Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Sony to tie online music service into hardware Sony to tie online music service into hardware. Phones and stuff [The Register] 7:02:34 AM  comment []    trackback []     The downside of Sharp's new wireless TV The downside of Sharp's new wireless TV. Guy Kewney notes that stream video over WiFi using one of those new battery-powered wireless LCD televisions from Sharp that you can carry around the house with you has one significant downside: it cuts the data capacity of the rest of your wireless network (assuming you have one) in half:The set uses Sharp's SmartLink wireless digital audio video transmission system, which operates on the 802.11b wireless standard. It allows users to connect the transmitter to a video source, such as a DVD player, and watch their favourite movie or TV show in any room of the house. Some will probably be pleased to see digital sending move from broad spectrum coverage to a WiFi channel, leaving the other channels open for data; but the reality is that streaming video over one channel will pretty much halve the data capacity of the access point.Read... [Gizmodo] 6:46:01 AM  comment []    trackback []     Press eject and give me the tape Press eject and give me the tape. This is freaking amazing: an actual cassette deck for a PC called the Plusdeck. And it's not one of those ancient tape storage drives, either, this is a real audio cassette deck that pops into a PC drive bay for recording sound or making MP3s of your tapes. Where was this five years ago when we still actually had a tape collection? Read... [Gizmodo] 5:54:02 AM  comment []    trackback []

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