So it’s 11:45 am PST. Steve Jobs finished up his keynote about an hour ago and I decided to check to see if the iTunes 7.6 and iPhone 1.1.3 update were available yet.

Updated iTunes with no problems, (some quicktime, iMovie and iPhoto updates as well), once I restarted I plugged in my iPhone and was greeted with the “iPhone software 1.1.3 version is available, would you like to update now?”

Silly me, I clicked update and iTunes proceeded to start the 161.2MB download (kinda big don’t ya think?). It also in the background started preparing my phone for the update (read wiped). Well 30 into it iTunes is frozen, then my system crashes all together and my phone still isn’t updated. So I restart again, this time when I plug in my phone iTunes tells me that “The iPod software update server could not be contacted.”

Great, so currently this is what my phone looks like.

Seems to me that iTunes should have waited to wipe my phone until it had completely finished the update download? maybe?

I’ll update when something changes.

jh

UPDATE…

After waiting 1.5 hours and retrying every 5 or so min, (plugging in the iPhone, waiting… unplugging and sigh…) the update servers finally came back online, and my phone prompted me to do a restore. Once the restore was complete it updated to 1.1.3 and now I’m back in business.

At least it didn’t brick. Thanks Apple!

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Seems like after years of being teased we will finally get to see the coveted Direct TV pc tuner.

Earl at DBSTalk managed to get the info this morning on the HDPC-20 as well as some image scans ( front , back ) of the brochure.

Soon after Chris Lanier and the guys over at TGB started speculating that Microsoft may make an announcement tomorrow.

So here’s hoping that after many hints and promises, Direct TV and media center will finally start playing nice together. (Right after I bought my Cable Card system… damn.)

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It is official. Warner Bros. Studios has thrown their weight to the Blu-Ray exclusive camp, dooming HD-DVD.

Check the story here from EngadgetHD .

I’m sad to see HD-DVD go, but armed with a LG Combo Drive in my media center I’ll be able to watch all the titles I’ve collected so far in HD-DVD format and keep buying new ones in the Blu format.

Plus you have got to give it to Sony, they finally came out on top of a format war.

JH

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