We have a list of favorite shows, the ones we say that if we could only go to or two they would be the ones. Of course, Siggraph is number one. What surprises a lot of our friends and clients is that CeBit is number two. The third has become CES, nudging out IBC. CES is where it’s been happening … Read more
Lt. Colonel Wardynski, game developer What was the biggest hit at E3? Was it the new Matrox AIB, the unbelievable new games from EA, Nintendo’s price cut, the Sony party, ATI’s R300 in the Activision booth running Doom III? Nope, none of the above. It was the Army, the US of A Army to be specific. We kept running into … Read more
The tectonic plates of CPU Land and Pixel World are grinding against each other in a battle for dominance. Caught in between CPU World and Pixel Town is the place known as, The Chipset Zone…. Right now we have a fairly stable Industry with most if not all of the consolidation have taken place. The players have sorted themselves out … Read more
There’s not much that’s real in Hollywood, so the signs celebrating the arrival of Matrix on Sunset Boulevard simply repeat the obvious. However, as we made our way into the L.A. Convention Center we found the feeling of unreality persisted. Much of the business of E3 is done long before the show ever opens. This year, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo … Read more
Microsoft has studied the TV/ PC/Communications convergence space for several (four plus?) years. The company understands the magnitude of the issues. But, at the same time, they’re still trying to improvise their end-to-end solution to the market. So far, Microsoft has learned a little humility about the inadequacy of their off-the-shelf stuff for the home, and they realize they are … Read more
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has come up with a new approach to MPEG-2. The new technique recompresses the MPEG-2 enabling almost the same level of quality video to be saved in half the original volume. In satellite broadcasting, the company says, the MPEG-2 stream is transmitted at an encoding speed of 18Mbps or 24Mpbs. Mitsubishi’s further compression enables MPEG-2 data streaming … Read more
In the future, all game console may be a gateway. Sony is adding to the confusion already stirred up by Microsoft with the hard drive equipped/Internet connected X-Box. Sony is introducing broadband network service for the PlayStation2 called PlayStation BB service and it will become available in April. The option is not for the faint of heart, would be users … Read more
EFF revs up campaign against copy-protected CDs; Philips questions whether a copy protected CD is really a CD CDs with copy protection? The controversy was opened up at CES late last year when a petition was distributed on the floor and in the press room calling for the music studios to stop introducing CDs with copy protection that would prevent … Read more
Tom’s hardware has completed their Readers’ Choice survey and just as you might expect, Tom’s readers don’t always root for the front runner. The Athlon XP won for best processor while the ATI Radeon 8500 won for best high end graphics board. Nvidia won the best graphics chip category with the GeForce3 Ti series. When it comes to chipsets VIA … Read more
Compaq’s new EvoNotebook N800 and Presario 2800 notebooks will put Intel’s brand new Mobile Pentium 4 processors to work as well as ATI’s Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics processor. the new notebooks will use the 1.7 GHz Pentium 4-M processor, 30 Gbytes hard drive, 15-inch SXGA+. It will have a DVD/CD-RW combo drive and USB 2.0, 802.11b MultiPort support.
The Verto GeForce4 Ti 4600 graphics card from PNY Technologies is shipping to retail stores. In addition, PNY is including Star Wars Starfighter by LucasArts with the Verto GeForce Ti 4600; a pair of 3D glass from i-O Display with the GeForce4 Ti 4400; Ballistics by Grin with Verto GeForce Mx 440; and 10 multi-colored PNY brand CD-Rs with the … Read more
As we reported, the legal battles over copy protection are just getting started and so far they seem to be going well for those who would like to see copy protected CDs clearly labeled (if the things have to be sold at all). As it turns out, copy protected disks are being Released in relatively large numbers but they’re not … Read more
