February 17th, 2006 Posted in Technology |
Details of Microsoft’s partnership with DIRECTV is starting to slowly come to light. At CES, the two announced a joint agreement that would provide DIRECTV content for PlaysForSure portable media devices, Media Center PCs and Xbox 360 game consoles.
Now according to the Official Xbox Magazine, DIRECTV content may be available directly through the 360’s Dashboard:
A DirecTV blade might be added to your Xbox 360 Dashboard to accompany the Xbox Live, Games, Media, and System blades. In that blade, you could download TV episodes in high definition, HD movies on demand, and standard-definition streaming DVR (i.e., TiVo) functions.
February 16th, 2006 Posted in Technology |
Launched with a bang and originally slated to ship in February, Apple has now changed the shipping date for its MacBook Pro line of notebooks to anywhere from 3 to 4 weeks out. This indicates that March will be the MacBook Pro’s shipping time, but it’s still uncertain on exact dates.
When Apple launched the new Core Duo based iMacs in January, Steve Jobs was very firm on launch dates and in fact, the iMacs were shipping on the same day as the announcement. No details were given as to why the MacBook Pros were delayed. During announcement time for Apple, many of Intel’s customers expressed feelings of uneasiness in regards to Apple receiving Core Duo chips before anyone else.
February 14th, 2006 Posted in Technology |
Apple Insider is reporting that Apple has started shipping the new MacBook Pro with an upgrade to the CPU clock speed. The two models now sport 1.83 GHz and 2.0 GHz Core Duos (up from 1.67 GHz and 1.83 GHz). A 2.16 GHz upgrade is also available. The price point remains the same.
February 13th, 2006 Posted in Technology |
Engadget says: “The FiringSquad has some disconcerting news for those of us hoping to wrangle our current desktops into Vista-ready, HD playback machines. Apparently all of those graphics cards we’ve been snapping up with “HDCP support” emblazoned on the box aren’t quite what they claim to be. Instead of doing something logical, like, uh, supporting HDCP, turns out only the GPUs support HDCP, while the actual boards don’t include the required hardware key to make the hi-def magic happen. NVIDIA isn’t as much to blame, since they have published specs for HDCP compatible boards, and are holding up their end on the GPU front, but ATI doesn’t look so good here due to the fact that they’re currently cramming their own HDCP capable GPUs into boards that don’t support the spec. If all this is to be believed, the only currently existing fully HDCP capable boards are a couple of GeForce 6200 and 6600 cards residing in Sony Media Center PCs, and the rest of us will have to wait for word on high to build boxes fully compatible with the Vista OS due next year. Let the lynch mob begin!”
February 12th, 2006 Posted in Technology |
Apple has sliently updated the iPod nano design in response to scratching outcry. With the 1GB nano and possible others, there is a slightly raised rim around the entire iPod, thus preventing the entire iPod face touching the surface when laid on its face.
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