Leaders in digital burning software with their application Toast, Roxio have launched yet another product called Crunch, which is designed to make converting and exporting video into various formats a simple task.

Crunch is specifically designed to export videos for the Apple TV, iPod, and iPhone, while supporting many different movie filetypes including DV, AVI, MOV, divX, MPEG2, and DVD Video. This sounds perfect for anyone encoding stacks of video for their portable media player, especially if they are not too sure exactly what settings they need to be using with more advanced and less straight-forward software.

Crunch will retail for $50 and is a perfect contender to Quicktime Pro for your video encoding needs.

Via [AppleInsider]

Steve Jobs is riding the back of the ever popular iPod to take the Apple brand to all new levels. Mr. Jobs also announced that Apple Computers will be changing their name to Apple Inc. to help separate the brand that was previously synonymous with solely computer products.

Apple recently revealed Apple TV™ along with the iPhone. This new boxy piece of stainless steel art is an all new way to wirelessly play all your favorite iTunes® content from your Mac® or PC on your widescreen TV, including movies, TV shows, music, photos and podcasts.

Using Apple TV’s new interface, anyone can quickly browse and view their entire collection of digital media from across the room using the remote. This new piece of hardware is said to have a 40GB hard drive that will store up to 50 hours of video, 9,000 songs, 25,000 photos or a combination of each and is capable of delivering high definition 720p output. Apple TV easily connects to almost all modern widescreen televisions, and will be sold in the U.S. in February for just $299.

Today Samsung Electronics unveiled the latest in mobile convergence devices, the SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs at Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006. Users will have wireless access to the Internet utilizing Mobile WiMAX connectivity. Simultaneously, the CDMA EV-DO technology provides mobile phone connection for voice communication. With Microsoft Windows XP as the operating system, users will find the contents and applications familiar and easy to use for work and play.

This new puzzle of a gadget is chalked full of cool stuff including a 30 GB hard drive, 1.3 MP camera, 5” LCD, 1 GHz CPU, full qwerty keyboard, and all of that in a package that weighs a mere 1.3 lbs. This is pretty awesome technology, one that I think could only be made better by that third transformer like LCD panel unfolding into three more mini LCD’s making for a nice 20” screen. I don’t know how you can utilize a full keyboard on a 5” screen but then again my eyesight is not 20/20.

Don’t pull out your checkbook just yet the Samsung SPH-P9000 is not set to roll out in Korea until early 2007. More photos after the jump…

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