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Google Chromecast Announcement Causes Other Digital Media Receivers To Sweat Bullets

Yoni Gross — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:31:18 +0000

One of technology’s biggest battles today is the war for the living room. As more and more content becomes available online, users continue to prefer viewing it on their television. Plenty of companies have provided ways to handle that transition. Roku and the Apple TV being among the most popular, but Google has had little […]

Roku Rocks Video Streaming Boat By Shipping Streaming Stick With TVs

Matt Algren — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:05:15 +0000

Years ago, friends and I were talking about how the price of DVD players coming down and how long it would be until we could afford to buy one. One bright fellow in the group said he’d buy one eventually, but that wasn’t where technology was stopping. No, he said, it wouldn’t be too many […]

Plex Flexes Its Muscle On Your Google TV For Under Five Bucks

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:45:21 +0000

Almost immediately after Google TV’s software update added the ability to download and install custom applications, a major new capability appears by way of a Plex client. For those unfamiliar, Plex is an excellent, full-featured media server and organizer. Initially, it was developed for Mac OS X, but a Windows version is now available as […]

Last Day To Escape The Netflix 60% Price Hike — What You Need To Do

Matt Algren — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:22:55 +0000

We talked about the big change to Netflix’s pricing structure back in mid-July, and it’s finally time for those changes to take place. Instead of offering unlimited streaming with any DVD plan, the company will offer streaming as a separate plan, effective September 1, 2011. What does this mean for you? There are three scenarios, […]

Techcitement Review: Google TV Comes To Europe And To My House

Tom Wyrick — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:45:33 +0000

During a trip to the Chicago area last weekend, I found time to stop in a Tiger Direct outlet store and browse around. It turns out this particular location sold more televisions than anything else (much to the chagrin of the salesman I spoke with, who said they wanted to carry a better representation of […]