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Forsythe Technology Case Study: A Major Book, Music, and Home Entertainment Retailer
White Papers The director of IT at a major book, music, and home entertainment retailer recognized that the company's data center was approaching capacity. In addition to being nearly out of space for new equipment, the facility had "Hot spots," making it...
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
Middleware Support for Seamless Multimedia Home Entertainment for Mobile Users and Heterogeneous Environments
White Papers The emergence of mobile devices in multimedia home entertainment demands new application scenarios like ubiquitous multimedia access. However today's home entertainment appliances are usually based on a closed hardware and software design and do...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
Microsoft trials home entertainment PC
News PCs equipped with Freestyle software and hardware add-ons would act as a digital entertainment jukebox, distributing music, video and photos throughout a networked home. Microsoft has shipped an early trial version of "Freestyle" -- its new...
[June 21, 2002, 11:31]
Microsoft puts PCs into heart of home entertainment
News Microsoft on Tuesday gave an official name to an upcoming version of Windows XP that aims to make the PC a permanent part of the home entertainment centre. Originally code-named Freestyle, this entertainment version of Windows -- which will go by...
[July 16, 2002, 8:19]
The 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive Delivers Home Entertainment: Trends, Advances and Opportunities in the Consumer Electronics Market
White Papers The DVR in particular presents a rapidly expanding market opportunity for manufacturers. Already, more than a fifth of all U.S.households utilize a DVR (such as Tivo) for recording their favorite shows and movies.
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
Toshiba goes wireless on home networks
News Electronics giant Toshiba announced plans on Thursday to bring wireless networking to home entertainment. Home entertainment devices, which often create a tangle of wires to and from each other, are a natural customer for wireless networking.
[September 20, 2002, 11:25]
CES: Name change and first product for Rearden Steel
News After two years of secrecy, start-up Rearden Steel will jump into the home entertainment market on Monday by announcing its first products and a name change at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
[January 7, 2002, 15:27]
US Report: Games more exciting than TV
News At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Atlanta, IDSA president Doug Lowenstein announced that computer games are considered to be the most exciting way to spend time at home. In the survey, over 41 percent of respondents rated computer games...
[June 1, 1998, 7:36]
Home networking? Keep it simple
News Such a failure could prevent the home network market from achieving its full potential, and set back the dream of converged broadcast entertainment and interactive online services by many years, it noted in a statement.
[November 13, 2001, 12:51]
Intel homes in on entertainment
News More concretely, Intel released information about version two of its Networked Media Product Requirements (NMPR, pronounced 'Nipper'), which sets standards for the secure communication, user interfaces and interoperability it sees as necessary for...
[September 9, 2004, 10:35]
Microsoft may introduce game console in autumn
News It is possible that Microsoft, which has mounted abortive efforts to get into home entertainment devices before, could back away from the idea. Microsoft, determined to head off Sony in the battle to control digital entertainment, is considering a...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
IDF: Cheap gadget wirelessly joins PCs, TVs
News Similar in size to a small set-top box, the "digital media adapter", announced this week, connects to a home-entertainment appliance, such as a television, using a standard audio/video cable. Computer companies have been trying for some time to...
[September 12, 2002, 7:37]
XP's smart display enables double vision
News Microsoft plans to retool its Windows XP operating system so that two people can run applications on the same machine concurrently, an important step toward the company's goal of transforming the PC into a home entertainment centre.
[May 8, 2003, 13:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You may not be surprised that in the future, we'll all have Microsoft Media Center PCs in every room, all networked to each other and a central home server that stores incoming digital entertainment from satellite, terrestrial and broadband.
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
Apple iMac (24in., 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo, 2009) review
Reviews As well as providing more desktop real estate, the screen can also scale up to its native resolution of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels (also known in home entertainment parlance as 1080p). As useful as we find some of those features on other all-in-ones...
[March 5, 2009, 10:50]
CES: Gates wants Windows XP in your living room
News Previous attempts to tackle the home entertainment market have fallen flat. The new interface is intended to turn PCs into home electronics or entertainment systems by offering direct access to the digital entertainment features of Windows XP.
[January 8, 2002, 9:14]
Lindows tackles DVD, music
News Idot, a small PC maker specialising in direct online sales, will sell a Lindows Media Computer model that incorporates some home entertainment functions such as DVD and digital music playback. The goal is to offer a low-cost PC that can take the...
[January 29, 2003, 7:21]
Nuggets: Remote control that will keep you in your chair
News The Marantz RC5000AV (click here to take a look) is a versatile and snazzy device that can talk to almost all your home entertainment equipment. Control any piece of home entertainment electrical kit with this remote x92x38mm g (with batteries) or...
[October 3, 2000, 13:15]
AMD highlights standards in Live push
News The brand - whose logo will be printed on a sticker on the chassis of a desktop or notebook - will indicate that the computer in question is tuned for home entertainment. Intel will put its new brand on PCs carrying the technology, which will have...
[January 4, 2006, 8:40]
Microsoft wants to wire homes
News The company already has made inroads into the home with products including its Media Centre, which connects home entertainment devices; its MSN Internet service; and its Xbox gaming console. For example, in March the group launched a test kitchen...
[July 9, 2003, 10:50]
