LG has announced a new version of their Magic Motion Remote Control, the Wiimote-style remote control that LG started shipping with their high-end TVs last year. This year’s version of the remote control adds gesture support to make the remote even more Wiimote-like, a scroll wheel, and everyone’s favorite new input system: voice recognition. The Magic Motion Remote Control only […]
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Time Warner Cable announced just a few days ago that they were going to start offering HBO Go and MAX Go access to their subscribers. Today, Cablevision announced that they too are going to start offering HBO Go and MAX Go to their subscribers. HBO will undoubtedly continue to pursue deals with the myriad regional and line-lease cable providers around […]
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If you’re considering a hard-drive purchase in the next 6 months, here’s a pretty compelling reason to buy before the end of the year. I must confess, this smells a little bit like anti-trust behavior to me. As a consumer, are you going to stop buying Seagate and WD drives based upon their warranty? I suspect they realized that price […]
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Recently Ian Dixon of The Digital Life Style had a chance to spend the day with the folks over at Tranquil PC, a UK based HTPC system designer and manufacture. Ian has a series of videos he put together of his time over at Trainquil PC. Some very interesting stuff happening over there, including a HTPC chassis CNC machined out of a solid piece of aluminum. […]
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The folks over at TweakTown have reviewed the new SilverStone Grandia Series GD06 HTPC Chassis. Over the years SilverStone has delivered some amazing HTPC and desktop cases. The Grandia Series appears to live up to the same high quality, high standards as all previous SilverStone cases. Head over to TweakTown to get a full review of the Grandia Series GD06 HTPC […]
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The Apple TV was recently updated to version 4.4.4, which means that the jailbreakers need to check to make sure that their software tools work as well. The folks at FireCore have done just that, releasing Seas0nPass 4.4.4 to support the new Apple TV update. Unfortunately, Seas0nPass continues to require tethering to perform the jailbreak operation with version 4.4+ Last […]
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Warpia caught our attention several months ago with the StreamHD SWP120A, a device for wirelessly streaming a PC’s video output to a TV. Warpia has another wireless video setup coming soon, the ConnectHD, which aims to get in on the living room video calling market that we have been watching Biscotti hop into. The ConnectHD pairs a camera and microphone […]
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Creating the right audio environment is a critical part of enabling an immersive home theater experience, but is often neglected either due to ignorance or the erroneous assumption that good sound is unattainably expensive. The process of finding the right speakers is made even more difficult with few shops providing an adequate listening environment, let alone one with options in […]
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Time Warner Cable hasn’t managed to put out an app for streaming live TV anywhere but the iPad so far, and has only recently started paying attention to Android tablets, but Android phones are getting some extra attention from TWC. TWC has let slip two new apps specifically formatted for Android phones. There is My TWC, an account management app, and […]
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Which video service is right for you? Are you looking for a pure streaming play and trying to decide between Netflix and Hulu Plus? Perhaps you prefer to rent or buy your videos and are trying to decide between iTunes or VUDU. Maybe Amazon Prime Instant Video, with its bit of everything approach is the best of all worlds. Fortunately, […]
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