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- Hands on with new Roku Channel Store; is cable TV still worth the cost?
- I've been testing out the Roku HD-XR and just this last weekend was sent some beta bits for their newly announced Roku Channel Store. The Roku Channel Store is available via a software update on all three Roku players, the Roku SD, Roku HD original, and Roku HD-XR. After the...
- Tags: Cable Television, Roku Inc., Roku Channel Store, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Memory, Flash Memory, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- News to know: MSFT-News Corp.; YouTube; Chrome OS; California HDTV; Oracle-Sun
- A deal between Microsoft and News Corp., more about Chrome OS and new HDTV energy requirements in California are among the top headlines. by Sam Diaz
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., YouTube Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Poll: Where will you shop for an HDTV on Black Friday?
- There's still time for a few last-minute surprise deals, but we've already seen the Black Friday ads from Best Buy, Newegg, Target, and Wal-Mart leak online. Now, the big question is: Where will you go shopping for HDTVs, Blu-ray players and home theater gear when the holiday shopping season begins...
- Tags: HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-22
- California adopts tough new requirements on HDTV energy use: Visionary or draconian?
- For years, California has had the nation's toughest emissions standards to counter the pollution from its massive volume of cars and trucks. Now it's turned its sites on the energy consumption coming from its residents' HDTVs. The result? Earlier this week, the California Energy Commission unanimously passed new standards to...
- Tags: California, HDTV, Standards, Quality, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- Ecoute 1.3.3 (Mac)
- You can browse your entire library. Play your Music, Podcasts, Movies or TV Shows without having to launch iTunes. Integrated search to find any file you want to play. Search for any album artwork you want to apply. last.fm is built in Ecoute. It's designed to be minimal,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Library, PixiApps, Last.fm, Podcasts, TVs, Digital Music, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-11-21
- Vizio announces Black Friday deals on its LCD HDTVs, Blu-ray player
- You may have noticed that Vizio hasn't been prominent in the Black Friday ads leaked online from Best Buy, Target, or Wal-Mart (save for a 26-inch LCD HDTV early special through Wal-Mart). But that doesn't mean the company, which has remained the number-one shipper of HDTVs in the U.S. for...
- Tags: Costco, HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Blu-ray, Vizio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- The future of...remote controls
- How often do you lose the TV remote? ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das explains why the days of digging under couch cushions may be numbered thanks to sensors and chips that can "see" and "understand" hand gestures. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Cushion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Micro Video Capture 7.0.0.663 (Windows)
- With Micro Video Capture, you can record video and image from Webcam, TV tuner card, digital camera and other capture devices in real time, and all captured video files can be saved as AVI format by using any compression codec. What's more, it enables you to set each capture device's...
- Tags: Video Capture, Microsoft Windows, Video, TV Tuner, MicroVideo Software, Micro Video Capture, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Wal-mart Black Friday deals on HDTVs, Blu-ray players begin to leak online
- As the 800-pound gorilla of retailing, Wal-mart can get away with teasing consumers before Black Friday, offering some early deals a couple of weeks ago, as well as even releasing some more today, like a 26-inch 720p Vizio LCD HDTV for $248 that will be available starting Saturday. Even worse,...
- Tags: Plasma, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HDTV, Blu-ray, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
- At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the company’s Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CTO, Games, Game Players, Smart Phones, TVs, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
- At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the company?s Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. Lynch says Adobe is working with chip vendors and TV manufacturers on a variety of different television platforms...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CTO, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Flash
- Videos 2009-11-17
- Digital TV for PC 2.0 (Windows)
- Digital TV for PC plugs you directly into hundreds of worldwide LIVE digital television channels right over the Internet. Enjoy more channels than cable and satellite TV combined for a one-time fee less than one month of either of those services.
- Tags: 3b Software, PC, Microsoft Windows, Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Movie Genie for iPhone 1.2.2 (Mobile)
- Movie Genie for iPhone is a live IMDb client for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It lets you access movies, people, video games, and TV series on the Internet Movie Database through an intuitive interface, quickly and easily. It features search for any person, movie, TV title, video game on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Movie, Video Game, Taylan Pince, Games, TVs, Smart Phones, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.
- For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hope—is this...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Best Buy Co. Inc., Advertisement, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Managed Hosting, TVs, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- Smart Planet: Interactive TV builds literacy skills among low-income kids
- Carlin Llorente, a researcher at SRI International discusses recent findings that shows low-income pre-school kids benefiting from a curriculum that includes public media content inside the classroom. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Interactive TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Kitchen Brigade 1.0 (Windows)
- Congratulations! You`re a contestant on the hit TV show Kitchen Brigade! Over the next 66 days you must successfully open a variety of different restaurants, and make sure they run as efficiently as possible! Manage a kitchen full of chefs, serve delicious entrees, and add new upgrades, all while unlocking...
- Tags: Kitchen, SpinTop Games, Time Management, Microsoft Windows, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-11-13
- Electronics giants collect more than 3 million pounds of old TVs
- A tech recycling venture between Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba has collected more than 3 million pounds of old analog TVs. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Pound, Electronics, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Engineering, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Eco-friendly Sony HDTV turns off when you leave the room
- Sony says its KDL-VE5 series is "eco-friendly," and backs it up by incorporating something quite simple into the set: a "presence sensor" that automatically turns it off when you leave the room. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Sony Corp., HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Sony KDL-VE5 series -- photos
- Sony's KDL-VE5 series of eco-friendly LCD TVs brings an innovative new power-saving feature to the party, along with respectable picture quality. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Sony Corp., Photograph, Series, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-11-09
- Apple TV 3.0.1 (Mac)
- Now there's always something good on TV. With Apple TV, you can enjoy movies, TV shows, music, and podcasts in your iTunes library, plus photos and movie trailers, on your widescreen TV - wirelessly, from your Mac or PC. Apple TV is now available with either a 40GB or 160GB...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-11-07
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