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How not to sell a new product

SageTV has a new hardware product that I’m interested in, a Media Extender box to get content from a PC with the SageTV software loaded up to your living room without having to have a noisy PC next to the TV.

The problem is that there is absolutely NO information about exactly what it can do. Here’s what I know from their website: It displays stuff on some sort of television. It has an ethernet port and needs to be connected to a wired network. It costs $99.

How can they possibly be thinking that they are going to sell _any_ of these to anyone actually interested in putting one of these into their home theater system? Does it support HD? Does it have digitical audio connectors? What kind of video connectors does it have? Who was the idiot who thought this was all we needed to know?

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Coding4Fun: Controlling Lights with .NET

Microsoft has a nice video tutorial on using Visual Studio 2005 to control some lights over X10. Coding4Fun: Controlling Lights with .NET

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Content for iPod Video: What a rip off!

So we now have a choice: buy a complete season of Lost on high-quality DVD for $38.99 from Amazon, or buy little tiny version from Apple that will play on your shiny new iPod Video for $34.99.

I’m probably going to buy an episode, just to see how it does look, but it’s formatted to look nice on a 2.5inch screen. What is the likelihood it will be watchable on a computer monitor!

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