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Entertainment
Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies On SD Cards From Kiosks!
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program in the US that will load DRM’d movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! More »
Peripherals
Wi-Fi MicroSD Card Makes Eye-Fi Look Obese
11:05PM John Herrman | Japanese phone king KDDI is showing off a MicroSD card with built-in Wi-Fi, sorta like those photo-uploading Eye-Fi cards everyone loves so much. Actually, they’re just like that, except, well, micro. More »
Peripherals
Photofast CR-7200 CompactFlash Adapter Runs Four MicroSDs In RAID
11:00AM Johnny Tzeng | The new CompactFlash adaptor from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. More »
Peripherals
SanDisk Claims Title Of World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card
10:00PM Dan Nosowitz | The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world’s fastest. More »
Computers
MacBook Pro 2009 Review
5:20AM Jason Chen | You know those Microsoft laptop hunter spots? Apple may already have responded with TV spots of their own, but these MacBook Pros strike back at Microsoft better than any ad can: by doing. More »
Computers
New MacBook Pros Can Boot From Internal SD Slot
3:00AM John Herrman | Aside from photo transfers and straight up storage expansion, the SD card slot in the new MacBook Pros has a single, extremely cool trick up its sleeve slot: it’s bootable. More »
Peripherals
LaCie Data/Share SD Reader Callously Mocks the Sacred Taoist Concepts and Yin and Yang
5:59PM John Herrman | USB flash media readers aren’t exactly ripe for innovation, so it’s rare that they surprise us in a way that doesn’t inspire laughter. But 69ing two readers into one compact, featureless lump? That’s kinda genius. More »
Gadgets
Motorola Sends Teeny Ear Clips In Huge Cardboard Box
10:20AM Wilson Rothman | Giz reader Thomas just received two 2-inch Bluetooth earhooks from Motorola—in a 320-cubic-inch box. As he puts it, “the package was filled with about 99% air.” Haven’t they heard of envelopes? More pics: More »
Entertainment
3:16PM Nick Broughall | Maybe it’s just me, but if I were a TV network executive with a whole HD channel at my disposal, I’d make sure to fill it with HD content. After all, that ‘HD’ in the channel’s name does mean ‘High Definition’, not standard definition.
What I would not do is broadcast the exact same SD content on the HD channel, even if it was the Australian Open. But that’s exactly what Channel 7 are doing, starting today. Why? Because they hate you. More »
Channel 7’s HD Channel Playing The Australian Open In SD
3:16PM Nick Broughall | Maybe it’s just me, but if I were a TV network executive with a whole HD channel at my disposal, I’d make sure to fill it with HD content. After all, that ‘HD’ in the channel’s name does mean ‘High Definition’, not standard definition.
What I would not do is broadcast the exact same SD content on the HD channel, even if it was the Australian Open. But that’s exactly what Channel 7 are doing, starting today. Why? Because they hate you. More »
Peripherals
