We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to get our hands on the Popbox, son of Popcorn Hour C-200, but in the meantime we’ll chew on this healthy list of specs and content providers to imagine what the future of media streamers has to offer. Netflix and 1080p have already been mentioned, but the lists reveal that even as a slimmed down and more affordable option than the box it replaces, it still has the file and codec compatibility fans have come to expect. We’ll soon see if this combo of wide appeal online services like Twitter and MLB.tv, existing media streamer framework, a greatly improved UI (able to pull down IMDB info for appropriately tagged content) and Popapp Center — openly courting developers to take advantage of the SDK since this box was codenamed DAVID — is a winner.
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Sure, you can use Apple’s own
Remote application to use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote for your Mac, but that likely isn’t going help most folks’ with their home theaters. This new L5 Remote might be just what you’re looking for, however, and it doesn’t require a pricey dock like some other
similar options. Making its official debut at CES, the L5 is a $50 IR dongle / app bundle that promises to do more or less everything that a dedicated universal remote does, and plenty of things that many of those don’t — like let you create your own customized interface. Of course, that all hinges on the thing actually working as well as a dedicated device, and we should no doubt hear more about that in the lead-up to its rollout next month.
L5 Remote turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a universal remote originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Major_Apple_announcement_coming_January_27th_devs_already’; According John Paczkowski over at All Things D, Apple is planning a “major product announcement” for Wednesday, January 27th — not the 26th as we’ve heard in previous reports. Additionally, the French site Mac4Ever says developers have been given a beta of the iPhone OS 4 SDK which includes a “simulator” for reformatting / scaling applications to a new, tablet-sized screens. Here at Engadget, we can confirm that sources very familiar with the situation over in Cupertino have been given info about a tablet heading for launch at the end of January, which will — in fact — require reformatting and resizing for (we assume)… yep, its new screen size and resolution. As far as details, they’re pretty scarce right now, but you can probably begin preliminary salivating and / or player hatin’ as it relates to new Apple hardware. We’ll have more info as it becomes available, but for now, stay tuned.
Update: The Wall Street Journal just added its support for the rumor by saying that Apple will unveil its “new multimedia tablet device later this month” with a “10- to 11-inch touch screen” with plans to ship it in March. The WSJ’s sources claim that Apple believes it can “redefine the way consumers interact with a variety of content” as we’ve been hearing all along. [Thanks, David]
‘Major’ Apple announcement coming January 27th, devs already working with beta SDK (update: shipping in March) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wondering what the endcap for LG’s 15-inch OLED TV would look like if you were able to go see it in South Korea? Wonder no more, our passport-less friend, as YouTuber eurozero captured footage of the thing doing its thing at a retail establishment in Seoul. That video is embedded below, showing off the display’s thinness, but also reminding just how small a 15-inch display looks these days — especially when sitting next to what appears to be a clothes dryer.
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We’ve already given you the leaked specs for the unannounced updates to Sony’s VAIO Z series of laptops. Now here’s what you haven’t heard: that SSD on the feature list is rather special, a “Quad SSD” in Sony language. To quote from the materials we’ve peeped, the Quad SSD is delineated as “SSD RAID0:64GB/128GB x 4.” What’s unclear is whether that means 4x 128GB or 64GB modules for either 512GB or 256GB of RAID 0 storage, or simply 4x flash modules totaling 128GB or 64GB of RAID 0 capacity. Presumably, it’s similar to devices like the PhotoFast GMonster Quad Drive (pictured, with four CF memory cards) that we’ve already seen. What we do know for sure, however, is that Sony’s Quad SSD features incredible throughput compared to a traditional 5400rpm hard disk. We’re talking about writing a 1GB file at about 4 seconds compared to 25 seconds on that same 5400rpm spinner. We’re also told that the VAIO Z will be the first to feature a backlit keyboard, something we’ve been missing from Sony’s previous generation of Zs. It’s CES kids so the truth is only hours away.
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