If your entire Black Friday strategy involves stopping by the mall on the day after Thanksgiving, you might want to check out Retrevo’s guide to Black Friday buying. Not only do the Retrevo folks follow consumer electronics obsessively, they track pricing, availability and demand – you know, all the important information that’s a pain to … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our friends at Last100: Steve Jobs finds time for hobby with Apple TV update The Apple TV Software Update 2.3 adds a variety of features to the company’s set-top box. Although it’s a minor update, it’s at least proof that Apple hasn’t abandoned the Apple TV completely. Zune … Read more
Last night at the DigitalFocus event (NYC), I spent a little time at the Philips table with the DLO HomeDock HD. It pipes iPod content to your HDTV, via a docking station and pleasant interface. At $250, it competes indirectly with AppleTV ($230) – with the HomeDock’s iPod acting as the ATV’s hard drive. However, … Read more
I’m a big fan of widgets – online, on TV, and on random gadgets that happen to be connected to the Internet – which is why news of a Widget Developer Challenge out of Motorola this week piqued my interest. (Keep in mind, I’m employed by Motorola, so take that as you will. But also … Read more
Curious about those DirecTV tuners coming for Windows 7 Media Center? You know, the ones everyone was told would arrive for Vista eventually… Well, Ben Drawbaugh of EngadgetHD is in Seattle visiting with the Microsoft eHome offices and got a bunch of photos of those DirecTV HDPC-20’s in action. For those of you interested (this … Read more
Hot on the heals of the Neuros Link unveiling, Verismo announces their VuNow video-to-the-TV solution will be available December 15th. Initially dubbed “the PoD” when NewTeeVee introduced it in June, VuNow provides the sort of features we’re coming to expect in the current generation of media extenders… In additional to typical, local media streaming and … Read more
The Financial Times reports that Hulu.com, the upstart video streaming and sharing site founded by NBC and backed by News Corp, is projected to equal or possibly even surpass YouTube in U.S. advertising revenue next year. This doesn’t remotely surprise me despite the fact that Google has been trying to monetize since acquiring YouTube two … Read more
The New Xbox Experience (NXE) has finally arrived. And I imagine many will be rushing home from work to check it out tonight.