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One of the things we want to do on Omniquiti is make the increasingly complicated and sometimes overwhelming world of digital multimedia a little easier for the average Joe or Jane to understand. So this article will explain in straight-forward terms how to record TV and movies to your PC.

iPPtee Vee No. 4 is up. This week Clark Saturn and I speak to Jared, creator of Blip.tv, a really cool and very unique online video "channel" that's on the forefront of the new media explosing. Jared explains what Blip.tv is all about and lets you in on the latest developments over at Blip.tv. Check it out!

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There's a nice "how to" on LifeHacker.

iPPtee Vee No. 3 is up. This week Clark Saturn and I speak to Michael Sullivan, creator of VlogDir.com, one of the best video blogging directories around. We also discuss how internet service providers are starting to clamp down on Bit Torrent. Look out -- here comes big brother!

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iPPtee Vee No. 2 is up. This week Clark Saturn and I speak to Jesse of the Agent Xenon Video Blog and Dave Huth, creator of "90 Seconds of Dave." Both of these guys were among the first 16 video podcasters lucky enough to find themselves listed in the new iTunes Video Podcast section on opening day. You might be surprised how it happened!

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iPPtee Vee is a new weekly podcast all about internet video. Veteran video blogger Clark Saturn and I discuss current internet video news (like the new iPod video) as well as tips on what net video to look for and how to find and view it.

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It is interesting to compare these two. They are both excellent devices. They're both sexy and they're probably going to be the two hottest CE items on Christmas lists this year, along with XBox 360.

At first blush, these are different types of devices. PSP is for games and iPod is for music. But they both really do a lot of the same stuff so comparisons are inevitable.

The PSP will allow you to do absolutely everything you can do with the new iPod EXCEPT

Mirroring the insane rumor mill that has been churning since Apple announced last week that it would be launching new products today, Apple kinda did and kinda didn’t release a video iPod. The rumor mill couldn’t decide if Apple was or was not going to release a video iPod. And, while the new iPod does do Video, it is certainly not THE video iPod that many (including me) had speculated about.

But, I think after the dust has settled and people digest this for a bit, the only conclusion will be that Apple swiped the rug right out from its earlier-to-market video competitors just as it did with the pre-iPod MP3 player market.

So Dish Networks beat both TiVo and DirecTV to the punch with what has always seemed to me like a painfully obvious concept. Dish Networks has launched its PocketDish series of portable media players. The coolest thing about PocketDish is that you can simply connect the portable player to your existing DishNetworks PVR via USB 2.0 and make high speed, direct transfers of recorded shows to the PocketDish. No other PVR I'm aware of allows you to do this and, to me, it is BY FAR the easiest way to make your TV shows portable whenever you want. All other systems (including Media Center PCs), require a PC to be involved in the transfer process.

Why TiVo and DirecTV have missed this boat is beyond me.

The PocketDish devices are based on the Archos series of portable media players, all of which have proved themselves very reliable.

So . . . hat's off to Dish Networks. Now if they just had some decent sports programming . . . .

Extreme Tech has a great roundup/review of the leading software packages available for turning your PC into a Tivo-like personal video recorder. We dig the PC as PVR concept because, at least so far, the software packages discussed in the article DO NOT impose restrictions on your ability to convert the shows you have recorded into different video formats that can be played back elsewhere, such as on portable devices like PSPs, Cell Phones, PDAs, etc. All of the commercial PVRs we're aware of (including TiVo and Windows Media Center's PVR software) make it more difficult to convert your recorded videos by employing proprietary encoding and/or encryption methods.

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So . . . the new video iPod that s ome people seem to think is finally going to be released next week (or not) will play movies on Sony's Universal Media Disk format. How do I know that? Read on . . .

PCMag.com has a good articleh ere

PCMag.com has easy, step-by-step instructions h ere.

I have to blow my own horn about this because nobody else will. The Wall Street Journal is today reporting that most of what I predicted about 3 months ago regarding video iPod is, in fact, pretty much right on the money. According to the WSJ article . . .

Thanks for checking us out. Omniquiti seeks to make sense of the fun part of the ever expanding digital multimedia universe. We will explore digital music (iPod, iTunes, Napster-to-Go, etc.), digital video (home movies as well as the soon to blossom digital video on demand services), digital photography, video games, mobile phones, home networking, etc., etc., all with the main focus of keeping you aware of what's available now, what's coming and, importantly, how to make the best use of what's out there.

We don't intend to provide photos and reviews of every new gadget flowing out of China. There are other sites that do that well. Rather, we will try to sort through the noise and let you know which products we think you will have fun with and how to get the most out of them.

We're also developing our Portable Special Programming Network - PSPN, which will make audio and video programming easily available to portable devices, including PSP and mobile phones.

Omniquiti is an ongoing project but we have big plans. Thanks again for checking us out and we hope you'll come back often.