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Nokia Working On Smart Home Solution Based Around Your Mobile Phone
The “smart home” has been a part of technology folklore for nearly 30 years. Despite hundreds of companies offering a myriad of solutions to make your home completely automated and networked, all of them are too expensive to really become mainstream. But Nokia is hoping to change all that by making the central device, the…
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Sharp Keeps The Blu-ray Market Confused With BD Profile 1.1 Player
One of the big reasons that Blu-ray isn’t gaining the same traction as DVDs (aside from the required spend on compatible hardware and cost of both the players and movies) is the fact that there have been several different, confusingly named standards. While we’ve been over it before and know the differences between the different…
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LG’s BD300 Player Lands In Australia, Netflix Nowhere To Be Seen
Considering that Netflix doesn’t operate in Australia, it’s hardly surprising that LG has dumped the Netflix support from its local version of the BD300 Blu-ray player. Instead, they’re offering a bonus BigPond DVD rentals promotion, which includes four months worth of DVD (or Blu-ray) rentals from BigPond’s Netflix-like store (we’re talking physical media here, in…
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Toshiba Stays The Upconverting DVD Player Course
It’s tough to decide whether Toshiba is being incredibly intelligent or incredibly stubborn in their decision to back upconverting DVD technology instead of Blu-ray. I mean, they were certainly burnt – badly – by Blu-ray with that whole HD DVD format war, but is their decision to stick to DVD smart? Take their latest DVD…