Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Normally our product unboxing posts are reserved for prime American kit from the likes of the biggest manufacturers, but Cowon’s Q5 portable media player with its integrated WiFi and HSDPA definitely deserves the same treatment. Just so you get a sense that the feature packed PMP actually exists and is coming to these shores, check out the product unboxing over at the Cowon forums. Get a load of that 5-inch 800×600 LCD display, check out the included remote and cables, and ogle at all that unintelligible (to us) Korean text. Just to remind you, the Q5 should be dropping sometime this quarter for $499 to $549, depending on whether you opt for the 40GB or 60GB capacity.
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$85 is a good price for a computer, isn’t it?
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Here in lawsuit-crazy America there’s only one thing to do if you don’t like a lawsuit: file another suit, claiming that the basis for the original claim was illegitimate. That’s the case with a recent filed class action lawsuit against Netflix, which argues that the company’s lawsuit against Blockbuster violates antitrust law because the company fraudulently concealed prior art related to patents used to sue Blockbuster. Techdirt points out that this new lawsuit highlights prior art that Netflix knew about, but failed to include in its original patent applications, something it was required to do. Yeah, that’s right, the whole affair hinges around the ineffective patenting system, which is the background for dozens of other technology related lawsuits. If this class action is successful, then Netflix will be left regretting ever filing against Blockbuster; if it’s not, then the company’s still got a whole lot of paperwork to do in its case against Blockbuster. As always, there’s one group left lovin’ the whole situation: the lawyers.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
You’re probably familiar with the old adage that getting sued just isn’t satisfying enough until you take someone else to court over the exact thing that you’re being accused of, but even if you’re not, DirecTV’s here to refresh your memory. The satellite TV provider has apparently scrunched up its nose at a recent promotional advertising campaign in which Comcast claims that two-thirds of satellite customers felt “Comcast delivered a better HD image” when compared to DirecTV and Dish Network alternatives. Not believing that we oh-so-capable humans might be able to actually perceive the difference when an HD feed is somewhat crippled, DirecTV decided that the results mustn’t be correct, and suggested that the “survey upon which Comcast relies does not provide or sufficiently substantiate the propositions for which Comcast cites the survey,” and concludes by boldly proclaiming that all of the claims “are literally false.” Of course, Comcast is standing strong behind its results for the time being, and while either party could most certainly have a case against the other, why are we using cash for HD channel expansion to pay legal teams?
[Via TGDaily]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
No, the laptop industry hasn’t bypassed the idea of quad-core laptops in favour of octo-core machines, since NextComputing’s 8-core flextops are machines you wouldn’t want anywhere near your lap. Based as they are around the Intel Xeon 5300 processor, the NextDimension Pro and Evo can take advantage of the relatively low power requirements of 100W for two quad-core CPUs (down from 160 Watts for its power hungrier desktop equivalent). For a sense of just how expandable the NextDimension machines are, consider that they can hold up to twelve 160GB 2.5-inch 7200RPM hard disk drives. They also manage to pack in four PCI / PCI-e slots in the Evo model, and Firewire, Gigabit Ethernet, and support for 24GB of memory through four DMA channels on both models. These 20-pound desktop machines with a handle will be shown off at Interop Las Vegas later this month, but beyond that we’re not sure when or for how much you’ll be able to lug one away.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
