As frankps sees the world!

Windows 7 RC has already been out for some time, but I have only recently started discovering the changes since the public beta. I wrote a longer introduction to Windows 7 when I got the hands on the beta. The introduction is still worth reading. Also information about DVB-T and HDTV seems to be some of the topics that are most interesting for my readers. Get yourself a cup of coffee and read the rest of this article. […] Continue reading →

It’s two months since I got the first introduction to Windows 7 (code named Vienna) at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 in Barcelona, and this week Microsoft released a public beta of their next client operating system. I have installed it on my MacBook Pro, and plan to install it on an office machine in AD and on my home machine. I have been using Windows Vista for about 3 years now, through some of the betas and later with the released product. At the department where I am the sysadmin, more […] Continue reading →

It’s a long time since I wrote about DVB-T with H.264, and I must admit that it is by far the most read article on my blog. I recently also written that people should not consider RiksTV when the analogue signals are turned off, so I guess some of you are a bit surprised when I wrote about them again. The reason is simple, I am a Mac guy. Yepp, honestly I am. MacBook Pro, AppleTV, Time Capsule, iPod Touch and an iPhone on it’s way … Elgato is one of the companies only […] Continue reading →

It’s about 10 days left to RiksTV is to officially launch (Sept. 1 2007), and the world’s three first MPEG-4 decoders are appearing on the Internet: Grundig DTR8720 Grundig DTR8740 with MHP and MemoryStick Sagem ITD81-HD As you can see, the more expensive decoder from Grundig is the one to buy, as it is the only one with support for the Text-TV standard MHP and with MemoryStick for recording a TV show. But only MHP (Multimedia Home Platform) is important, PVR decoders with […] Continue reading →

It’s time to upgrade my XBOX 360 with Microsoft’s latest patch. The new features are mainly the video codecs H.264 and MPEG4. Nullriver Software was out with updating their Connect360 for MacOS X. Version 3.0 is now released with support for the two new video codecs, including full HD (1920×1080) H.264 in both the MPEG-4 and QuickTime containers (in addition to the previous WMV). This is substantially higher than Apple TV’s support for 720p video, making the Xbox 360 […] Continue reading →