Netflix will be providing their Q4 and annual financials soon, and investors are sure to be hoping that any big numbers are black rather than red, but in the meantime Netflix has been throwing around some other big numbers. The company recently announced that its 20 million customers streamed over 2 billion hours of content in the fourth quarter alone. […]
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Samsung has gotten the jump on CES with the announcement of several new products, including a few that Samsung probably hopes will lure in budding audiophiles. First up is the HW-E550 sound bar that is similar to the HW-D550, except that it can be split into two separate speakers. Seems to defeat the purpose of buying a soundbar, but I […]
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When FireCore recently updated their Seas0nPass tool to support untethered jailbreaking, we noted that there was some indication in the community that work to allow the Apple TV to run iPad and iPhone apps was progressing. Evidently that was understating the situation as there is now a full-fledged hack to allow iOS apps to run on the Apple TV. Steve […]
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Plex for Google TV has received an update to improve stability and provide more information for content that might not work in Plex due to Google TV’s limited support for HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). The issue that Plex for Google TV users have faced is that Google TV only supports HLS for formats that Google TV supports natively. Of course, […]
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ASRock has been a solid supporter of AMD CPUs over the last couple of years as evidenced by their high-end Fatality-branded motherboards. ASRock has also been a solid supporter of the Mini-ITX format. The A75M-ITX brings AMD and Mini-ITX together in one compact package. The lack of overclocking support shouldn’t be much of an issue for anyone looking for an […]
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If building a home server is on your to-do list for the new year, then perhaps a little how-to guide is just what you need to get started. I’m not sure about all of the hardware choices made for this particular guide. Intel Xeon processors tend to carry a price premium that isn’t really warranted for a WHS box, though […]
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For the most part, people seem to fall into one of two categories when it comes to setting up their home networks. There are the control freaks such as myself who like to set everything up manually, perhaps even going so far as to provide static ip addresses for each new device. Then there are the folks who set their […]
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Media Browser development continues apace, and with it, Media Browser’s plugin developers are prepping their projects for the upcoming Apollo release. Jas Manghera, the developer behind the Souls Army family of Media Browser themes and plugins, has released a roadmap of upcoming updates. The Neo theme sounds like it is going to get the most attention. If you haven’t tried […]
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The Lynx Portable Radio was looking to be the first SiriusXM 2.0 radio when it first leaked via the Best Buy website. That particular honor ended up going to the SiriusXM Edge instead, but the Lynx is now finally available. For $250, the Lynx taps into all of the features of SiriusXM 2.0, including the expanded channel lineup and DVR-style […]
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Seas0nPass, the popular Apple TV jailbreaking tool, has received a special update allowing for untethered jailbreaks, a feature that had been lacking over the last several versions. By itself, this isn’t necessarily big news, but evidently there is a lot going on in the Apple TV jailbreak scene right now. There is word of a new Plex beta and even […]
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