The Kindle has taken off as a successful e-reader but a big failing has been the inability to get ebooks offered by your local public library. The format wars of ebooks has been a long one with no clear winner. The .epub format has been the most widely adopted with almost all devices except Kindle supporting them. Amazon's closed format remains but thanks to a partnership with … [Read more...]
Retaining Your Class Action Rights After Sony’s PSN Recent Update
Sony PS3 owners and PSN users have probably seen some news elsewhere regarding the recent PSN Terms of Service update. Qriocity is getting rebranded as "Sony Entertainment Network" and the whole Sony Network Entertainment America Inc. is becoming Sony Network Entertainment International LLC. The updated agreement is included with a mandatory PS3 update. Beyond the usual … [Read more...]
Netflix Thinks The Solution To All Their Recent Changes Is More Changes; Announces Qwikster
Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, wrote a blog post last night on the Netflix Blog announcing more changes coming to the Netflix services and apologizing for the lack of communication regarding the recent sequential big changes. (He must be forgetting his "communications" a year ago that offended both residents of Canada and the USA.) In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon … [Read more...]
What is PEGI?
If you have watched any video game trailers online, you might see a message with a robotic voice appear before the video plays that says "PEGI 16" or "PEGI 12" (pronounced like 'Peggy'). Like some of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Y5SyjbHAA Seeing them in a series like that might make it a little more obvious but at first, you might not know what the PEGI rating is … [Read more...]
TiVo Answers ‘What’s beyond Premiere?’ with Premiere Elite
On the TiVo Blog today, TiVo has revealed the details of the next evolution of their DVR: The TiVo Premiere Elite. The Premiere Elite expands on the previous enjoyed TiVo Premiere updates with two big improvements: two terabytes of storage for 300 hours of HD recordings and the ability to record four channels simultaneously while watching a fifth. Imagine a set-top box so … [Read more...]