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- Media Center gives digital cable tuners a new lease on life
- Blu-ray ...... I'm surprised to see you mention Blu-ray ... While I have Blu-ray capability, I've taken the upscaling route because I have a vast DVD library and after objectively looking at it, can't see the benefits. Going from DVD to upscaled DVD is an improvement, but when I compare...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Time Warner Cable to offer multi-room DVRs, Echostar to deliver Sling Media set-top box
- With competition from satellite and fiber-optic TV competitors coming from one side, and the Internet from the other, the cable industry needs to deliver new products to keep their subscribers from defecting to the alternatives. At last week's 2009 Cable Show, tru2way technology—an open application platform for set-top box developers—was...
- Blog posts 2009-04-05
- Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - Frank Eliason's reply
- As I mentioned in the post Outrageous Comcast updates to customer agreement - all your systems belong to us, Comcast has revised its residential customer services agreement and imposed those revisions on subscribers. Here is a pointer to the revised customer services agreement for those of the legal persuasion. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-04
- Interactive Television Is Here Again. Want Anchovies With That?
- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You’ve been waiting for more than three decades to “interact†with your television, voting for your favorite local candidate, shopping for shoes, or, of course, ordering a pizza. That was the implicit promise of cable television systems, since the launch...
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to us
- Outrageous Comcast updates to cutomer agreement - all your systems belong to usJust reply, NO!One of our local newspaper writers responded to similar tactics from credit card companies by imposing HIS own set of rules on THEIR transactions to his account.You might try sending a similarly worded notice accepting their...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- CES 2009: Intel recruits Comcast, Samsung, Toshiba for its Widget Channel Internet TV initiative
- While Yahoo has been grabbing headlines this week with its partnerships with TV makers like Samsung and Vizio to bring its Internet TV widget platform to new sets, Intel wants to make sure people remember that it also introduced the underlying API with Yahoo last fall at the Intel Developers...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Vizio unveils $1,999.99 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV for January release
- Vizio unveils $1,999.99 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV for January releasebest yet?I've been keeping my eye on the Vizio VP505XVT which has gotten such great reviews and it's almost time to upgrade from my SV420XVT, but now that I see this is releasing I think I'm gonna hold out for another...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- First tru2way HDTVs available from Panasonic
- First tru2way HDTVs available from Panasonicadd the DVR and I'm inTruthfully, the most used feature of my cable box is the DVR digital video recorder. I always use the time slipping, and the what did they say quick rewind feature.Without the DVR the cable card is useless to me.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ80Q
- The Panasonic PZ80Q plasmas are the first TVs to include built-in support for Tru2way, which is designed to enable full access to digital cable TV services without the need for a separate cable box. Aside from the Tru2way support, the PZ80Q models are effectively identical to the PZ80U models--meaning that...
- Product reviews 2008-10-20
- Panasonic Viera TH-42PZ80Q
- The Panasonic PZ80Q plasmas are the first TVs to include built-in support for Tru2way, which is designed to enable full access to digital cable TV services without the need for a separate cable box. Aside from the Tru2way support, the PZ80Q models are effectively identical to the PZ80U models--meaning that...
- Product reviews 2008-10-20
- News to know: Ballmer on Windows 7; T-Mobile G1; Google's 3Q
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive' Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista... Ballmer: 'Windows...
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- First tru2way HDTVs available from Panasonic
- The first generation of CableCards was pretty much a bust, as cable companies didn't want anything to do with the devices, which could replace a set-top box by being installed in TVs or home theater PCs HTPCs. The disinterest was due to the fact that the technology only allowed...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Comcast introduces open-cable platform
- Comcast introduces open-cable platformI don't mind buying more stuffas long as it works exactly the way I want. But anything less and my money stays with me.It is new stuffJust not High Def stuff.Here's what I see the issues is. My cable company want to lock me in with their...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- My road map for CES 2008
- My road map for CES 2008DRM plus...I'm curious about all the new portable gadgets they're making for subscription music content, and whether that's an area that's going to keep growing and changing faster than you can buy the "toys" that make it all work. IPods are huge, I know,...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
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