There was a time when I desperately wanted a Sony Glasstron. This was a set of LCD eyeglasses that would simulate the effect of watching a 50″ TV from several feet away. They were low-res, expensive, bulky, ugly, and deliciously geeky. Of course, they faded away in the mists of time, because frankly, no one else wanted them. Fortunately, Sony […]
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The developers of Boxee have now teamed up with the folks over at Spotify and join forces and add the Spotify service to the Boxee platform. Now those Boxee users who are paying for the premium ($9.99/month) service are now able to access their unlimited streaming account from the comfort of their couch. I recently joined the Spotify bandwagon and […]
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Another day, another hard drive based digital entertainment media device released. This time around Seagate and their GoFlex Cinema. Not many details on the gui, or any third party online streaming services but for those that have a vast collection of stored content this player doesn’t hold back in the codec support arena. Full 1080p playback, HDMI output, SPDIF audio, […]
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Monsoon Multimedia, the folks behind the Vulkano Flow which we have mentioned once or twice, announced today their Multi-Screen Policy Management Solution aimed at enabling content service providers to easily deploy remote and mobile viewing service. Content providers have struggled to come up with ways to provide streaming services that allow subscribers to tap into recorded and live television on […]
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Evidently Intel is betting that tablets will not only be the living room computer of choice, but that we are eagerly anticipating a future where we can devote our tablets to driving our TVs. Intel’s Digital Home Group was responsible for designing the Atom CE line of SoCs that were used in the Boxee Box and the Logitech Revue. These […]
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Apple has AirPlay, but the rest of the world has DLNA. The folks behind one of the more popular DLNA media servers, TwonkyServer, also have a neat little product called TwonkyBeam. TwonkyBeam is an add-on for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows you to stream web video, audio and images from the browser directly to DLNA players on the network. […]
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Sony sells a lot of TVs, so the recall of 1.6 million Bravia HDTVs represents a fairly small percentage of the TVs that Sony has sold over the last several years, but any time a company has to recall a consumer electronics device because it might catch on fire, you can bet people are going to take notice. If you […]
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Everyone got excited last week when Apple hosted an unusually intimate press conference to announce the iPhone 4S, but today is when the fireworks really started to fly. Apple released a metric software ton of updates today to a variety of different products. The two updates that will generate the most interest are the release of iOS 5 and iCloud. […]
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Roku made a name for itself by providing a device that, for many, is synonymous with Netflix streaming. The quality of that service, and other premium, IP delivered media, has increased significantly since the original box was launched, necessitating an update to modernize the lineup and provide support for HD content. To address this, we now have the Roku 2 […]
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We’ve all encountered instances where a movie, seemingly at random, becomes unavailable from the streaming service or digital storefront of our choice, only to return some time later without explanation. There are a variety of different licensing restrictions that could cause this, but one of the most common causes is special set of licensing restrictions that HBO has traditionally held […]
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