Articles in the Multimedia Category
What we’re watching tonight: NBC (1080i) has Night 13 of Olympic Winter Games 2010 with Women’s Freestyle Skiing, Short Track speedskating and more at 8 p.m.
It’s been done before , and in many ways , but Cablevision’s new plan for slinging what’s on your PC to your TV might be one of the most interesting tries yet. Dubbed “PC to TV Media Relay,” the new service will let subscribers that get their broadband internet and cable TV from Cablevision load up a bit of software on their Windows PC (a Mac version is forthcoming) that pushes whatever is on the computer through to a dedicated channel on the cable box.
We caught our first glimpses of the Sling Monitor 150 placeshifting display at CES 2009, but it only got an official launch at this year’s show , and now it looks like it’s getting even closer to store shelves with an appearance at the FCC for some RF testing action.
If you’re looking to bridge the gap between the boob tube and YouTube, Elgato (literally, “the gato”) has always been a good bet. The company’s newly announced EyeTV Netstream DTT takes the ol’ EyeTV tuner we’ve all grown to know and love and lets you connect it to your router, allowing you to watch DTV on any computer connected to your network, provided it’s a Mac or a PC.
What we’re watching tonight: NBC (1080i) has Night 12 of the Olympic Winter Games 2010 with Figure Skating, Women’s bobsled and more at 8 p.m. ABC (720p) airs Lost at 9 p.m. and The Forgotten at 10 p.m.
Another week, another breaking news item just in time for us to discuss on the podcast and weren’t we lucky to have Home Media Magazine’s Chris Tribbey filling in the third seat this week to try and make sense of Wal-mart’s purchase of VUDU. Other industry shakeups include the Redbox & Warner deal, Sezmi’s retail launch and possible release dates for Avatar on Blu-ray disc. After that we dig into whether HDMI 1.3 will support 3D, the future for Media Center Extenders, some TiVo news and finally what’s wrong with the Olympics and why NBC doesn’t care what you or we think.
Last we’d heard, some of Sony’s retail locations had 3D capable displays in to show off, but no software to run on them. Today the company has announced all 42 Sony Style stores are equipped with LX900, HX900 and HX800 series BRAVIA LCDs ready to show 3DTV to the world
Now here’s a spec sheet maven’s dream: MSI has just announced its new Wind Top all-in-ones , and the top model brings every modern spec you can think of. Full HD resolution, 3D capabilities with 120Hz refresh rates, Intel processors up to Core i7 , and even multitouch adorn its list of goodies.
What’s left to say about this week that we haven’t already said so many time before over the past three or four years that we’ve been doing this weekly post? Yep, that’s right, we have ran out of things to say.
When Avatar will make its Blu-ray 3D debut is still officially up in the air, but thanks to Samsung’s European line show, TechRadar says we can expect Monsters vs. Aliens in March (at least in the U.K.) It will initially be available only to purchasers of new Samsung 3D HDTVs (called the U7000, U8000 or U9000 series of LCDs and PDP7000 plasmas over there) or Blu-ray players, an interesting choice that has us wondering when wider 3D releases will hit, or if we’ll need to wait for the summer’s PS3 firmware update before that happens
