May 28, 2004 — Buying music downloaded from music services like iTunes, ripping songs from your CD collection and putting all of it into your personal computer seems to be the key to the future of the music industry and how its products will be delivered to the masses. The computer, once used for balancing a checkbook in the past century is fast becoming the music player of choice in this new millennium. I remember vinyl records, 8-tracks and cassettes and how each of those mediums onto which music was recorded was heralded at the time of their inception as being the ultimate device to deliver music into the hands of consumers.  Read more... (337 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Every so often a device comes along that revolutionizes the way that we do things. The Roku Digital Video is such a device. It revolutionizes the way that we watch movies.How do you watch movies today?For most of us, there are two answers to this question. The first group responds: “Well, I get into my car, drive to Blockbuster and rent DVDs. When I am done watching, I get into my car, drive to Blockbuster, and return them.”That is a lot of getting in and out of the car just to rent a movie. If you are going to go to all that trouble, you might as well go to the movies.  Read more... (446 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Downloaded movies are often watched using the computer if not it is copied into a DVD so it can be watched in a television through a DVD player. But why go all through this trouble if you can watch the movies you have downloaded directly into your TV. To do this you can use Amazon VoD on your TV and a device that is connected to the Internet.Here are the devices that you can use to watch Amazon Video on Demand on your television sets: TiVo DVR – Just use your TiVo remote to scan through the list of movies on Amazon VoD.  Read more... (278 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)

Every so often a device comes along that revolutionizes the way that we do things. The Roku Digital Video is such a device. It revolutionizes the way that we watch movies. How do you watch movies today? For most of us, there are two answers to this question. The first group responds: “Well, I get into my car, drive to Blockbuster and rent DVDs. When I am done watching, I get into my car, drive to Blockbuster, and return them.” That is a lot of getting in and out of the car just to rent a movie. If you are going to go to all that trouble, you might as well go to the movies.  Read more... (457 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)