| Orb Now Bundled With Hauppauge's WinTV-PVR Products in the United ...
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc., the industry leader in providing personal computer-based TV receivers, and Orb Networks, the award-winning developer of software and services that unlock the digital media stored on personal computers, today announced that Orb will be bundled with Hauppauge's WinTV-PVR TV tuners in the U.S. The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR's are high performance PC based TV receivers which allow PC users to watch and record TV on their PCs. The internal WinTV-PVR-150 board and the external USB based WinTV-PVR-USB2 will have the Orb application included so that users can not only watch TV on their PC screens, but watch their TV while traveling. The WinTV-PVR with Orb bundles are coming to US consumers through online and retail stores throughout the United States, giving Windows PC owners the ability to take their TV anywhere.
Review: Apple's ultra-thin MacBook Air
Weighing slightly less than a size-zero supermodel, and much slimmer with it, the MacBook Air has created a bit of a buzz since its release. That's hardly surprising, as Apple… More Blog: Woz sticks it to Apple - again Pioneer gets out of the plasma game The botnets behind our spam Blu-ray win means time for high-def take-off More Technology .
Obituaries in the news
Di Stefano was at the height of his career when other stars of contemporary opera were taking their first steps. Luciano Pavarotti, who died in September, had his big international break when he stood in for Di Stefano as Rodolfo in Puccini's "La Boheme" at London's Covent Garden in 1963. At the Met, Di Stefano sang in 112 performances from 1948 to 1965, making his debut in Verdi's "Rigoletto" as the Duke. --- Vitaly Fedorchuk MOSCOW (AP) - Vitaly Fedorchuk, who briefly headed the KGB and served as Soviet interior minister in the 1980s, has died, officials said. He was 89. Fedorchuk died Friday in Moscow of an unspecified illness, said the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency. Fedorchuk, who was born to a farmer's family in Ukraine, joined the Soviet secret police in 1939 and worked in the SMERSH counterintelligence agency during World War II.
Cellnet+Hunt Powers Highly Available Wireless Metering Communications ...
Built using Oracle Database 10g Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Automatic Storage Management and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, Cellnet+Hunt's Grid delivers the performance, scalability, business continuity, and the flexibility required to deliver its wireless metering network applications and services. Based in Atlanta, Ga., Cellnet+Hunt offers a broad range of advanced metering and infrastructure communications systems to electric, gas and water utilities in North America. Cellnet+Hunt and Oracle have also teamed to provide utility clients with an end-to-end solution for advanced metering, which includes Oracle Utilities applications. By working together, Cellnet+Hunt and Oracle help utilities detect outages and issue work orders more quickly, verify service restoration through remote meter readings and prevent needless dispatch of repair crews and equipment.
Universal: We're staying with HD DVD
However, ZDNet technical director George Ou says the picture quality on the HD downloads is not as good as the PQ on a DVD 1080p upconverter player. In a column just posted at ZDNet, Ou writes that high-def downloads has become an industry "big lie," meaning they really don't offer HD-quality images. Apple's Net TV device now offers HD downloads. He contends that HD downloads must be compressed so that the bit rate used in the transmission is typically just 1.5 to 4 mbps for 720p H.264. In layman's terms, that means that the signal strength -- and picture quality -- is far lower than what you'll see on a Blu-ray or HD DVD high-def disc. It's even lower than what's offered by cable and satellite operators and a good DVD upconverter player. "There's just one minor little problem (with HD downoads), it's not HD," Ou says.
Hardy Vision: At the movies, not everyone's a critic anymore
Sunday night marks the 80th Academy Awards ceremony. Though if the Oscars were as cool as the Super Bowl, they would use Roman numerals and call it Academy Awards LXXX. It's natural to compare Academy Awards night to the Super Bowl. Natural, but wrong in one fundamental way. They're both over-hyped events, but at least NFL teams have to fight their way to the big game. And at the end of the night there's one undisputed champ. The Oscars have more in common with the BCS. It's all a popularity contest, and you get voted in by people who may or may not know a damn thing about what's going on. And just as some jerks will complain that an undefeated Hawaii team should have a shot at the national title, you'll have yahoos complaining that Kevin James was snubbed for his understated subtlety in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
CES: LaCie unveils new hard drives, LCD display
LaCie on Monday introduced five new products including desktop and portable hard drives and a new LCD display aimed at professionals. Some products are available today; others are coming later this month and in February. The LaCie d2 Quadra is a redesigned quadruple-interface desktop hard drive. It features USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and external Serial ATA (eSATA) connections. Featuring a large surface area, the external drive dissipates heat without needing a fan. It's available now in capacities ranging from 320GB to 1 terabyte (TB), at prices starting at $189. The Little Big Disk Quadra is a quad-interface drive designed for portability. It's fast enough to handle video editing and digital content creation on the road, but sports an aluminum heat-sink design that cools without needing a fan.
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