Amino Technologies has announced inclusion of Firefox (the third quarter of 2006) and Opera (near future) in the IPTV products. Currently Amino set-top boxes (STB) support only ANT to build user interface. Using Firefox instead of ANT can reduce the price of STB and extend its functionality.
LG’s XNOTE TX ultra-portable laptop
New amazing laptop from LG has weight only 1 kg! It’s really portable and really ultra weight and slim. Other characteristics: 12.1-inch WXGA LCD 60GB disk up to 2GB RAM Geforce Go 7300 1.3GHz Intel Pentium-M 802.11a/b/g Wireless CardBus Adapter Bluetooth 1.2 three USB ports 5-in-1 memory card slot DMB-module for to watch mobile digital TV.
Extend your home phone
New phone form RTX has announced the first Internet telephone with on-screen e-mail and news. It combines a standard phone connection, Internet telephony and storage for Web content. The base station is connected both to the conventional telephone system and to the broadband Internet link, so you will able to call from both channels. So, it’s possible to make calls using usual telephone line of […]
The next generation of home PC
It seems that home PCs won’t be just a computers. They are going to replace DVDs, satellite receivers, media centers etc. The picture can give a conception of new generation of home PCs from VoodooPC. It’s a really cool isn’t it?
Socialize your TiVo
If you lucky owner TiVo – digital video recording set-top device for personal television, social person and have yourown blog it might be unteresting for you how to generate TiVoRoll which shows what programs you’ve been recording on your TiVo box. Another possibility is to create RSS Atom showing which episodes of programs your TiVo has been recording lately.
Say ‘Bye-bye’ to cables in your home.
When you create a home network the most important aspect is a concealment of cables. To make your life easier it was invented a way to pass IP traffic over home power lines. If your PC is in the one room and ADSL modem is in another you need to plug a Powerline Adapter near you PC and connect them and another – near ADSL […]
Laptop + PCTV USB Stick = PVR
Company Pinnacle offers an intertesting solution to watch digital terrestrial TV – PCTV USB Stick. It’s easily plugin to USB port and comes with mini remote control, rod antenna and TV recording software. So, using PCTV USB Stick you can turn your laptop or PC into a PVR. Useful features: Capture TV or radio shows to your hard disk in MPEG- 1/-2 or DivX format. […]
Howto build VDR (in pictures)
To get some idea about VDR hardware have a look this forum topic. It’s on German but if you cannot read it (me too :)) you the pictures might tell you all details. This guy did incredible work. Maybe it’d be easier to buy some stock-produced case instead 😉