Archive for April, 2008
Hauppauge HD PVR Supported by SageTV, Snapstream & GB-PVR
As reported in an earlier article Snapstream’s BeyondTV will support the new HD PVR. Now, it has been confirmed that SageTV will also support the USB 2.0 device that takes full advantage of the analog hole. According to this post SageTV CEO Mike Machado confirmed that the HD PVR will likely be supported when the [...]
What Goes Up – Must Come Down; Executive Pay
There have been numerous articles and opinion pieces about the excessive nature of some executive compensation. Of course, one should not begrudge another’s good fortune. As a shareholder or director, issues of compensation are important. One may ask – what has changed and why are Boards taking such issues more serious. First, there have been [...]
Battlestar Galactica – An Adam & Eve Allegory Part II
In this article here Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica was referred to as a possible Adam and Eve story. That still may hold to be true. Now that cylon centurions have been returned to full mental capacity, they are rebelling – killing those who enslaved them. This seems to be a repetition of the earlier [...]
Want to Ride Space Mountain with the Lights on? $3,000 please.
Adventures by Disney has announced a unique vacation package aimed at the money is no object crowd. Adventures by Disney is a recently created (within the past few years) service that arranges for guided tours of destinations around the world. According to the LATimes here travelers can purchase access once available only to a select [...]
“Season of Disney: Splurge!” May Not Be a Samantha Brown Show.
Now that “Season of Disney: Samantha Brown’s Favorites” has aired, information on the next program is very scarce. No synopsis is available after several searches of the Travel Channel Website. However, it seems that perhaps the show is NOT a Samantha Brown show, but is merely a profile of how to enjoy a Disney World [...]
Music Industry Gets What it Wants – But Not the Way It Wanted It
According to stories in Europe, here the German parliament adopted a new federal law to counter file-sharing. One would think the industry would be issuing press release after press release lauding the effort of legislature. After all, they now have the ability to force an ISP to provide the identity behind the IP address (of [...]
Season of Disney: Samantha Brown’s Favorites – Review
Samantha Brown’s Favorites profiles 15 of her “favorite” Disney Park attractions/restaurants. Fortunately, the show is all new – this is not just a collection of clips from her previous shows – unlike her Hotels of Hawaii special. It is the typical Samantha Brown Disney travel show. In addition to profiling the attractions, she provides a [...]
An Evil Empire in the Making – Microsoft and News Corp Propose to Join Forces
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo and AOL are pursuing a deal to fold AOL into Yahoo! The deal would require Time-Warner, in addition to the merger of internet operations, to make a cash purchase equivalent to 20% of the combined entity. This would make the entire deal worth more than Microsoft’s current [...]
Disney and Pixar have Ambitious Plans Through 2012 – 3-D Makes a Comeback
Disney/Pixar issued a press release discussing their planned animation releases through 2012 -a total of 10 motion pictures. Amazingly, following the release of “Bolt” all Disney animated movies will be released in Disney Digital 3-D(TM). I do not believe they will be only screened in 3-D, but that the movies will, in some select theaters, [...]
Home Brew HD PVR Timeshifting Soon to be a Reality!
Finally the home brew PVR HD solution is available! Snapstream has pictures here of BeyondTV working from a prototype Hauppauge HD PVR. One caption reads “the red light means Beyond TV is busy making a recording off this thing.” The analog hole has finally been exploited. Hauppauge is taking orders for $250 a unit. When [...]
