Why Transcoding is Here to Stay

Chris Lanier wrote the other day that he thinks that digital media players are missing an opportunity because they only support a limited set of file formats or codecs. I love Chris’ blog and read his posts regularly to keep up with what’s happening in the HTPC world. I’m a little surprised that I disagree [...]

Free Vortex demo on iTunes Store

I religiously download all the freebies from the iTunes Store every Tuesday. Today, there are a few new items, including a free demo of Vortex, an iPod game (if you’ve got a 5G video iPod). This is the first time that I can recall seeing a free iPod game on the iTunes store. Personally, I [...]

Top 10 things we need from Apple’s iTV

I’ve been thinking about what Jobs might have to show us at MWSF in just under two weeks now, and I’ve made my own list of features that the iTV would need to have to make it a killer product.

Compatibility with MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1. That includes all the variants of those codecs from video [...]

Why Zune matters

By most accounts, the Zune won’t have any impact on the MP3 market in general or on the iPod market specifically. I agree in that sales of Zune players are going to be so slow that it won’t register any impact on iPod sales. However, I still think that the Zune matters - and here’s [...]