Creative Technology Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, today introduced the Creative Xdock HD, the ultimate iPod dock for your home theatre system. It is the only iPod dock that upconverts your video up to 1080i resolution and your music to X-Fi® Xtreme Fidelity™. The Creative Xdock HD plays video on an HDTV [...]

Having recently upgraded to Vista MCE for my home PVR and media needs, I've been mostly pleased. The interface is a definite improvement over MCE 2005 and so far, competitor offerings just can't compare to what Microsoft has done with the GUI. However, there are still some short-comings that I'd like to see Microsoft overcome [...]

CNN is reporting that Comcast, the biggest cable company in the US, is touting 2008 as the year for ultra-fast internet speeds and some impressive HD offerings. How fast? Well, if Chief Executive Brian Roberts is to be believed, the new DOCSIS 3.0 standard will enable speeds of 160 megabits per second, compared to the [...]

Those of us who are TV addicts have begun to feel the sting of the WGA Writers Strike. The longer it goes, the more reality tv and reruns we end up with. Almost everyone agrees that it will eventually end, but at what cost? Well, Digital Trends is reporting that both a Nielsen Online study [...]

If you're like me, and you've jumped into the world of PVR-based TV bliss, then you probably haven't watched a commercial in ages (except maybe during the Super Bowl). TiVo users and Media Center users are now accustomed to "jumping" through commercials in 30 second blips until they're back to their actual programming. Well, in [...]

CyberLink Corp., a world leader in advancing integrated solutions for the Digital Home, announced today that it will demonstrate its latest offerings for premium TV-on-PCs, TV-on-the Go, and placeshifting TV solutions during CES at the Las Vegas Hilton, Suite 2365. CyberLink's advanced TV Solutions allow users to enjoy TV on their desktop PCs, notebooks and mobile [...]

CyberLink Corp., a leader in digital home solutions, today announced that two applications from its Digital Home Solution line—CyberLink Media Server and CyberLink SoftDMA—have passed DLNA tests and are among the first DLNA Certified™ devices that are compliant with the DLNA Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines v1.5. Additionally, both CyberLink Media Server and SoftDMA have been [...]

Bottom Line: UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs) are full-blown handheld PCs designed to run a complete “heavy” version of Windows Vista, MS Office apps, and other third-party applications designed for Windows (target demo: mobile road warriors). MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices), on the other hand, are designed to be “lightweight,” streamlined, Linux-powered infotainment devices optimized for web [...]