With all of the talk of wireless lately, why not add AT&T U-verse into the mix. Starting Monday October 31st (Happy Halloween) AT&T will be releasing an additional box that will convert your U-verse set-top box into an all wireless device (not including HDMI and power cables). If you have constraints in your home of not being able to run […]
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If you are in the market for an inexpensive connected media streamer, the number of options has exploded recently. A couple weeks back we took a look at Roku’s XS, and today we have the newest member of NETGEAR’s NeoTV lineup – the NTV200. At first glance, the unit’s price ($79.99) and lack of a USB port for local content […]
Read moreOh how I wanted to pick Wrong Turn 4 just to get a reaction from you guys, but alas I played it conservative this week. Jurassic Park Trilogy, just in time for the holidays…although you can save some money and watch Terra Nova that is basically the same thing, right? Dazed and Confused is a classic if you’ve never seen […]
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In the last 5 – 10 years wireless has vastly changed how we connect devices to the internet in our homes. Every smartphone, laptop, tablet, media streamer, gaming console has the ability to connect to your network through your wireless access point. Along with the ability to no longer having to run an Ethernet cord everywhere you needed network connectivity, […]
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Verizon currently has more than a half-dozen apps in the Android Marketplace that allow Verizon FiOS subscribers to access the functionality of their service from a mobile device. While undoubtedly generous, it also sounds a bit unwieldy. The newly released My FiOS app brings the functionality that had been spread across several apps into one single app. A similarly integrated […]
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I enjoy reading motherboard reviews, even when I’m not in the market for a new system. However, when I am planning a new build, my favorite kind of motherboard review is a good old-fashioned platform showdown. Today we’re looking at a new breed of Mini-ITX motherboards from Asrock called the Z68M-ITX/HT and A75M-ITX. The former is an Intel Z68 board that supports Intel’s […]
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Comcast has been betting big on Video on Demand over the last few years as the company has pulled its services together under the Xfinity brand. As the largest cable provider in the U.S., Comcast has certainly generated its fair share of detractors for its business practices and content and service offerings, but whatever your feelings about the company, the […]
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Companies have been trying to meld cameras of one sort of another to the TV for years now with the vision of enabling video calling or videoconferencing from the comfort of the living room couch. Such efforts have generally been tied to other hardware such as the Kinect for the Xbox or the TV Cam for Google TV. We’ve even […]
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DLNA can be tricky. For one thing, it’s a tricky acronym. It can also be difficult to explain the concept to the uninitiated. Fearful that the world might end up describing DLNA as being kind of like AirPlay, the Digital Living Network Alliance has put together a series of videos on their YouTube channel to explain DLNA and demonstrate how […]
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I know we don’t do a lot of review roundups here at Missing Remote, but every so often you get just the right collection of hardware reviews coming in from all over the place. Zotac has been making the rounds to get their HTPC-centric hardware in the spotlight. First up we have a review of the AMD E-350 powered Zotac […]
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