Microsoft has continued their slow trickle of new streaming video apps for Xbox Live with the release of apps for Crackle and CinemaNow. For those not familiar with the two services, Crackle is a free service owned by Sony that offers a variety of streaming movies and TV shows and CinemaNow is a Best Buy-owned streaming rental service. Unsurprisingly, Crackle’s […]
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Apple TV owners have been treated to a surprise update and they didn’t even have to download anything. Apple has quietly updated their backend to push Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows to the Apple TV. The Apple TV was already able to provide Genius recommendations for music, and iTunes already provided Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows, […]
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Once upon time there was a cable channel called TechTV devoted to geeks like me, and my favorite show on that ill-fated channel was The ScreenSavers. It was during an episode of The ScreenSavers that I first head of WeaKnees, a company devoted to selling upgrade kits for and upgraded versions of DVRs such as the ReplayTV and TiVo. It’s been […]
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Warner Bros. recently took steps to try to double the length of their DVD rental window to 56 days. Redbox, who had signed on with Warner Bros. for the original 28-day release window, has evidently grown weary of Warner Bros.’s efforts to delay DVD rentals because the kiosk-based rental company has decided not to renew their agreement with Warner Bros. […]
Read moreWe’ve all heard of it before. Many use it. Now it looks like today you can’t get it for your PC. Boxee’s software is now only available for their Boxee Box and similar devices. I don’t use it but I think that more options are always good. Boxee announced back in December that its PC client would be shuttered, and the […]
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It looks like YouTube is pondering other ways to make money. I’m curious if a subscription to a specific “channel” is something that you guys would pay for. Personally, I don’t think that I will be getting in to this. But you never know. At the D:Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar gave his views on how […]
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Optoma may be best known for their low price HD20/HD180 1080p projector. This has been a great value projector for many people. They are now showing a performance projector, the HD8300. It appears to be another projector to look at if you want a little more than the HD20 offers. In terms of connection options the HD8300 is rather […]
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I thought that this was an interesting concept if you want to have another 3D screen around that isn’t your TV. The author seemed to like the product. However, for the price ($700) I would take a look at a smaller 3D capable TV. We live in a three-dimensional world, and display […]
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I’ll admit that this wasn’t what I was hoping for when I saw the message from Dune HD in my inbox this morning (give us the VUDU already :)), but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t interested. Home automation is a natural next step for home theater geeks (if you’re here, this likely includes you) once the consumption problem has been […]
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Sky has unleashed a torrent of announcements for fans of streaming media in the UK. First up, the company is expanding the availability of their Sky Anytime+ VOD service to all Sky+HD subscribers. The service had previously only been available to Sky Broadband subscribers, but the expansion of the service means that Anytime+ will be available to Sky+HD subscribers regardless […]
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