TiVo, the popular PVR maker, has made a shrewd move by announcing video support for the Sony PSP and iPod.The TiVo Destop 2.3 Plus upgrade adds the ability to convert TiVotoGo files to the MPEG4 format required. Alas, the upgrade isn’t free and will set you back $24.95.
The conversion also only produces video at 320X240, some way short of the PSP’s maximum resolution of 480×272.
Of course, the conversion can be acheived by a variety of completely free tools and a little bit of knowledge, but the upgrade promises to make the task painless.
June 26th, 2006
Samsung, which despite the doomsayers, is on course to be first to market in the USA with a Blu-Ray player, has confirmed it is considering supporting the HD-DVD format as well.However, that support will come in the form of a combined Blu-Ray / HD-DVD player and not a standalone device.
“We don’t have a plan to make an HD-DVD-only player but are considering a universal player,” Samsung’s home platform spokesman Kim Du-Hyon said. “We are preparing HD-DVD now, and if we launch a universal player, it will be the end of this year or early next year.”
In a slightly unconvincing statement Kim also said that he expected Blu-Ray to stomp all over HD-DVD once consumers saw the two formats side by side. However, Samsung doesn’t seem prepared to back that conviction up with actions and is set to build a combo player anyway.
Samsung’s BD-P1000 Blu-Ray player will go on sale in the United States on June 25 for US$1,000.
June 22nd, 2006