While some appear content to sit on the sidelines, TiVo’s moving forward with announced plans to offer foreign, independent, and Disney video on demand services – in addition the existing Amazon library. Jaman‘s indie and foreign film content launches today, with Disney film rentals via CinemaNow arriving next week. Both services will be provided in … Read more
While some appear content to sit on the sidelines, Boxee beats the big-time HTPC software companies to the punch by integrating Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, and MySpaceTV streaming players into their software. This alone should give Vista Media Center, SageTV and BeyondTV pause as web-based video/television/movie content has clearly become important to the end user. … Read more
From Apple’s quarterly earnings call, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha: Bill Fearnley – FTN Midwest: […] Steve, how are you thinking about Apple TV now? […] If you look at the digital living room category and you look at the upcoming year of 2009, how do you look at the digital living room opportunity and … Read more
Davis just tipped me off to this cute and well done, as in solid production values, Halloween TiVo YouTube video. Background details can be found on MySpace, but what I’d really like to ask Adam is if I win something for identifying that Greatest American Hero t-shirt?
In case you haven’t tired of political advertising rhetoric, now you can catch up on campaign commercials of yesteryear. The Living Room Candidate offers an archive of presidential political TV ads from 1952 to the present. Want a refresher on Perot’s platform in 1992? Curious about the evolution of negative campaigning? Still waiting to see … Read more
DirecTV subscribers will soon be able to stream recorded shows to PCs within the home. While the DirecTV2PC documentation is light and the beta download is broken, it’s probably safe to assume this requires a HR20, HR21 or HR22 DVR receiver and applies to Windows only… As DirecTV2PC is powered by PC video company Cyberlink. … Read more
Leaving comments across the blogosphere… Bad Economy Hitting HDTV Sales? Yah, I think the DTV transition should keep HDTV sales moving along. Though perhaps at a slower pace. The government isn’t doing the shut off though, they’ve mandated that broadcasters stop broadcasting over-the-air on those frequencies (which they’ve licensed). Given the early NC experiment, I … Read more
The first Tru2way cable services and retail devices are now available, allowing consumers to dump their cable boxes.