After spending thousands of dollars on a beautiful new ultra thin HDTV, the last thing anybody wants to worry about is mounting it incorrectly on a wall. With literally thousands of mounting solutions available to accommodate the various sizes and shapes of today’s VESA mounting standard compliant TVs, it’s no wonder that many DIYers choose or install [...]
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Tags: Philips, Simply Straight TV Mount, TV, VESA 
1 Comment »Building on its CinemaTube product line, Brite-View announced today the release of its CinemaGo BV-5005HD digital media player. Like most modern digital media players, it plays most known types of media files, including MOV, WMV, MKV, AVI, VOB, DIVX, and FLV at resolutions up to 1080p. It can access these files from a wired or wireless network, [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Digital Media Players and DVRs, TV and Video Tags: Brite-View CinemaGo, BV-5005HD, digital media player, h.264, HD, hdmi, home theater, torrent, TV, UPnp No Comments »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 No Comments »This week at the Google I/O developers conference, Google is unleashing a slew of innovative products and services across its Internet, mobile, OS, and search platforms. From the unifying version 2.2 Froyo release of the Android mobile operating system to the announcement of a web app store for the Chrome OS, the foundation is being laid [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Digital Media Players and DVRs, Google, Internet, TV and Video Tags: Google, Google TV, IPTV, TV 2 Comments »Oh hell no. I want to know who in their right mind sank a dime into this abomination. I can tolerate a flashing home-finder light bulb, dual screen laptop, or “happiness hat”, but sit next to me on an airplane wearing a “TV Hat”, and there might be trouble. Thanks to the proliferation of mobile [...]
As more of the media I consume originates online, my itching desire for a sleek interface to bring that content to my TV surges. On a typical day, I “star” 25-30 items in Google Reader to check out later in the evening when I actually have time to sit down and read the articles or, [...]
Well it’s finally here. 2010 – the year by which so many films predicted humanity zipping around in flying cars, travelling regularly throughout our solar system, and working alongside artificially intellengent computers. While technology hasn’t quite kept up with fiction, it’s still progressing nicely. Consumers in 2009 gained more choice and available features in [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Content Delivery, Digital Media Players and DVRs, Home Theater, IPTV, TV and Video, Technology Tags: Boxee, digital media player, DVR, HTPC, IPTV, PopBox, TV 4 Comments »
