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"Stringer's election is expected to lead to more cooperation between Sony's disparate electronics and entertainment divisions. The company has been trying to take advantage of its position as one of the leading companies in the entertainment and electronics industries--getting its music and movies onto its gadgets. However, that strategy has been slow in developing. Stringer is expected to push that strategy harder. In a recent interview with News.com, Stringer was adamant that change had to occur faster. "Without content, most devices are junk," Stringer said in late January. "
I wonder what Stringer's take on SACD is. . .< 10:00:38 PM  >Mac mini Gives PC “a run for its money” Tom Gromak writes for the Detroit News, “Hardly a week goes by that I don’t get asked the same question at least once or twice: ‘I need a computer, but don’t want to spend a lot of money. What do you recommend?’ Until a few weeks ago, my pat answer was to send those folks clicking through the Dell Web site, looking for the basic Inspiron series of PCs. Not any more. Not since one of Apple’s Mac Minis took up residence on my desktop.” [Mar 02, 2005] [Via Apple Hot News] . .< 5:13:23 PM >Canadian mall retracts Apple store launch date Management for the Yorkdale Shopping Center in Toronto has retracted its claim that a grand opening ... [Via AppleInsider] . .< 5:11:28 PM >Patent Issues “resolved” as DualDisc gets the ‘OK’ for Mainstream European Release… While the specification itself does not presently demand inclusion of DVD-Audio (MLP), it does mandate the level of the quality of sound. “We want the audio quality of the DVD side to be no less than the CD side. In reality labels are going much higher than that. What we didn’t want to do was to create a specification which fundamentally restricted people’s ability to put discs out, yet at the same time we recognised the need to have some basic parameters to maintain the integrity of the brand,” he says. Interestingly, when asked, Trickett did acknowledge that all but one of the DualDisc founding partners are releasing DualDiscs with high-resolution DVD-Audio MLP surround-sound content as standard. Lots of interesting info in this article. A Sony plant will be the first to manufacture DualDisc in Europe. The first Platinum surround sound release is a DualDisc by a punk band from Montreal! . .< 5:00:04 PM >CBC Radio's podcasting page now online You can now follow CBC Radio's podcasts at the CBC Radio Podcasting web page. I'll be doing live interviews on most regional afternoon shows across the country tomorrow about our podcasting pilot. [Via I Love Radio .org] . .< 4:58:47 PM >iPod Camera Connector Picture Gizmodo have what appears to be a picture of the (long awaited) USB connector which will enable an iPod (just iPod Photo?) to transfer images directly from a digital camera. Apparently this little connector will cost around $30. The source appears to be an Apple Japan ad for the device with the tagline "iPod, Meet Camera". We don't yet know if it will be USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed) or USB 1.1, but in most cases the camera will be USB 1.1. I still think it's a pity Apple didn't provide SD / CF slots in the... [Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] . .< 4:55:42 PM >Kyocera to end camera production Sources at Kyocera have confirmed that the company is to cease production of film and digital cameras, putting a huge question mark over the future of one of the oldest brands in photography, Contax. Contax cameras have been produced since the early 1930's, when the brand was launched by German optical legend Zeiss Ikon. Contax joined forces with Japanese manufacturer Yashica in the 1960's, becoming part of electronics giant Kyocera in the mid-1990's. [Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] . .< 4:47:52 PM >Accuser's Family Set Jackson Up FOXNews: "The D.A. has a bad case. Not just a weak case, but a bad one. No matter what you think Michael Jackson did or didn't do in the past, this family has set him up." James Brown agrees. Besides bonus DVDs and enhanced CDs, these also include new dual discs: a single disc with a regular CD on one side and a DVD on the other. Record labels say they like the initial response. Montreal pop-punk band Simple Plan's dual disc Still Not Getting Any went platinum in the United States, selling more than one million copies in its first 10 weeks." Unfortunately the author focuses on the issue of repackaging of old content and therefor detracts from the main point which I've highlighted here. The record industry is looking for a way to make the product they sell at retail more attractive by making it something more than an easily clone-able CD and by improving the sound quality of the product. This is news. What I did learn from the article is that there truly is some momentum and that the number of releases is increasing. Avril Lavigne in surround anyone? . .< 2:19:07 PM >CBC Radio Begins Podcasting Canada's public radio network, CBC Radio, will launch a podcasting trial, distributing two programs via podcast: /Nerd: Tod Maffin's weekly technology column Quirks and Quarks: Weekly award-winning science show [Via I Love Radio .org] |
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