When American broadcast network ABC announced it was canceling the long running soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live, soap fans were up in arms and scrambled to find a way to save their beloved shows.  The biggest target was trying to get Oprah Winfrey to put them on her OWN cable

It appears that Hulu has become the most popular girl at the school dance all of a sudden.  As we all know by now, the popular streaming video service is up for sale.  While there were some reports last week of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all expressing interest, it now seems that so many big

Netflix announced today that it will be expanding into 43 countries including Mexico and other unnamed locations though out  Central America, South America and the Caribbean before the year is out. At this time the company is not announcing what sort of pricing these countries will see, but they are promising an assortment of American,

It seems that talks are advancing in the potential sale of Hulu, and the companies circling the prize are surely not small by any measure. News came last week that surprised the tech world that Hulu was putting itself up for sale.  Despite the fact that it is on track to pull in $500 million

If you were looking forward to getting in on the beta test of MoviePass this weekend, we’re sorry to say that you need to lower your expectations. The other day we brought you the news that a new service called MoviePass was going to launch in San Francisco this weekend that would allow you to watch unlimited

Roku fans are die-hard about their little boxes of IPTV joy, and now there are some new ones on the horizon. It seems a trio of Roku 2 boxes have just passed through the FCC. Dubbed with model numbers 3000X, 3050X, and 3100X, the numbers likely indicate HD, XD and XS versions of the box.

  Samsung just sent me their BD-D5300 Blu-Ray Player for review. Which more or less means they sent me their new Smart Hub software for review, since I am not a Blu-Ray expert. But I have been spending lots of quality time with various forms of connected TV over the past six months, so I

It seems that someone has determined that the key to the success of services such as Netflix has been the concept of one price for an unlimited number of uses.  Now a new service named MoviePass is going to bring that same concept to the movie theater, but can it succeed? MoviePass is launching as

Monsoon has been selling placeshifters for awhile now, first under the Hava brand name, and now called Vulkano. The entry-level Vulkano Flow is a $99 Slingbox fighter that offers up the core functionality of a placeshifter with a few bonuses and a few notable absences. For the uninitiated, a placeshifter is a piece of hardware that

It’s the rumor that just refuses to die. Once again the story that Apple is preparing an actual Apple Television – can’t really call it Apple TV as that product already exists – has shown up around the blogosphere.  This rumor seems to pop up every few months like clockwork, the last time being back

Yesterday Belkin announced its new ScreenCast TV Adapter, and last night at GdgtNY I had a chance to check it out in person. The adapter lets you connect any Intel wireless display-enabled laptop to an HDTV via a small box. You attach the box to your television via HDMI, and once connected you can stream

Finally — Boxee software users will be getting some love. It seemed for awhile there that all the attention was being showered on people who owned the actual Boxee Box hardware. The online content streaming program offered an extremely novel and fresh interface back in 2007, when Boxee debuted. It allowed users to navigate and

Really, does anyone look good in 3D glasses? They’re kind of goofy, from the retro blue/red cardboard ones (the 50s called — they want their glasses back) to the high-on-price, short-on-style resin/plastic ones from today’s 3D TV brands (would you like some Z Cavariccis and Drakkar Noir to wear with those?). No, thank you, sir.

It seems that the sales of Blu-ray discs just aren’t getting to the levels that Hollywood hoped for.  Combined with the news from last week that DVD sales are in steep decline, and you can see that the age of physical media is definitely looking as if it’s on life support. According to a report

The age of the giant DVD collections in our homes certainly appears to be coming to an end. According to Deadline, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman was speaking at the Nomura Securities U.S. Media Conference when he said that all of Viacom’s divisions – which include Paramount Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon and many more – were going to have to review

The 3D fad is ruining our lives. I don’t mean the awkward looking glasses, which, on a four-eyes like myself, gives us like six eyes, nor the way some of my less balanced friends get dizzy after watching it for more than five minutes. Both of those are bad. The issue is how 3D is

  Last Thursday the folks from Samsung flew a bunch of media folks down to LA, took us to the DreamWorks Animation campus, and told us all about their 2011 line of Smart TVs. We saw the D8000 LED and Plasma sets in action, got an in-depth tour of the new SmartHub connected TV system,

If current hiring listings are anything to go by, Netflix is preparing to expand its services into a lot more of the world. According to Business Insider, Netflix has placed numerous job listings on its site that are looking to fill positions such as a director of global marketing communications and people fluent in “Dutch,

I’m headed down to Burbank on a jet plane today to check out Samsung’s new Smart TV lineup. Between 3D capabilities, online video, Android apps, and a crazy new “borderless” design, there’s a lot going on with Sammy’s new flat panels, or so it would seem. But since I’m going to be spending the day

Have you ever looked at your last-gen or older devices, wondering if you could squeeze just a bit more functionality out of it? After all, not everyone has the inclination or bank account to be an early adopter rocking the latest gadgets at all times. Or maybe money isn’t the issue. Perhaps the functionality we

Netflix has struck a deal with Miramax, and will begin streaming movies from the studio in June of this year. The multi-year agreement includes hundreds of Miramax films, with new films added on a rotating basis. Miramax’s deal with Netflix is the first time that any of the studio’s titles will be available through a

Google I/O doesn’t start until tomorrow (I’ll be there!), but the Google Family PR machine is already in full force today. YouTube Head Salar Kamangar announced the expansion of the video portal’s movie rental service this morning via a post on the official YouTube Blog. YouTube will be adding roughly 3,000 new movie titles for

My big beef with in-home 3D TV is that you have to wear glasses to get the effect. My second biggest beef is that I still think 3D is kinda silly, but that’s a separate story. The problem with 3D glasses is twofold: First, wearing glasses to watch TV in your house is a pain.

Typically when a company drops $320 million on a purchase, you would think they would have a clear idea of their plans. To hear Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen talk about the fate of Blockbuster Video, that wouldn’t seem to be the case. Speaking during the company’s quarterly earnings call with analysts on Monday, Deadline

The HBO Go on demand video service has made its way to mobile devices finally, but don’t bother downloading it if you don’t already subscribe to the network. There has been a lot of talk about how people would love to see a streaming solution for HBO’s notoriously high quality original content.  The problem is the company