Operation Gadget

Category: Home Theater

  • Beware of the Word “Always” in Tech Press Headlines

    Reading Time: 2 minutesMartin O’Donnell sent me a link to this article on DailyFinance.com, Roku Will Always Offer the Ultimate Set-Top Box, in which Sam Mattera suggests that Roku will achieve and maintain this distinction because it has the least conflicts of interest of any of its current or expected competitors. According to the article,…

  • Flip Mino HD on a One-Day Sale for $119.99 at Amazon.com

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAmazon.com has a one-day sale on the Flip Mino HD in black finish, $119.99 while supplies last. Amazon says that this offer is only valid on December 16, 2009. I gave Kathleen a Flip Mino HD just like this one last Christmas and she loves it. It has allowed us to…

  • The Wall Street Journal Calls Falling Gadget Prices “Deflation”

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s an article in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal called Falling Prices Starting to Hit Electronics Retailers. The article speaks of “… rapidly falling prices for televisions, computers and other gadgets that are adding to the woes of recession-scarred retailers.” Apparently there’s been a 26.5-percent increase in television sales, but…

  • Gadget Links: Stuff I Should Have Posted a While Ago Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTopeak Mini 6 on CoolTools: “This incredibly compact, bike-oriented multi-tool has five different sizes of Allen wrench plus a Phillips screwdriver head, all of which folds up into a little pod about the size of a walnut. Sometimes I’ll carry it in my pocket or toss it in shoulder bag; mostly I…

  • Comments on Steve Jobs’ 2008 MacWorld Expo Keynote

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI expected to be wowed by Steve Jobs’ 2008 MacWorld Expo Keynote a lot more than I actually was. However, I was doing other things while the event was going on (real work), and the products that I was most interested in (mainstream Mac laptops) didn’t get addressed in this keynote at…

  • Then FiOS TV Went Down with an Odd Set Top Box Problem

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAt The Home Office, the week of gadget craziness continued. On Sunday night my son Jimmy wanted to watch Teletubbies on FiOS Video On Demand before he went to bed. (Kathleen suggested it and Jimmy got excited about the idea, so that was the plan.) Anyway, we brought up the FiOS VOD…

  • Gadget Links: 8 Days to Choose Edition

    Reading Time: 2 minutesApple Releases a New “Get a Mac” Ad Co-starring a Football Referee on Apple.com: Pretty good attention to detail. The referee is wearing a white hat and a uniform that is very close to that worn in many college football leagues. What I would add to this is the referee turning on…

  • Neuros OSD, Open Source Video Recorder, Grabs My Attention

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn article called What This Gadget Can Do Is Up to You really caught my eye today when it appeared on The New York Times website. This article describes the Neuros OSD Media Center, a sleek looking video recorder that looks like it could have quite a few immediate applications. What…

  • Steve Garfield’s Blog Covering Comcast Rollout of TiVo Software on Motorola DVR Boxes

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePVRblog pointed out that Steve Garfield is blogging about the Comcast deployment of TiVo software on their existing Motorola DVR set-top boxes. I found an article on Steve’s site that includes a Ustream video tour of the Comcast / TiVo user interface. Overall, the experience looks similar to the TiVo Series…