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SlingPlayer Mobile (iPhone) 1.1 (Mobile)

Watch and control your home TV and DVR on your iPhone or iPod touch. When connected to a Slingbox SOLO, PRO, or PRO-HD, SlingPlayer Mobile iPhone will play anything you can see on your TV at home on your iPhone or iPod touch. Now you can change channels, control your...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Set-top Box, Set-top, Mobile, Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2009-09-25

GoogleTV being created by Motorola

A couple years ago I blogged about what I thought would eventually happen -- Google would create an internet connected set-top box. Well, it took years for something to really happen on that front, but now it sounds like Motorola is going to be taking the project on. ...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Motorola Inc., Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top box

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top boxBut what features will the customer get......meaning how many features will the cable companies disable, or charge extra for?Also what if I have a HDTV in my living and a regular TV in my bedroom what if?...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, TV & Home Theater, multi-room DVR, digital video recorder, Sling Media, EchoStar Communications Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., set-top box, set-top, cable

Discussion threads 2009-04-05

Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top box

With competition from satellite and fiber-optic TV competitors coming from one side, and the Internet from the other, the cable industry needs to deliver new products to keep their subscribers from defecting to the alternatives. At last week's 2009 Cable Show, tru2way technology—an open application platform for set-top box developers—was...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Time Warner Cable Inc., Sling Media, Digital Video Recorder, EchoStar Communications Corp., DVR, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Video, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Do consumers want widgets on their HDTVs? Survey says definitely maybe.

TV manufacturers seem to think this is the year of the widget, as many are prepping sets with network connections to run small streaming apps that display around the perimeter of the screen. Of course, the big question is: Will consumers actually purchase these sets, especially...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, HDTV, TV, Survey, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-03-15

CES 2009: Intel recruits Comcast, Samsung, Toshiba for its Widget Channel Internet TV initiative

While Yahoo has been grabbing headlines this week with its partnerships with TV makers like Samsung and Vizio to bring its Internet TV widget platform to new sets, Intel wants to make sure people remember that it also introduced the underlying API with Yahoo last fall at the Intel Developers...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Internet TV, Comcast Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Ace Computers to release $999 CableCard-equipped home theater PCs

Ace Computers to release $999 CableCard-equipped home theater PCsHTPC must turn into iSTBThe concept of an HTPC makes perfect sense from the engineer's perspective... but it does not reflect the reality in terms of what the market demands.That does not mean that the market would not demand Media Center technology...

Tags: Media Center PCs, computer, STB, Media Center PC, iSTB, HTPC, PC, CableCard, home theater

Discussion threads 2009-01-01

Vudu takes HD lead; enough to stay alive?

Vudu, the product and service that brings downloadable movies to TV sets, is chugging full-speed-ahead when it comes to adding HD titles to its on-demand video service. This week, there were reports that Vudu's catalog now has more than 1,100 HD titles, leading a pack that includes AppleTV and Xbox....

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, TiVo Inc., Vudu, Tv & Home Theater, DVR, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming (not so soon)

Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming not so soonoh yea! Makes it that much easier to wire tvs into the bath and above the.bed. heheThe whole house will be penetrated! :)

Tags: Wireless LANs, TV & Home Theater, cable set-top box, not-so, set-top box, Wi-Fi, cable

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming (not so soon)

Cable TV providers are planning to add wireless to their set-top boxes, according to panelists at a recent Connect event sponsored by Park Associates and the CEA. A report in EE Times say cable companies like Cox Communications are planning to...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Cox Communications Inc., Wireless LANs, Ultrawideband (UWB), Wi-Fi, Cable, Wireless, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Rik Fairlie

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Netflix's set-top box: Is it really a game changer?

Netflix's set-top box: Is it really a game changer?This is going to push ISP's even further over the edge...NTyet another boxThis is just another set top box in a growing stack of set top boxes. Pretty soon, my set top boxes will tower over my not-insignificant television. Netflix,...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, Digital rights management (DRM), TVs, Consumer electronics, AppleTV, game, NetFlix Inc., set-top, set-top box, TV, Akimbo, digital-rights management, Microsoft Corp., DVD, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

Netflix's set-top box: Is it really a game changer?

The reviews are in and Netflix's set-top box--the Netflix Player by Roku--is a hottie. Then again we've heard this set-top box euphoria kick in before. Is Netflix really the company that will crack the code? Forgive the skepticism, but we've been down this road before with Apple...

Tags: Game, NetFlix Inc., Set-top Box, Set-top, Review, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-20

CES: HD Camcorders, and set-top boxes, and cheap Blu-ray, oh my!

CES: HD Camcorders, and set-top boxes, and cheap Blu-ray, oh my!re:vod and cableCARDjust a headsup regarding cc's and dvr's. presently, cc's are capable of vod, its just the hardware is not enabled. on the various tivo forums, this has been discussed quite often. at some time in the future i'm...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, Blu-ray, DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, HD Camcorders, camcorder, set-top, set-top box, Consumer Electronics Show

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

CES: HD Camcorders, and set-top boxes, and cheap Blu-ray, oh my!

Another long day of wandering the floor at CES yielded some solid, albeit not paradigm-shifting, discoveries. And don't worry, no surge protectors today. Canon VIXIA HF10 HD Camcorder With my wife due to give birth to our first child in a couple of months,...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Set-top Box, Set-top, Camcorder, Blu-ray, Canon Inc., HF 10, HF10, Funai, Cable, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-01-09

CES: Will 2008 finally be the year of the SlingCatcher?

It's déjà vu all over again. It's been almost exactly a year since Sling Media announced the SlingCatcher and Clip+Sling functionality (at least year's Consumer Electronics Show), but thus far, beyond some private betas, there has been no public sign of life for either of the enticing...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Set-top Box, Set-top, PC, Sling Media, SlingCatcher, Slingbox, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-01-06

Here's why Netflix set-top box will only be a modest success

Here's why Netflix set-top box will only be a modest successA Blueray/HDDVD with Netflix may make senseThere are lots of people like me that will look to get an HD player some day. Having an on-line access to content would be interesting since it would be integrated. Dunno, let...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, DVD, Consumer electronics, NetFlix Inc., set-top, set-top box

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

Here's why Netflix set-top box will only be a modest success

The blogosphere is all abuzz about Netflix's announcement that they are developing a set-top box with LG Electronics that will let Netflix subscribers watch movies streamed from the Web to their TVs. I am sorry, but I don't see a huge behavioral shift here. ...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Set-top Box, Set-top, Problem, Blogosphere, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Netflix, LG to offer movie set-top box

Netflix, LG to offer movie set-top boxMight workIt might work. Obviously a broadband internet connection will be required. Will it work through a home router? What about a DVD ROM? If included, that might be the tipping point between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. Could something like Web-TV...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, DVD, Broadband Internet, Consumer electronics, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, movie set-top box, NetFlix Inc., LG Electronics Inc., set-top box, movie

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

Can Netflix capture the set-top box?

Can Netflix capture the set-top box?Set top box is eventually going to be the digital hubI believe in a few year's time we will see the multitude of set top boxes merged into one "computerized" set top box. I like the idea of a Netflix set top box for digital...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Sony PlayStation 3, Comcast Corp., set-top, set-top box, NetFlix Inc., movie, DVD

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

Google's big TV plan: Android on set-top boxes?

Following Credit Suisse's $900 price target for Google one nagging question remains: Where--and how--is Google going to generate large TV advertising revenue? If you recall Credit Suisse analyst Heath Terry slapped a big price target on Google and made some assumptions for 2010. One of them was...

Tags: Google Inc., Set-top Box, Partnership, Set-top, TV, Android, Schonfeld, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-21