UPDATE: Spotify has told us that the “potential is there” for the video player to expand beyond ads, though it’s not a near term goal. Fingers crossed.
If you’re procrastinating this fine Friday on Spotify, don’t be surprised if you see a new type of ad crop up. The music streaming service has just launched its own video player for playing movie trailers inside the app window. And it looks just perfect for playing music videos in too, wouldn’t you say?
It’s not enough for a TV to simply act like a fancy monitor these days. Take this Philips 42PFL8404H, for instance: in addition to performing its regular televisioning duties, it’s also a full-on DLNA media streamer, capable of taking video, music and photo files from your home PC and displaying them on its crisp 42-inch screen.
The end of the week is nigh, so kickstart the Friday feeling by piling up on all the latest tech news. It’s all here ready and waiting in your techie breakie!
Joystick hogs were left fuming when Activision priced Modern Warfare 2 at an N64 cartridge-level £55, but that could just be the start of an industry shake up: one former PlayStation boss reckons £70 should become the standard for triple-A grade games. Keep reading to see what he had to say.
UPDATE: The 2TB Time Capsule is now on sale on the UK Apple Store for £379.99.
Apple’s just given its Time Capsule wireless backup box for Macs a bumper upgrade, doubling the storage space inside to an enormous 2TB, as rumoured earlier this year.
LG is busy getting its BL40 Chocolate feature phone out of the door right now, but never let it be said it’s not a forward thinking company: peep this design for an LG headset that folds out from candy bar to cans!
Hot on the trail of Tesco Mobile, Virgin Media‘s just announced a new unlimited tariff for mobile users, promising all the data, texts and calls you could ever need. As always, there’s a fair usage policy, but we’ve done the maths and it’s an epic 6000 minutes. That’s 100 whole hours, each and every month.
If you find you fast run out of tracks to play on Guitar Hero or Rock Band, one upstart rival should keep your fingers occupied: online game JamLegend offers the same music rhythm mayhem, and now it even lets you add any song you like.