Being that things are dead news wise until the New Year comes, and just about everyone has already posted their list of predictions for 2006 (T.H. has a good roundup), what do you wish had happened in 2005 that didn’t? You know you have pent up thoughts that you would love to vent, so lets hear ‘em! MORE »

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Industry newcomer, ED Digital, through collaboration with Microsoft Corp., will include Windows Media Connect support in the company’s new Digitrex® High-Definition Network LCD TVs. With native support of Windows Media Connect consumers will be able to view and listen to digital content stored on their Windows XP-based PC, through their Digitrex TV. Windows Media Connect support will also allow Digitrex TVs to be compatible with digital media capabilities in the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft. A user-friendly interface makes navigating networked content easy. MORE »

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MatrixStream Technologies, Inc., will be demonstrating at CES the world’s first H.264 AVC (advance video codec) Video on Demand and IPTV Set Top Box (STB) and PC Player capable of the highest of high definition (HD) signal formats with 1080 vertical pixels by 1920 horizontal pixels. MORE »

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Come January 2006, you can militarize your home network with the GLAN Tank, a NAS device that will house 2 x 3.5-inch hard drives whose storage can be combined or mirrored (via Gizmodo). This particular NAS has a nice set of features including Gigabit Ethernet, an XScale 416 Mhz CPU, 128MB RAM, 4 USB 2.0 Ports and runs Debian GNU/Linux OS. MORE »

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Whoa, lots of interesting news in the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle. Word today has it that Microsoft is using its influence to convince PC OEMs to pass on integrating Blu-ray drives, and opt for HD-DVD drives into their future PCs instead (via HD Beat). Reason being, HD-DVD is natively supported in Windows Vista at no charge, while Blu-ray royalties cost PC OEMs an additional $30 per machine to license. Fair enough, right? Well, EE Times adds, “There is also talk that the software giant may be planning to offer cash incentives – in the form ‘coupons’ – to system vendors or retailers if they agree to support HD-DVD. Such coupons would provide ‘credits’ or ‘memos’ for each PC that is sold with HD-DVD inside.” MORE »

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XM Satellite Radio, the nation’s leading satellite radio company, will unveil the XM Advanced Services vehicle, a concept car featuring in-car video, voice command, weather alerts, parking space locator, and other exciting new innovations next week at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). MORE »

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Video Without Boundaries, Inc., a leading provider of interactive, media-convergent home entertainment devices, today announced it has further extended the capabilities of its award-winning MediaREADY™ Digital Media Center product line to include support for an array of new applications and services. To be demonstrated live at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the Linux-based line of products will be a series of popular online services and applications including iTunes, Yahoo Music, Google Video, AOL Optimized 9.0, voice calling as well as transfer of video and audio to the Apple iPod. The demonstration’s will take place at Video Without Boundaries’ booth in the Sands Convention Center - IP 240 in Las Vegas from January 5 - 8th, 2006. MORE »

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Apparently a French government attempt to crack down on digital piracy, including fines of up to $360,000 and up to three years in jail, has backfired big time with France’s lower house voting instead to offer up ammendments that would legalize file-sharing by anyone paying a monthly royalty duty estimated at $8.50 per month, reports the Associated Press. MORE »

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The 1394 Trade Association will co-locate with the new The High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) at the upcoming International CES 2006, Jan. 5-8 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. MORE »

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Apparently, with all the bells and whistles Kodak’s new EasyShare-One Wi-Fi enabled digital camera has, it only has the ability to send photos to Kodak’s online gallery. Being the case, Phillip Torrone, over at MAKE Blog, found a way to get his new camera to play by his rules. The solution is actually pretty simple: Install Kodak’s EasyShare software on you Mac, configure the Wi-Fi camera for network sharing, and add Flickr Automator Action 0.1, which will then send an email to your Flickr account automatically when any new pictures are added to Pictures/Kodak Pictures/. Note: Flickr Automator Action 0.1 will work with any digital photo folder it’s configured to.

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