My love of webOS is no secret. For example, my TouchPad is my main tablet, despite being discontinued over two years ago. I recently attempted to use a Pre Plus as a daily driver and only gave it up because of battery issues. However, I am a rarity. LG believed in webOS too, which is […]
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Tune In To The Alleged First Video Of LG’s WebOS TV Interface
Yes, this is about webOS, the little operating system that couldn’t. The mobile world has moved on, but that hasn’t completely shelved the OS. LG first announced the intention of putting webOS on smart TVs almost exactly a year ago. While LG would go on to acquire webOS, there’s been little movement beyond that initial […]
Boldly Going Where No Techfiction Has Gone Before With Star Trek
It’s hard to imagine a television show that has had more examples of techfiction becomie techfact than the original Star Trek series. The multimedia franchise has a grip on the collective unconsciousness of geeks on the level of few other things. While the movies and spin-offs have their own assortment of impressive gadgetry made real, the original […]
Arrested Development’s New Netflix Business Model: Solid As A Rock?
It’s been a year since Netflix released its first original content with the Norwegian series LilyHammer. With four new series already under their belts (Lilyhammer, Bad Samaritans, Hemlock Grove, and the critically acclaimed House of Cards), as well as several comedy specials and a long-form film, the company seems committed to original programming. The streaming […]
YouTube Says It’s Replaced TV; Dreamworks Pays $33M For YouTube Teen Network
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt certainly doesn’t lack confidence. Last night, Schmidt made the assertion to a large room full of advertisers that internet video doesn’t need to concern itself with supplanting standard television watching because he says, “That’s already happened.” Having recently surpassed the one billionth unique visitor landmark, YouTube has a reason to […]
All My Children And One Life To Live Get Second Lives On Hulu And iTunes
Bastard children. Weddings. Slaps. Illicit affairs. Gun shots. Weddings. Sexy senior citizens. Pregnant teenagers. Murder. Conspiracies. Weddings. Alien abductions. Meeting God. These are all most likely words that took up space on whiteboards brainstorming sessions in the writers’ rooms of All My Children and One Life to Live. Well, it looks like the shows themselves […]
Netflix Adds To Its Toybox With Hasbro Deal
Are you a Brony? A Transformers fan? Do you dress up as Sgt. Slaughter from time to time? (And yes, that’s me in the link.) Then, you’re going to want to subscribe to Netflix‘s streaming service, because their deal with Hasbro is giving them online rights to various versions of My Little Pony, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and […]
Hello, Corporate Obstacles To Innovation! #occupytelevision
Last week, CBS CEO Les Moonves gave us an idea of his company’s attitude toward the increasing demand for online streaming of television content. On the subject of online content, Moonves had this to say (via Engadget): We — frankly, we don’t believe in them. We’re not going to go out and we’ve sort of […]
GoogleTV Gets Major New Update
Back in August, I reviewed the Sony GoogleTV I had just purchased. At the time, one of my complaints about the otherwise enjoyable unit involved its often confusing on-screen menus. Today, Google announces a major software update rolling out to Sony GoogleTVs early next week and to Logitech hardware shortly thereafter. I’m techcited to report […]
Techcitement Review: Western Digital TV Live Hub
For those of us content to get our entertainment media from our PCs, the last few years have brought a wealth of options. Photos, music, movies, TV, whether downloaded or streamed, it’s virtually impossible to say there’s nothing on anymore. Unfortunately, the PC entertainment experience often leaves something to be desired when it compared to […]