Gran Turismo TV goes live
by Richard Lawler 
posted Aug 1st 2008 at 3:53PM
video download posts
Pioneer's SyncTV YAOTVS (yet another online TV service)
by Thomas Ricker posted Nov 19th 2007 at 4:59AM
Update: The SyncTV site is now up with more information and beta pre-registration.
CES: How the hell am I supposed to make this stuff work together?
by Richard Lawler posted Jan 9th 2006 at 1:11PM
Connecting. It seems like companies had no problem doing that at CES. Everybody was in a partnership with everybody else and was in a hurry to tell people about it, I'm not even going to make the lame high school compariso...oops.
But seriously, after all the talking is done, I still don't know what is going to work with what, or how. I can't even imagine what it's going to be like for the average consumer this year, because this stuff is gibberish to me. Let me run down a list just of the things I'm left with far more questions than answers about.
Intel:
- Viiv: I still don't know what
this is. I know that Intel has partnered with everyone
and their mother. (Seriously, at this point I wouldn't be at all surprised if I visited home and found that I
needed at the least a software upgrade before I could eat some DRM protected home cooking). The questions I need
answered are, will I absolutely need to buy an Intel PC to take advantage of this content? How will I take advantage of
it, can I build my own Viiv PC? And what does this mean
anyway?
- Congratulations, the Xbox 360 is getting HD-DVD playback. How much, how will it connect to my 360 and my TV and when can we expect it, until you answer those questions I'm not excited in the least.
- Is Wintel really dead? Viiv relies on Windows Media Center, but Microsoft is partnering with AMD on their competing AMD Live standard, (btw, everything I said about not knowing what Viiv is, goes double for AMD Live).
- Now that Google is using DivX, is Microsoft going to add support for streaming to the Xbox 360 or am I going to have to wait for a mod chip?
