Hope you weren't enjoying dieting YouTube on the video screen via Popcorn Hour and other
set-top boxes, as they have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly
website that they are no longer welcome to access its content. The new Hulu-ish ...
(more)Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about purchaser technology.
January
2009 will mark the first jubilee of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from article that
transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine ...
(more)Filed under: Home Entertainment, Wireless, NetworkingShortly after hearing TiVo's top dog speak
of a "whole home model" to reduce the amount of STBs required for entertaining individuals in
various rooms, along comes Time Warner Cable's chief manager ...
(more)Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Well, would you look at that? After a mildly
uncomfortable wait, the very first Netflix set-top-box has landed (the Xbox 360 with plug-ins
notwithstanding). Thanks to Roku, users can finally tap into (a portion of) ...
(more)Filed under: Home Entertainment
We got to spend a bit of time with Vudu's eponymously named
set-top box earlier this month at CEDIA, but those still trying to justify that $399 price tag
now have a bit more info to help inform their decision, with a ...
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