CinemaNow is adding 1080p HD movies to its service thanks to a new deal with Intel. Previously, CinemaNow had only offered standard definition movies through its service. CinemaNow has added hundreds of high definition movies from 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros, and is promising that more are on the way. 1080p movies will be available to buy or rent […]
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Home security seems to be one of the more complex and confusing areas to get into. This FrontPoint system seems to make everything pretty simple, particularly for the DIYer. While I fully understand that a monitoring service is important–if not critical–for any home security system, that’s always been the sticking point for me. Who wants to add another monthly bill […]
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Back in February Josh Pollard from The Digital Media Zone had created a simple diagnostics Ceton Cable Card tool for Media Center. Now fast forward today and Ceton has now released their official diagnostics tool. While the tool is still in beta form, it still allows for full visibility into the tuner, its settings, health, signal, you name it. The […]
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For those of you who are fans of internet video streaming from your HTPC but are plagued with studdering and video playback issues you just might want to update your flash player. Adobe has finally released Flash Player 11 and a few of the many new features, Flash Player 11 adds native 64bit support as well as full hardware accelerated […]
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Today Major Nelson on his blog announced a press release that UFC is coming to Xbox Live. This is on the heels of the Live TV announcements from Microsoft. Every day we are hearing about more and more content that will be coming to the Xbox Live Fall 2011 dashboard update. UFC is one of those interesting trends that has […]
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No content provider’s service is complete these days without an add-on mobile consumption service. The fascinating part is watching how these different companies are approaching this burgeoning market. Perhaps you follow Comcast’s Xfinity lead and go mobile with on-demand content. Or maybe you go “all stream, all the time” like DISH does with their Sling-powered TV Everywhere service. DirecTV has […]
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Western Digital announced today their newest entry into the WD TV family of media streamers, the WD TV Live. The WD TV Live drops the 1 TB drive of the WD TV Live Hub to create a smaller box reminiscent of previous WD TV models, but with the improved UI and service support of the WD TV Live Hub. Western Digital […]
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Syabas recently took to their user forums to announce their next Popcorn Hour media streamer, the A-300. The Popcorn Hour streamers have always been good solid entries into the market, and this new model looks to continue that trend. The Syabas folks are providing pictures and videos in their forum announcement of their new Flash-based user interface. It looks slick and […]
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Android has been taking its sweet time infiltrating the media streamers of the world since it first cropped up as a topic of conversation at CES 2011 and it’s been awhile since I last saw a review of a new media streamer running Google’s OS. I have always liked the looks of DViCO’s TViX line of media streamers and this […]
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Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and chairman, passed away today at the age of 56. It is impossible to overstate the impact that Steve Jobs has had on the history and business of personal computing. Once fired from the company he founded, he returned to take the reins and turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies in the world […]
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