Month: January 2006

New TiVos for HDTV

Post author By Dave
Post date January 6, 2006

Boy, am I glad I waited before switching to cable (from my Hughes HR10-250 HD DirecTiVo box)

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This Series3 box has ATSC, NTSC digital and analog cable tuners built-in. Oh my!

Tags atsc, cablecard, hdtv, high definition, series 3, tivo

Technology & Gadgets

PC-Card Bluetooth Mouse

Post author By Dave
Post date January 5, 2006

http://www.uberreview.com/2006/01/mogo-mousebt.htm

How cool is this?

This mouse stores inside the PC-card slot and recharges there as well…

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XBOX360 to get HD-DVD drive by June

Post author By Dave
Post date January 5, 2006

Sounds like PS3 with Blu-Ray will have competition, with an XBOX360 with HD-DVD and Halo3 in the same time frame… Excellent.

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The Wilhelm Scream

Post author By Dave
Post date January 4, 2006

http://www.onthemedia.org/2009/dec/25/the-wilhelm/

Interesting NPR bit on the Wilhelm scream, one of the most famous movie screams of all time. I like the fact they even used it in a musical…

Tags npr, on the media, podcast, wilhelm scream

Technology & Gadgets

Christmas gift guides

Post author By Dave
Post date January 3, 2006

So, I’m starting to wonder if there’s some collusion between the Christmas gift guide writers. It seems that some of the things consistently show up on all lists, between WIRED, Men’s Health, and other magazines. For instance, a rather obscure item (which is, incidentally, one of the only things I’m marginally interested in from these lists) has shown up on at least four lists. This item is the SD USB card from SanDisk. Although a great invention, it’s not particularly earth-shattering (it ain’t no iPod).

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Oakleys cheap online, wherefore art thou?

Post author By Dave
Post date January 3, 2006

Must be something draconian, because I can’t seem to find a decent price online for the Oakleys I want to buy. Is Oakley price-controlling online e-tailers? (or sueing e-tailers who sell “below” MSRP.

I’ve been wearing Bolle’s for sometime, and I’ve managed to consistently find prices less than half of list through some intelligent froogling.

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On the benefits of maintaining a wishlist for spousal sanity

Post author By Dave
Post date January 3, 2006

At any point in time, I maintain an up-to-date wishlist on my website, mainly for my wife’s benefit. This way, not only does she know the gadgets (down to the model number), but where I think she should buy it for me if she gets the urge.

A while ago, she stopped trying to guess at what gadgets I’d really want, because everytime she bought me something, I’d inevitably ask her to take it back….

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Lazy Sunday

Post author By Dave
Post date January 3, 2006

I might as well link to it as well, but here‘s the rap from SNL on the Chronicles of Narnia… I only learned about it from a Slate article which I listened to via podcasts.

Tags lazy sunday, saturday night live, slate, video, youtube

Technology & Gadgets

To XBOX360 or not

Post author By Dave
Post date January 3, 2006

Well, I’m trying to decide whether I want an XBOX360 or can settle for the D-LINK DSM 520. I do torrent quite a few shows (mostly paid for on regular satellite), so I want to be able to stream them from my PC (out in the office, a separate building) to the big TV in the living room. I can’t seem to wait in line outside Walmart or Target to actually get one of the XBOX360s, so I’m thinking I may wait until Halo 3 comes out (simultaneous with the release of the PS3 from SONY), and then get one, in the meantime get one of those D-Link boxes.

There’s really only one format used on torrents: .AVI with MPEG4 encoding, which both *should* be abled to read over the Windows Media Connect interface. Advice? Let me know.

For reference, the XBOX360 is about $500 for the one I would buy, and the D-Link box is about $220. Currently, eBay prices for an XBOX360 hover over the $700 mark.

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MAME-capable LINUX handheld

Post author By Dave
Post date January 3, 2006

Kind of cool sounding, this GP2X handheld uses LINUX and comes bundled with a MAME machine, but not quite as cool as the Nokia 770.