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Make the most of high-def content
Digital Living Both games and movie clips (the latter downloaded via the Xbox Live service) are available in 720p, and anyone who's played Xbox 360 on a HDTV will attest to how much better it looks. All games on the Xbox 360 are designed to be played in 720p but...
13 February 2006, 9:37
Mac OS X vs Windows Vista
Digital Living Baron Vista is played by the big, brash fellow in the orange garb and Count OS X by the well-moisturised man in black. Their task is to win the hand of the fair Maiden Mainstream, played as in olden times by the hairy bloke in the dress.
27 April 2007, 15:34
CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?
Digital Living Some are quite fun, but whenever I've played with them, I always end up spending more time configuring them than actually listening to music. The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada is a massive industry event at which the world's...
4 January 2006, 11:43
Taking your television for a drive
Digital Living Now that the actress who played Sue Ellen in Dallas has announced her desire to appear in the current show, I think my wisdom is apparent. The older I get, the more I loathe and detest television, and after two or three drinks I have moments of...
25 July 2006, 16:11
Hacking Napster with Winamp
Digital Living As CNET News.com's John Borland brilliantly pointed out, Microsoft has offered one solution to this industry-wide problem since the year 2000: the Secure Audio Path (SAP), which adds noise to audio as it's played back by music software.
9 May 2005, 14:48
Do Aibos dream of electric sheep?
Digital Living I showed Aibo his dance card and he reared up on his back legs and played strange Japanese elevator music. I took home my first robot on Saturday, in order to conduct a small experiment: I wanted to introduce it to my two-year-old son and see what...
12 October 2005, 9:10
Format wars: The tech that should have won
Digital Living Alternatively, the next programme would be automatically played after the previous one had finished. We hate format wars. Not because we're afraid of good old-fashioned tech fisticuffs, but because they're often completely unjust.
23 July 2007, 9:49
Don't let your children catch DVD
Digital Living I would gladly pay more money for a child-proof, industrial-strength DVD that featured no illustrations on the packaging, thus giving the child no easy cues about which film to refuse (they always want the one that's gone missing), and which...
24 April 2006, 11:09
Top five ways MP3 has changed the world
Digital Living Instead, they played files secured by Sony's copyright protection technology. In the years to come, their invention changed the music business, the Internet, and -- by extension -- the world, forever.
17 August 2005, 14:30
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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