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Netflix to provide streaming HD to TiVo owners

thinkdj — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:14:40 +0000

Netflix has teamed up with TiVo to bring HD streaming directly to the TiVo box. A steap ahead of the vanilla physical delivery of DVDs to your doorstep, Netflix now allows owners of TiVo HD, Series 3 and TiVo HD XL gadgets to access many thousands of netflix movies(DVD quality) and HD movies. Netflix members wont be charged extra for this service. Netflix has over 12,000 movies and TV episodes.

“Movies are streamed from Netflix through TiVo DVRs via wired or wireless broadband connection and a Netflix Queue-based user interface. Members visit the Netflix Web site to add movies and TV episodes to their individual instant Queues. Those choices will automatically be displayed on subscribers’ TVs and are available to watch instantly through the TiVo service.”

-Quoted from Netflix

For more information on Netflix HD streaming on TiVo visit http://tivo.com/netflix/

Arc-Mouse from Microsoft

thinkdj — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:22:53 +0000

The Arc-Mouse works on 2xAAA batteries which lasts a long time. The mouse works for both Mac and Windows. The cost of the mouse is a bit over 50$. It comes in cranberry red and black color.

Check out Ebay for more.

Google Android to be unveiled ahead of Christmas shopping

thinkdj — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:26:16 +0000

Google is expected to unveil its first ver of the prototype mobile phone next week, sparking a fierce battle with Apple’s iPhone ahead of the Christmas shopping season.

The handset, known as the Dream, will be made by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, and available exclusively on the T-Mobile network in the UK. It is expected to be available in stores as early as November, far ahead of Christmas.

The handset will run Google’s new mobile phone OS, Android. It is thought the phone will have a slide-out Qwerty keyboard as well as a built-in GPS service, and will be capable of running Google’s range of web applications such as its email service Gmail, productivity suites like Google Docs and mapping services like Google Maps etc.. It is also likely to feature Google’s new web browser, you guessed it, Chrome.

$6 million Kipnis Studio Standard home theater

thinkdj — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:54:55 +0000

This incredible $6-million home theater consists of a Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector (upcales Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies from 1080p native resolution), 18×10-foot Stewart Snowmatte Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture Screen, Mark Levinson N 51 DVD/CD Media Player, Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors, and Snell speakers.

MSI RS 480 M2 IL-2 Specifications

thinkdj — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:04:16 +0000

9.60 in.(L) x 9.60 in.(W); Micro- ATX
2 DIMMs w/ DDR 400 upto 4 GB
1 PCI-E 16X; 3 PCI; 8 USB
6 Ch. Audio; 10/100 LAN; IEEE 1394; RAID; SATA; ATA 133
ATI Radeon Integrated Onboard Graphics
Live Update; Fuzzy Logic; PC Alert; MSI CoreCell

CPU

Supports 64-bit AMD® Athlon64/64FX processor (Socket 939)

Supports 3000+, 3200+, 3500+, 3800+, 4000+ and higher; FX53 and FX55 or higher

Chipset

ATI Radeon® XPRESS 200 Chipset

HyperTransport connection to AMD K8 Athlon 64 processor

8 or 16 bit control/address. data transfer both directions

1000/800/400/200MHz “Double Data Rate” operation both direction

PCI Express x16 Graphic Interface

On-board Graphic shared up to 128MB

ATI ® SB400 Chipset

Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller

Supports dual channel native Serial ATA/RAID controller that will supply 150MB/s and support RAID 0 or RAID 1

Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster / Direct Sound AC97 audio

ACPI & PC2001 compliant enhanced power management

Supports 8 USB2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)

Main Memory

Supports four 184-pin DDR SDRAMs up to 4GB memory size

Supports Dual Channel DDR400*/DDR333 DDR SDRAM (*Refer to MSI recommended modules)

Support for 2Mx32 (with 64-bit interface), 4Mx32, 8Mx32 and 16Mx16 memory devices
Due to the High Performance Memory design, motherboards or system configurations may or may not operate smoothly at the JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) standard settings (BIOS Default on the motherboard) such as DDR voltage, memory speeds and memory timing. Please confirm and adjust your memory setting in the BIOS accordingly for better system stability.
Example: Kingston HyperX DDR500 PC4000 operates at 2.65V, 3-4-4-8, CL=3.
For more information about specification of high performance memory modules, please check with your Memory Manufactures for more details.

Slots

One PCI Express 16X slot

Three PCI 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots. (support 3.3v / 5v PCI bus interface)

BIOS

The mainboard BIOS provides “Plug & Play” BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.

The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications.

Video

3D Graphics

Full DirectX 9.0 Support (Vertex Shader v2.0 and Pixel Shader v2.0) with full precision floating point pixel pipeline, up to 4 Multiple-Render-Targets (MRTs)

Supports Microsoft’s next generation GDI+user interface and support resolution up to 2536×2536@32bpp

2D Graphics

Highly optimized 128-bit engine capable of processing multiple pixels per clock

Game acceleration including support for Microsoft’s DirectDraw, Double Buffering, Virtual Sprites, Transparent Blit, and Masked Blit.

Supports a maximum resolution of 2048×1536@32bpp

Support for new GDI extensions in Windows® XP: Alpha BLT, Transparent BLT, Gradient Fill

On-Board IDE

An IDE controller on the ATI SB400 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 66/100/133 operation modes. It can connect 4 Ultra ATA drives.

Serial ATA/150 controller integrated in ATI SB400

Up to 150MB/s transfer speed

Can connect up to 4 Serial ATA drives

Support RAID 0 or RAID 1

Audio

6 Channel software audio codec Realtek ALC658C

Compliance with AC97′ v2.3 Spec

Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement

IEEE 1394

Supports upto 2 x 1394 ports. one 6-pin 1394 connector on Rear I/O, the other is supported by onboard Pin header. Transfer rate up to 400Mbps.

Controlled by VIA 6307 chipset

LAN

Realtek 8100C

Supports 10/100 Mb/s auto-negotiation operation.

Compliant with PCI v2.2 and PC99 standard .

Compliance with ACPI Power Management

On-Board Peripherals

1 floppy port supports 1 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes

1 serial ports COM1

1 VGA port

1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode

8 USB 2.0 ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)

3 audio ports in vertical (Line-out, Line-in, MIC)

1 IEEE 1394 6pin out

1 RJ-45 jack

Dimension

9.60 in.(L) x 9.60 in.(W) Micro-ATX Form Factor

Mounting

8 mounting holes

Samsung’s 1cm thick LCD display

thinkdj — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:12:12 +0000

Samsung Electronics has come up with a 40″ LCD which is amazingly just 1cm thick. The LCD uses LED backlight and is capable of displaying Full HD (1080p) video.

iPod celebrates it’s 6th birthday

thinkdj — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:46:06 +0000

It was six years ago, on this very day, that the iPod was officially brought into the world at a Steve Jobs Special Event. Over the past six years, the iPod has reduced in size and increased in capacity as hard-disk technology progressed.

13.4 Gigapixel camera

thinkdj — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:21:12 +0000

Below is a video of panoramic photo of Harlem. Those of you bragging about your 10 Megapixel cameras ought to have a look. Microsoft’s HD View technology is used to render the images into a panorama.

Source : Harlem13GP

Gears of War on a $70,000 103-inch Plasma screen

thinkdj — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:58:41 +0000

Video follows.

[via Gizmodo]

Samsung 19 inch SENS G25

thinkdj — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:22:19 +0000

Samsung Electronics is launching their new 19-inch Desknote ‘SENS G25’ in Korean market in late July. Designed in high glossy black, it boasts of a Core 2 Duo processor, SATA-II 320GB hard disk, seven USB 2.0 ports and an ATi GPU. Its 19-inch wide LCD supports 1000:1 contrast ratio and 300cd/m2 brightness. This laptop comes with numeric keypad and AC power supply, thereby doing away with the external adapter. It will be priced at around $1100.