Given the pre-CES hype I expected to love the OLED displays when I saw them up close, but that turned out to be a major disappointment. Oddly enough, I did find a “next gen” display technology that was quite interesting; at the Sony booth of all places. Comparing their Crystal LED to OLED isn’t exactly fair because the content being […]
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After sitting through Samsung’s CES press conference and seeing their newest displays I was expecting great things when we finally made it to the booth. Unfortunately, it was all about Smart TVs at Samsung; which is not to say that connected platforms aren’t important, just in my opinion less so than picture quality. While it’s impossible to really judge the […]
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Looking for a new broadband solution and you live to far away from any close source for anything above 1.5Mbs? Well how does 12Mbs sound for anyone no matter where you live? ViaSat has just announce the service for residential. They are partnering with Dish on their new Hopper and Internet as well, but you can buy it separate. The product is […]
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Version 2.5.2 of Media Browser, codenamed Apollo, has been released. In addition to the usual raft of performance improvements, there are a number of big changes to version 2.5.2 that every Media Browser user should be aware of. First up, this version Media Browser requires Windows 7. Windows Vista is no longer supported. Also, Media Browser is getting its own […]
Read moreThere was a booth setup in a small little corner of the Eureka section of CES. It was from a company called Wi3. They are offering a home solution that you install a box into your house and using MoCA specs you can send wireless and make a AP or you can send Ethernet, or you can send HDMI connections. […]
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We looked at a in2technologies Engage Unity at CES with it being a different type of Home Theater in a box. This is a system that you buy and it snaps together with three pieces and gives you a surround sound system without any wires. It also gives you a stand your TV of any size, and a built in blu-ray […]
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Asus has been quietly selling the O!Play line of media streamers for a few years now. It’s been awhile since we had an O!Play in around here for review, and I would imagine they have advanced a bit. Certainly they have gotten smaller as evidenced by the O!Play Mini in this review. The O!Play Mini is not a network streamer, […]
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Join me, friends, as we take a little stroll down rumor lane. Paul Thurrott of the Supersite for Windows and Windows Weekly fame has related a rumor that Microsoft may be working on a Kinect-based settop box. It would essentially be an Xbox minus the pesky video games, retooled specifically for media streaming. The inclusion of Kinect would allow for […]
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Google TV made a big splash at CES this year, adding new manufacturers to its list of supporters, including LG. Now comes word that LG may not just be working on adding Google TV to one of their TVs, but is in talks with Google to receive early access to the next version of Google TV. The agreement would be […]
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Accessing streaming media from within the Windows Media Center interface has always been an issue; an issue that Microsoft never really stepped up to resolve, leaving WMC users to rely on the goodwill of community developers to devise solutions for accessing services such as YouTube. One of the more promising projects to come along in that vein was MacroTube. Unfortunately, […]
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