By Sean P. Aune |
Keep hitting refresh folks as we bring you all of the latest news from the Sony Google TV launch event! First up, it’s not just TVs getting the Google TV treatment, but also a Blu-ray player. So, if you’re hankering for some Google TV in…
By Sean P. Aune |
People like to wax poetic endlessly about how services like Netflix Watch Instantly and Hulu are going to make people finally cut the proverbial cable that brings television programming into their homes. To date, however, there has not been much conclusive proof of this actually…
By Sean P. Aune |
We mentioned yesterday how the pricing had leaked for the upcoming Sony Google TV sets, and it got me to thinking about just how crazy far televisions have come over the years. This commercial is from sometime back in the 1940′s for a DuMont television…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’ve already gotten the official word on the Logitech Revue, the company’s entry into the new Google TV program, but what about these Sony TVs we’ve been hearing so much about? The official launch isn’t until next Tuesday, but it appears that at least some…
By Sean P. Aune |
With everything about Google TV finally coming to be common knowledge, Logitech has made a big announcement about its streaming device that you can add to any existing TV, the Revue. While a lot of people have focused on the Sony televisions that will come…
By Sean P. Aune |
After months of waiting, we’ve finally heard some news from Google about what we can expect out of Google TV, the company’s upcoming Internet-enabled television service. To be honest, it’s about what everyone expected it to be, mixing together Web browsing with streaming video from…
By Sean P. Aune |
You have to laugh sometimes when you see two stories that were written completely separate of one another, and yet they have an odd impact when you on each other when you take both into account. Case in point, who will be buying prescription 3D glasses when…
By Leslie Poston |
Recently I embarked on a search for a second monitor. As an Apple junkie, I really wanted to get an Apple Cinema display to go with the rest of the Mac computers in the house. but as a realistic person on a budget, I went…
By Jack McGrath |
During Apple’s Keynote last Wednesday, Steve Jobs admitted that the first iteration of Apple TV was not a big hit. This was due to the content, price of content, lack of HD compatibility, storage management, and lack of streaming content. However, it appears that with…
By Sean P. Aune |
It appears that the Google TV service is getting that much closer to reality as Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now talking about launch dates, as well as what electronics manufacturers are partnering up with them. It looks like it is going to be a…
By Sean P. Aune |
While it seems that television viewers are falling in love with streaming media in all sorts of forms, it appears that the companies behind shows also love it, but at least one television creator would rather do without it. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) is…
By Sean P. Aune |
Remember how most people have been saying they would love to have a 3D TV, but they had no interest in it until it no longer required special glasses? Well, it appears Toshiba is preparing to test just how much people are willing to back…
By Sean P. Aune |
Craig Moffett, a cable industry analyst at Bernstein, was quoted in The New York Times this past weekend as saying, “[canceling cable subscriptions for Internet viewing is] perhaps the most overhyped and overanticipated phenomenon in tech history.” Somehow we doubt he was too excited about…
By Sean P. Aune |
Watch out world, but it looks like some cable and satellite operators are finally getting the idea that people don’t want to be tied to their family rooms to watch the content they pay a monthly fee for. It’s about time they figured this out.…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would seem that Americans aren’t quite as in love with remnants of 20th century technology as much as they even were last year according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. Entitled “The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone” ,…
By Sean P. Aune |
According a recent report from The Nikkei, a leading business journal in Japan, sales of 3D TVs aren’t huge yet, but prices are dropping, and sales are on the up tick there. Although only 2.6 percent of televisions sized 40-inches or larger that were sold…
By Winston Sih |
With the reports of the Apple TV being named iTV, U.K. TV network ITV is shaking their head in dismay. A report from Pocket-Lint indicates that ITV acting group director of communications says that ITV’s brand has been “vigorously defended” in the past. No word…
By Sean P. Aune |
When Apple first introduced the Apple TV back in 2006 it was codenamed “iTV”. When the device finally shipped in 2007 it was renamed to Apple TV, and the jokes were born about how an Apple product that wasn’t performing so well had become Steve…
By Jack McGrath |
As Discovery Channel’s 23rd “Shark Week” comes to a close, it is interesting to see how technology has affected the history of the television series. During Shark Week, Discovery airs shows based around the surreptitious, malefic sea creature. The relatively new television channel began the…
By Sean P. Aune |
You know that nice HD TV you bought for your living room just a couple years ago? Apparently you are about to dump it and fully embrace 3D TV within the next three years. I know, I was surprised by this proclamation as you are, but apparently…
By Sean P. Aune |
Considering the price of cable and satellite subscriptions, and the increasing availability of watching television programs via other means, do we still really need those traditional boxes attached to our televisions? With the launch of Hulu Plus, the new paid subscription portion of the Hulu…
By Sean P. Aune |
There seems to be a new rumor du jour when it comes to Apple, and that is that the company is prepping a new version of the Apple TV media box to make another run at gaining a foothold in our family rooms. While the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Good bye HDMI, and hello HDBaseT. It seems that not everyone is in love with HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) as the default connection for true high definition of signal carrying. Teaming up with Valens Semiconductor, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and LG Electronics have formed the HDBaseT…
By Sean P. Aune |
Right now the FIFA World Cup is happening in South Africa. While this is a momentous time that comes around every four years for soccer (football to anyone outside of the United States), something else historic is happening: The first sporting event transmitted in 3D.…
