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BoboB-69 writes:
Sony announced a new type of product (for Sony) — the HES-V1000 Home Entertainment Server today at CEDIA. According to Akihabara News ,
"Just one word... WOW ! It is hard to describe how amazing this product is, not only the design of the product by itself is pretty slick, but WOW (sorry) you can get almost ALL Blu-Ray disc available right now on the market in one place and at home ! Indeed the HES-V1000 can store up to 196 12cm Blu-Ray Disc/DVD/CDs and 4 8cm BD/DVDs. This disc charger also receive a 500GB HDD which can store up to 137h of video or 40 000 songs or 20 000 photos... Coolsome ! "
Further, the uber-server is appears to be using AMG movie and music data instead of Sony's traditional use of Gracenote. Could this mean a change of technology providers for Sony?
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Shinatosh writes:
As can be read on www.iso.org, Microsoft's Open XML format was not accepted as an ISO standard. "Approval requires at least 2/3 (i.e. 66.66 %) of the votes cast by national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 to be positive; and no more than 1/4 (i.e. 25 %) of the total number of national body votes cast negative. Neither of these criteria were achieved, with 53 % of votes cast by national bodies participating in ISO/IEC JTC 1 being positive and 26 % of national votes cast being negative."
However Redmond isn't giving up. They will update the Open XML specifications according to the comments of the voting committee and try again in the beginning of 2008.
However governments/organisations won't change to Open XML, until it's a standard, thus leaving Open XML behind ODF. Will MS impress the committee next time with a less flawed specification, or will they try some other ways, we don't now yet.
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APEC Security Team writes:
Today, 11 members of an Australian TV comedy crew (The Chaser) were arrested after passing through two checkpoints into the "Sydney's APEC security "red" zone", coming within metres of the hotel at which US President George W Bush is staying. The article states: "Chaser members said they had dressed up a convoy to look like an official Canadian motorcade, on a day during which a number of official motorcades crossed the city.
Southern Cross Broadcasting reported that the convoy carrying the Chaser team passed "through two checkpoints around the hotel before one of The Chaser pranksters jumped out (dressed) as Osama Bin Laden".
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The Tie Guy writes
"Sling Media's Slingbox allows consumers to watch and control their home television programs from a remote PC or smartphone — a process called 'placeshifting'. Content owners are typically edgy when it comes to the placeshifting topic. However, most don't view Slingbox as an imminent threat that will destroy the commercial broadcast model. Major League Baseball is going against the grain by saying that Slingbox owners who stream home games while traveling are breaking the law because it allows consumers to circumvent geographical boundaries written in to broadcast deals. This has sparked a huge debate that has the MLB, baseball fans, and the CEA up in arms. CEA President Gary Shapiro doesn't agree, and is coming to the defense of Sling Media and place-shifting in general."
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BoboB-69 writes:
Sony has been busy! The 1.8 update to the PlayStation3 this week is quite impressive. Much of the PS3 news this week has focused on the new video upscaling feature that enables DVDs and older games to play up to 1080p resolution.
However, an even more compelling new feature is the ability to turn the PS3 into a Slingbox. With the new global remote play feature, games, video, music, pictures and more can be played over the internet on a PSP, so you can watch play your media on your PS3 from your hotel room on your PSP. In order to do so, a new firmware update will be released for the PSP in the next week or so. It will be interesting to see how much can be done with media on the DLNA network from a PSP on the internet.
Other new features include:
- Video smoothing for PS1 and PS2 software
- Save games to older PS memory cards
- DLNA support to stream any media from PCs, Macs, and other DLNA media servers on a home network
- USB printer support for photos
- A variety of new video settings if you use HDMI
- Bitmapping for SACDs
- Music tag information editing, and the ability to submit changes to the cddb server
- Very cool photo slide show feature, as well as image editing tools
More details on the playstation.com site:
http://www.us.playstation.com/ps3/network/updates/ PS3_180_update.html
