By Roy Choi |
We are huge sports fans here at TechnoBuffalo. We all have our favorite teams and enjoy gathering with friends to take in a game at home. With the NFL nearing the playoffs, college football entering the bowl season, and NBA basketball well under way, the…
By Sean P. Aune |
Warner Brothers is loosening its grip a bit on the 28-day rental embargo for video stores next week, but no such luck for kiosks or Netflix. As far back as Oct. 2010, Warner Brothers has been trying to delay video rentals by 28 days after…
By Adriana Lee |
Everyone deserves a personal cave of awesome, where the stresses and mundanity of normal life can recede. But few have dared to go where this Star Trek-themed home theater has gone — right onto the bridge of a starship. This creation is like a sci-fi…
By Sean P. Aune |
Twentieth Century Fox is jumping into the digital media pool with both feet with the introduction of its Digital HD initiative. Up until now, Fox has been staying out of the UltraViolet streaming fight, but now it seems it wants in, and is doing so…
By Brandon Russell |
Cutting the umbilical cord away from guzzling cable companies is a utopian dream for many, but it’s just so dang hard to resist certain content. Case in point: Shows offered by HBO. And unfortunately, the company has thus far shot down the idea of giving…
By Brandon Russell |
Hisense on Monday announced the Pulse with Google TV, a $99 machine that promises to bring apps, Web, search and live TV to your living room. Available in mid-November, the Hisense Pulse will further stoke your love for Google by bringing you “true plug-and-play versatility,…
By Noah Kravitz |
Technically this is an eyes and ears on, but you get the idea: up close with Google’s new ball of living room fun, the Nexus Q.This little $299 orb of zinc and plastic streams audio and video content from Google Play and YouTube to “the…
By Brandon Russell |
Studios will put darn near anything on TV if there’s the potential for money to be made and, darn it, this has cash grab written all over it. According to Deadline, CBS has reportedly ordered an unscripted pilot of… Draw Something, the mobile One Hit…
By Sean P. Aune |
If there was ever an example that the film studios are desperate to boost home video sales, it has to be Prometheus. The new film from Ridley Scott opened in U.S. theaters on June 8, but as of June 2 you could pre-order the film…
By Sean P. Aune |
If you’re curious exactly what the Ikea television system is going to look like, the company showed it off recently at the Milan Furniture Fair.…
By Sean P. Aune |
In case consumers needed another reason to dump physical media, get ready for even more annoyances when you fire up that new Blu-ray disc. It was announced last week that the familiar FBI warning that tells you about the evils of pirating is going to…
By Killian Bell |
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is set to add a new line to its collection this fall named “Uppleva,” which will feature entire home entertainment systems neatly integrated into small, stylish cabinets. The range includes three designs, all of which include an LED smart TV with…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to a recent forecast, you may want to start saving your pennies now to pay your cable TV bills come 2020. The NPD Group research firm released a new forecast last week for where pay TV bills are headed, and it isn’t pretty.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Bad news for fans of Terra Nova; Netflix will not be stepping into save the show after all. It was reported earlier this month that Netflix was in talks with Fox Television to save the cancelled sci-fi series, Terra Nova. According to Deadline, after two…
By Sean P. Aune |
Americans are going to watch a lot more movies at home this year, but the entertainment industry won’t be making nearly as much money from it. According to a new report from IHS Screen Digest, the number of films bought or rented online this year will…
By Sean P. Aune |
Hulu announced today that it is making some updates to the Web version of its player to make it a little bit more user friendly. We got a very brief note from Hulu this morning that they’ve made some much needed improvements to the Web…
By Sean P. Aune |
Amazon announced this morning that has struck yet another deal to bolster its Prime Instant Videos selection. Hit shows from Discovery Communications will be joining the growing roster of content available via Amazon Prime Instant Videos. The new selection will include previous seasons of shows…
By Sean P. Aune |
If you’re itching to convert all of your movies from physical media to digital copies, start heading out to your nearby Walmart stores. Walmart announced today that starting April 16 that you will be able to head into more 3,500 stores and purchase a digital…
By Sean P. Aune |
If you’ve been looking to build up your digital movie collection, Walmart may be announcing your dream – or nightmare – tomorrow. Not all digital copies are created equal, consumers are learning. While a lot of Blu-ray packages now come with a redemption code for…
By Sean P. Aune |
It appears Netflix is still in the market for original content, and it’s next possible target is the just recently canceled Terra Nova. The cancellation for the new Fox sci-fi series Terra Nova came down just last week, and the producers have been shopping around…
By Sean P. Aune |
Redbox passed the milestone of 2 billion rentals this past weekend, and to celebrate the milestone, they’re giving away free DVD rentals today. It took Redbox around six years to hit 1 billion rentals, but the second milestone of 2 billion took only 18 months.…
By Jon Rettinger |
A high-ranking source with a major electronics retailer has told TechnoBuffalo to expect the long-rumored Apple TV set this April, or possibly May at the latest. Speaking on conditions of anonymity, the source said they’ve seen “gorgeous, very thin” pre-production versions of the set in…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that the streaming video providers are no longer just battling it out over what rights they can secure for existing content, but also how much of their own original productions they can release. Hulu has released the first trailer for its upcoming series,…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’ve seen the news break about Roku coming out with a new class of device that transforms the “streaming box” into a wee little HDMI dongle — one that doesn’t require a separate remote control (it can use the TV’s remote), but delivers all the…
