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Comment Re:Just dumped MythTV (Score 1) 229

by jerkychew on Monday November 17, 2008 @01:58PM (#25788573) Attached to: Preview the New MythTV User Interface

You're confusing products a bit. The two pieces of Myth that handle non-tv media, MythMusic and MythDVD. These are both plug-ins to Myth and while they do tend to ship with most Myth setups, they are not part of the core MythTV product. I agree with you that they both suck - The UIs and overall management of media are just terrible - But don't poo-poo MythTV because of them. In essence it's like saying Firefox sucks because your Yahoo toolbar has a bad interface.

XBMC is awesome but it's not a replacement for MythTV. It has no mechanism for recording tv shows or hooking to any type of tuner card. What it excels at is, as you said, media management. I modified my MythTV menu to include XBMC, so when I want to watch my DVD ISOs on a Windows box I launch it from the MythTV interface. A quick blurb on how I did it is here.

FWIW, you can add MythTV as a video source in XBMC using the mythtv:// prefix. You can then view recordings as well as live tv, although it was buggy the last time I tried it.

Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections 275

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, 2008 @02:24PM from the yes-but-food-is-cheaper-elsewhere dept.

ashitaka writes "KDDI has announced that they will be launching a 1Gbps Internet service to single-family home and condo users in October. The service is supposedly synchronous, with 1Gbps in both directions, although the article implies that speeds will vary with location. Cost will be 5,985 yen/month (about US$56.50) for the basic Internet and IP phone service. This is intended to compete with NTT, who currently control over 70% of the Japanese FTTH market."

Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free 166

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 26, 2008 @11:52PM from the it's-not-a-bug-it's-a-feature dept.

webax writes with this excerpt from Reuters: "[An Adobe security hole] exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience. 'It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly,' said Bruce Schneier ... The flaw rests in Adobe's Flash video servers that are connected to the company's players installed in nearly all of the world's Web-connected computers. The software doesn't encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players." webax also notes that the article suggests DRM as a potential solution to the problem.

Submission + - Mystery Company recruiting puzzle solved! 1

Submitted by

srealm

on Sunday December 23, 2007 @02:46PM

srealm writes: "Less than 24 hours from posting, the Mystery Company job posting has been cracked! With the collaboration of people at the Google Group setup specifically for cracking this puzzle, the three 'challenges' have been solved, and the company un-masked as N-Brain, Inc in Boulder, CO. The date in question is the release date for their flagship UNA product, meant to promote collaborative development."

Submission + - Vista SP1 RC Available (microsoft.com) 1

Submitted by drwxrxrx on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @09:34PM

drwxrxrx writes: A release candidate for Windows Vista SP1 is available for download. According to InformationWeek, the list of changes runs 47 pages, and isn't exhaustive. Computerworld has an article detailing the hoops one must jump through to install the release candidate.

Submission + - Led Zep concert vids shows YouTube filtering holes (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @07:57PM

jfruhlinger writes: "One of the ways that YouTube became respectable was by promising to filter out copyrighted content that had been uploaded against the wishes of the copyright holder. But the recent much-anticipated Led Zeppelin reunion concert — and the resulting flood of amateur video footage uploaed to YouTube — demonstrated a hole in YouTube's filtering process: the filter compares uploaded videos to an original version, a process that doesn't work when the videos in question are all taken from different angles and with different cameras."

Submission + - Google Combines MultipleServices in New iPhone App (techluver.com)

Submitted by

Tech.Luver

on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @02:37PM

Tech.Luver writes: "Today, Google announced the release of a new iPhone application that integrates its multiple services into a single interface, making it easy for iPhone users to find, use and switch between Google search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, and more. To use the application, iPhone users simply point their web browser to Google.com. To accomplish this, Google is taking advantage of browser technologies (like AJAX) that made Gmail and Google Maps possible on the desktop. In supporting these advances in web technology, the iPhone's Safari browser not only delivers an excellent mobile Internet experience. ( http://techluver.com/2007/12/05/google-launches-new-iphone-app-that-integrates-multiple-services-into-a-single-interface/ )"

Submission + - Bezos Patent Reform Chief Patents Lighting Toilets

Submitted by

theodp

on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @12:43PM

theodp writes: "Charles Cella, the man tapped by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly to lead their 'radical patent reform' effort, was awarded a patent Tuesday for Methods and Systems for Illuminating Household Products, including lighting toilet water. Cella was CEO of BountyQuest, which received a million bucks from Bezos to run contests to find prior art for patents, including one funded by O'Reilly for Bezos' own 1-Click patent. BountyQuest found no winner in the 1-Click contest, an outcome that continues to be offered as proof of 1-Click's patent-worthiness, although the USPTO recently used losing prior art submitted in that contest as the grounds for rejecting a number of Amazon's 1-Click patent claims."

Comment Fitting Name (Score 2, Funny) 413

by TehF0X on Saturday October 16, 2004 @03:28PM (#10545792) Attached to: Hip-e All-In-One PC

Where in the world did he get the name "Hip-e". I can just see the business meeting on this: Suit.A - "Well, it's supposed to be for young people." Suit.B - "I heard my son use the word 'hip', but I don't think it was an anatomical reference." Suit.A - "Brilliant, integrating slang into a product targeted to a teen audience increases sales tenfold! Or was that giving out free t-shirts?" Suit.B - "We still need to make it more comparable to an iMac though..." Suit.A - "Well, I guess we can throw a random vowel in front, they already took 'i'." Suit.B - "No, in the spirit of being 'hip', we'll put our random vowel in the END! Crazy, no?." Suit.A - "Completely, so, we have Hip-_." Suit.B - "Well, 'e' is right before 'i', and it begins electronic..." Suit.A - "Hip-e, excellent, and kids these days just love hippies, which increases sales tenfold!" Suit.B - "My brain just turned into a turkey! That increases sales tenfold!"

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