Downloadable games were the focus of Capcom’s Digital Day. During the press-only event, Capcom did not talk about Street Fighter IV or Resident Evil 5. Instead, the game developer showed off an updated version of and several other games that will soon be available on ...

Ripping DVDs, transferring video from cameras, or converting downloaded videos from various sources for Apple products can be a difficult and time consuming process. Now with a software update for the Turbo.264 hardware-based video encoder from Elgato Systems, Macintosh users now have a definitive best and fastest way ...

Microsoft has officially discontinued production of its Xbox 360 external HD-DVD player. The decision comes days after consumer electronics giant Toshiba announced that it will no longer produce HD-DVD products, essentially ending the HD-format war with Sony’s Blu-Ray. Video game juggernaut Electronic Arts wants to take over Take-Two ...

The Gamerscore Blog hosted a Xbox blogger breakfast for the media and video game blogging community. The event gave a selected number of journalists and bloggers the chance to speak with Microsoft’s Chris Satchell, John Shappert and Aaron Greenberg. In this audio version of The ...

The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would reveal a new version of the ...

When you hit the road and can’t squeeze your 62 inch monitor into your briefcase, you may want to reach for your Vuzix iWear. So if you’re watching a movie on your laptop or iPod or looking to join multiple friends in a first-person shooter game, Vuzix delivers a ...

CES 2008 BlogHaus Motto: Bandwidth, Beer, and Beanbags all for bloggers only.

We’ll be back at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino, Suite #6601 - Spa Tower.

Check out the mashup of CES 2007 BlogHaus in this post.

More info can be found at:
www.CESBlogHaus.com

A place for bloggers, podcasters, video ...

With Internet bandwidth demand doubling each year, broadcast media, IPTV, and new user-generated YouTube-style video are culprits exacerbating the problem. This is where and their new CodecSys offering can help reduce bandwidth for video applications by 50% or more, including High Definition (HD).

For ...

The release of Halo 3 was the biggest video game launch in history, garnering more than $300 million in sales in the first week, alone. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives his review of the game, and also talks about the ...

I had a chance to sit down and talk with Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins about Seagate’s Q3 results. The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that Seagate has revised it’s estimates but Seagate continues to be the big fish in the disk drive waters.

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NETGEAR has announced its new Digital Entertainer HD. It’s the next step in bridging the barrier between your television and the digital media on your computer. Listen to this conversation with Jamison Ching of NETGEAR, as he outlines all the cool features of this wireless device, which allows you to use your TV to watch movies in high-def, listen to music, stream Internet content, and more.

What would you store if you could afford one terabyte — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — of hard disk space? In this podcast, Doug Pickford, director of product and market strategy for enterprise products with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about Hitachi GST’s industry milestone, the ...

Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy’s solutions to manage window coverings and lighting, to iPort’s ...

Gentlemen (and ladies of course) start your blogs. Opening Day of the Bloghaus saw an overflow crowd of bloggers, video bloggers and podcasters. The event, which was sponsored by Seagate, Microsoft and AMD, jam-packed a wide-spectrum of community media into a Bellagio Hotel Suite, all amid the activity around CES ...

Intel is one of many companies attending CES 2007 in Las Vegas next week. PodTech Founder and CEO John Furrier visited with Intel’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Sean Maloney to explore top tech-lifestyle trends for 2007 and the impact of new innovations coming from the chipmaker.

It’s become old hat to suggest that the world of media is changing faster than the old media companies, and that the computer and tech world — long accustomed to turning sharp corners quickly — has the advantage of momentum in the new, post-YouTube climate. However, the opportunity ...

Last week, I was invited to ride on Senator John Edwards’s plane as he visited four states (Louisiana, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada) following his announcement that he is running for President in the 2008 election. Here I sat down with him in the back of the plane while we ...

The Canyons is a massive ski and snowboarding resort. Last year, it was the first resort to use video podcasts as a way to differentiate itself from other destinations (view videocasts | subscribe to videocasts).

My personal favorite from last year is from the Quiksilver Canis Lupus ...

Judges’ Favorite News Vlog winner Rocketboom producer Andrew Michael Baron — who compares himself to Woody Allen — introduces us to some of his correspondents, including Steve Garfield of VlogSoup, Chuck Olsen of Minnesota Stories and Zadi Diaz of JetSetShow. Andrew describes the Judges’ Favorite ...

We’re really happy to post the official list of The Vloggies winners announced on Saturday night. Many congratulations to Alive in Baghdad, which won six awards including Favorite Vlog, Favorite Group Blog, Favorite Political Vlog, and Favorite Interview Vlog. Alive in Baghdad also won the People’s Choice Award for ...

Video montage of the Vloggies party in San Francisco. Includes intro by PodTech CEO, John Furrier and interviews with Jerry Zucker - Director/Producer, Airplane!, Naked Gun, Ghost; Kevin Rose - founder, Digg.com, Revision3; Tom Foremski - founder, Silicon Valley Watcher; Dina Kaplan - winner,

Research analyst firm Wedbush Morgan Securities released a report predicting modest growth in video game sales. The company also raised its expectations for the Nintendo Wii and downgraded its prediction for the Sony Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable. WMS’s Michael Pachter spoke with PodTech’s Rio Pesino about the new report, Nintendo DS’s MP3 player add-on and Sony’s announcement not to include an HDMI cable with the PS3.

LOS ANGELES, September 1, 2006 (PodTech News) — It wasn’t all that long ago that consumers were given the choice between two competing formats for watching video at home. Sony’s Betamax, despite its persistent reputation as a superior product, ultimately lost out to the VHS format, and by now, even that feels like ancient history. Once again, however, consumers are faced with a brewing turf war between two developing technologies

PlayStation 3 (PS3) info has come down the pike in pieces but one thing we know now is that the new vision from Sony is to create a platform for video game development. That’s not really news–Sony revealed its plans back at the Game Developers Conference. At E3 the main ...