Cancel your cable bill: LG will unveil a new line-up of Blu-ray players at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas capable of streaming YouTube and CinemaNow videos. Add these upcoming features to LG's new standard for streaming Netflix movies and you have three fewer reasons to subscr...
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While Steve Jobs won't be giving the keynote address during next week's Macworld Conference & Expo , analysts still expect the company to introduce some products during the company's last scheduled attendance at the annual trade show. "We won't see revolutionary products, but we v...
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LG Electronics on Tuesday announced it was bringing video-on-demand to its Blu-ray Disc players through streaming video deals it has inked with major Web sites. The company announced deals with CinemaNow and YouTube to stream video directly to its network-connected Blu-ray Disc players. The a...
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Photograph: Rob Cardin Oh, Danny boy鈥he Zunes, the Zunes are calling. As a sign of the impending apocalypse--no doubt caused by the addition of the leap second --a plague has descended upon scads of Microsoft's Zune media players. As of 2AM this morning, Zunes around the world have begun to f...
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Graphic: Diego Aguirre Some people say I like to beat Microsoft up. Not really. I just dislike bad technology, and Microsoft makes a lot of poor-quality hardware and software. Anyone unfortunate enough to own a 30GB Zune knows exactly what I mean. Today, December 31st, many, if not all, 30GB ...
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In a year when Apple focused most of its energy on the iPhone 3G, matters of the cloud, and updated computers, its digital media efforts continued at a steady-and incrementally more interesting-pace. Movies, movies, movies At January's Macworld Expo, Apple took another whack at making the Apple T...
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Audioengine has introduced its W2 Premium Wireless Adapter for the iPod. It costs $169 and is available now. The Audioengine W2 (AW2) includes a digital "Sender" that connects to the iPod's 30-pin dock connector. A receiver attaches to your stereo or home entertainment system and stream...
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Artwork: Chip Taylor Office hours are the most popular time of the day for watching video clips on the Web, says Nielsen Online. According to research by the company, 65 of those watching online clips do so between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays. Nearly half of Web users revealed they prefer ...
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Video streaming site Joost is shutting down its desktop application and turning all of its attention to its Flash-based site . As of Friday, the program will cease to function. The move is not surprising; After the flash site was up, it was only a matter of time before the Joost interface was comp...
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One of the simplest pleasures of the holiday season is packing the kids in the minivan with a thermos of hot cocoa and a plate of cookies and driving by a holiday light display. Most of these displays -- like the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center in New York or the Magnificent Mile Lights F...
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A Japanese apple grower apparently has been working on a new kind of Fuji apples-- ones that feature the Apple logo and the image of an iPod emblazoned on them . By using stickers, which block out sunlight on the face of the apples before they matured, he was able to get full-grown apples with these...
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Feeling confused with all the digital TV transition talk? You're not alone. America's cable TV operators decided this week to delay the migration of their analog channels to digital ones . The operators say too many people were mixing that process up with the big broadcast shift to digital schedu...
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A standards effort by the ITU is leading the wired home networking market on an abrupt turn toward a future technology that may shape home networks for consumers around the world but leave some existing technologies by the wayside. The developing International Telecommunication Union standard, cal...
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Viral videos have become modern cultural landmarks--memories, for better or for worse, that we will forever associate with specific times in our lives. And what better way to gauge a year than with the moments that made us laugh the most? We've tracked down the top 10 viral comedy videos of 2008, a...
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In an effort to personalize the TV, Intel on Monday said it will show off prototype devices that bring the Internet to the TV viewing experience. The company plans to show off consumer electronics prototypes that run "widgets," or mini-applications that could complement TV viewing with i...
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The holiday season is upon us. And because it is, your digital camera and camcorder are going to get more of a workout. In this edition of the Macworld Video I offer a few simple tips that will help prevent you from ruining a precious holiday moment. Download Macworld Video #81 Format: MPEG-4/H...
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Apple has a history of producing innovative web-based advertisements for the 'Get a Mac' series and now they've published  a clever new web banner on Yahoo Games , advertising the gaming capabilities of the iPod touch. In the thirty-second video--which is basically the same as the existin...
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You may have sold off your unwanted CDs and DVDs at a garage sale-or its eBay equivalent. Now, you can sell off your unwanted MP3s to top up your Christmas budget. A new web start-up called Bopaboo has created a digital marketplace where you can set up your own mini store for music downloa...
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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved a standard for high-speed networking over multiple types of in-home wiring . The powerful world standards organization said Friday that agreement has been reached on G.hn, a set of specifications that would encompass phone lines, power ...
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Sling Media on Thursday released an update for its SlingPlayer software, improving and fixing several items. Among the changes in SlingPlayer 1.0.7 is improved video quality, according to the company. Sling Media also added an online Slingbox registration and the ability for users to store their S...
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