Brent Evans The Boxee team created an iPhone app for Boxee quite a while back which has been available for jailbroken phones for some time. Although it took a while to get through that mysterious Apple approval process, Boxee’s office iPhone Remote app is finally available in the iTunes Store. The Boxee iPhone (and iPod Touch) app … Read more
If you’re one of the many people running the Windows 7 beta you’ll be interested in this. Microsoft has announced several of the changes/updates being made to Windows 7 that will be included in the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 Release Candidate. A few of the media-related highlights from their notes include: Improved Internet Radio playback Improved … Read more
I’m a subscriber to Netflix’s one-out-at-a-time, unlimited plan ($8.99/month) to keep costs down, yet still receive a physical DVD every week and have unlimited access to the Netflix online video streaming. Some who use the Roku or Xbox 360 might wonder why there isn’t a streaming-only plan for a little less money. According to an … Read more
Redbox, the popular movie rental kiosks, is being completely acquired by Coinstar. McDonalds is selling their share in the company (they’ll still own some stock as part of the deal) and are leaving the video rental business to the guys at Coinstar. The business has been pretty good for Redbox as they continue to expand … Read more
Microsoft Vista Media Center users have been watching from afar as Hulu support was added to Boxee and XBMC and announced for SageTV. That envy may end shortly, as just this week it was revealed that SecondRun.tv will provide a third-party application to feed Hulu, Fox, Comedy Central and other online content to Media Center. … Read more
After months of testing, MediaMall’s PlayOn video streaming software has been released from beta. PlayOn pipes Hulu, Netflix CNN, ESPN and may other online content sources from a Windows PC to a Xbox 360, PS3, Popcorn Hour and many other DLNA or UPnP devices. I use it with the SageTV HD200, which isn’t officially supported … Read more
Great news for Netflix customers. According the Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, they’re beginning to test Saturday shipping during the first quarter of 2009 in “certain parts of the country.” This means if you send a disc back on a Friday, Netflix receives it on a Saturday and you could receive your next disc as soon … Read more
I have a confession to make. While I used to believe there was no device that could compare with a home theater PC (HTPC) at each television set, I’ve come to realize that in a multi-TV home, that there’s no better solution for your Media Center than an extender. Not a full-blown computer (HTPC) at … Read more