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Western Digital seems really serious when it comes down to its media player line, the company just announcing the new WD TV Live Hub that adds media center capabilities to its already impressive WD TV series, this new device coming in with a 1TB networked hard drive.What this means is that you can now store all you c... |
26 October 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Though it won't exactly be the first to do it, Western Digital will be getting around to releasing a hard drive of 3 TB sometime this month, along with some other electronics it had been working on.As some end-users might know, the first company to actually launch hard disk drives of 3 TB, even an external one,... |
4 October 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Coming to offer something new for the consumer electronics market, QNAP has issued a press release in which it presents the NMP-1000P, an electronic capable of playing Full HD videos and equipped with a large storage capacity. Though the web has been more abundant in news of new PCs and hardware components lately, t... |
30 September 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Though best known for its personal computer lines, especially mobile ones, Acer has taken a break from unleashing new laptops one after another in order to supply the European market with the Revo View, its media player capable of 1,080p video playback.The Revo View was unveiled at this year's IFA show and has ... |
22 September 2010
05:52 GMT |
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During the recently ended IFA 2010 show in Berlin, ViewSonic unveiled a certain device, the MB-P702 to be exact, which is not exactly a tablet and focuses on just one set of capabilities, the greatest of those being Full HD video playback.Doubtless, the highlight of ViewSonic's exhibition were the dual-boot 10-... |
7 September 2010
10:45 GMT |
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Though the capabilities of media streamers and NAS (network-attached storage) devices are not always found in combinations, Digital Cowboy decided it would develop such an electronic, eventually coming up with the Xtreamer Pro, or DC-MC35UL4.Normally, when buying a media streamer, consumers expect it to play as many... |
30 August 2010
09:45 GMT |
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Eager to have its customers enjoy online streaming services in addition to usually sources of multimedia, Netgear has announced the addition of the NeoTV 350 and 550, a pair of Full HD media players with LAN connectivity and other features.Basically, media streaming has become quite popular, so makers of multimedia ... |
27 August 2010
05:24 GMT |
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While TVs are getting larger and larger, the means by which end-users can stream high-quality multimedia files are getting increasingly smaller, and Amex Digital just made the latest step in this direction, by unveiling the MP-501, supposedly the smallest HD media player on the market, measuring just 175 x 128 x 15m... |
19 August 2010
04:45 GMT |
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An application that requires iOS 3.2 or later has appeared on the iTunes App Store enabling owners of an Apple iPad to download and install it on their tablets to watch Xvid content. The move is surprising, with Apple standing by the MPEG-4 and H.264 formats while pushing other standards aside.It is not uncommon for ... |
10 August 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Western Digital may have gained its fortune from making and selling storage solutions, and while it definitely focuses on this business outlet, it is not limited to it. In fact, the company deals in a variety of other things, such as media players like the Elements Play line. Nevertheless, WD's strong suit rema... |
9 August 2010
02:42 GMT |
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Digital video recorders are definitely not a new product concept, but it appears that such devices have a much higher potential for innovation than some may think. AC Ryan even seems to have proven this with its unveiling of the Playon! DVR. It is, essentially, a new digital video recorder, but it has a couple of spe... |
23 July 2010
04:41 GMT |
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The first bugfix version for the major release 1.1.x of the well-known media player from VideoLAN, VLC has been released. Almost one month of development and 17 million downloads later the team comes up with build 1.1.1 of the player, which focuses on setting things right with plenty of bugs and issues.Fixes and imp... |
22 July 2010
08:36 GMT |
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Tuniq doesn't exactly have a history when it comes to multimedia playback electronics, being mostly known for its PC enclosures and cooling solutions. Still, this didn't phase the hardware and consumer electronic maker at all when it considered making a HD media player. The company has been working on the ... |
9 July 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Now that the strong stream of new PCs has settled down somewhat, companies that specialize in other types of products can finally have their say. Brite-View, for one, seems most inclined towards taking advantage of this opportunity, and its new iteration of the CinemaTube is definitely an indication of that. The new... |
3 July 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Although video and audio media revolves around them, media players today no longer receive the attention they used to. It is true that formats now ask for more elaborate solutions to support them, but a clean, simple to use and free media player will always be sought as an alternative.Style Jukebox is new on the mark... |
2 July 2010
09:31 GMT |
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VLC Player, the once-thought-extinct media player for Mac users, has been promoted to version 1.1.0, a stable release not just for Mac OS X, but also for Windows and Linux PC users. The new version brings improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs, support for new codecs (Blu-Ray su... |
23 June 2010
05:33 GMT |
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The new CPUs from AMD and Intel are running rampant, NVIDIA is finally competing with ATI on the DirectX 11 front and motherboard makers have already started experimenting with next-generation chipsets. All in all, it can be said that the major product launches of this first half of the year have come and gone. This ... |
15 June 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Apple has released QuickTime Player 7.6.6, a new version of its old media player originally debuted in Mac OS Classix (System 7). Also available for Windows, QuickTime Player 7 supports older media formats such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime movies, and MIDI files. Those who upgraded to Snow Leopard can continue usin... |
11 May 2010
03:03 GMT |
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ReelBean, the powerful video player and converter for Mac OS X, has reached version 4.8, adding iPad support and a small correction to the Movie menu. ReelBean is capable of playing almost any Mac-supported format, and supports the use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused ... |
13 April 2010
09:49 GMT |
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Everything is moving online these days, it seems, and entertainment is no different. With YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and plenty of other sites and services to choose from, it might seem that the days of actually owning a movie are gone. But we're not quite there yet, there's still a place for DVDs and you'... |
10 April 2010
08:49 GMT |
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Facebook has a great, little feature that allows users to play MP3 files inside the site. Links to MP3 files, from status updates for example, are converted to an integrated media player enabling users to listen to them directly without downloading the songs. Facebook-focused blog All Facebook uncovered the feature, ... |
18 March 2010
06:17 GMT |
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Simplify Media, the creator of several iPhone applications, has posted “an important announcement” on its blog, revealing the company’s plans to move in a new direction. Leaving the iPhone platform behind, the company has cleared its agenda of the applications it has developed for the iPhone OS and,... |
17 March 2010
10:59 GMT |
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A Softpedia Mac OS X favorite, ReelBean is a video / audio player and converter capable of playing almost any Mac-supported format. It can also handle third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused app is supported on all three major versions of Apple’s OS used today (Tiger, Leop... |
16 March 2010
10:52 GMT |
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USB 3.0 may not have had a very good start, but this seems set to soon change if the variety of SuperSpeed-ready devices from the CeBIT expo in Hanover, Germany is anything to go by. Most new motherboards presented at the show, if not all, have support for the standard, especially those based on the new chipset devel... |
4 March 2010
08:01 GMT |
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JS8Media has released an updated version of its flagship product, ReelBean. The new release, ReelBean 4.6 Build 140, brings only two changes, but existing users are encouraged to download and install. ReelBean is a video / audio player and converter capable of playing almost any Mac-supported format, and supports th... |
16 February 2010
10:56 GMT |
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iTunes is the popular media-player application developed by Apple for Mac and Windows users. Besides its ability to play back audio and video, iTunes serves as a platform for purchasing various kinds of content for your Apple iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, as well as stuff that is best played on a computer. The company head... |
2 February 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Last time we talked about VLC for Mac, the popular media player application was in desperate need of developers, with the people behind the VideoLAN project signaling that development had come to a halt at version 1.0.3. Whether or not anyone has stepped up to the challenge remains to be confirmed, but something posi... |
1 February 2010
10:05 GMT |
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A new version of the full-featured movie converter, player, and editor for Mac OS X is now available from JS8 Media. ReelBean is capable of playing almost any Mac-supported video and audio format, and supports the use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused app is supported o... |
21 January 2010
07:53 GMT |
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While ViewSonic has been supplying the market with a steady stream of laptops, all-in-one personal computers, media players and monitors, among other things, the company does not exactly have a history of portable multimedia devices. This, however, seems ready to change, with the hardware maker gearing up to launch a... |
21 January 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Over at the VideoLan forum, a post titled “VLC is looking for MacOS X developers” reveals that there are currently “zero” developers handling the Mac version of the popular media player. “As an immediate consequence, the 64-bits releases for MacOS has already been put on hold,” Vid... |
12 January 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Among the many announcements of notebooks, netbooks, desktops, Blu-ray related products and USB 3.0 technology, Sherwood distinguished itself from other companies by offering a unique merger of the most attractive features possessed by the more popular products from three different market segments. The company is goi... |
6 January 2010
11:01 GMT |
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One piece over at the VideoLAN.org site claims that rumors of VLC for Mac being close to its end are greatly exaggerated. “VLC for Mac is being maintained,” the post explains. “However the old Cocoa graphical interface of VLC is not being maintained at this time.” That’s pretty much what... |
22 December 2009
05:55 GMT |
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VideoLAN is sad to announce that all work on the Mac OS X version of VLC may come to a halt. The open source media playback application is most notable for bridging the gap between official playback solutions developed by Apple and Microsoft, delivering support for a wide range of file formats. The software is being ... |
17 December 2009
06:55 GMT |
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The iTunes clone known as doubleTwist received a major update this week, although the final version of the software is still pending. Developed by the company with the same name, doubleTwist allows users to browse through their media and play various kinds of video and audio formats. The software recognizes numerous... |
15 December 2009
05:34 GMT |
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The company behind the Mac operating system claims that QuickTime 7.6.5 is a Windows-only release, which addresses issues with applications not reliably loading libraries required by QuickTime at startup, as well as incorrect display of QuickTime movies embedded in a webpage using custom scale attributes. QuickTime ... |
20 November 2009
03:23 GMT |
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Any one person must have at least one horrible memory of a five-hour flight or drive during which there was nothing to do but stare at the walls or the road. It seems that the gentlemen and gentlewomen at Viewsonic either know about such things or experienced them on their own enough to come up with a device meant to... |
11 November 2009
09:27 GMT |
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Developed by the company with the same name, doubleTwist allows users to browse through their media and play various kinds of video and audio formats. The software works with your phone, MP3 player, camera... you name it! Devices like Sony’s PSP are also supported, while doubleTwist gives you the possibility to... |
10 November 2009
09:55 GMT |
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ReelBean 4.5 is a new version of the full-featured movie converter, player, and editor for Mac OS X available from JS8 Media. ReelBean is capable of playing almost any Mac-supported video and audio format, and supports the use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused app is su... |
10 November 2009
09:36 GMT |
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ASUS introduced at last its latest in the O!Play series, a media player capable of rendering virtually all types of media files and that has built-in, wireless features. As a means to provide quick and easy access to any files on the various devices or data-storage environments that buyers may possess, the new ... |
10 November 2009
06:41 GMT |
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NVIDIA's ION platform continues to gain ground in the expanding market for small-sized, portable and desktop computer systems that are powered by Intel's Atom processors. An increasing number of system builders are expanding their portfolios with products that are based on said platform, providing customers... |
9 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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In the past, Viewsonic might have been only about display solutions, but the company has recently expanded its portfolio with a range of new products, including netbooks, ultraportable PCs or ION-based nettops. Now, the company is entering a new market, namely that of media players, with the launch of its VMP70 direc... |
5 November 2009
09:48 GMT |
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VLC Media Player comes as a highly portable multimedia player that also works as a multimedia framework. It can play almost any audio and video formats available today, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac, and more. In addition, the player can also read DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and a series of s... |
3 November 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Novell proudly announced on Tuesday, October 13th, the second beta release of the Banshee 1.6 media player. This new development version, also known as Banshee 1.5.1, brings some awesome features, such as an Auto DJ mode, three new shuffle modes, support for WebOS devices (like Palm) and support for the Samsung Galax... |
14 October 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's biggest companies in the storage industry, has just announced a new addition to its line of external storage solutions, with the introduction of the WD TV Live HD media player, designed to provide users with support for network connectivity and Full-HD 1080p resolution. The ne... |
13 October 2009
09:37 GMT |
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A while ago, a small company going by the name of doubleTwist developed a media-playing application that now connects and syncs with most popular devices in a no-hassle manner. The doubleTwist app integrates with OS X beautifully (although it does borrow Apple-specific elements), it is free to download and use, and a... |
1 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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The VLC team is proud to announce that, after almost two months and 27 million downloads of VLC 1.0.1, the third version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.2 is now available for download. Mac OS X users can access the link included in this article to grab the latest version of the media player immediately. Accordi... |
23 September 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Apple has released a new version of iTunes, its proprietary digital media player application, used for playing, purchasing and organizing digital music and video files, as well as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. With the release of iTunes 9 earlier this month, Apple updated key parts of the software inclu... |
23 September 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Seagate, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products, has just announced the introduction of its new FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player that has been designed to work with the company's own line of FreeAgent Go potable hard drives. The solution is expected to provide customers with a choice for a... |
15 September 2009
09:45 GMT |
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QuickTime 7.6.4 includes changes that increase reliability, improve compatibility and enhance security, according to Apple. Recommended for all QuickTime 7 users, the new version also adds security fixes – three, to be precise, for Mac OS X v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5.8, Windows 7, Vista and XP SP3. On the Suppo... |
10 September 2009
08:18 GMT |
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Megabyte Computing Solutions, a company serving the Middle Tennessee area seven days a week, has released a new pref pane app for Mac OS X - QuickTime Player X Preference Pane. The program is intended for those who aren’t quite thrilled with the changes Apple made in QuickTime X (good thing QuickTime 7 is still... |
7 September 2009
09:10 GMT |
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