Weekend Reading – December 19
Is an $800 DVR worth it? It’s a pretty risky move during a rocky economy, but after 10 years of work Digeo is now offering its newest HD DVR to compete with Tivo – but it will cost you. Priced at a cool $800, the dual-tuner Moxi HD DVR can store 75 hours of HD programming and boasts no monthly fee or advertisements.
But with the TiVo HD DVR only priced at $299, will the Moxi be as big of a hit as Digeo expects? Would you pay $800 for an HD DVR?
In the air and on demand. In air on-demand entertainment isn’t just for the traveling elite anymore. Continental Airlines just announced that it has almost completed installing audio and video-on-demand entertainment systems in coach class for the airline’s Boeing 757-200 aircraft.
The new entertainment system will allow customers to choose from up to 25 movies, 25 short-subject programs and 50 compact discs.
We’re glad to see more features being added to airplanes in a time when scaling services back or changing an extra fee for them seems to be the norm. Remember when JetBlue announced that it would be charging for blankets and pillows? It’s safe to say that didn’t go over so well.
With with announcement and others, like in-air Wi-Fi access coming to major airlines like Delta, we are wondering what will they come up with next? In this case, the sky really is the limit.
Good ol’ fashioned TV watching increased in 2008. Nielsen recently reported that U.S. usage of TV, Internet and mobile, also known as the “three screens”, has increased across the board- with the average American reportedly watching 142 hours of TV, viewing three hours of mobile video, and going online for 27 hours.
The A2/M2 Three Screen Report states that “the average time a U.S. home used a TV set during the 2007-08 TV season was 8 hours and 18 minutes per day, a record high since Nielsen started measuring television in the 1950s.”
You CAN take it with you. A morbid yet interesting report from MSNBC earlier in the week says many people under 40 are requesting that their mobile phones be buried with them when they pass away. Some even want their cell phone to ring as their casket is being lowered, like a modern-day Taps. We can’t dig it. Really. Unless you plan on making a few phone calls from the other side, what’s the point?
Well, for one, according to the article,
“People want to surround themselves (or their loved ones) with the things they hold dear, whether that’s their cell phone and headset or some family photos, a fishing rod, a piece of treasured jewelry.
We can only think of one reason to be buried with our mobile phone – and that’s if we happen to wake up, in a casket, several feet below the surface. Hopefully the battery – and signal – would still work.
Video for your iPhone? Well, sort of. 12seconds has released an iPhone application that lets iPhone users shoot video. How? Users take three pictures, record some audio and submit it. 12seconds then turns the photos and audio into a video and post it for you. We couldn’t find any examples of an iPhone video on the company’s web site but we will download the application, give it a try and report back. Until Apple relents and starts offering video on iPhones, this might be our only hope.
We’re famous! In case you didn’t hear from us via Facebook, Twitter or email, here’s our appearance on Good Day Oregon last month that featured our Museum of Mobility History, all seventeen minutes of it. Watch it below or click here.
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