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CNET.co.uk has 12 stories on digital living
Living with infinite digital choice
Digital Living In a connected, digital world, the joke's on us. Now look at the existing technologies we can use to access digital culture. Imagine that you also have advanced technology that enables you to access all existing human digital culture: all books...
26 October 2005, 11:48
Microsoft's Media Center mansion
Digital Living Microsoft has a two-word strategy for the digital home: Media Center. Unlike many of the digital home showcases we've seen, the mHome isn't the digital home of the future. It's the digital home of, well, right now: everything in the house is...
2 June 2005, 17:10
The digital won't let me go
Digital Living The problem with the digital life is the problem of all living: balance. Work is normally and unremarkably digital. What does it mean to live a digital life? When you start a new job, you join new networks and become part of a new digital...
16 May 2005, 11:40
CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?
Digital Living His carefully blank expression, contrasted with the wry amusement of the crowd, captured the drama of the huge struggle that's going on between the Microsofts and the Intels, and the Apples and the Sonys, for control of our digital lives.
4 January 2006, 11:43
Leaving Las Vegas
Digital Living I'm not sure that anyone knows how consumers want to build their digital home infrastructure, and without that sense of a clear destination, it's much harder to explain the benefits of the Viiv platform.
11 January 2006, 15:45
Why is my best TV in my shed?
Digital Living Like most cheap digital screens, the image quality for broadcast looks markedly poorer than with CRTs. At 28 inches, it was my LDAU: the Largest Domestically Acceptable Unit -- meaning that my significant other would complain bitterly about the way...
6 May 2006, 7:00
Taking your television for a drive
Digital Living Well, the TV Drive is that buzzword made real -- it's a convergence play that brings together the power of a computer hard drive and digital storage with a networked cable box, creating an intelligent node with a memory at the end of the network...
25 July 2006, 16:11
Smarter commuting, the cyborg way
Digital Living One of the hassles of digital living is the enormous amount of power adaptors it requires. However, for me the solution is obvious: spend an incredible amount of money on digital technology to make the journey more entertaining.
19 October 2005, 12:06
Wi-Fi horrors
Digital Living The next day you discover that your wireless network covers only half your house and that both your living room and your kitchen are shrouded in digital darkness. The world of networking can be cruel, but the more you understand about the way it...
9 May 2005, 14:49
Calibrate your LCD television
Digital Living A home-theatre setup DVD, such as Digital Video Essentials We especially like Sound & Vision Home Theatre Tune-Up, which is great for beginners looking for a quick way to tune up their systems, and Digital Video Essentials, well suited for...
9 May 2005, 15:14
Living in a fantasy world
Digital Living For me the defining characteristic of a virtual space is a kind of digital vertigo. Comfortably dismissing them as games for children, we don't realise how much of our lives are now digital, virtual and imaginary, taking place online in worlds our...
10 July 2006, 11:16
Is a 46-inch TV too big for my living room?
Digital Living There are some useful convergent options that allow you to access digital photos or MP3 music from memory cards and portable players. I am currently looking to replace my old Toshiba 32-inch CRT TV. In my new house the screen is too small, as the...
15 November 2006, 16:02


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