It has been a little more than a month since Amazon signed a deal to bring some of Viacom’s properties to its Prime Instant Videos service. Evidently, Amazon has been busy courting other content providers, as Amazon today announced a licensing agreement with Discovery Communications that will bring shows from networks such as the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and TLC […]
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I tend to be very conservative about adding plug-ins or new software to my Windows Home Server. Indeed, on my v1 box, I’m not sure I ever installed anything other than Squeezebox Server, and I have not installed too much else on my 2011 box. That being said, one of my favorite add-ins for WHS 2011 is Home Server SMART […]
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By now, we’ve all become accustomed to the movie industry’s efforts to continue to enforce traditional release windows and exclusivity deals. One of the vagaries of these deals often comes up in relation to streaming and digital distribution systems, where movies can seem to arrive later than one would expect or can come and go, seemingly at random. One of […]
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Television shows can be profitable based on ad sales during an initial run if the ratings are high enough, but the real long-term value is in distribution and syndication, selling the rights to replay a show on another network and in other markets. Tapping into this revenue stream is the primary reason so many cable networks have raced to join […]
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The LaCie 5Big Office+ is a five-bay network attached storage device powered by Windows Storage Server Essentials 2008 R2. Though geared toward small business users, it would also be a good fit for a home user looking for a NAS with robust data redundancy and user management options. Based on the Colorado family of server products, WSSE 2008 R2 utilizes […]
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It wasn’t that long ago that the big news surrounding DirecTV’s HD DVRs was the deployment of an updated HD UI. Now, DirecTV is adding features to take their DVRs beyond simply watching and recording TV. Internet connected DirecTV HD DVRs can now be used to stream Pandora Internet Radio. Pandora is integrated into the device’s “Extras” menu and provides […]
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The loss of Drive Extender, the storage pooling and redundancy feature of the original Windows Home Server, was a crippling blow for Windows Home Server 2011 in the eyes of many WHS enthusiasts. A couple of different companies sprang up to try to fill the void left by Drive Extender with new WHS plug-ins. Drive Bender was the first to […]
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Netflix has been keeping busy this last week. First came the announcements of 1080p streaming for the new Apple TV and the iTunes integrated payment options, and now comes announcements of a new support site and the addition of the “Just for Kids” interface to the Playstation 3. Netflix’s previous “Help” site had focused heavily on FAQs and tutorials browseable by category. With the […]
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Intel announced today they have been in contact with several media companies over the last several months trying to establish a “virtual cable provider” to content with the very fast growing group of companies completing in the space currently. Intel said they expect the service to roll out by the end of this year. Many people seem to be excited […]
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