Plex for Google TV has received an update to improve stability and provide more information for content that might not work in Plex due to Google TV’s limited support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). The issue that Plex for Google TV users have faced is that Google TV only supports HLS for formats that Google TV supports natively. Of course, […]
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Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of strategy and leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, has helped the New York Times put together a list of the worst CEOs of 2011. Included on that list is none other than Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings. Coming on the heels of a ForeSee report about Netflix’s customer satisfaction ranking taking a […]
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Customer satisfaction tracking company, ForeSee, has issued its semiannual report on the top 40 Internet companies. The company with the highest customer satisfaction was Amazon. The company that usually competes with Amazon for that top spot is Netflix, which has slipped down to the middle of the pack after a rocky year of price hikes, abortive attempts to split the […]
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Team Boxee has announced that version 1.5 of Boxee is now available for PC/MAC/Ubuntu and is being tested by Early Access users on the Boxee Box. Unfortunately, Team Boxee is also announcing that Boxee 1.5 for Desktops will be last version released for computers. Going forward, all of Team Boxee’s attention will be devoted to the Boxee Box. As if to […]
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The folks at Plex have been working hard to get their client on as many platforms as possible, including mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. In the run up to the holiday shopping season, the two biggest Android tablet releases were the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet, and Plex was quick to show up in the Amazon Android Marketplace […]
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I’ve been awfully excited about XBMC 11.0 Eden since the XBMC team first announced it was starting to come together, and now the team has announced that the beta version of Eden is available for download. They have made some major changes to the orientation of the default skin, Confluence, and have generally been working on making everything faster, smoother, […]
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Verizon FiOS appears set to get out of the set top box business, and into the media server business. Verizon has released a video detailing how they plan on eliminating traditional set top boxes to improve energy efficiency and offer better service by moving to a whole-house DVR/media server conjoined to small extender devices or devices that the consumer already owns […]
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Out friends at Zatz not Funny have put together their list of the best media streaming related boxes of the year. When most of us think of media streamers, we tend to focus on video or general purpose streamers such as the WD TV Live or the Boxee Box, but this roundup applies a more nuanced definition and breaks out […]
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Do you remember that scene in Matrix Revolutions where Neo and Agent Smith have their final showdown in the rain and they end up flying at each other, colliding with such force that it generates a shockwave that displaces the rain for miles around? This is the image that has begun to come to mind every time I think about Netflix […]
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In what is beginning to feel like a weekly ritual, Microsoft has released another round of video apps in support of their new Xbox Live TV initiative. The UFC app is the heavyweight in this group, especially with the attention surrounding the big fight coming up New Year’s Eve, but VUDU might be a popular addition for movie fans. DailyMotion […]
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