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Sony VAIO VGF-WA1 shipping soon in North America

Sony's network audio streamer should be hitting store shelves soon. First unveiled at the January Consumer Electronics Show--and no stranger to Crave--the VGF-WA1 is the baby of Sony's VAIO PC division, not the consumer electronics side of the company. While we've seen similar Wi-Fi boom boxes in the past--the Roku SoundBridge Radio comes to mind--the VGF-WA1 is the first I've seen with a rechargeable battery, so you can go truly wireless (for up to 4 hours, according to Sony). In addition to streaming a variety of audio files (MP3, AAC, WAV, and, of course, Sony'… Read more

Web 2.0 Expo Ignite wrap-up: Session two

Ignite finished strong with presentations from Justin.tv, RobotReplay, and Omnidrive.

Justin Kan of Justin.tv talked about how easy it is to promote your site or product with the right strategy. It also doesn't hurt to have a camera hooked to a laptop, with an EV-DO connection streaming every second of your life. Our previous Justin.tv coverage here and here. Surreal moment of the talk? Checking Justin.tv and seeing him talking to us. Creepy

Andre Charland discussed the difficulty of launching his new site RobotReplay, which lets Web site owners keep track of where their visitors … Read more

Wrap it up

This week we launched our live, call-in show, " CNET Live," thanks to our incredible crew, talented hosts, and our first guest, Justin Kan of Justin.TV. And a big thanks to those of you who called in with great questions! Sorry we couldn't get to everyone, but please call back with your questions next Thursday at 1 pm PDT ( p.m. EDT). Hey, did you know that you can find CNET TV on digital cable? CNET TV is in the on-demand section of our cable partners: Cox, Insight and Verizon. Go into your VOD menu, and look … Read more

Behind the scenes: Shooting the "NOC"

When you visit CNET TV, the first video you see is called "What's new on CNET TV." Tom, Molly, Veronica, Brian or I talk about some of cool new videos you'll find on that day's hand-selected play list. We call it the "NOC" for short...as in, "Who's shooting the NOC today?"

This is a cool, behind-the-scenes picture that CNET photographer Sarah Tew took of me and Chris Parker, my videographer and editor extraordinaire, while we were shooting an NOC.

We try to find cool places in New York to … Read more

Crave Podcast: Apple TV on trial

Come on in out of the spring sun geeks! Your ghostly World of Warcraft skin won't offer protection against the deadly bright weather outside. Come back in to the dark safety of your parent's basement and listen to another episode of the uniformly delicious Crave Podcast.

This week we're putting Apple TV on trial--does the shiny white beast pump us up? And what about Apple TV, is that any good?

We'll also reveal to you the finest gadgets on offer in the last seven days. Thrill as Rory 'Buster' Reid takes you on a journey you'… Read more

Meivo: The LCD TV that swallowed a PC

Rock's nutty professors have been hard at work cooking up the Meivo--a 22-inch LCD TV with a high-end PC stuffed inside it.

The Meivo (pronounced my-vo) is Vista-ready, meaning it'll have awesome media-handling capabilities out of the box, and it'll have up to two hard drives and an incredible four Freeview or analog TV tuners--a media junkie's dream.

This does overlook the impossibility of there being four things on Freeview at the same time you desperately have to watch. "Oh no, the repeat of Deal or No Deal clashes with Hollyoaks, the local news … Read more

Progressive Download is here! But what is it?

One of the most requested features since the launch of CNET TV has been progressive download. We've received countless e-mails asking for "the ability to pause and let the video load like you can on YouTube" and to "fix your bandwidth problem, so I can watch using dial-up." Although virtually none of the users requesting progressive download knew what to call it, they all knew how to describe it. Progressive download sends the video file to your computer as rapidly as you can receive it, whereas streaming sends the video to your computer as it … Read more

Toshiba looking at OLED TVs too

They are thin, consume little power and provide a pretty good picture. What's not to like about TVs made from organic light emitting diodes?

They might be really hard to manufacture in mass quantities and there is a possibility that they will degrade faster than LCDs or plasmas. But it's still a great idea, and the latest to try it are Toshiba and Matsushita (Panasonic in America).

A joint venture between the Japanese giants has developed a 20.8-inch low-temperature poly-silicon OLED display that can be used for TV. Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology has shown off a 17-inch … Read more

Evesham wants you to watch a little TV

Most of the major TV makers seem determined to create flat screens of Godzillan proportions, but Evesham has apparently decided to zig where others zag with its latest offering. The U.K. company's TV-930 doesn't have the smallest LCD--9.2 inches--but it weighs less than 1kg (around 2 pounds). It also manages to integrate speakers into its modest frame, which Pocket-lint says can be connected to a DVD player, camera or game console.

The lightweight portability could make some sense if one needed to move the TV around the house regularly. If not, we can't understand why … Read more