Monthly Archives: January 2006

Google Video Store, expensive stuff

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I thought iTMS was expensive already, $2 to rent an episode of recent TV shows for TWENTY-FOUR HOURS??

Google launches video-on-demand | CNET News.com

for $1.99, people will be able to rent, for 24 hours, recent episodes of popular TV series from CBS like “NCIS,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “The Amazing Race,” Chane said. National Basketball Association games shown on TV can be downloaded for permanent purchase within one day of broadcast for $3.95

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Google Video Marketplace

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So this is what the hype was about… I wonder if they would be selling pr0n too…

Google Press Center: Press Release

Live from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the planned opening of the Google Video Store, the first open video marketplace enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range of video content from a major television network, a professional sports league, cable programmers, independent producers and film makers.

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TiVo Series 3 with HD

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HD TiVo soon, very very nice! Now let’s hope the truly high-res plasma prices will come down when they start shipping HD TiVo’s… 🙂

TiVo announces Series 3 HD TiVo, due this year – Engadget

TiVo just announced their TiVo Series 3 HD Digital Media Recorder, with dual HD recording and 300 hours of recording space. The device supports dual CableCARDs, of the 2.0 or 1.0 a variety, so either way you can get dual signals, with one 2.0 card or two 1.0 cards.

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JCB

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So I got the Nizlopi CD from eBay and it arrived today, I can’t decide if I like it or not… The JCB song is probably the most popular song on the album, I don’t even know WTF a JCB is, I guess it’s like some kindda construction vehicle that is huge? I guess in the U.S. we have Caterpillar… 😉 (I know I can figure it out at wikipedia or google but believe it or not I got better things to do)…

update: I just watched the JCB video included in the CD and it’s pretty cool!

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Shure E500

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Shure introduced the E500, their triple-driver universal fit cans. It costs about the same as the UE-5c, which is dual-driver but a friend of mine likes it better than the UE-10 Pro. I don’t know, $500 is a lot for universal fit IEMs, custom ones will always have better isolation and be more comfortable, and they look a lot cooler. I am very interested in how the additional driver works in the E500. The UE-10 Pro gives you more bass, but the effect is very minimal. I generally like Shure’s sound signature more than that of Ety and probably UE. I’m sure the Head-fiers are very excited about yet another pair high end IEMs.

Shure unveils E500 sound isolating earphones

Shure has introduced its new high-end E500 sound isolating earphones. The E500s feature triple drivers and an innovative ?Push-to-Hear? option that lets you alternate between music isolation and the outside world by automatically activating an external microphone and muting the music.

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I’m supposed to be getting 6Mbps downstream from Comcast

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According to this thread all CA is getting 6Mbps since 12/13/05. I’ve restarted my modem since then a few times, my broadband was down for the entire day of 12/31!! I haven’t noticed the speed bump though, but will run a speed test tonight to find out…

FORUMS – Comcast.net

Message was edited by: Jason1 – CA added (Dec 13th)

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Target sells memory card with nudie pix…buyer traumatized for life – Engadget

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Make sure you format your memory cards before you return them… 😆

Target sells memory card with nudie pix…buyer traumatized for life – Engadget

Aleta Kelley of Tucson was, quote “shocked I mean absolutely shocked, there is no other word” to find nearly 80 nude and graphic photos of a middle-aged woman on her supposedly new memory card she purchased at Target.

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