BOXEE – CES 2009 Interview – You Need This!



CES 2009 Boxee entertainment experience music photos videos hulu flickrI was lucky enough to get a chance to talk to the folks at BOXEE during CES 2009 at CES Unveiled. I will admit up front I am a big fan of the media offering.

For those not up to speed on Boxee all I can say is there technology has transformed my Apple TV into a true multi-media device that allows me to get almost all of the programming that I am paying my cable provider for.

There offering is of such magnitude that I am sure many cable providers are really worried that people like me are going to replace our cable subscriptions with offerings from companies like Boxee. With the major networks putting a great deal of their content online it is only a mater of time when cable companies are going to be bypassed.

Boxee allows you to experience your Flickr Images, TV Shows, Music, Photos, Hulu, get Netflix Videos, and enjoy streaming content along with integration into more media sites all the time.

All they need to do to really seal the deal is come up with their own box similar to the ROKU. Boxee has a developers API so I foresee in coming days a significant increase in this products viability.


Cavium Networks Pureview HD Wireless CES 2009



Cavium Networks CES 2009 at CES UnveiledThe Tech Podcast Network team member Andy McCaskey from SDRNews.com had a chance to talk to the folks at Cavium Networks at CES Unveiled. They were demonstrating technology that allows all of us to get rid of all those pesky wires we have running from devices we feed our HD televisions with.

What was cool about their technology is that you could as an example have a Bluray player running and feeding multiple televisions at a time. They also employ zero latency with their pureview technology that would allow a gamer to run this wireless technology.

Cavium Networks is seeking channel partners to build the wireless technology into consumer media equipment.

My takeaway from this product was the zero latency and the picture quality was simply amazing and to think that at some point in the near future I would no longer need wires to hook up my monitors in my home


Tech Podcast Network CES 2009 Wrap up Show



tech podcast network ces 2009 coverage highlightsI hope you all enjoy the Tech Podcast Network CES 2009 Wrap up Show that was held during our monthly Round Table. The three team members form Tech Podcast Network that attended the event this year gave some highlights of the show.

While we have been pushing product interviews up over the past week we wanted to give a good overview.

The Team this year covered events from:

  • CES Unveiled
  • Digital Experience
  • Show Stoppers
  • 4 Days Of CES Coverage

All told we have over 150 interviews in the can and well over 25 hours of back channel coverage. A special thanks goes out to the folks from the sponsors of CNTRSTG without them our back channel coverage would have been a bigger challenge. I hope you take time and watch the highlights covered during this hour long event.


Circuit City in the Dead Pool



Well, I figured this would happen, and now it’s been announced that Circuit City will liquidate its remaining stores. That includes the one that I go to almost weekly, that is about four miles from my house.

I’m left with…

Best Buy. O Joy. Let me do my happy dance now. NOT. Best Buy just sold me a power adapter for a notebook for $90 on New Year’s Eve. The same adapter that, if I’d had time to order online, would have cost about $20. And could have been gotten from Circuit City for about $40.

I am not a happy camper. We really have no more choices to buy technology locally. CompUSA died a horrible death, and previous larger stores have all crashed and burned. I can get some things at the Office Max or Office Depot, but that’s limited. There are a few smaller resellers around, but they are pricey and their stock is extremely limited. And I don’t mind buying most of my technology online, but the value of the local store was the ability to pick up an emergency item, like a power adapter.

What’s scary is I live in a major metropolitan area. How can we be losing so many choices, heck, ANY choices we have in technology products? It’s frightening to think I’ll never get to buy any more technology that I can touch and feel first. I’ll have to take the chance and order it online and hope it is what I think it is, and will do what it’s supposed to do, and not mind waiting a week or two to get it.

Hard to do when you have a laptop with no power adapter and all of your presentation files locked within it, along with all of your contact information and maps and I could go on and on. Where can I go for on-hands technology purchases when all of the technology stores are closing?


GNC-2009-01-16 #443 Sorry about Audio on Last Show



Apologize for the Audio on the last show. Dropped the ball on the audio quality think a little hand had been playing with the knobs. Lots of feedback on show format.. All comments are good so thanks for the feedback.

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Shure Interview at CES Unveiled 2009



We caught up with the Shure team the first day at a evening event and found out about a new line of microphone products that podcasters will like and music professionals.

New Products from Shure Include:

  • SE-115 Single Driver Earphone $
  • Shure USB Microphone X2U (Zero Latency Monitoring) $129.00
  • Shure USB PG42 (Vocals) and PG27 (Instruments)

If your looking for more info on shure, and some special deals we will announce in the coming weeks visit www.rawvoiceoffers.com and enter the promo code SHURE in the form, as soon as we announce the deals we will send you a email with more info.