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I Can’t Quit You, Hulu Plus (But I want to)

As I’ve alluded to in a few places, Hulu Plus ($9.99/mo) isn’t quite doing it for me. My main beef? The same one I have with Hulu Non-Plus — random, inconsistant content. In addition to the incomplete seasons found on Hulu, Plus also is missing seasons and does away with entire titles. So what I … Read more

Unboxing the Nixeus Fusion HD

The parade of network-connected media streaming and playback devices continues. And we’re gotten our hands on yet another recent entrant, the Nixeus Fusion HD (~$220).

The Fusion HD probably has more in common with the WD TV Live solutions, rather than the Roku, given it’s 1080p local media playback capabilities – via both LAN (DLNA, UPnP) or directly connected storage. Speaking of which, the reason the Fusion HD is about triple the size of the Roku (pic below) is because it can optionally house a 3.5″ SATA drive (to no doubt support the BitTorrent client). Of course, web services are a requisite these days and the Fusion HD delivers multiple, including YouTube and Flickr. Additionally, they’ve even integrated a browser. However, despite the nice remote for this class of device, I’m finding text entry a bit tedious.

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AppleTV Rumors: iTV, 720P?

Engadget has posted something, that I’ll consider a rumor until official, regarding a much speculated AppleTV revision expected this Fall. Good News: The new version of AppleTV seems to be more and more likely. Supposedly will be priced at $99 which isn’t too bad. There would likely be an App store in this scenario since it … Read more

YouTube’s Captions Are (Still) Amusingly Horrible

Let me preface my critique of YouTube’s captioning feature by saying I appreciate Google’s attempt to make YouTube video more accessible. And I’m sure it’s no easy programatic feat to transcribe audio on such a large scale of widely disparate content. However, for someone who obviously enunciates as poorly as I do while using significant amounts of … Read more

Apple Enables MobileMe iDisk Music Streaming

Apple’s MobileMe iDisk app enables subscribers to view or share some files stored online from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. And without really making a big deal out of it, Apple recently flipped a switch that lets you use the iDisk app to stream audio files from the cloud to our mobile device. In … Read more

The (Current) Hardware of Hulu Plus

Click to enlarge When Hulu Plus launched a few weeks back, there was some initial device compatibility confusion – specifically, regarding the Sony PS3 implementation and compatible Samsung Blu-ray players. Fortunately, at some point, the Hulu folks updated their supported devices webpage to bring some clarity to the situation. And they’ve confirmed that a PlayStation … Read more

The TV Holy Grail

If there’s one TV feature I want above all else, it’s an infinite on-demand catalog. I don’t want five episodes of Burn Notice, or the second season of Weeds, I want to be able to start at the beginning of a show’s run and have access to every episode that’s ever aired. Such a model … Read more

Want a Rdio Invite?

While I’ve yet to really dig in, Rdio looks to be a cool, new music service supporting various web and mobile playback options. In fact, Rdio seems like something we’d get if unReal Rhapsody was re-conceptualized and modernized with a little Web 2.0 and a whole lot of mobile. In addition to the typical playlist building and streaming … Read more