March 17, 2005
BEST BAYWATCH BEACH MOMENTS COMING TO YOUR PHONE
Zen Question: What is the sound "Best Baywatch Beach Moments" makes when it comes to your mobile phone? Answer: Ka-Ching!
Unscripted tv giant Freemantle has signed a deal to produce original content for a new mobile entertainment channel -- Thumbdance -- [I'm serious] it is creating with wireless media company Mobliss. It's first short-form show -- "Best Baywatch Beach Moments". Maxim can you hear me now?
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PSP TURNING INTO MOBILE MOVIE PLAYER
Looks like Disney and Paramount are joining Lions Gate and Sony in adding movies to Sony's new PlayStation Portable mobile device. PSP getting some momentum on the mobile movie side...Could be a good way to reach 'the kids'.
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January 12, 2005
POLISHED MEDIA HUBS
The Philips Streamium SL300i and SL400i are polished wired and wireless digital media hubs capable of handling music, photos, video, and streaming Internet media. They are good (if a bit pricey) solutions that would be better with support for more media formats, album art, and more features on the remote.
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November 29, 2004
ENTERTAINMENT PCs TAKE CENTER STAGE
PCs are getting better than ever at tuning in TV, burning movies, playing music, and showing off photos. We test nine versatile new Windows Media Center machines.
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November 16, 2004
DVD TO MOBILE
Now you can convert your DVDs to your Nokia, Siemens and other brand mobile phone and watch them in great quality, with excellent sound and in full screen landscape mode.
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November 14, 2004
WEB TV
It looks like a Tivo. It connects to your TV like a Tivo. It stores up to 200 hours of shows on a hard drive and plays them back like a TiVo. But the new set-top box called the Akimbo Player is, like the Monty Python movie, Something Completely Different: Instead of receiving programs from traditional TV, cable and satellite channels, it gets them directly over the Internet from its own service.
HLA: Forbes gives Akimbo a thumbs down. Technically, it works well, but the content is too limited. And in the end, most likely, people will just have TV's that directly connect to their PC or the Internet.
UPDATE: ExtremeTech, on the other hand, is more positive about Akimbo's future, once the content improves, which it feels is imminent.
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November 12, 2004
FOX TO PUT SERIES ON CELLPHONES
The studio will create one-minute dramas based on its show '24' for a Vodafone service.
The Twentieth Century Fox studio, a veteran of the big screen and the TV screen, is about to break into an entirely new realm: the really little screen, the kind that comes on a cellphone.
In what appeared to be the first arrangement of its kind, Twentieth Century Fox said Wednesday that it would create a unique series of one-minute dramas based on its hit show "24" exclusively for a new high-speed wireless service being offered by Vodafone, the world's biggest cellphone company.
Vodafone will begin offering the one-minute episodes in January in Britain, coinciding with the start of the fourth season of "24" on satellite TV.
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November 04, 2004
TECH COMPANIES PUSH ENTERTAINMENT PCs
Microsoft is teaming up with Intel for a "Digital Joy" ad blitz to push computers as home entertainment conduits. According to the Merc News, the companies will spend "tens of millions" touting entertainment PCs combining the speed of Intel's P4 chips and the Microsoft Media Center software and the way they can deliver PC-stored audio, video to living-room TVs.
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October 26, 2004
AKIMBO DEBUTS VIDEO-ON-DEMAND ON AMAZON
Akimbo on Monday launched its video-on-demand service and signed on Amazon.com as its official retailer.
The privately held company, based in San Mateo, Calif., makes the Akimbo Player, a set-top box that delivers hundreds of videos to television by way of Internet downloads. Seattle-based Amazon will be the exclusive retailer of the player through December, according to the company.
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October 25, 2004
TI HOPES TO PUT HOLLYWOOD IN A MOBILE PHONE
If you can't bear the thought of having to leave the bar before the end of the scoreless match during the next World Cup, or if you simply can't miss today's Oprah Winfrey television show, plan on picking up a new mobile phone with Texas Instruments' Hollywood chip in the latter part of the decade if the technology ever makes it onto store shelves.
TI is expected to unveil its Hollywood digital television chip Tuesday. Hollywood is an integrated chip that combines all the necessary circuitry to receive digital television signals into a package that is small enough and cheap enough to fit into mobile phones, said Remi El-Ouazzane, TI's Mobile Connectivity Solutions business manager.
"We're merging the two greatest technologies of the day, silicon chips and television," El-Ouazzane said.
