Missing Remote

Pretty cool little installation here, where the user basically built the computer inside his entertainment center. Shows some good thinking outside the box, no pun intended 🙂 Overall looks very clean.         You’ll need to size the board according to your motherboard and components. In my case, the PC is a gutted Dell Inspiron 518 Core 2 […]

I’ve never been a TiVo user–loved the idea, but hated the monthly costs–but this new remote is a pretty cool little device. It’s not really all that unique, it’s basically taking the idea from any old cell phone, but with a remote front instead of a screen. But it’s still pretty cool, although…for $90 I would rather buy a Dinovo […]

I know GoogleTV is all the buzz right now on extender devices, but Sony is trying to get their name in the space and have a pretty solid product, with support for apps like Netflix, Slacker, Pandora as well as being a DLNA player, at around $130 is not all that bad. I’m not a fan of the interface, which […]

This is the type of report that you can interpret whichever way you are biased. If you’re Hulu, you can tout this report of how you’re taking over blah blah. I tend to side more with the thoughts of this analyst–in these times of recession, people are simply looking to cut costs, and who really needs 300 TV channels?   […]

Pretty cool app for Media Browser…if they could just support deleting, I could go back to using them. Alas, still very cool for this movie watching application.     The app looks great, you can browse the media library and then set them to play on the Media Center box and the remote control feature has a very cool UI. […]

This comes as no surprise to me, but I think there are still a lot of people who aren’t aware of the backers of these TV streaming websites. I don’t think this matters to most people, but moreso being able to obtain their shows in any matter or time that is really important.   Ultimately, it’s the movie studios, TV […]

What surprises me most about this is the test pool is *only* 400. Considering the potential of this, you would figure they would expand it. Then again, this is only one pool, no word if it’s the only group of testers (doubt it).   Bohnet, 25, who runs the marketing campaign for Google TV, is one of 400 Google employees […]

I wonder what the value add is for that $40.  Side-by-side and top-bottom 3D content already play just fine an HTPC (tested personally :)) you just need to tell the TV what kind of content it is.  The only thing that doesn’t work is 3D BD which requires an HDMI 1.4 driver – which I think is supposed to be […]

I’m not that familar with what the different types of PlayReady licenses mean, but it looks like SageTV now has a PlayReady Master Agreement Licensee.  With names like Netflix and SiliconDust also on the list hopefully it’s a precursor to good things to come. Thanks to cyberwolf for pointing this out.   PlayReady Master Agreement Licensees SageTV, LLC [Approved Microsoft® […]