The Boxee team, flush with cash and excellent exposure, is seeking feedback on the prospect of directly embedding their experience into a hardware platform. (Of course, you can hack an AppleTV today to run Boxee… If you’re willing to deal with an underpowered system, incapable of Netflix streaming.) The Boxee blog presents several survey items, … Read more
Leaving comments across the blogosphere… How Blu-Ray Can Avoid Failure The thing is Blu-ray players are backwards compatible with DVD. If they market that better, folks may move their existing DVD player into the bedroom and get Blu-ray for the living room. Without having to immediately, or ever, replace their DVD collection. Making it a … Read more
The Boy Genius is out with his top ten iPhone annoyances. While several can be filed as minutiae that won’t bother most folks to any great extent, I’ve yet to meet the perfect handset. The iPhone is no different, possessing a variety of quirks and limitations. But, before I get to my list of shortcomings, … Read more
Amidst the counter-snipers, armored Cadillac limo, SUV with machine gun turret, redesigned Whitehouse.gov, and CBS’s HD web streaming, a couple other pieces of inauguration tech caught my eye: Our niece instructed us to TiVo the Kids Inaugural Concert as both Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers were performing. As far as I know, we don’t … Read more
The EyeTV 3.1 software update, released Monday afternoon to existing customers, brings a number of changes to their Mac OS X television viewing and recording software. First up is the (somewhat optional) replacement of TitanTV with TV Guide as the US EPG source. I see this as a positive move – more comprehensive listings, more … Read more
In addition to purely reporting on singular CES product announcements, we’ve also attempted to identify industry trends and themes. And while the promise of Vista SideShow has never materialized, that hasn’t stopped manufacturers from pursuing unique secondary displays – several of which we saw in Vegas. At CES Unveiled we fought the crowd to check … Read more
Just in time for the historic presidential swearing-in ceremony, CBS has debuted a new Silverlight player with seven (!) live HD feeds.
Leaving comments across the blogosphere… Video Of The Day: Engadget’s Netflix HD Streaming Shootout I haven’t run my own Netflix streaming shootout, but I do own TiVo(s), an Xbox 360, and the Roku box. For ease of use and quickness, Roku wins. But it only outputs 720p HD. Meaning an old HD set like the … Read more