Over on Geek Tonic, I recently learned of the HDFury 2 – a small dongle designed to complete the HDCP handshake and convert a digital signal into a possibly more useful analog one. (Component or D-Sub 15, VGA) The folks who’d benefit most probably want to keep older projectors or HDTVs, which lack HDCP, in … Read more
Leaving comments across the blogosphere… For Plasma TVs, Being Better Isn’t Enough You talk as if plasma is a company or brand. Most manufacturers of plasmas also offer LCDs as you mentioned, including Panasonic. And it’s pretty easy for any of these guys to slap their brand on someone else’s hardware until they ramped up … Read more
Photo via AVS Forum, Flickr Looks like Western Digital is preparing a new version of their WDTV media player. The WDTV has similar innards as the SageTV HD Theater, minus the HTPC extender capabilities among other things. But it comes at a lower price (available under $99) and seems to have a pretty active user … Read more
College football fans out there know summer is nearing its end and the season is almost here. I ran across a few college football guides you might want to check out including the HDTV guide and the overall schedule. Check out the entire HD lineup at HDSportsGuide.com and for the full NCAA college football schedule, … Read more
Despite sluggish hardware sales, two rounds of layoffs, and flirting with disaster, a shift in strategy along with a rumored cash infusion has landed Vudu some interesting licensing deals. While Entone (who?) and Vizio were the first to announce Vudu integration, it looks like LG HDTVs will be the first to stream Vudu video on … Read more
Blockbuster may be way down, but they certainly aren’t out yet. Blockbuster and Samsung just announced a partnership to provide Blockbuster OnDemand service on nearly all new Samsung video devices including new Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray players and some home theater systems starting this Fall. No details of which specific devices at this point, but it’s … Read more
You probably don’t remember that Humax LCD TV with builtin TiVo… which never launched in 2005. As a clutter-free minimalist (to the best of my ability), I do. And TiVo’s new tie-up with Best Buy indicates they’re going down this path again, entering the Internet Widget TV fray under the Insignia brand: As part of … Read more
It’s been two weeks since the digital television switch was universally flipped in what’s effectively a government spectrum fundraiser. Immediately after the NTSC plug was pulled, I fired up my only remaining analog television device – an ElGato EyeTV Hyrbid (ATSC + NTSC) USB stick. Leading up to June 12th, many over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts contained … Read more