Alex Kidman

Watch where you go

CNET.com.au looks at your options for portable video playback. If there’s a consumer commodity hotter than DVD at the moment, we’d like to meet it. Well, actually, we’d not so much want to meet it as invest in it, because if it’s hotter than DVD, then it must be worth an awful lot of money. …

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Smart Alex: ICEd TV

How much is your TV time worth, exactly? In amongst a slew of other things, last week I went to what was hailed as the first public demonstration of a new Australian TV technology, dubbed ICE (“Intelligent Content Engine) – you can read the details here. Now, there’s no doubting that inventor Peter Vogel’s a very clever man – aside …

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Smart Alex: Remotely Challenging

Am I mistaken, or were remote controls meant to make life easier, not harder? I am constantly cursed at home with the challenges of finding the right remote. Inbetween a couple of DVD players, the TV, foxtel remote and a broken remote that I keep around to keep my daughter amused, I can often be found juggling remotes just in …

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