News Archive
Mon 6 March 2006
‘Life’ really would be ‘Good’, if not at least better, with LG’s rumoured HD DVD & Blu-Ray Player.
An internal memo allegedly from LG’s U.S. sales VP Bob Perry says the company is planning to ship a disk player compatible with both Blu-ray and HD DVD in the late summer or early autumn. In the memo, Perry also said LG’s BD199 Blu-ray player, which we saw the company demonstrating at CES in January, won’t ship as planned this spring because of “uncertainty in this early stage of the market for pre-recorded high-definition optical disks.” LG is one of those companies that swings both ways with the new HD disks; it signed up with the HD DVD team as well as the Blu-ray group, an understandable and sensible strategy especially since no one has ‘won’ yet. Now that Samsung has backed away from developing a dual-format player in recent months LG is now the only player left in the game.
Related HD article: High definition or definitely hype?
Sun 5 March 2006
Couture Digital demystifing the Smart-Home building process.
If only other businesses were this transparent in their services. This London based custom design & installation company have started a blog providing visitors an insiders view into the developments of a Smart-Home project. If garages started doing this I wouldn’t need a full set of tyres everytime I went to get an MOT. Best of luck to the team at Couture Digital!
Related articles:
How does a Custom Design & Installation company build my Smart-Home?
Creating your perfect Smart-Home space.
Sun 5 March 2006
So refreshing to know that there are companies like Hybrid Technologies around still putting mother nature first. Hybrid Technologies has almost finished building what it calls the Hybrid Living Home, a concept house that shows off hundreds of energy-saving and Smart-Home features. Using wind turbines, solar energy, earth tubes and high-tech electrical storage, the house is designed to be completely self-sufficient. Hybrid Technologies has also developed a lithium battery-powered vehicle, which this house is designed to be compatible with too.
For more info about Smart-Homes see our What's the Big Deal? article
Fri 3 March 2006
An established name in the wireless network music player market this lightweight aluminium cylindrical unit with a modern industrial look is a solid effort by Roku. Enjoying the middle ground between the more functional but also more expensive Sonos and the less attractive but less expensive Squeezebox, the Soundbridge positions itself in a market that’s only set to grow.
