/* CSS Document */ Streamload Blog: February 2005

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Neuros launches standalone MPEG-4 recorder

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Neuros has announced a standalone MPEG-4 recorder that can be used to rip video from a TV, cable box, DVD player or other sources without using a PC. While this sounds like a great way to get video into your portable media player, the unit lacks a hard drive or the requisite USB or FireWire ports to connect one, relying instead on SD and CF card slots for storage (it does have a USB port to connect to a PC, so maybe there’s a hack-in-waiting to hook up a hard drive).

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http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000977030230/

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Wednesday, February 02, 2005

TiVo offers web services software development kit

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TiVo is introducing a software development kit that’ll let anyone create new applications and web services for TiVo boxes. You won’t actually be able to install the applications directly on your TiVo—it’s more like your TiVo is a thin client and the apps run locally on a PC on your home network or sit on a server somewhere—but some of the different applications that could be possible include streaming music, weather info, RSS readers, etc. and it’s even potentially possible for someone to create a video-on-demand service that could compete with the one TiVo is working on with Netflix.

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http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000843029625/

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