XBOX LIVE AND ONLINE GAMING

May 21, 2002 | games, hardware

The next hot market is online gaming – plenty hot already, but due for a big push in the next eight months. Many people are joining massive online worlds and investing oodles of time in their online characters. Everquest, Ultima Online, Asheron’s Call...

DATAPLAY – THE NEXT BIG THING (not)

Apr 20, 2002 | DRM, hardware

Miniature CDs will hit the market this summer, presumably with a heavy advertising blitz. The “Dataplay” discs look like CDs that are one inch across and come in a small plastic cartridge. They can store up to five albums, plus a bunch of computer data,...

RECORDABLE DVDS

Apr 10, 2002 | hardware

Most consumers have stayed away from recordable DVDs, since there’s a blizzard of competing acronyms representing different, incompatible media and disk formats. DVD+RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-RAM – it’s a mess, and it’s long overdue for one of the...

NEW STANDARD FOR RECORDABLE DVDS

Feb 18, 2002 | hardware

Recordable DVDs are available right now, but it’s a complete mess – DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, and other “standards,” using different media, playing on different machines. It’s the same tangle of competing business interests that delayed the entire...

HOME ENTERTAINMENT HUBS

Jan 16, 2002 | audio, hardware, video

The home entertainment devices that will be hot next Christmas are taking shape. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, a new company demonstrated the MoxiMedia Center, which combines a cable or satellite TV receiver, a personal video recorder (like Tivo or Replay),...

FLAT PANEL MONITOR PRICES ON THE RISE

Jan 14, 2002 | hardware

According to this article, prices for flat panel LCD monitors were in free fall last year because of an oversupply of glass. The factories have caught up, demand is skyrocketing to match production, and prices are expected to start climbing back up again in the next...