Forgive me if I’m a little slow in covering the “news” that came out yesterday, as I assume the blog-dwelling, TiVo fans and investors are up to speed on the New England Comcast Motorola TiVo service rollout. Details from TiVo’s release: The new service combines TiVo’s award-winning interface and exclusive features, including WishList® searches, TiVo … Read more
Within a few days last month, two Rock Band guitar strum bars gave out. Whereas I initiated a guitar replacement via EA’s self help site, Blake (aka Sling Media CEO) took matters into his own hands. After removing about a dozen screws, he discovered a small leaf switch was no longer making contact when strummed. … Read more
Anybody else notice how much bad company news there’s been post-CES? Digeo killed its planned retail products and laid off half its staff. Sprint is eliminating 4,000 jobs. Yahoo hasn’t announced specific numbers, but the word is that “1,500-2,500 jobs may be eliminated in the next two weeks.” (There’s an interesting post on GigaOM on … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our other blogs: Networking HDTV at Home: Connected Home 2 Go Snapstream Shuttering Couchville TV Listings: Brent Evans Geek Tonic Broadband by the Byte: Connected Home 2 Go Hauppauge Unveils Real-Time USB HD Recording: Brent Evans Geek Tonic WiMAX at CES: Connected Home 2 Go
While most of the video exhibits at CES focused on big-screen TVs, DVD format wars and place-shifting, there was another video trend on the floor: video surveillance. Check out this demonstration from Forensic Visions. It shows a wireless set-up for monitoring several different mobile cameras at once. The camera in this video is hidden in … Read more
As you can see from the picture above, I pulled the trigger on an iPhone. Yes I’m a sucker for sexy gadgets, but I also had a few practical reasons for picking up the handset. The obvious one (given who I am and what I cover) is video playback. A decent chunk of my downtime … Read more
At CES, Logitech introduced their first updated Squeezebox since acquiring Slim Devices. The Squeezebox Duet ($399) does a nice job mashing-up Logitech’s discontinued Wireless DJ product and the prior Squeezebox by uncoupling the music display and controls from the audio playback hardware. As with all Squeezebox products, the device streams audio from a computer or … Read more
Of course, I’m biased. In fact, I may actually have been the guy who named this product – prior to joining Sling. Whereas a Slingbox is desgined to transmit video content, the SlingCatcher is designed to receive video… and display it on your TV. No mere media extender, Catcher is the only product that will … Read more