Category Archives: General Tech

NETGEAR Launches Two New Internet-Connected STBs

Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 by MegaZone

NETGEAR is launching two new Internet-connected set-top boxes to bring Internet media to the TV. The Internet TV Player, ITV2000, is just larger than a pack of cards but it packs in a ton of features. Without the need for … Continue reading →

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More Alphabet Soup – SDXC The Latest In Memory Cards

Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 by MegaZone

The SD Card Association has announced the latest generation of SD standards – SDXC, for Secure Digital eXtended Capacity. This takes SD beyond SDHC (High Capacity) to two terabytes (2TB) and read-write speeds of up to 104 megabytes per second, … Continue reading →

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DivX Releases DivX 7, Closes The Circle

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by MegaZone

DivX has come full circle, what started out as a reverse engineered version of Microsoft’s non-compliant implementation of MPEG-4 Version 3 over ten years ago with DivX 3.11 is now a full-featured product based on H.264 (aka MPEG-3 AVC) with … Continue reading →

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Broadcom Brings Adobe Flash To TVs And STBs

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by MegaZone

Broadcom has partnered with Adobe to embed Adobe Flash Lite 3 into several of their latest System-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms for TVs and STBs. This will allow vendors who use Broadcom’s chips to easily add Flash support to their products. Along … Continue reading →

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SuperSync 3.03 Released, Improves TiVo Support

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by MegaZone

I reported on the release of SuperSync 2.3 back in April, but now version 3.03 is being announced in conjunction with MacWorld. SuperSync is an iTunes library manager for PC, Mac, and iPod. SuperSync makes it easy to create a … Continue reading →

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