By Douglas Cebik, on November 29th, 2006
Walmart announced today that it will begin offering video downloads on it website in 2007. I imagine it wont be long before consumers finally have numerous big name video download services available to them. Walmart did not announce its content partners or [...]
By Douglas Cebik, on November 22nd, 2006
By Douglas Cebik, on November 22nd, 2006
By Douglas Cebik, on November 20th, 2006
Shanghai, China — Score one for the underdog. Backers of China’s domestic codec scored a minor, but cherished, victory earlier this month when the country’s second-largest wired-telecom company picked it over H.264 for an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) rollout.
The design win at China Netcom gives the Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) the break it needs [...]
By Douglas Cebik, on November 20th, 2006
EETimes teardown the new Nintendo Wii.
IBM Broadway processor;
ATI Hollywood graphics processor;
Broadcom BCM2042 wireless sensor with Bluetooth functionality,
Broadcom BCM4318 Wi-Fi transceiver;
Qimonda HYB18HS1232 GDDR3 graphics RAM;
Samsung K9F4G08U0A 65-nm, 4-Gbit NAND flash; and Elpida S1616AGTA 16-Mbit SDRAM.
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