Five Ways to Fix Netflix, according to Time

Yes! You guys enjoyed the wise thoughts Richard Corliss the other day on why Netflix sucks that I couldn’t help myself from posting his follow up article on how to fix netflix. I personally love his suggestion to find a better post office…because that 2-3 day wait is unbearable. Enjoy! Time But since Netflix lets titles stay out indefinitely, it […]

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U.S. Patent Office Rejects Two TiVo Patent Claims

Interesting to see this given the recent announcement that TiVo’s will be used in RCN next year, but they are downplaying it so we’ll see if there are any actual repercussions to this.   Home Media Mag “These software claims are the same that EchoStar was found to have infringed in the contempt ruling now pending on appeal,” EchoStar said […]

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Comcast – Now with a Lot More Football

Suddenly life as a Comcast subscriber has become a bit more pleasant. Not sure how I missed this, but apparantly as of August 1st us Comcast folks should have access to NFL Network!! I’ll need to confirm when I get home, but that’s awesome news. Also of note here, is that apparantly Comcast and ESPN360 are buddy buddy as well, […]

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Engadget HD Podcast 149 – 08.05.2009

Good lineup of content covering the last week over at Engadget. Show notes below. Listen to the show here . Program 00:00:50 – Comments from Engadget HD Podcast 148 – 07.29.2009 The Moxi Summer update brings the Moxi Mate, SDV support and more RCN making cobranded TiVO boxes its ‘primary DVR platform’ in 2010 Poll: Do you / will you […]

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Vivitek Announces first Sub-$1000 Projector

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I am still a long way away from having the proper home to have a projector, but this is a good sign of things to come. With the prices of LCD’s plummeting lower every month, it’s good to see prices on projectors drop a bit as well. Never heard of Vivitek however…so can’t wait to see a review on it. […]

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Deciphering Netflix Pricing Strategy

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Very interesting article from Consumerist which analyzes the pricing structure of Netflix and how it works. Pretty interesting to see it not apply to the most common pricing, but I’m sure they’re relying on users to not be the intense users and constantly be sending and receiving new movies. I know even I have sat on a few discs for […]

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WD TV HD Media Player Hacked and Put to Good Use

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Now we’re talking! Let all these guys compete with each other on standard features, but let the geeks hack it and add whatever they want to it! Smart call if you’re the manufacturer…just look at how many routers Linksys has sold strictly because they allowed this type of activity.   eHomeUpgrade I’ve been hearing the quiet rumblings of people hacking […]

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