The News Review:
- DivX Inc. to Announce Second Quarter 2007 Results.(Financial report)
- Don’t believe the hype: The 21 biggest tech flops
- Comments on: AMD goes after AppleTV
- Philips GoGear SA6045/02 (4GB)
DivX Inc. to Announce Second Quarter 2007 Results.(Financial report)
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 19, 2007
to Announce Second Quarter 2007 Results. (Financial report) –>CPYRIGHT 2007 Business Wire SAN DIEG — DivX Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) announced today that it will issue its earnings release for the second quarter 2007 after the market close on Thursday August 9 2007. DivX will host a conference call to discuss the results at 4:30 p. Eastern Time on the same day.
Don’t believe the hype: The 21 biggest tech flops
PC World Canada – Jul 19, 2007
That stumbling block cleared the way for audio CDs. DAT survived a while for professional recording applications but never came close to justifying its early hype. DIVXPresaging our current era of Netflix and downloadable movies DIVX (not to be confused with DiVX the video codec) flashed brightly in the late ’90s then flamed out. The idea hatched by electronics retailer Circuit City was interesting — you would rent movies on DIVX discs that you could keep and watch for two days. Then you’d toss or recycle the discs or pay a continuation fee to keep viewing them. Prices were to be competitive with video store rental fees with the added benefit of not having to return the disc. All that was required was a DIVX player which Circuit City would be happy to sell you and the movie discs which Circuit City also would be happy to sell you… Then you’d toss or recycle the discs or pay a continuation fee to keep viewing them. Prices were to be competitive with video store rental fees with the added benefit of not having to return the disc. All that was required was a DIVX player which Circuit City would be happy to sell you and the movie discs which Circuit City also would be happy to sell you. Hardware vendors went along for a while but weren’t overly enthusiastic since the DVD format for which they also were manufacturing players was starting to gain traction at the time. And the video-rental industry fought the concept tooth and nail loudly proclaiming the benefits of the DVD format which they called “pen DVD” over DIVX. Consumers didn’t warm to the scheme either fearing that DIVX vs. DVD could turn into another costly Betamax vs.
Comments on: AMD goes after AppleTV
Register – Jul 18, 2007
And until we can get 10Gb to the house IP-TV is still a dream. And ISP packet shaping will limit our choices. Netgear By Scott Mckenzie Posted Thursday 19th July 2007 08:48 GMTBuy a Netgear EVA-8000 then. does everything the AppleTV does but without content restrictions it doesn’t need iTunes it reads Divx and Xvid without conversion it can grab files off a NAS it can read and control a TV card in a PC works with YouTube… does everything the AppleTV does but without content restrictions it doesn’t need iTunes it reads Divx and Xvid without conversion it can grab files off a NAS it can read and control a TV card in a PC works with YouTube. oh and costs about £200. Yippee By Stu Reeves Posted Thursday 19th July 2007 11:48 GMTA future crammed with 99.
Philips GoGear SA6045/02 (4GB)
TrustedReviews – Jul 18, 2007
Samsung’s YP-T9 Sansa’s e260 and the iPod video all play back moving pictures at just 15fps. n the SA6000 series players you can watch video at up to 30fps depending on the original source material of course. Video conversion and transfer is dealt with by Arcsoft’s Media converter and while this isn’t quite as fully featured as the one you get with Cowon’s iAudio7 it is straightforward to use and will convert everything from WMV to MV files with DivX files the only significant omission. I used it to convert a 30 minute VB file pulled straight from a DVD and this was compressed from 1GB on the PC to a flash-player friendly 149MB WMV 9 file although it did take a lengthy 30 minutes to do so. It’s also worth noting that watching video on the move does drain the battery quicker than listening to music files or FM radio reducing playback time from 15 hours to four hours. But this is pretty much par for the course.