DTV Mess?

Posted on August 27, 2008 - Filed Under General, Satellite TV, Television | Leave a Comment

Feb. 17, 2009. That’s the magic date for all US citizens receiving OTA (over-the-air) TV signals to be ready for the shutoff of analog TV signals and ready to receive digital only.
Most know that they’ve got to buy a converter box or a new digital TV

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News Sources

Posted on August 17, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Newspapers, Television | Leave a Comment

What are yours? New studies show, not too surprisingly, that fewer USians are reading newspapers and more are getting their dose of news online. In spite of that, TV is still the prime source for news.
If you look at it demographically,

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Video on Demand

Posted on July 20, 2008 - Filed Under Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Television | Leave a Comment

In a move designed to beat out the local video store and keep people in front of their televisions and computers, Amazon.com has introduced (to a limited number of users to start) a new online store of TV shows and movies,

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New ‘iPod’

Posted on June 4, 2008 - Filed Under Devices, General, Internet, Television | Leave a Comment

There will be a new kid in town this summer with the introduction of the PoD. I recently reported on the Netflix Roku which is able to receive broadband feeds of Netflix subscribed content and play to a TV rather than a computer.
Verismo Networks has previewed “the PoD,” a tiny box that brings web content […]

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Instant Watching

Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Television | 1 Comment

If you are a movie lover, one thing you probably don’t like is having to get in the car and drive somewhere, like to a theater or video store.
With the quality of systems available at home now, and the prices at the theater, you almost wonder if there will come a time when, like the […]

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