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“Girlfriend, Wife and Mother” Enjoying the PS3, Sony Says

Friday, May 22, 2009

Sony is boasting about its downloadable movie and TV show offerings on the Playstation Network, telling Video Business that revenues are up 300 percent from the same time last year. There also appears to be a new demographic in play. “We’re getting people in the households who hadn’t yet interacted with their [Playstation 3] in the [...]

Downloadable Games, With the Inconvenience of the Store

Monday, April 13, 2009

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A solution for the digital download squeamish: Go to your local video game store, buy a boxed version of a digital download voucher, go home and use the Internet to install the same product that’s being sold cheaper to those who don’t want to leave the house. Ars Technica’s Ben Kuchera has word from a “reliable” [...]

Is YouTube a Massive Money Loser?

Friday, April 3, 2009

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International financial services company Credit Suisse has burst Google’s bubble: Its analysts report that YouTube could be on track to lose $470 million this year due to outrageously high operating costs and a poor business plan. Credit Suisse estimates that YouTube has a gross income of $240 million a year, but that its expenses far exceed [...]

We Have Some Winners!

Thursday, April 2, 2009

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As you may know, the HP MediaSmart Server has been the exclusive sponsor of Technologizer’s Digital Media Central section. HP has been presenting “What Are Your 3?,” a feature which lets people upload and embed their favorite photos, videos, and songs, as well as vote on other folks’ media. And to make contributing more tempting, [...]

Coming Soon: a Zune TV?

Thursday, April 2, 2009

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Despite a recent organizational shake up, help-wanted ads indicate that Microsoft may be taking its Zune brand into the living room, and expanding into new international markets. Today, blogger Long Zheng’s watchful eye took notice of a job listing on Microsoft’s Web site seeking a software engineer to help its Zune team, “deliver great digital entertainment [...]

So How Do You Get Your Entertainment These Days?

Monday, March 30, 2009

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When it comes to media–digital or otherwise–you’ve got options. Lots and lots of them, from formats that have been around for decades to new services that may or may not amount to much over the long haul. At prices that range from nothing to kinda pricey. It’s an embarrassment of riches, so here’s a quick [...]

Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Storage?

Monday, March 23, 2009

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(A NOTE FROM HARRY: We’re pleased to continue Digital Media Central’s guest appearances with one by Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat, a cool blog about design, technology, and sustainability.) With the cost of memory cards and hard drives falling almost by the day we’re adding storage capacity faster than can we fill our hard drives up with [...]

Favorite Photos From Dooce

Monday, March 9, 2009

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[NOTE FROM HARRY: Digital Media Central guest posts continue with a contribution from blogging superstar Heather Armstrong, better known as Dooce. This post--republished from Heather's site--shows off a few photos she took on a 2006 trip to Amsterdam.]

Home Storage: Important. Also a Challenge.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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[A note from Harry: Our Digital Media Central guest posts continue with a few thoughts about storaget from Dave Altavilla of PC enthusiast site HotHardware. It's not as simple as it used to be.] These days, the ever-growing library of files, documents and multimedia content for the average home user, family or small office, is not [...]

Playstation 3 Movies Surprisingly Successful

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

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While there’s much fawning over the Xbox 360’s streaming Netflix service, it appears that Sony is doing quite well distributing movies on its own over the Playstation Network. The story in Variety notes that Sony has made $180 million on “pieces of digital content” — more than 380 million downloads in all — since the company [...]

T-Poll: When It Comes to Entertainment, How Digital Are You?

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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I did something this week that I haven’t done in months: I went to a big store full of shiny discs, and bought me some. Three DVDs and two CDs, to be precise. I used to go on shopping sprees like that a lot more often, but little by little–almost without me noticing it–my collecting [...]

Then and Now: A Fast-Forward Tour of Gadget History

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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Astonishing breakthrough. Household object. Funny anachronism. Such is the journey that nearly every great gadget travels. (Sometimes it takes several generations; sometimes it takes just a few years.) And then it happens all over again with whatever hot new gizmo rendered the old one obsolete. While rummaging through the endlessly fascinating Google Patents recently, I was [...]

Three Ways to Protect and Share Your Stuff

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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[An introductory note from Harry: Our visits from guest Digital Media Central bloggers continue. This week we're happy to host David Ponce, owner and managing editor of popular gadget blog OhGizmo. Welcome, David!] It’s not that I want to sound like I’m repeating things that have been said endlessly over the last decade or so, but [...]

The Pleasures and Perils of Going Digital

Monday, February 9, 2009

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[An introductory note from Harry: I'm pleased to say that Technologizer's Digital Media Central will be publishing some posts from guest bloggers over the next few weeks. The first to drop in is Ed Bott, whose work I've long admired at Ed Bott's Windows Expertise and Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, the latter of which lives [...]

Report: Apple May Enter TV Business

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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Visions of the “digital living room” having been dancing in the heads of industry leaders for over a decade, but no one solution has broken into the mainstream. Now, Apple may be preparing for a significant push based on the success of iTunes and the iPod. Or so predicts analyst Gene Munster of investment bank [...]

Blockbuster to Offer Movie Downloads

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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The movie retailer has teamed up with Sonic Solutions to begin offering a sale and rental download program for consumers. Approximately 10,000 movies would be available through the service, and the company is mulling a subscription based plan in the future according to reports. Blockbuster was locked in a tit-for-tat with Netflix over online movie rentals [...]