The second release of TiVo brings it functionality up to the level of it’s new entrant competitors – BB and dialup access, Real player built in, etc
Month: January 2002
ZeoSync are claiming a new compressions
A startup, ZeoSync are claiming a new compressions technique called Relational Differentiation Encoding that will eventually give 100 to 1 loss-less compression. Clearly groundbreaking/world-changing if true. Time will tell if it proves to be true.
Siemens announce GPRS enabled notepad
A German company, Gericom has co-announced with Siemens a GPRS enabled notepad. First of many to come I’m sure – this one only giving around ISDN access speeds.
Centrica buys iomart broadband operations
UK – Centrica buys iomart broadband operations. Unclear from the report the number of users, but I image they must be pretty low.
European ADSL take up
Some figures on European ADSL take up. Telifonica in Spain had 360,000 users by the end of the year, with the aim to have 1m in 2003.
Deutsche Telekom (Germany) signed up 2.2m in the last three months of 2001, with 16,000 signing up on 3 Jan alone!
First review of Sonicblue ReplayTV 4040
This is the first review I’ve seen of a Sonicblue ReplayTV 4040. The piece is a bit light-weight but covers the ability to send recording to other Replay TV units.
RealOne goes to other platforms
RealNetworks announce lots of PVR, PDA and other consumer hardware companies to build RealOne Player into their products.
BT talk further about broadcasting
Further discussion about BT’s long discussed plans to possibly move into broadcast.
Tablet PC’s become wireless
I’ve felt for a long time that wireless tablets would be where it’s at for home users, as they’re so adaptable – use when sitting at a table or lounging on the sofa. Sometime back there was some promising announcement of products but no delivery, well finally it appears to be happening. A couple of wireless tablets, one from Sony (Air Board) and the other from Viewsonic (AirPanel 150).
Moxi excites interest
Back from my Winter break, hence the lack of comments recently.
What SonicBlue stared with their ReplayTV 4000 product, Moxi now take to another level with the key, multi-room (four) facility – a very exciting media convergence product.