Category: Home Theater
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NBC’s Videos Leaves iTunes for Amazon.com’s Unbox
Reading Time: 2 minutes PVRblog 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…
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Does AppleTV Hacking Presage Hacking on the iPhone?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Taking 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…
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Why Hasn’t Apple Released 720p Movies on iTunes Yet?
Reading Time: 2 minutes I 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…
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Olevia HDTV Brand Profiled in The New York Times
Reading Time: 2 minutes There 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…
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WSJ Prefers Teac LP-to-CD Recorder Stereo System over Ion iTTUSB
Reading Time: 2 minutes I 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…
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GE Debuts “One Second Theater” to Get TiVo Users to Study Their Ads
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last 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.…