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Comcast Begins National Launch of X1: Next-Generation Cloud Enabled Television Platform and Introduces the X1 Remote Control App
21 May 2012 1:00 PM | No CommentsPHILADELPHIA & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast, one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information, and communications products and services, announced today it will launch its next-generation television experience, Xfinity TV on ...
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Comporium’s “Cable Show” Exhibit #1323 Features Home Management and Security System
18 May 2012 8:33 PM | No CommentsBOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comporium today announced that it will feature its award-winning Central Station Monitoring Service for the interactive security and home management system powered by...
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Pocoyo “Gets Caught Reading” with Actor Stephen Fry in Association of American Publishers National Campaign
17 May 2012 1:47 PM | No CommentsMADRID–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pocoyo, the little boy in blue who has captured the hearts of children and their parents the world over, and actor/writer/presenter Stephen Fry, who narrates the animated Pocoyo television series,...
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Comcast Brings Family and Friends Closer Together with the Launch of Skype on Xfinity
16 May 2012 5:00 PM | No CommentsPHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast today announced that Skype™ on Xfinity®, a new widescreen HD video calling experience, is now available in Boston and Seattle as the company begins its nationwide rollout of the...
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Taiki Has Made Preservative Free Mascara Formulas Possible
10 May 2012 3:11 PM | No CommentsMONTVALE, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Taiki Group, a premier, global leader of skincare and make-up beauty tools, products and packages has developed the first antimicrobial mascara, with EcoG+, an antimicrobial resin that allows ...
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Xbox 360 3D gaming a reality with LG partnership
Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Commentsvar digg_url = 'http://digg.com/xbox/Xbox_360_3D_gaming_a_reality'; The image above is unmistakeable: 3D gaming on an Xbox 360 with the help of an LG 3D television. It's the details that we're sorting out from LG's Korean press release. From the looks of it, LG and Microsoft have entered into a memorandum of understanding to jointly market LG's new 3D telvisions along side 3D-capable Xbox 360 games in South Korea, then later expanding throughout the Asia Pacific region. If we're reading this correctly then it appears set to begin by bundling Xbox 360 3D games with LG 55/47LX9500 LED televisions sometime at the end of June. In other words, we're not seeing anything specific claiming new Xbox 360 hardware, just like we've seen on the PS3.
Xbox 360 3D gaming a reality with LG partnership originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 01:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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WD TV Live HD gets ‘Play To’ functionality, full Windows 7 compliance
Posted on May 7, 2010 | No CommentsThis silvery-set top box above may look rather drab, but never fear: its next production run will sport a nice, colorful Windows 7 sticker. That's because Western Digital recently signed an agreement to make its WD TV Live HD network media players compatible with Microsoft's "Play To" feature, allowing you to push media right to your TV from a Windows Media Player 12-equipped PC. While the feature actually snuck its way into firmware revision 1.02.21 in late March, WD only just began trumpeting its inclusion today... possibly to let memories of its disastrous prior update fade. Whatever the reason, the box is not the "first network media player compatible with Windows 7" -- Denon has four recievers that predate it. Press release and an example of what 'Play To' looks like, right after the break.
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WD TV Live HD gets 'Play To' functionality, full Windows 7 compliance originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 02:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Is this the first Windows 7 Media Center embedded set-top box?
Posted on May 2, 2010 | No CommentsWe've never heard of this German company Reycom before, but from the looks of it this could be the very first embedded Windows 7 Media Center. The Reycom Entertainment Solution is marketed to content providers in Switzerland and Germany, is powered by an Atom processor and is small and slick. All the user interface images on the site should look familiar to Windows 7 Media Center fans, but the newly announced embedded version of Windows 7 isn't mentioned by name -- even the image on the about page has a women holding a Media Center remote. Of course this doesn't mean much for those of us State side, but this is exactly the type of box we had in mind when we first heard of an embedded version of Windows Media Center.
Is this the first Windows 7 Media Center embedded set-top box? originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sun, 02 May 2010 18:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Is 1080p enough resolution for everything?
Posted on April 30, 2010 | No CommentsUsually when we're talking about a Pete Brown of Microsoft it is the one who works on Media Center, but this other Pete gives his opinion on something also near and dear to our heart; he says that HDTVs have ruined the PC display market. His point is that while the technology exists to produce super high dots per inch displays, most are 1920x1200. He's totally right and we've wondered why there aren't more super high resolution displays for our computers as well, but we're not so sure it is all HDTVs fault like he says. What we wonder if most people even like super high density displays because either they're still running XP -- that doesn't let you adjust to high DPI displays -- or just because what they have is good enough. In the end, we too want the more pixels, but blaming HDTVs? Nah.
Is 1080p enough resolution for everything? originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Xbox Live gets 1080p Zune video store, Netflix browsing, Twitter and Facebook integration
Posted on June 1, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Media streamers, Other hardware, Internet
Microsoft is busy announcing a slew of upgrades to Xbox Live, and the biggest news so far is relaunch of the video service, now Zune-branded with 1080p instant-on streaming content in 18 countries. XBL is also now integrated with Facebook -- your Facebook account can be linked to your Gamertag, and games will support Facebook Connect for sharing content online. That's pretty huge -- but if that wasn't enough, you're also getting Twitter and Last.fm in the deal. Want more? Netflix users will now be able to browse the entire catalog instead of simply loading their queue, and Microsoft has also gotten its Party Watch system in order, so you'll be able to heckle videos with your online friends. Last but not least, there's now live TV streaming for UK and Ireland gamers, who'll get Premier League soccer live from Sky. All in all, a solid set of updates for XBL -- but we'll wait and see how that "1080p" video looks before we pronounce Blu-ray dead. PR blurb after the break.
Xbox Live gets 1080p Zune video store, Netflix browsing, Twitter and Facebook integration originally appeared on Engadget HD on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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