Filed under: Video, Web services, Apple, Microsoft
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Filed under: Video, Web services, Apple, Microsoft

Earlier this year Netflix announced a new service that lets you watch a limited number of videos online instead of waiting for the DVDs to come in the mail. Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft
Filed under: Video, News, Windows, Microsoft
Yesterday, Jordan blogged an announcement from Microsoft's Steve Riley that Vista users will need to have 64-bit superpowers if they want the ability to play HD video. It turns out this isn't entirely true, as Engadget is reporting that Microsoft has clarified the complication: 32-bit versions of Vista can play HD - but not without help from third party folk like CyberLink and InterVideo. The blame game still places the ball in the big media studios' court, as it is they who dictated that HD support be stripped out of Media Player 11 across the board, not simply one version of Vista or another.Filed under: Audio, Video, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source
At the ongoing LinuxWorld conference, RealNetworks announced that it will be releasing open source software that will allow Linux user to listen to and view audio and video files encoded in Microsoft's proprietary Windows Media formats. Currently Linux users are able to view Windows Media files only through closed-source components, but a deal Real inked with Microsoft after last year's anti-trust settlement paved the way for the announced open source solution, which will be released through Real's Helix Community. Novell joined RealNetworks to announce that it would be bundling the new software with Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, to be released later this year. Real is also planning to bring its Rhapsody music store to Linux, and will possibly be supporting the AAC audio compression format used by Apple.
I just love making those "XYZ-killer" titles, though I suspect you readers tire of it. Anyhow, at Microsoft's WinHEC conference on Wednesday it showed off Windows Media Photo, a new file format intended to displace JPEG. Though the CNet article isn't especially specific, Microsoft had all kinds of good things to say about its new baby, including how it can achieve twice the compression at the same quality as JPEG. The sticking point, of course, is the licensing. Windows Media Photo was created by the same team that built Windows Media Video and Audio, which does not suggest very open licensing terms, but Microsoft's Bill Crow says, "the philosophy has been that licensing should not be a restriction" to its adoption. I'd love to see a new image format with superior features, but we learned our lession from JPEG and GIF's patent issues, so that better be one unrestrictive license if Microsoft wants WMP to go anywhere. At any rate, even in the best case it will be years before it sees any widespread adoption. If you like technical documentation, Microsoft has the file format specifications available on its web site, and Microsoft intends to release software for integrating WMP into hardware and software soon.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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