Here’s the roundup of podcasts in the past week…Enjoy! Microsoft’s Charlie Owen joins me to talk about how the industry has progressed since he left the Windows Media Center team just over a year ago. Charlie has some great thoughts on Google’s TV effort, the way Apple are going and Microsoft approach. We also talk about al-carte TV consumption verses […]
Read moreIn case you missed this today, some pretty interesting comments coming from the head of the largest cable company as to why his company has lost over a quarter of a million customers. Comcast is annually ranked among the worst customer service, they have bandwidth caps, don’t offer much extras to their customers, and charge an absurd amount of fees—but […]
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How pathetic am I? I could just stop there but I won’t. In a recent blog post I described how my family is currently testing out Netflix. While it was fun at first to be able to stream movies on my laptop I quickly got tired of the small screen size. Unfortunately, since we have a newborn at home […]
Read moreHere’s Ian’s first look at the tiny new AppleTV box. I’m far from sold for this, but Ian seems to like it, with the known limitations being accepted and understood of course. I like my hacked first gen Apple TV especially for listening to music so I was keen to try out the new Apple TV device. I have […]
Read moreWow, talk about a huge upgrade from a V1. I had mostly given up on SecondRun.tv’s Media Center plugin a while back, but it looks like it may be time to check back in. Pretty cool new and easy to follow interface. SecondRun.tv is an add-in for Windows Media Center (part of Windows 7) that allows you […]
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We may have been the last holdouts but my wife and I finally joined the present and signed up for our 1 month free trial of Netflix. What I found interesting was that when we signed up we noticed that one of the plan options was $7.99 unlimited streaming only plan. This is the plan that is used by our […]
Read moreSome nice features on this new WD device, and what’s more pleasing is that they’re keeping to the Media Player market. What does concern me however, is the number of existing bugs which passed onto this from previous generations…hopefully WD doesn’t get in the habit of abandoning early adopters. Today, Western Digital is introducing their 3G flagship product, the WDTV […]
Read moreWhile we’ve only watched 2 episodes so far, what we saw was quite enjoyable. I still say that the downfall for the show will be if they stop focusing on the family aspect. They need to steer clear of allowing too many similarities to be drawn between Smallville, Heroes, and X-men. While (producer John Harmon) Feldman wasn’t willing to go […]
Read moreIt’s that time for a new Cumulative Update for your Win7 MCE systems. Just a couple major items fixed here, but major nonetheless. As always, proceed at your own risk and always make sure to take a system snapshot before doing the update just in case. The October 2010 Cumulative Update for Windows Media Center in Windows 7 resolves the […]
Read moreMy heart wanted to pick the Lakers Finals movie with my pick, but alas I chose against it. The Elf collector edition looks like a lot of fun. And seeing as I could not make it through the first Sex & The City, I won’t even attempt to see the second. The Girl Who Played with Fire is the second […]
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