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Nice! Steve Clayton recently pointed us to a new desktop radio player application called Echo from Thirteen23. The company, known for their beautifully-designed interfaces that make heavy use of WPF technology, is also the maker of the Netflix desktop client called Drama which we previously…

There are many legitimate and legal reasons to use BitTorrent technology. No really, I assure you there are! For example, did you know that the Revision3 Internet Television Network, makers of a number of hot web shows including Diggnation, Tekzilla, Hak5, Systm, and more actually make their shows…

Beullpilot on The Green Button forums has offered a tip on getting NASA’s streaming TV feeds into your Windows Media Center. He directs us to the website http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ where you can access the Windows Media download by right-clicking where it says “Windows Media” and…

Drama is a Netflix desktop client designed just for Windows Vista (and presumably now Windows 7) users. The app, an upgrade from thirteen23’s previous Netflix application cine.view, is an attractive WPF client that lets you browse trailers, view new releases, search Netflix’s library and manage…

A Windows utility called PlayOn has just left its beta phase and is now available for everyone to try. With this installed, you can stream video from Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, as well as video from TV networks like CBS, CNN, and ESPN right to your Xbox 360. Of course, if you’re primarily interested…

Out of the 10,000 or so Netflix movies and TV episodes which will be coming to the Xbox on November 19th, there will also be 300 HD movies available for streaming, too. This feature is only going to be found on Xbox 360, not on the other Netflix media consoles like the Roku nor on Netflix’s own…

In our own way, I think we are all some sort of a web publisher. As such, I am always on the lookout for new and better ways to get my content online and available for the world to see. Accordent technologies-who recently attained a Gold Certified Partner status with Microsoft- now…

Catching up on my past presentations, the deck from my Streaming Media East presentation about Webcasting with Windows Media. I didn't rate a webcast, apparently, but Sean Alexander's keynote (ably assisted by Jim Thill) did. I encoded the opening video (available here as a 2 Mbps 1280x720 file!)…