Quote of the Day: Apple TV “still a hobby”

From Apple’s quarterly earnings call, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha: Bill Fearnley – FTN Midwest: […] Steve, how are you thinking about Apple TV now? […] If you look at the digital living room category and you look at the upcoming year of 2009, how do you look at the digital living room opportunity and … Read more

Video of the Day: The Halloween TiVo

Davis just tipped me off to this cute and well done, as in solid production values, Halloween TiVo YouTube video. Background details can be found on MySpace, but what I’d really like to ask Adam is if I win something for identifying that Greatest American Hero t-shirt?

DirecTV Streams DVR Content To PC (LAN)

DirecTV subscribers will soon be able to stream recorded shows to PCs within the home. While the DirecTV2PC documentation is light and the beta download is broken, it’s probably safe to assume this requires a HR20, HR21 or HR22 DVR receiver and applies to Windows only… As DirecTV2PC is powered by PC video company Cyberlink. … Read more

ZNF ‘Round The Web

Leaving comments across the blogosphere… Bad Economy Hitting HDTV Sales? Yah, I think the DTV transition should keep HDTV sales moving along. Though perhaps at a slower pace. The government isn’t doing the shut off though, they’ve mandated that broadcasters stop broadcasting over-the-air on those frequencies (which they’ve licensed). Given the early NC experiment, I … Read more

Call of Duty World at War in Beta

Over the weekend, Activision began emailing CallofDuty.com members beta invitations to World at War, the latest Call of Duty installment. World at War trades in CoD4’s modern warfare for a return to a World War II backdrop. The beta is currently limited to Xbox 360 online play, with PC beta invites to follow. PS3 owners … Read more

SlingCatcher Now Available

Although the SlingCatcher (MSRP $300) has been prematurely trickling out of various retail locations these last few days, today marks the official launch date of Sling Media’s “universal media player for your TV.” Given my former relationship with Sling, I’ve had early and continual access to the product. And the most visible change made since … Read more