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Music
Samsung YP-R1 PMP Plays Your Torrented Episodes Of 30 Rock
1:00PM Dan Nosowitz | We’re loving Samsung’s new line of PMPs, and as lifelong haters of forced video conversion, we’re especially glad that Samsung’s been throwing us torrent-using pirates a bone with great codec support and a 2.7-inch touchscreen in its new YP-R1 PMP. More »
Entertainment
HDi’s Dune Blu-ray Players Have BitTorrent Plus Insane Codec Support
5:01AM Jason Chen | HDi’s Blu-ray player is one of the first great Blu-ray + digital file players we’ve seen, being BD Live compliant and playing back DivX/XVid/WMV9/H.264/MKV files. Best of all, it’s got a built-in BitTorrent client. More »
Gadgets
HP Mediasmart Connect HD Video Streamer Lightning Review
6:00AM Jason Chen | The Gadget: HP’s Mediasmart Connect, a networked receiver that plays back H.264, DivX, XviD, MPEG-2, WMV video, photos, and even connects to your Media Centre to act like an extender. It’s also expandable space-wise with HP’s Pocket Media Drives, and supports 10/100 Ethernet and 802.11a/b/g/n. It comes in a glossy piano black finish which attracts dust and fingerprints as easily as an actual piano. More »
Music
Cowon A3 and Q5W Media Players Get 80GB Storage Each
2:10AM Jason Chen | We’ve reviewed both the Cowon A3 and the Q5W and found them to be fantastic media players with a pretty damn wide range of video and audio format support. Cowon’s just bumped up both players to 80GB, which is great since you’re probably going to be loading both with lots of video files. We’re still waiting for it to go up to 160GB like the iPod classics though. [Cowon] More »
Music
IOGEAR’s Portable Media Player Upscales Video to 720P, Bears World’s Most Generic Name
6:00AM Jason Chen | IOGEAR’s portable media player, actually named Portable Media Player, may look as generic as its name on the outside, but actually has some good features on the inside (but no screen). There’s the most unique one, the ability to upscale video files to 720P for display on an HDTV, but there’s also XviD, DivX, MPEG1/2, and full DVD menu support as well as a bunch of audio support. With a 120GB drive on board, the US$349.95 price tag doesn’t seem all that steep, but there’s probably little to no chance that most people will have the use of playing back 720P video on the go, on other people’s screens. Maybe if you traveled a lot and wanted to watch your own movies in hotel rooms? [IOGEAR] More »
Gadgets
Slingcatcher: The Ultimate HD Streamer/File Player
4:00PM Jason Chen | Not only can you use this to play back streamed HD content from the Slingbox Pro HD on your HDTV, the Slingcatcher acts as a file dump for tons of file formats as well (DivX, XviD). The third and most innovative feature of the Slingcatcher is its ability to take video from your PC (either a portion of a screen or a specific window) and stream that to the Slingcatcher. It lets you watch YouTube video, ABC HD video, or anything you can play back on your computer—but on your living room HDTV. More »
Gadgets
Lightning Review: Linksys 2200 HD Media Center Extender
4:01PM Gizmodo US Edition | The Gadget: Linksys’ slightly fancier Windows Media Center Extender, which streams the Windows Vista/XP Media Center interface over the network so you can watch live or recorded TV and downloaded files on TV in HD. The Price: $US299 galleryPost('linksysmce', 3, 'Linksys 2200'); More »
Gadgets
Cowon N3 PMP has 7-inch Screen, GPS, DivX/XviD Support
7:20AM Jason Chen | As dapreview points out, this just-announced Cowon N3 looks quite like the Cowon Q5W we reviewed a few weeks ago. The most noticeable difference comes from the fact that this has a 7-inch screen as opposed to the Q5’s 5-incher. Other than that, there’s no internal memory—you have to use one of two SDHC slots to add storage—and GPS and DMB (portable TV) support. The good news is that this does support DivX/XviD and all the other video and audio codecs the Q5W does, meaning that you’ll never have to go a second without entertainment. Ever. [Dapreview] More »
Gadgets
PlayStation 3 XviD Playback Update: It Works, Kinda
4:42AM Jason Chen | Huzzah! I’ve discovered why XviD files didn’t work in the PlayStation DivX Playback test. Apparently, streaming over Windows Media Player 11 does not work for any XviD files and most DivX files, but it does work fine if you load the files onto an external USB drive or burn it to a DVD. But there’s a workaround, kind of. More »
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