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E3 at The Buzz Media

Just a heads up that I will be attending and reporting on E3 next week. I will be updating every night of the show which runs the 14th through the 17th with a big postmortem after it is all over. If you want more up to the minute news you can check out my twitter [...]

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Favorite Ambient Instrumental Radio Station for Work

I wanted to make this post because as highly distractable person who likes music, I almost always work in deafening silence. As much as I like music, I cannot work with it on because anytime a catchy tune comes on my brain refocuses its attention on the music instead of what I’m suppose to be doing.
For some [...]

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thesixtyone is Redefining the Online Music Experience

thesixtyone is an online media streaming/sales site that Marc Chung just sent to me to take a peek at – “What do you think of this webapp?” he asked me. It took me about 15mins to figure out what it was before I could reply; but after I did, my reply was pretty much “Daaaammmn, [...]

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Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for Viewers

What’s Going on with Netflix Streaming Performance?
I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I’m on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” service had generally been excellent, almost never showing the buffering screen for a movie [...]

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Sony's Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn't Sabotage – It's Just Sony

Sony's Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn't Sabotage – It's Just Sony

The Washington Times’s Sonny Bunch wrote an article recently that raked Sony over the coals for:

No price cut this holiday season — instead they actually released a more expensive bundle
Not properly promoting DVD-upscaling capabilities of the PS3
No Netflix (or other 3rd party) streaming movie support

This is all in the wake of Sony’s falling PS3 sales [...]

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Stream Your Video Feeds with Palantir

Snapshot from palantir.santinoli.com:

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve dabbled with the idea to add a webcam to my personal site that monitored a couple of pet furballs. The task was not too straight forward. I ran into many hiccups with alpha software and missing libraries. Most of the software related to [...]

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PS3 + Infrant ReadyNAS + Xvid Stream

It was reported shortly after the last PS3 Firmware 2.10 release that DivX support was added but Xvid support was only added when the media was played off the PS3’s hard drive. Well for you lucky Infrant ReadyNAS folks out there, it looks like the soon-to-be-released RAIDiator 4 relase of the OS for the ReadyNAS [...]

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XBox Media Extender + Vista Media Center = Media Lovin'

XBox Media Extender + Vista Media Center = Media Lovin'

Chris Hunkele just did a kick-ass writeup of how to setup your Vista Media Center machine combined with your XBox 360 to create more or less a utopia of content-streaming fantasy.
Chris also goes into detail about setting up additional utilities to remove commercials from recorded content as well as interesting tips like managing your BlockBuster [...]

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PS3 1.80 Firmware Update – AWESOME

Ted Regulski just dropped this gem in my inbox about the PS3 1.80 Firmware update due tommorow!

Upscaling Playstation, Playstation 2 and DVDs to 1080p
Ability to stream Images, Music, Movies from a DLNA3-enabled (UPnP A/V) device
Remote Play on PSP over the Internet (Basically allows you to play anything from PS3, using PSP, from anywhere with a [...]

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