Media Center: It’s Official…Wait Until Windows 7
I wrote about Windows Media Center TV Pack yesterday and how it looked like Microsoft was going to royally botch it up. At the time it was all hearsay, but not any more. It looks like Microsoft decided to move up the announcement date for the TV Pack from next month to today. This is a situation where nobody comes out a winner. Read more
Microsoft Wants Media Center To Fail…I Swear
You may have noticed that I regularly tout Media Center as one of my favorite features of Windows Vista. I have even been using/loving it as my sole DVR for about three months now. It should come as no surprise then that I have been following the next iteration codenamed Fiji quite closely. While the software sounds good for the most part, I can’t understand why it seems that Microsoft is trying to make sure Vista Media Center (VMC) never takes off. Read more
Is Apple 1.0 Some Form Of Beta Testing You Pay For?
If the on-going debacle that is MobileMe is to highlight anything it is this: don’t do Apple 1.0. They may have some great ideas but their history with introducing new products is terrible. Even I was shocked when I started making this list of their recent 1.0 snafus. Read more
The Lawless Lands of HDTV And Why It Should Stay That Way
There is a story making the rounds on the interwebitubes bemoaning that “there’s no real regulation over high-definition picture quality at all” in the “lawless lands of broadcast television”. They are over complicating things by suggesting the need for regulatory oversight for something as peripheral to broadcast television as programming payload though. Here’s why… Read more
AmazonMP3: Why Don’t My Friends Know You?
The world of DRM-free online music sales has been heating up lately. AmazonMP3 was the first DRM-free store with music from the “big four” labels, and is my personal favorite (it is the only store I have made repeat purchases at actually), but if they really want to make a significant dent in iTunes’ market share they are going to need to do more. Here’s my $.02 on the matter. Read more
Does It Matter If $1 Of Piracy = $5.50 In “Lost Opportunities”?
Ars is running a story on a new report by IDC (that was funded by Microsoft) that states/shows that $1 of piracy = $5.50 in “lost opportunities”. Cheng argues that just because “every single dollar that…has been ‘lost’ to copyright infringement [can’t] be turned around into a dollar worth of sales” that we should “take this report with about $5.50 of salt.” Should it really matter if each dollar of piracy would actually be a dollar of sales though?
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