Few home theater technologies have the power to induce weak knees and a whole lot of unsightly drool better than OLED panels. It has been held up as the holy grail of HDTV panel technologies; the black levels of plasma, the brightness of LCD, unparalleled thinness, and minuscule power consumption. Reality hasn’t quite kept up with the hype, but that doesn’t make […]
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DirecTV has been a bit slow to get on board with HD, at least in the user interface of their set top boxes. The finally started pushing the new HD UI that they had been promising for years to beta testers a few months ago. Evidently they started rolling out it for real in November, but someone at DirecTV HQ […]
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The folks at Plex have been working hard to get their client on as many platforms as possible, including mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. In the run up to the holiday shopping season, the two biggest Android tablet releases were the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet, and Plex was quick to show up in the Amazon Android Marketplace […]
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Firecore aTV Flash (Black) has been updated to 1.1.1 and one of the nice features for Media Center users is that it adds support for DVR-MS files. Now if only it could support WTV files you could then have a cheap devices to extend your recorded tv directory around your home. I have been toying around with the idea of […]
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Yet again another update to RecordedTV HD Media Center Add-in has been updated to version 1.6.0. With the update comes a ton of new and updated features. One of my favorite features is the fact that the Add-in now looks like Media Center, it looks like it built into Media Center similar to what MyMovies does. Head over to RecordedTV HD for […]
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I’ve been awfully excited about XBMC 11.0 Eden since the XBMC team first announced it was starting to come together, and now the team has announced that the beta version of Eden is available for download. They have made some major changes to the orientation of the default skin, Confluence, and have generally been working on making everything faster, smoother, […]
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Well, that was fast. Just a couple of days ago, Western Digital dropped a big update on the WD TV Live family of devices along with a brand new remote control app for iOS devices, with the promise that an Android version of the app would be available soon. Usually that means a few weeks, not days. The Android version […]
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We ran the Netgear NeoTV NTV200 through its paces a couple of months ago and were generally impressed with the hardware and interface, but felt a bit letdown by some of the apps on the device. However, one of the best parts about these Internet-connected media streamers is that they continue to evolve over time as the manufacturers release new […]
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A company named Stream TV Networks has announced that they will be launching their Ultra-D technology at CES 2012. Ultra-D technology is supposed to provide real-time conversion of any 2D content to 3D, and even the conversion of any glasses-required stereoscopic 3D content to glasses-free autostereoscopic 3D. On the one hand, the technology sounds like it could legitimately provide a response to one […]
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Verizon FiOS appears set to get out of the set top box business, and into the media server business. Verizon has released a video detailing how they plan on eliminating traditional set top boxes to improve energy efficiency and offer better service by moving to a whole-house DVR/media server conjoined to small extender devices or devices that the consumer already owns […]
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