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You want to take items off your computer and play them on your Flatscreen TV. Photos, Videos or even music. That is where Iomega ScreenPlay Director comes in. It’s a HD Media Player and it brings HD media to your living room.

Andy McCaskey talks with lauren about this great device.With 1TB of space you have a portable hard drive that can be connected to your network, or taken to a friends house to enjoy memories together. You can also use Cinema Now to rent or buy movies. Look at the catalog and with Progressive Download, you will have the movie right on the machine. Retail is at $249.

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If you have looked for streaming video, then you probably have passed by Vimeo before. At CES they announced support for HD content. You can now submit videos in full 1080p. They are also making available to all their plus customers mobile versions of all their content that can be viewed through a iPhone or other mobile devices.

Todd Cochrane talks to Blake on these great new announcements.

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I love my 2 monitor setup at home. It would be nice to have that on the laptop. While there are solutions out there, nothing has really presented a good answer until now. That is where MyCINQ comes in.

MyCINQ is a 10.1 inch USB monitor that can be set on your desk, or mounted to your laptop. You can then use it to watch Twitter, keep up on stocks, run a movie or Hulu program and a lot more. Want another monitor? You can run up to 6 MyCINQ monitors.

Jeffrey Powers caught up with Ben just before CES started to take a look at this new startup. The Monitor will be available in Q3 of 2010. There is works in getting it in HD. With a $249 price tag, these monitors can really add to a presentation, or just get more work done.

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It’s been 3 years since Andy first talked to Ooma and has had the products. Ooma is a Voice over IP solution for your everyday phone needs.

Andy Rich about the Ooma Telo and the DEC 6.0 handset. It is designed to be used with HD voice. Any network that offers HD voice will soon be able to use the Telo.

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Last year they announced the USB 3.0 specification. Compared to Firewire and eSATA, the USB 3.0 specification will really make your computing experience a lot better.

Black Armor

Seagate asked us to come in and check out the Black Armor PS110 portable drive – a 500 GB drive with PC card to run at it’s best speeds. It will allow data transfer 10 times better than before. Unfortunately, computer process can not meet the speed of the drive, but 3x faster is just as good.

The only downfall to the drive is the USB 3.0 card that is used for transfer needs a USB 2.0 port to power. A small limitation for fast speeds. However, if you have a home theater system, this device will push those HD movies without problem. Plus, it’s a great way to backup your drive.

In this video, Todd Cochrane talks to John from Seagate about this great device.

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1965 – Richard Wexelblat was the first candidate to complete his doctoral dissertation, hance giving him a degree in “Computer Science”. It was presented at the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Today is the official birth of the Transistor
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• HD Support for YouTube

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Well on Friday I made the plunge and did the install. I took out the drive that held my XP partition, put in a clean drive and installed Windows 7 64-bit. The computer is an AM3 with 4 Gig of memory, so it was plenty powerful to handle the OS.

The planning has been done for a couple months. All my important data is held on striped disks that could easily port over. The data was also backed up, so if Windows 7 corrupted, I could pull the important stuff back.

The install on the fresh drive took only an hour. It didn’t ask me to pop in a previous version, so I was happy about that. The only problem I ran into was on first DVD boot, the computer froze. It kept happening until I reset the BIOS. After that, it had no issues.

One of the first things I did was install Office 2007. I saw my first problem there, but it went away and I was off and running. I checked the Task Manager where I easily saw what programs were running 32 bit and which ones ran 64.

I have been installing items all weekend and have seen minimal issue. Sony Acid Music Studio is having some small issues, but that is regarding the VST plugins. I installed Adobe products without hiccup. Tweetdeck loaded like a champ. Even the video editing software and Camtasia loaded without issue.

Next up – Virtual XP mode. Downloaded the 470 MB file and installed. It asked me to reboot and loaded up just fine. I played with it for a while, but then thought “Why? I just took that OS off!”

Audio had a little issue – especially when I have my Logitech 9000 installed. It took over the default sound and wouldn’t let it go. I am hoping there are some driver updates for the HD Deck sound soon, because I lost the ability to monitor what I am recording. I check the “Listen” box, but the latency is to the point where I have to turn it back off.

Nonetheless, I have been getting the programs back on, to get back up and running. Thunderbird and Outlook are going to be the next major steps. I still have some data on the XP drive in which I have to transfer over.

I decided not to do the export – import simply because I didn’t want that to be a factor in any issue. The best thing to do is copy over files and re-setup programs. In the end, you don’t worry about bringing over problems.

The Anti-virus is still Avast. Nothing will change on my daily routine. I may have to turn off the themes – especially when I am podcasting. The reason why is because when the theme shifts, it might cause the recording to skip. I still have more tests to run on that, though.

Now I want a new Laptop so I can put Windows 7 on that…

A few weeks ago I submitted a video for Living in HD – a contest presented by Panasonic. It’s the chance to get some free gear and also get some insider info from Panasonic. The submitters were suppose to upload a 2 minute video on what they would do with the products and why they should be picked.

I did enter and I didn’t get picked. No big deal – that’s happened before – I’m not bent out of shape for that. However, I checked out the 10 entrants involved and I have to ask myself – Why didn’t half of these get disqualified?

Let’s look at the rules.

4. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS/CLEARANCES:
(a) Commercial Must Meet LivinginHd Technical Requirements For Uploading. It must be color. Recommended formats include WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPG. The Video should not exceed two minutes. All Videos must be tagged with #LiHDInsider.

That means shows longer than 2 minutes should be disqualified, right? How is it that 8 of the videos EXCEED 2 minutes?

(b) Content and Originality. Each Video must be the original work of the Entrant, may not have been previously published and may not have won previous awards. Videos must be in English. The Entrant must appear in the Video; if other people are in the Video, there must be no-one under the age of 18.

I am curious on the “Previously published” part. I see a couple that have clips from “Previously published” videos. If they allow those snippets, it should have been stated as just.

(c) Secure Authorizations from Others in the Video. Before entering this Contest, Entrant must receive prior written permission from other person(s) in the Video (or from their respective parent/legal guardian if person(s) featured are considered minors in their state/territory of residence) for Sponsor to use their likenesses for publicity including posting on Website; and make written copies of such permissions available to the Sponsor upon request.

Once again, there are a couple videos that are showing pictures or even interviews with celebrities. While they might have received permission to get those, did they get permission to put it in the contest?

(d) No Infringement. The content of the Video must not infringe third party rights by including, for example, the copyrights, trademarks or logos (such as other company names, labels, symbols, store or building facades) music , photographs, works of art, or images that have been created, distributed, aired or published by others, such as those on or in websites, television, movies, or other media). The content of the Video must not violate rights of privacy, publicity rights or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity.

Are you serious? One person blatantly mentions a national Pizza chain. Another shows a Big Ten video. How is this not Infringement?

(e) No Names and Likeness Without Permission: The Video must not use individuals’ names, in whole or in part (except for the Entrant’s first name); refer to public figures; contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other identifying elements of any person, living, or dead without permission.

We have gone way beyond this point, but once again, there were a lot of references that I highly doubt permission was given to.

(f) No Illegal, Offensive or Inappropriate Content. The Video must not, in the sole and unfettered judgment of the Sponsor, contain words, images or statements considered offensive to individuals of any race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic group nor any threats to any person, place, business or group, contain material that is unlawful, nor materials that promote bigotry, racisms, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age. The Video must not, in the sole and unfettered judgment of the Sponsor, contain any materials that depict illegal acts, are sexually explicit, disparaging,
libelous, obscene, violent, hateful, slanderous or other inappropriate content (such as but not limited to smoking, alcohol, fire arms, harming of animals, provocative/suggestive outfits or poses) or nudity.  Content must be in keeping with Sponsor’s reputation and image, at Sponsor’s sole discretion.

Let’s quote one line from a video – “This is sticky” – “That’s what she said”… Is that NOT offensive?

(g) Obtain Third Party Releases: If the Video contains any material or elements that are not owned by the Entrant and/or are subject to the rights of third parties, the Entrant are responsible for obtaining, prior to submission of the Video, and in writing any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the use and exhibition of the Video by Sponsor in the manner set forth in these Official Rules, including, without limitation, name and likeness releases for any person who appears in or is identifiable in the Video.

That will be a task for some of those videos….

(h) Retain for your records: Retain a copy of the Video in the original format after uploading it to the Website. (All of the above requirements and criteria, collectively named the “Requirements &
Clearances”).
Automatic Disqualification: In the event any submission contains any material or suggests any material that, in the sole and unfettered judgment of the Sponsor, depicts illegal acts, is sexually explicit, disparaging, libelous, abusive language or other inappropriate content or nudity, is potentially infringing on third party rights, or otherwise, does not effectively pass the Requirements & Clearances, the Sponsor will immediately disqualify the Entrant.

Like I said – this is not about my video getting picked. It’s more about the videos that did get picked. It’s about rules that didn’t get followed. If I didn’t follow a rule, I can understand why I would get disqualified.

There is only 1 video on the list that I would chose because it met all the requirements. If any others get picked, well – we’ll leave it at that.

All the rules can be found here

I need your help. I am participating in a contest to become a part of the Panasonic Living in HD contest. I posted a video (shown below), but I need those of you to vote for me in the contest.

This contest could mean a lot for how Geekazine produces content. More information to the site, more opportunities to review and discuss new technologies.
Please visit and vote (by commenting) at:

Living in HD – Why it’s important to me, Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine

2001 – Mark Cuban and Phillip Garvin launch HDNet, the first High Definition TV signals. It was available both through cable and satellite television. The channel got some news for their exclusive HD coverage of the US invasion of Afghanistan.

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When you get to meet someone you’ve read about and learned from, it really makes a trip out to Vegas worth it. When you get to play in front of them, it becomes a natural high.

Johnny Rabb is known as the “Fastest Drummer”. His one handed techniques are what really makes him stand out. Add in the Roland TD20 set: we see a true artist work his craft.

Jeff and Johnny on Roland TD-20

Then I get on the set…. yeah. Not one of my best performances….

Jeffrey Powers talks with Johnny Rabb about the TD-20s (50 drum sets), the SPDS Sample Pad, the HD-1 entry models. There is also an adapter to connect your TD-9 to a Guitar Hero and Rock Band Game.

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