Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection

In the latest twist for the blogosphere’s favorite patent telenovela, the Federal Appeals court overseeing the current stage of TiVo’s patent case against Dish, has put EchoStar’s patent appeal on pause for the next 14 days, pending the settlement of the case. According to the Pacer court of appeals website, the following entry was recorded [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, TiVo | Comments Off

For those of you who’ve never seen Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, I reccomend that you check it out. The movie is about a pair of misfits who go on a late night journey for White Castle burgers only to have one adventure after another. While they don’t have White Castles in San [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: DVDs, Kiosks, Movies | 3 Comments »

DivX Unleashed Hosted on Zooomr Over the past few months I have become increasingly obsessed with a company that I have followed for a very long time. For most people, today was like any other Monday. They went to work, talked about their weekend and couldn’t wait for it to be over, but for me [...]

Posted on October 31st, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: DivX, Media, Movies, Technology, VOD | 10 Comments »

Because Sharks Have Teeth Hosted on Zooomr

Posted on October 30th, 2006 by Davis
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One of my favorite bloggers on the net, Smorty71, has been working on a secret web 2.0 application called Profilactic for sometime now and it’s almost ready to go primetime. I first heard about it 6 months ago when he briefly mentioned that he was cooking something up, but since then it’s been hidden in [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2006 by Davis
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TiVo or Not Hosted on Zooomr Having never made the jump from the TiVo 1 to the TiVo series 2, I missed out on a lot. While the whole blogosphere was buzzing about the HME development contest, I could only scratch my head and pretend like I understood. Thinking back on when TiVo gave me [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, TiVo, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »

Akamai Technologies is a company that delivers video on demand better then any business on the internet. Their technology allows them to allocate their resources in such a way that they can send internet viewers to the servers located closest to them, which vastly speeds up the delivery of the rich media that we love [...]

Posted on October 27th, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: VOD | 8 Comments »

Lets Get Ready To Rumble Hosted on Zooomr One of the pranks I used to play in college was to dial the phone number of one of my friends, who typically was having relationship problems, and as soon as their phone would start ringing, I would immedietely put them on conference call and dial their [...]

Posted on October 26th, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: DRM, Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Media, Movies, Music, Netflix, Slingbox, Technology, TiVo, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

About 6 months ago, Byrus from the Daily Gadget, wrote a brief review of Redbox’s DVD rental machines in Colorado. Since that time, Redbox has made two major enhancements to their DVD rental program, so he went back and wrote an excellent update on his experience using the Redbox DVD machines. Over the last 9 [...]

Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Davis
Filed under: DVDs, Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Kiosks, Netflix, Uncategorized | Comments Off

The Empress of China Hosted on Zooomr

Posted on October 24th, 2006 by Davis
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