CE Pro magazine and ZeeVee have treated us to a sneak peak of the ZvPro a few days ahead of CES. From what I gather, based on the full page ad and prior conversations with ZeeVee’s (former) marketing director, the ZvPro contains a superset of ZvBox ($500) functionality. In addition to providing a (Firefox-based) front-end … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our other blogs: 2008 HDTV Year in Review There’s been a whole lot of HDTV activity this year, and with only a few days left in 2008, I think it’s a good time to take a look back. All in all, it was a big year for HDTV. … Read more
After weeks of playing with the Flip MinoHD, it’s time to give someone else a turn. The kind PR folks have agreed to let us give away our review unit to one lucky ZNF reader. My initial take on the MinoHD was that the difficulties of dealing with huge file sizes made the upgrade from … Read more
Folks who pre-ordered the DISH Network DTVPal DRV or Verismo VuNo may be receiving some pretty exclusive holiday cheer this week. The DTVPal DVR ($250) is dual-tuning high definition DVR designed to record digital signals solely via antenna (OTA, ATSC), without requiring an ongoing TiVo-esque service fee. While interest in this product has been extremely … Read more
With the introduction of Vudu Labs, owners are enjoying some new functionality this week. Riding the Internet media wave, Vudu ($300) has extended their platform ($300) to provide a variety of freely available web content… in addition to existing movie streaming/download services. Initial offerings include YouTube, Flickr, and numerous video podcasts. Like much of the … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our friends at Last100: Hands-on: G1’s Android web browser rocks where Android really rocks is the bundled web browser. It’s fast, renders the full web flawlessly (aside from the lack of Flash support), and does a fantastic job of re-flowing text when you zoom in on a specific … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our other blogs: SageTV HD200 Media Player Unboxed SageTV has introduced the HD200 HD Media Player, the successor to the HD100. Check out a few short unboxing videos and photos. Motorola Takes Fox All HD Fox is going all high-def in the first quarter of next year, and … Read more
11 months after blowing up their previous destined-for-retail DVR(s), Digeo’s web site (and Amazon) have spilled the beans on the for-real model that’ll be available for sale… shortly?