Anyone with a Playstation 3 console will know that it also makes a fairly good media server for the lounge. Not only does it play games and Blu-ray movies, but stores your videos, music and photos and connects wirelessly to laptops running Windows Media Player to stream the media files stored [...]
The options for high-definition video open up this month with the arrival of both Sony’s Playstation 3 and an add-on for Microsoft’s 18 month old Xbox 360 console.
The Blu-ray drive built into the $1199 PS3 machine and the $249 HD-DVD drive from the Xbox will allow you to play new DVDs that hold many times [...]
I’ve covered probably 60 per cent of the stands at CES and highlights include:
LG’s stand - its large LCDs are amazing and the LG Shine is a great evolution on the Chocolate. The Blu-ray, HD-DVD combo drive is great.
Microsoft - they’ve gone all out to impress and several things do - Home Server, bringing Xbox [...]
My Herald on Sunday column looks at Trademe’s ban of PS3 sales ahed of the official launch date of the machines…
One of the great things about globalisation is that when it comes to buying gadgets, we’re not at the mercy of retailers to the extent that we used to be.
That means you can often buy [...]
Happy New Year! Whatever you got up to last night, I’m sure your celebrations were livlier than mine which involved drinking martinis with my family while a terrible TV special by the people behind the Back of the Y accompanied us into 2006.
What will be big in 2006 tech wise? I’ve written my Herald on [...]