get HD-DVD drive, somehow

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Oct 19th 2007 2 Comments

Alright, so not too long ago I reported on a potential new SKU, the Xbox 360 Ultimate which was supposedly going to be the Elite, but with an integrated HD-DVD drive. That, so far hasn’t happened, but this new announcement could give way to just that.

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Or, they could just bundle the current separate HD-DVD drive with an Xbox 360 Elite since they probably have a ton of HD-DVD drives just sitting around. Although the drives have been selling like crazy thanks to all the rebates, price cuts, and other deals.

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Microsoft offering up Internet TV to some Vista users

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Oct 2nd 2007 No Comments

Users of Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate might be getting a Media Center update that grants them access to a beta version of an ad supported Internet TV. Finally, Microsoft is dropping something new, something worthy of a Vista upgrade.

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Word is that it’s just a few TV shows, some concerts, and some movie trailers right now, all of which are ad supported. The quality is said to be “near DVD” too, which isn’t great, but just offering this service is a great start; they can work on higher resolutions later.

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