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Apple TV Branches Out With Hulu Plus Upgrade

Tom Wyrick — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:18:24 +0000

Good news for Apple TV owners who feel like they’re not getting as much use out of their boxes as they’d like. Today, Apple TV rolls out Hulu Plus in a software update. Until now, the $99 set-top box from Apple allowed purchasing selected movies and television shows via iTunes or using the popular Netflix service, […]

Fox To Cancel Hulu Plus Viewers

Matt Algren — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:00:56 +0000

For the past six months, I’ve been getting addicted to my Roku-enhanced television. It’s been years now since I cancelled my cable service and I rarely miss it, especially with the abundance of old TV shows streaming to my Roku from Netflix. Still, we live in a “grass is always greener” culture, and I’ve begun […]

Netflix Still Stealing Cable Customers

Matt Algren — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:00:54 +0000

It’s been a pretty bad 12 months for Netflix. Ever since the video juggernaut’s hefty price increase last year, they’ve been trying to make a comeback. First, the movie rental company split its streaming and DVD services entirely, and then they stitched them back together and promised no more price increases for the foreseeable future. […]

Barnes & Noble Officially Joins Tablet Party And Brings Refreshments

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:36:43 +0000

Thanks to hackers, the Nook Color has long been an unofficial tablet. Now Engadget has discovered that Barnes & Noble plans on making it official by releasing the Nook Tablet on November 16. You can snag something that looks a lot like a Nook Color, but is lighter, has twice the memory, and won’t need […]

Cable Companies Bleeding Customers Instead Of Just Bleeding Them Dry

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:00:38 +0000

Back in June, we at Techcitement commented on the cable industry’s decision to focus on making cable more affordable. We were wondering how that was working out for them, and it looks like it’s not going down as well as they hoped. In a tally by the Associated Press, eight of the nine largest subscription-TV […]

Tablets Versus Netbooks, Part II

M. Gilden — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:45:34 +0000

Click here to read Part I. Can a tablet be used to replace a netbook? As a regular netbook user (specifically an Acer Aspire One), my proposed experiment was to try and spend a week using a Viewsonic G-Tablet (chosen because it’s roughly the same price as the Acer) running Android instead . Now that […]