News Archive
Wed 5 July 2006
Momentum Pictures provide VOD to forthcoming BT Vision service
BT’s forthcoming IPTV service, BT Vision is set to be the world's first service offering digital terrestrial TV with on-demand film, TV and music programming set to launch in autumn they’ve received a boost this week with the company announcing a new video-on-demand film agreement with independent film distributor, Momentum Pictures.
This agreement will provide access to some of the most successful and best-loved films from Momentum Pictures' catalogue including titles such as Lost in Translation, Racing Stripes, Where the Truth Lies, O, Brother Where Art Thou?, Vera Drake, Lord of War and Broken Flowers, amongst others.
Want to know more about IPTV? Read: Super-cali-fragilistic-expi-IPTV
Wed 5 July 2006
InVoca: voice activated remote
As I’ve always said, watching TV is an interactive past time, shouting at the box in reaction to a twist in the latest episode of 24 or providing ‘objectively correct’ advice to ‘useless’ athletes is integral to the experience. The InVoca voice activated remote provides a different sort of involvement. Conveniently, you can programme 54 different voice commands for up to 4 different voices, it even allows you to setup macros and execute them with a single command. For example “watch movie” could turn the tv on and change to the right AV channel and also turn the dvd player on and hit play for you. The kit includes rechargeable batteries and a charging base all for a surprisingly reasonable 50 US greenbacks.
For more info on automation: What can be controlled with Home-Automation?
Wed 5 July 2006
‘Can we go visit Grannie please?!’
Not a request you would typically expect unless you were Granpa and Grandma Shaw in Southern Conneticut who have built this impressive ‘Sports Barn’ for entertaining friends, family and especially their twenty grandchildren. They’ve built a 12,000-square foot entertainment Utopia ‘Sports Barn’ featuring a 20-seat home theater, a basketball court, a stage with Broadway-style lighting, a bowling alley, a golf simulator, a game room, a gym, lounge areas, an ice cream bar, a master suite, seven baths, a kitchen, and boys and girls bunk room!
For more details check on this monster install click the image.
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Creating your perfect Smart-Home space.
Wed 5 July 2006
200 Mbps network without laying any network cable?!
How? By distributing it over the powerlines already in your home! With Netgear’s new 200 Mbps Powerline HD Ethernet Adapter it turns the powerline infrastructure in your home into a home network ready to pump your music, video and photo collection all around the house, share broadband, stream even HD video and do all other things a network offers. Operating at 200 Mbps, it’s possible to stream voice, data, video and gaming throughout any building at speeds to support bandwidth-hungry applications without running any cabling between rooms.
Netgear's Powerline HD Ethernet Adapter also offers a built-in Video Quality of Service (VQoS) for consistent performance with encrypted security to seamlessly stream high-definition video throughout the entire home. The VQoS feature ensures that video and gaming traffic is prioritized above all other network traffic so that HD video streams are free of interruption from others using the network.
Netgear's Powerline HD Ethernet Adapter Kit is comprised of two Powerline HD Ethernet Adapters, an Ethernet cable, and set-up CD. The kit is plug and play so set up is a doddle. Damage to your wallet will be circa £140.
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Worth its weight in gold, or copper as the case maybe
