Operation Gadget

Category: Home Theater

  • NBC’s Videos Leaves iTunes for Amazon.com’s Unbox

    Reading Time: 2 minutesPVRblog pointed out that NBC has decided to pull its programming out of iTunes and move it to Amazon.com Unbox, a fairly new service from Amazon.com that competes with iTunes for video download sales. I think this is a mistake on NBC Universal’s part, and it has little to do with the…

  • Does AppleTV Hacking Presage Hacking on the iPhone?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTaking a look at all of the recent articles on hacking AppleTV that are appearing on technology-related blogs and forums: Streaming from URLs on Apple TV Apple’s not fighting back against Apple TV hacks We just got xvid working on the Apple TV (to name a few)… I’m starting to wonder…

  • Why Hasn’t Apple Released 720p Movies on iTunes Yet?

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI got back to thinking about AppleTV this morning after I read A week with AppleTV: A Review on PVRblog.com. This cool little set-top box is designed to stream video content from your iTunes account to your HD television. It supports 720p resolution out-of-the-box, but most of the video content available on…

  • Olevia HDTV Brand Profiled in The New York Times

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a very interesting article about the Olevia brand of High Definition Televisions in yesterday’s New York Times. The company behind the brand, Syntax-Brillan Corporation sold almost $250 million dollars worth of HDTVs in the fourth quarter of 2006 alone. One of the key reasons that the Olevia brand is successful…

  • WSJ Prefers Teac LP-to-CD Recorder Stereo System over Ion iTTUSB

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI was impressed with Walter Mossberg and Katherine Boehret’s comparison between the LP-to-CD Recorder Stereo System made by Teac America and the Ion iTTUSB Turntable that was published in today’s Wall Street Journal. According to the article, they decided to do this comparison in response to a steady stream of questions from…

  • iTunes Purchases May Be As Much of an Influence on Network Programmers as Nielsen Data

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteVerne Gay of Newsday.com wrote a column called How iTunes saved ‘The Office’ that I’ve been meaning to point out. Kathleen has fallen in love with The Office in the past few months, but if there’s truth to what Verne Gay is saying, the program wouldn’t have lasted on NBC’s schedule…

  • Seattle Times Reviewer Thinks That The Sony PS3 is Too Expensive

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell pointed out that Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times didn’t like The Sony PlayStation 3 as much as he would have if it had been less expensive. Dudley wrote: Don’t get me wrong. The PS3 is an amazing machine. I’d love to have one sitting beneath my TV. But…

  • Jason Fried of 37 Signals Finds that Performance of Comcast DVRs Has Improved

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEarlier today, Jason Fried of the web application service provider 37 Signals reported that he had noticed an improvement in the responsiveness of the Comcast DVR thanks to the most recent software update pushed by Comcast. According to Fried: I have a Comcast DVR. It recorded on time, the menus and…

  • GE Debuts “One Second Theater” to Get TiVo Users to Study Their Ads

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night Kathleen and I watched the latest episode of The Apprentice that we had recorded on our TiVo. The program originally aired on Monday, but we just freed up enough time to watch it. During this program, GE aired one of its ads in its One Second Theater series. These…