It’s going to be an exciting autumn for anyone interested in streaming online content to their television. With upcoming product releases like Apple TV, Google TV, and the Boxee Box, it may seem to the average consumer like the market it quickly crowding with a wide variety of choices and technologies capable of competing with [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Digital Media Players and DVRs, IPTV, TV and Video 
Tags: Apple TV, Boxee Box, digital media player, Google TV, IPTV, Roku, streaming, TV 
1 Comment »It’s here folks. The Boxee Box by D-Link is available for pre-order on Amazon for the introductory price of $199. At the last minute, its NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor has been swapped for the 1080p h.264 decoding capabilities of Intel’s Atom CE4100. It’s a welcome change that should keep the Boxee Box’ hardware relevant to the [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Digital Media Players and DVRs, Home Theater, TV and Video Tags: Apple TV, Boxee, Boxee Box, D-Link, Google TV, TV 3 Comments »The big news from Apple’s press event today was the re-introduction of Apple TV. The device, which is available immediately for $99, allows users to stream 720p high definition video over the Internet to their HDMI capable televisions. TV shows can be rented from ABC and Fox for $0.99, movies can be rented for [...]
Amongst the slew of new products introduced by Google at its I/O conference last month, Google TV is quite possibly the most compelling in terms of its ability to improve the way people watch and interact with their TV’s. Unfortunately, the details presented were sketchy and confusing at best – only adding a few bits [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Digital Media Players and DVRs, Google, Internet, TV and Video Tags: Google, Google TV, IPTV, TV 2 Comments »