Very few products can claim to change your life. The SleepTracker Elite has changed mine. At first glance the SleepTracker Elite looks like a rather chunky LCD watch – slightly old-school and probably with the trend for retro at the moment reasonably stylish. The main difference between this and an ordinary watch is that it [...]
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Regular presenter and occasional host on The Digital Lifestyle Show. Contributing writer. Convenience Computing enthusiast. Author of the Media Center Decoder tool. Microsoft MVP
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Complete EPG listings for UK channels with DVBLink EPG Loader for Digiguide!
DVBLogic have today released a great new product for us in the UK. The DVBLink EPG Loader for DigiGuide allows the DVBLink product to use the excellent (if at a price) DigiGuide guide data which offers nearly totally complete data for all UK channels. I used this data in my How to guide for [...]
Full Story »DVBLink product suit version 4.1 released!
DVBLogic have announced the latest release of their DVBLink product. V4.1 fixes quite a few issues and re-introduces the Web Streaming interface – they must have listened to last week’s PodCast. From the DVBLogic site: DVBLink products version 4.1 are available for download!What is new/fixed:General Fixed: limit of 4 physical channels when doing manual channel [...]
Full Story »Review: Buffalo CloudStation Pro Duo
What do you get if you take one of Buffalo’s excellent LinkStations and add PogoPlug functionality – Why the Buffalo CloudStation of course. The model we are reviewing is the CloudStation Pro Duo. With 2 x 1TB drives which can be either configured for RAID or left as separate drives to allow you to use [...]
Full Story »Lovefilm switching from Flash to Silverlight for movie streaming from their Web Site
I’m a bit late posting this as the news came out Wednesday but it is pretty significant news from the UK’s leading purveyor of streamed films. http://blog.lovefilm.com/uncategorized/why-were-switching-from-flash-to-silverlight.html Lovefilm have announced that they are switching streaming from Flash to Silverlight. This only applies to their website streaming and not their apps for iPad and iPhones. Whilst [...]
Full Story »Elgato launch TV Tuner for iPad 2
I saw this in action last week and it looked really impressive although I am not sure until we have a review unit how well the small antenna will work in practice in the UK – it was working in London though. From the press release: Now available: iPad Tuner EyeTV Mobile offers over [...]
Full Story »CyberLink announce PowerDirector 10
Cyberlink have announced an update to their PowerDirector Video Editing software PowerDirector 10. I’ve been using this for a few days and I’m quite impressed. Cyberlink claim it is the world’s Fastest Video Editor for Consumers and I have to say it does seem really fast even on my Core 2 Duo. So what is [...]
Full Story »Landlady’s court win makes it interesting for Sky (and F1 fans)
A UK based Pub Landlady has won the latest stage of her court fight in the European Court of Justice. Karen Murphy had appealed to the European Court after being landed with nearly 8000 UK Pounds in fines and costs for using a Greek decoder to watch Premier League Football games in her Pub rather [...]
Full Story »DVBLink V4 does not support web streaming to PCs yet
Reading the new DVBlogic Wiki I found this important point: DVBLink Connect! Server Features TV streaming to PCs and netbooks using the web browser is not listed among the features. Has this been terminated? TV streaming as well as remote EPG and remote recording via the web browser are still important features for us allowing [...]
Full Story »More on DVBLogic V4 release
From the DVBLogic site: DVBLogic are extremely proud to announce release of the DVBLink v4 products!Rebuilt using new architecture version 4 forms the basis for further development and extension of the DVBLink product suit. DVBLink v4 products have a lot new features, improvements and fixes over previous version. The most notable of them are: More [...]
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