Home storage to bolster hard-drive growth

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[Oloop.org] Storing all of those digital photos and on-demand TV shows on your computer should keep sales brisk for hard-drive manufactures for at least the next four years, a new study has shown.

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 [Tips & Tricks] Setting Up a Wireless Entertainment Network: A wireless MP3 jukebox (when they finally become available as a standard feature) would allow you to choose the music you want to listen to at any time by downloading just those tracks from your audio library before you head out the door to the gym or to work. (At the moment, we are limited to add-on wireless playback devices such as Belkin's TuneCast Mobile FM transmitter, which turns your iPod into an FM radio station.) With a Personal Video Recorder, or PVR, you can record just the programs you want and view them later (time shifting), and eliminate commercials, which greatly improves the quality of what you watch.

[Radio.weblogs.com] Ross' Multimedia Journal: Nasdaq] and others are making these devices that the NYT's Mcmanus describe as "bridging the gap" between the PC and the TV enabling consumers to display "media content" that resides on PCs. Curiously, there is no word on the Hauppague website about the MediaMVP product that Mcmanus references in his article [From PC to TV Screen, a Stream of Multimedia.

[Blog.flaphead.dns2go.com] Welcome to Flaphead.com @ Home : Seagate strenghtens its lead in ...: The Seagate DB35 Series hard drive will offer up to 85 hours of High-Definition TV recording, 500 hours of standard TV recording, and up to 10 simultaneous standard TV streams with Seagate's DynaPlay technology. The new DB35 Series hard drive will provide the industry's largest available capacity for digital video entertainment, enabling consumers to keep more of the shows they love and to take better advantage of High-Definition TV and multi-room DVRs, as well as new television services like video on demand and interactive TV.

[Hciblog.fireclaw.org] HCI Bloggers: First, we have the obvious digital delivery methods which are offering greater picture quality than the old VHF/UHF antennas, the most well known examples are satellite (Sky, for instance) and cable (NTL/Telewest), both of which deliver program signals directly from the broadcaster to a box in your living room digitally, allowing them to receive not just television channels, but upcoming programme information, and as Ian mentioned, even email and interaction and games.

[Engadget.com] Chemically misting hard drives and other remote data security ...: kensington security cable With the proliferation of gigabyte storage on cellphones, .solution is Ensconce Data Technology’s “Dead on Demand” hard drive.

[Blogd.com] The Blog From Another Dimension: The Future of Television, Part II ...: Today, you have to either plan your evenings around your favorite TV shows, or have the patience and discipline to use your video recorder. VCRs are actually quite difficult to use, aside from the normal programming issues--you also have to have blank tapes ready, cued up to the right point, and have to remember to put those tapes in and set the timer after watching videos in between.

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Posted at July 02, 2005 09:18 AM