In early August DirecTV announced that they had added only 26,000 US subscribers in Q2, their lowest number of new subscribers ever. This announcement came on the heels of falling subscriber numbers for several major cable companies, which combined to give rise to some breathless stories about the growing threat of cord cutters and web video to subscription television services. Fast forward […]
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Apple TV owners have another reason to update their devices to version 4.4.2. Updated Apple TVs are receiving an option to connect to iTunes Match through a new top-level Music section. I had assumed that iTunes Match would work with every iOS device, but it is still nice to see it in action on the Apple TV even if the […]
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For those of you in the market for a media player in addition to checking to checking out our Media Player Comparsion Guide should also check out this review of the Popbox 3D from mediasmartserver.net In this hybrid review/comparison Damian over at MediaSmartServer.net takes an in depth look at the Popbox 3D highlighting many of the problems with the device […]
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Earlier this month Roku and HBO had released news that the HBO Go service was coming to the Roku network streaming platform. Today it is now available. So if you have a Roku device and have access to the HBO Go service give it a Go (pun intended) and leave some feedback and let us know how it goes. Less […]
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One of the longest running Add-ins for Media Center and Home Server, My Movies, has been updated. My Movies for Media Center is now up to version 4.02 PR6 and version 2.10 PR5 for WHS 2011. I personally have been running My Movies for years, it is my go to Add-in for Media Center. I love the look and feel […]
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I haven’t played with the QVIVO Media Center software since the QVIVO team first launched their public alpha. Even in that early state it was looking slick despite limited file support, and the idea of a media center that integrates with Facebook is intriguing. Since I last took a look at it, QVIVO has expanded beyond simply being a media […]
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Google hasn’t shared many details about Google Fiber, the experimental high-speed Internet service that Google is rolling out in Kansas City, KA (and MO) beyond that it will be available for free to schools first. However, it sounds like Google is looking at competing with the cable companies on more than one front by offering pay TV services. I can’t […]
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Samsung and RealD are splitsville. Samsung and RealD were showing off their RDZ technology at CES this year and officially announced a manufacturing partnership back in May. The idea behind RDZ or ZScreen was that that TV viewers could use passive glasses because the active shutter element would be built into the LCD screen itself, all without compromising 2D performance. […]
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Amazon today introduced the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library which allows Kindle owners to borrow one e-book a month directly from Amazon with no due dates or late fees. Now I know that e-books are not the type of thing we usually cover here at Missing Remote, but this is an interesting announcement even for us media mavens because of how […]
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A lot of great things have been released recently from Plex and this is just one more thing. The team over at Plex have released an App for Google TV integrating the great features of Plex into Google TV. With the new App you can do all the usual thing you can normally do with Plex, streaming media, accessing your […]
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