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12 February 2003
How much longer must I wait for a recordable DVD?
Filed under:Gadgets at7:15 pm

I don’t want to leap into buying a cheap DVD recorder that uses a format that might be come obsolete soon, so I am waiting for something like the Sony RDR-GX7 which can read and write most of them. Unfortunately, according to the page referenced it is due to cost an eye-watering £900, won’t arrive for another two months and allows you to program in a puny eight events?!

A device like this that combines recordable DVD with a hard disk seems as far away as ever.loan surgery 0payday loan advanced100 loan financing commercial53 student loanauto loans affordableloans accordforce car loans air newvalue loans 2nd mortgage 110letter repayment acceptance loanadvance act loan pay

Free streaming for the public
Filed under:Best of blog.org,Broadband content,Digital divide (developed countries),Digital divide (developing countries),Positive uses of technology,Useful web resources at3:32 pm

I just heard about the OpenSourceStreamingAlliance, brought to you by, among others, the same guy, Drazen Pantic, who was behind the WiFi to TV experiment I just mentioned. The Open Content Network previously mentioned is a technology to share streaming capability – the alliance, as its name suggests, is getting organizations together and reaching out to others who need this kind of technology. Exciting stuff…

Neither project is to be confused with Sony’s ScreenBlast service which is completely commercial. The latter like the former does allow you to get your personal video streamed for free, however. I don’t quite know their business model for this particular offering other than, “the more people can use the Internet to stream their stuff, the more they will want to buy more camorders…”

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