on the go. The Zen Micro also offers a radio and voice recorder, but no photo browser or color display - we'll have to wait until September for those. Comparing the price per GB, the Zen Micro costs slightly less. Otherwise, in terms of quality, choosing one...

fun of you). MPEG2 files are good quality but they're fairly large. Generally a one-hour show recorded in MPEG2 will occupy about 3 GB of hard drive space. At 3 GB per hour, a 400 GB hard drive will allow you to store a little over 130 hours of recorded media....

Stream format that requires an average of 10 gigabytes of hard drive space per hour of recorded programming. At 10 GB per hour, a 400 GB hard drive is going to fill up with HD recordings in about 40 hours. Considering that the average TV viewer watches 17 hours...

enable HD-DVDs to store up to 15 GB per layer and Blu-ray DVDs to store up to 25 GB per layer, whereas conventional DVDs store only up to 4.7 GB per layer. Given the higher storage requirements for accommodating high definition video data, this is as much a...

• -Differentiating Between HD-DVD And Blu-ray

before the middle of 2007. Another hidden benefit of the internal Blu-ray drives is that, in contrast to many standalone players, most of them can write to Blu-ray media as well as reading. With the ability to burn up to 25 GB of data per layer, and dual-layer...

major network, in case you haven’t had your fill of, say, The Office or Grey’s Anatomy. Video prices vary. Rentals typically cost $3.99 per movie, SD films run about $14 to buy, and YouTube content is free (and you’re not stuck watching it on a computer...

x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor 1 GB of system memory Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space DVD-ROM Drive Audio output...