The News Review:
- NEWS: Playstation 3 & PSP Expands Entertainment Capabilities
- The Hollywood Reporter
- Tech Heads
- NEWS | SAN DIEG San Diego Stock Exchange
- Ps3 – Difficulty replacing Harddrive??
- Surround sound for MP3
NEWS: Playstation 3 & PSP Expands Entertainment Capabilities
TAXI Design Network – Dec 21, 2007
10 PS3 system’s value as a gaming and home entertainment center will be expanded with the PS3 system software 2. Consumers will be able to playback videos in the popular DivX format. DivX is the format of choice for uploading personal video content to a PC or downloading content from the Internet because of its high visual quality and small file sizes. Many PS3 users may already have DivX videos stored on their PC and now they’ll be able to enjoy this content in their living rooms on their PS3. Consumers will have the option to access DivX videos stored on their PC over Wi-Fi via PS3 system’s Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology. PS3 system software 2.
The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter – Dec 21, 2007
Analysts weigh stocks of Santa’s elves December 21 2007 The research firm’s technology software and digital media group recently issued its Holiday Gift Guide recommending not just presents but — where applicable — the stocks that should benefit from brisk sales of such products. It’s a $999 wireless music system that plays all your digitally stored music throughout the house including the ability for choosing different playlists in different rooms all controlled via a super-elegant remote control. Video software company DivX is represented twice on the analysts’ list once when recommending as a gift the Xbox 360 Elite and once when recommending the Pioneer Elite DV-48AV DVD player both featuring DivX technology. Subscribe to the Hollywood Reporter and see the entertainment industry from its best angle: the inside looking out. Complete access to real-time news and exclusive analysis that goes behind the scenes from film to television home video to digital media.
Tech Heads
Glasgow Daily Record – Dec 21, 2007
Microsoft have launched the UK version of their Xbox 360 video-on-demand store. Part of the 360′s autumn Dashboard update – which also included support for video recorded in the DivX codec – the arrival of the movie download service gives the 360 a strong claim on the media hub title. Although Sony weren’t too far behind Microsoft in upgrading the PS3 to also handle WMV and DivX – their latest firmware update 2. 10 hit the wires on Tuesday. Back with the 360 you’re now able to rent full-length time-restricted films via your console. The cost? 250 Microsoft Points (around £2) for standard-definition movies and from 380 Microsoft Points (about £3.
NEWS | SAN DIEG San Diego Stock Exchange
San Diego Daily Transcript – San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription… – Dec 21, 2007
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Ps3 – Difficulty replacing Harddrive??
TrustedReviews – Dec 21, 2007
you upgrading to put a load of DivX movies on your PS3 per chance?Edit: as long as the blue screw is in the caddy is secure enough against the hdd to keep it in place even if you don’t use the caddy screws just FYI. __________________.
Surround sound for MP3
signonsandiego.com – Dec 21, 2007
”The work with surround sound marks the latest efforts to keep MP3 current. Instead of storing the information for six separate tracks of audio MP3 Surround stores a stereo MP3 file with an additional data track containing information about which portions of the sound get directed to each speaker in the surround-sound system. San Diego-based Divx a video compression company uses MP3 Surround to carry the audio portion of Divx video. If it catches on MP3 Surround would bring licensing fees from manufacturers of surround-sound systems. The system to simulate surround sound through headphones – Ensonido – would extend the value of MP3 in portable video players. Ensonido creates what Thuiliere calls an “out of headphone experience. ” While the sound is coming from speakers in or next to the ears it creates the illusion that it is coming from some distance away.