divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/83383?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+San+Francisco+Bay+to+be+electric+car+capitalch=Environmentc3=The+Guardianc4=Travel+and+transport+environmental+impact%2CAlternative+energy+%28Environment%29%2CCarbon+emissions+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CClimate+change+%28Environment%29%2CUS+news%2CWorld+news%2CBusiness%2CTechnology%2CMotoring+%28Technology%29%2CGreen+technology+%28Technology%29c5=Motoring%2CBusiness+Markets%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CClimate+Change%2CEnergy%2CEthical+Living%2CCorporate+ITc6=Bobbie+Johnson%2CAlok+Jhac7=2008_11_22c8=1122138c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=Travel+and+transportc13=c14=h2=GU%2FEnvironment%2FTravel+and+transport" width="1" height="1" //divpOfficials in California have unveiled ambitious plans to turn the San Francisco Bay area - home to 7.6 million people - into one of the world's leading centres for electric vehicles./ppIf it succeeds, the strategy will see billions of dollars poured into a power infrastructure that will turn the region away from fossil fuels and persuade millions of people to switch to green transport technology./ppThe plan, which will see the bay area become the first region of California to switch its transport systems entirely away from traditional fuels, is being supported by local government as well as the state's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger./pp"California is already a world leader in fighting global warming and promoting renewable energy," he said. "This partnership is proof that by working together we can achieve our goals of creating a healthier planet while boosting our economy."/ppGlobally, cars generate about 20% of the world's output of carbon dioxide and California's cars account for 40% of the state's greenhouse gas emissions. Replacing around 1m petrol cars with electric cars by 2015, as is proposed under the new plans, will make a big difference./ppAt least $1bn is expected to be spent on improving green transport infrastructure to make the bay area - encompassing the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, as well as Silicon Valley - the leading centre for electric vehicles in America, and potentially around the world./ppThe electric transportation company Better Place will build a network of kerbside charging points across cities in the area and create the equivalent of filling stations, where electric car owners will be able to replace their flat batteries for fully charged ones. 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"In California, everyone who's bought Teslas, everyone who has bought plug-in hybrids or electric cars that are not in tight relationship with us, will be able to plug into our network."/ppSpeaking at the launch yesterday, Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, said: "If we're going to get serious about advancing climate-action plans, we've got to get serious about getting into the business of alternative transportation."/ppCalifornia, the world's eighth largest economy, has some of the most progressive climate-change legislation. The state aims to reduce greenhouse gas levels to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050./ppThe plans will put California on a footing with other countries leading the attempt to introduce electric cars, including Israel, Denmark and Australia. 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If you're here reading Gizmodo, there's a good chance you have a hard drive full of video somewhere. And you also probably have a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. If those two things aren't working together for...

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ps3_video.jpg" width="800" height="494" style="display:block;float:none;" /If you're here reading Gizmodo, there's a good chance you have a hard drive full of video somewhere. And you also probably have a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. If those two things aren't working together for you in beautiful symbiosis, allowing you to watch all of your downloaded or ripped video on your TV instead of hunched over a laptop screen, well, this is the guide for you./p pNow there are two general strategies you can take: physically copying your files to a USB drive, memory card or CD/DVD, which is pretty straightforward, or streaming your video over the network, which is where things get more fun and interesting. So let's dive in./p pFirst things first, codecs. Now that you're all learn-ed on the ways of video encoding thanks to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093670/giz-explains-every-video-format-you-need-to-know"Matt's Giz Explains from this week/a, the issue of codecs will make a lot more sense. Thankfully, it's not something you have to worry too much about here, because all three consoles can handle a large number of the codecs you will find commonly: AVI, MPEG (1, 2 and 4), H.264, DivX/XviD, and WMV—and if a particular format you want to play isn't supported, it's often possible to convert it to work on the fly. The PS3 also supports AVCHD, a format used by many HD camcorders. Not all formats are supported with every streaming method though, especially in the 360's case, which we'll get to in a second. Now, for getting all those files on the TV./p pNote: if you need to re-encode a video in a different format because it won't play, nothing beats VLC's transcoding wizard. a href="http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch02.html"Here's a guide./a/p pstrongXbox 360: Streaming (PC)/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297019303_tversity_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="403" style="display:block;" /In typical Microsoft fashion, there are tons of different ways to pull of streaming your video to the Xbox 360—and the only one that's truly comprehensive, in our opinion, comes from a third party. a href="http://tversity.com/"TVersity/a is a free UPnP media server that can manage your video and music files anywhere on your PC and stream them out to your 360 over the network. It will also kindly transcode just about any video you can throw at it into a codec your console can definitely read. You might have to install some additional codec packs here and there for Windows but for the most part, you can forget about worrying about codecs with TVersity. This also allows TVersity to handle files not officially supported by the 360, like MKV containers./p p1. Grab a href="http://tversity.com/"TVersity here/a and install it.br 2. Click the giant plus sign in the top left corner to "Add Your Media Source" - namely, the folder on your PC with all of your videos.br 3. Under advanced options, set your transcoding preferences: "When Needed" will make sure most all of your files play.br 4. In the main TVersity menu, select "Start Sharing"br 5. On the Xbox 360, TVersity will now appear as a source in the Media blade or under My Xbox -gt; Video Library in NXE./p pThe other three options via Microsoft's own various software solutions all have their own drawbacks, which we'll cover here briefly. Our advice? Use them only if you already use the Zune software, Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center to manage all of your video./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297041777_windowsmediaplayer_01.png" width="494" height="432" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Player 11/strong: WMP 11 can stream out to the Xbox 360 pretty easily. Here is an a href="http://paininthetech.com/2008/01/03/stream-video-to-xbox-360-with-windows-media-player-or-winamp-remote"in-depth guide/a. strongDrawbacks?/strong Somewhat clunky format support. In our tests we could not stream Quicktime video at all, and had inconsistent experiences with MP4 files. MPEG-4 and H.264 support are technically supported via third-party WMP codec add-ons, but even with those, we still had trouble—MP4 files tended to play fine on the WMP 11 end, but not show up as browsable on the 360. Somewhat unbelievably, the Xbox 360 team actually recommends you a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx"manually rename your unsupported MPEG-4 and H.264 files/a, adding the ".avi" container extension to fool WMP into playing them. This worked occasionally, but not for every file and was generally inconsistent.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297025800_zune_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="338" style="display:block;" /strongZune Software 3.0/strong: Zune offers a much nicer interface than WMP (Settings -gt; Sharing -gt; Add is the extent of the setup), and thankfully supports MPEG4 and H.264 much more consistently. strongDrawbacks?/strong No DivX or Xvid support, which means a huge chunk of your Torrented video probably won't work.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297876080_360_MCE.jpg" width="494" height="308" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Center Extender/strong: If you already have a Media Center setup honking on your network, there's a good chance you won't need this guide, but the Xbox 360 can of course stream your MCE content to your TV seamlessly (a a href="http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1392/Xbox-360-Windows-Media-Center-Setup-Guide/p1/"complete guide is here/a). The interface is really fantastic. strongDrawbacks?/strong The gimpiest codec support of the bunch: only MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and WMV are supported. So unless you're converting everything you have into those formats, you'll still need something like TVersity to play most files you'll find up for download.br clear="all"/p pSo, in the end, TVersity wins hands down as the easiest and most elegant streaming setup for the 360. But do keep in mind—if you're playing a format that your Xbox can't handle (MKV being the most common of these you'll find), TVersity will have to transcode, which means you will lose a bit of quality./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297010629_connect360_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="378" style="display:block;" /strongXbox 360: Streaming (Mac)/strong: UPnP support—the networking standard used by both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 in various flavors to play network-streamed video, music and photos—is not natively supported by OS X yet. And unfortunately, there isn't a stellar all-in-one free package like Windows' TVersity.br clear="all"/p pNullriver, however, makes an incredibly slick piece of software called a href="http://www.nullriver.com/products/connect360"Connect360/a, which easily streams all of your iLife libraries or any folder full of video on your Mac to the 360. Unfortunately, it'll cost you $20. There is a free trial version that supposedly shuts off after 30 minutes of sharing, but sometimes it seems to forget and lets you play longer. But even so, $20 isn't bad for the convenience factor here. No transcoding, but it will handle every codec the console itself can play back./p p1. Download and install the Connect360 preference pane.br 2. In System Preferences, start up Connect360 sharing. Here you can also add folders for more sharing.br 3. Access the Connect360 source on your Xbox in the usual way. Done./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227301048351_xbox_video.jpg" width="494" height="329" style="display:block;" /strongXbox 360: Physical Media/strongbr 1. If streaming isn't for you, and you don't mind hauling a storage device back and forth between your computer and Xbox, then this is super easy: Insert Flash disk/USB/CD/DVD and browse it with the Media blade or the Video Library section of NXE (under "My Xbox"). Enjoy.br clear="all"/p pstrongPlaystation 3: Streaming (PC)/strongbr strongTVersity/strong: Again, Tversity is your friend. It works just as well for the PS3 as it does for Xbox 360 (see above for setup)./p p1. With Tversity set up and sharing turned on, just browse to COMPUTERNAME: TVersity in the XMB and you'll see a listing of all your shared files./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ps3_wmp11.png" width="500" height="371" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Player 11/strong: Just like for Xbox 360, you can use WMP11's built-in DLNA/UPnP serving capabilities to stream to the PS3, too—but with the same codec funkiness as noted above.br clear="all"/p p1. In the Media Sharing preference box with your PS3 powered on and connected to the network, select "Unknown Device"—that's your PS3.br 2. Your library should now show up in XMB./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297942918_Picture_26.png" width="494" height="405" style="display:block;" /strongPlaystation 3: Streaming (MAC)/strongbr Mac: Nullriver didn't just hook up 360 owners—Media Link is the version especially for PS3. It costs 20 bucks, but will give you totally seamless and painless streaming of all of your iLife libraries (photos and music too) as well as files in any folder you can access with your Mac, whether it's on a network or local.br clear="all"/p p1. Operation is just like Connect360—with sharing enabled in the Media Link preference pane, just browse through all your files under the "Media Link" source in XMB./p pstrongPlaystation 3: Physical Media/strongbr 1. Easy as pie. If you're using a USB flash or hard disc or an SD or CF card, just dump all of your videos into a folder named VIDEO on the root of the drive and they'll show up automatically in the XMB.br 2. You can also browse the entire drive or disc by pressing triangle and choosing "Display All" to find videos that aren't in the VIDEO folder./p pstrongWii: Physical Media/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/wiihomebrew6.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" style="display:block;" /For playing video on your Wii, physical media is the way to go, which is easy to pull off with some a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"homebrew hacking/a. There are lots of services that will transcode your video and ouput it in a Flash player that you can view through the Wii's Opera browser (like a href="http://orb.com"Orb/a), but you'll take a hit quality-wise and it's not as easy as just playing the source files directly with Mplayer.br clear="all"/p p1. Install the Homebrew Channel and Mplayer on your Wii. We've got you covered here with our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"complete Wii homebrew guide/a—but hopefully you haven't installed the latest System Menu update. In that case, you'll have to wait for a workaround, but it probably won't be long./p p2. Install Mplayer via the Homebrew Browser (also a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"covered in our guide/a)./p p3. Now, you can use Mplayer to play files off or even an attached USB drive (as long as its formatted in FAT16 or FAT32, which most are). The interface is not nearly as nice, but it gets the job done./p p4. Mplayer for the Wii covers a ton of codecs, but sadly, the Wii's processor chokes on HD content. If you've got HD files, you'll need to transcode them into a lower resolution with VLC./p pAnd that's about it. Now, no more huddling around your laptop screen or fiddling with TV and audio-out cables. Welcome to the good life./p pemAdditional reporting and testing by Seung Lee. See more a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/how_to"Giz how-to guides here/a. 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[b]Furthernoise issue November 2008.[/b]br / br / Welcome to the November issue of Furthernoise. In what has been a truly momentous year for all sorts of reasons, we are proud to finish it off with a brand new issue stacked to the gunwales with new releases and an audio player restocked with new tunes to take you through into the new year. Furthernoise is the sister site of www.furtherfield.orgbr / br / Furthernoise issue November 2008br / http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=71br / br / "The Birth of Primary Cinema from the Spirit of Sound - Feature Article by Frank Rothkamm" (feature) Primary Cinema remains cinema, it is not painting or staged photography. It is comprehended as a sequence of images with sound which ultimately constructs its meaning. It de-emphasizes change and reduces bright-ness and distributes events on a galactic scale, but despite its apparent emptiness it remains true cinema as the marriage of projected images and sound in space and time.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=273br / feature by Frank Rothkammbr / br / "The Gyres, Between Nowhere and Goodbye, The End of Everything" (feature)br / Cathal Rodgers moonlights from his grubby guitarings with Irish doom-mongers Wreck Of The Hesperus as Wereju. Moonlight is apposite in application to Wereju, less evil more eerie twin, drawing out long rays of wild half-lit nightshade shimmer over grey evacuated fields, a sound described by the artist as "ageless drifting melancholia of an abandoned planet".br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=261br / feature by Alan Lockettbr / br / "A Ritual Which is Incomprehensible (to the smile of Pauline Oliveros) - Claudio Parodi" (review) The second in an ongoing series of conceptual works by Claudio Parodi sourcing and manipulating music from Tiziano Milano's Suoni CD (2005), not so much to remix but as staple material for processing in the studio. This time as with the last, the album is dedicated to a well known sound artist, and Pauline Oliveros is the chosen one on this occasion.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=272br / review by Roger Millsbr / br / "Bedside Stories - Taub" (review)br / Bedside Stories is the new release by Taub, aka Me Raabenstein and Harold Nono. It is a work of haunting sonic landscapes and fragmented realities, glued together with precision and beauty. It will lull you into worlds of spacious minimal sounsdcapes and sonic cinematic journeys, which constantly resolve back to a single sound event or just quiet.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=271br / review by Roger Millsbr / br / "Document 2 - Sevenhourgerm" (review)br / Document 2 by Sevenhourgerm aka Matthew Atkins is a CDR including nine experimental tracks released on the Minimal Resource Manipulation label. Found sounds and noise are crafted into varying degrees of coherency, with rhythm and melody flirting at the edge of perception.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=276br / review by Alex Youngbr / br / "Electronic Drifting: The Music of Richard Lainhart" (review)br / Many contemporary musicians take their inspiration from natural processes. Richard Lainhart's musical models come from clouds, flames and waves, whose nebulous and ever shifting formations are the catalyst for his beautiful electronic works.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=262br / review by Caleb Deupreebr / br / "Imperfect Silence - Various" (review)br / Imperfect Silence is a radical collaboration between artists working together purely online. Global boundaries and cultural differences make way for free jazz and diverse sonic improvisation, as Phil Hargreaves edits together the material to provide a personal narrative of Cadavre Esquis.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=275br / review by Alex Youngbr / br / "Italian Noise Label Dokura Serves up 3 Mini Cdrs" (review)br / Dokura is an Italian noise label that releases limited edition tapes, 3 inch CDRs and the occasional vinyl lp from a variety of international artists. With 10 releases to date, the little label seems to be aiming at noise of the instrumental variety swinging closer to the lo-fi dark ambient drone.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=269br / review by Derek Mortonbr / br / "Lost Hilde - Stray Ghost" (review)br / The releases on Highpoint Lowlife switch genres like someone channel surfing through alternative music TV. Lost Hilde adds yet another station to the programming, and an engrossing one at that. Everything begins as a smooth midnight cruise through glitched and looped synthetic sounds.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=270br / review by Max Schaeferbr / br / "Sympathetic Vibration - Marcus Jones" (review)br / Often, recordings exist as complete works in themselves, or as documents or mementos of a live performance. Sympathetic Vibration is one of a rapidly expanding body of works that do not fit easily into either category, blurring the boundaries between recorded materials and live event. Stacey Sewell chats to its creator, phonographer and sound designer Markus Jones.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=274br / review by Stacey Sewellbr / br / Roger Millsbr / Editor, Furthernoiseimg src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/460844550" height="1" width="1"/