Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection

One could argue that there has never been a better time to be a digital media enthusiast. As the digital revolution continues to unfold, consumers are finding an increasing number of choices in how they want to consume their media. Getting VOD to the television set has taken a lot longer than I expected, but [...]

Posted on August 28th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: DRM, Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, DivX, Media, Microsoft, Movies, Netflix, TV, Technology, VOD | 11 Comments »

Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Davis
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I may have a tendency to give Apple a hard time, but I can’t deny that I was a little bit envious when I heard about their engraving services. When you purchase an iPod from the Apple store, they offer a service where you can have a personal message engraved onto it. Why aren’t more [...]

Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Davis
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Hot Donkey! I logged into my Zooomr account this morning and saw that they’ve released an RSS feed for my zipline. They’ve also paginated zipline for Zooomr pro accounts. This allows me to see more than just the last 20 or so entries from my contacts. If you haven’t tried out zipline yet, you really [...]

Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Davis
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This amazing video was created by Mogcaiz. You can see more of his work at DeviantART. Last week DivX released their 10-Q and while I was able to find the time to tune into their conference call, I didn’t get a chance to read through the actual document until this past weekend. In the filing [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Davis
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Normally, I’ve got a pretty anti-pet policy in life, but even I had to vote for this week’s winner of the site of the week contest. KittenWars is a website where pet owners upload photos of their kittens and where web surfers can then vote on which ones are the cutest. I usually try to [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Davis
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Obsession

Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Davis
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It looks like TiVo, Netflix and Blockbuster will be packing their bags for Massachusetts, after they won the first of many legal scrimmages in their patent defense against Lycos. Lycos has asserted that all three companies have violated patents they own, on “information filtering technology.” The two patents that are at the heart of the [...]

Posted on August 15th, 2007 by Davis
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Over the weekend, I left Casa Del Davis and had to put all of my stuff into storage while I figure out where to call home. While I was packing my stuff into boxes, I came across my very first cell phone. It was an old Nokia 3395. I original got the phone for “free”, [...]

Posted on August 13th, 2007 by Davis
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Posted on August 11th, 2007 by Davis
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