Tag: Movies/TV/Online Videos

Well, let's just say don't go canceling your cable subscription or tossing out your DVR just yet. Ellen Gray does just that however, and sees how life with strictly internet-tv fares. Suffice to say, it's not there yet. But hey, it's better than where we were 1 year ago. Watching on the Web tends to take longer than watching a […]

In this day and age of corporate bigger is better mentality, its not surprising to hear the big media outlets cry for freedom when it comes to owning media outlets in a particular market. The case they make is that the death of broadcast TV is near if they are not allowed to expand the number of media outlets they […]

While I know this isn't directly related to Home Theater's, I just had to post this, probably moreso to spark forum discussion, but it seems Google has already made it's impact with YouTube: In the first major mass removal of content in its history, YouTube has removed nearly 30,000 videos after being contacted by a number of Japanese rights-holders, according […]

This story gets a posting just because I grew up in Saskatchewan:). Not much to tell here except that they will be rolling out 27 HDTV programs with their IPTV rollout. Considering that Saskatchewan as an entire population of 1,000,000 people, this is a pretty major deal. I don't expect to get IPTV in a city of 300k in California […]

As it turns out, the whole missingremote.com team decided to all leave on business or pleasure at the same time. Thats ok.  That just means they all missed the meeting to discuss the raises. 😉  I'll get some news out during my layovers. This particular article takes a look at the effort by the cable industry to respond to competition […]

Going head to head with Verizon's multi-billion dollar fiber rollout takes some serious guts. It looks like AT&T is putting an honest effort forward with their U-verse rollout. However, when you hear that they will not be rolling out fiber to your home, instead using VDSL on the last stretch, it does make one worry that they will take short […]

As the quality and quantity of 'net video increases, its only a matter of time before standard definition TV becomes passe. DirectTV feels the solution to this impending paradigm shift is a swifter move to HDTV. It would certainly solve the problem of find better quality video on the 'net. However, I think they are discounting the fact that the […]

I have heard about Pandora.com in the past but have neglected to get on the bandwagon. This review from PCMAG.com has inspired me to get my music loving ass over there and see what the fuss is all about. Its similar to the intelligent recording setup in SageTV, in that you tell it what you like and it will start […]