Walmart recently announced a new service called “Disc-to-Digital”. Starting April 16th, you can bring your DVDs and Blu-rays into Walmart and they will “convert” them into digital copies for a fee. Once converted, they can be streamed from Walmart’s VUDU video streaming service to a number of smartphones, tablets, Blu-ray players, streaming devices and...
What is the best Netflix device for the big screen in your house? With over 700 hundred different devices to chose from, shouldn’t it be easy to find the one offering the best Netflix experience? By the end of 2011, the Roku 2 XS had become my go-to-device for watching Netflix in the living...
Netflix has introduced a new user interface interface geared towards kids on the Sony Playstation 3. As first reported by Hacking Netflix, the new interface is now a choice when you start Netflix on the PS3. “Just for Kids” only shows selected movies and TV shows suitable for children. In another words, you won’t...
With the release of the new Apple TV and iPad, Apple announced the availability of 1080P movies from the iTunes store. Also, just like TV shows, movies can also be streamed directly from Apple’s cloud to an Apple TV. You can also download the movies to any iOS device or a Mac. The other day, Tech...
Apple appears to have included Ultraviolet-like functionality with the latest Apple TV upgrade. Not only did Apple introduce a new Apple TV today, it also rolled out an upgrade to the current Apple TV 2s. Both the existing and new Apple TVs will share the same upgraded interface. Besides the new look and feel,...
Apple announced the newest version of its Apple TV set-top box today. Wasting no time, the new Apple TV was announced at beginning of the iPad launch event. It looks like it simply keep the name “Apple TV”. As I speculated several weeks ago, it’s an incremental refresh. The new Apple TV sports a...
Netflix recently touted their progress in captioning TV shows and movies on their streaming service: In mid December, we reached our captioning goal for 2011, when more than 80% of the hours streamed in the US were of content with captions or subtitles available. Thanks to hard work from our captioning team, we made...
This morning I was surprised to hear that HBO GO was launching April 1st on the Xbox. According to our friends at Engadget HD, HBO President Eric Kessler made the declaration last night. April 1st is also the day that season 2 of Game of Thrones premieres on HBO. I reached out to HBO this morning to confirm the date....
Panasonic’s 2012 Blu-ray line-up impressed me at CES this year. While pricing wasn’t supposed to be released until March and units shipping till April, it looks like the assembly line is working overtime. Each of the models have made appearences on various e-commerce sites. Amazon has both the DMP-BDT220 and DMP-BDT320 in stock and...
The Game of Thrones season two premiere is right around the corner. Despite the warm weather this Feburary, winter is coming with a heaping helping of war for the premiere on April 1st at 9 PM. For folks who subscribe to HBO, a new trailer previewing season 2 will be available on HBO GO...
TiVo continued its comeback today with the announcement of its 2012 Q4 earnings. Beating the street’s estimates, TiVo exceeded revenue projections and had a lower than expected loss. This was driven by a net addition of 234K subscribers for the last three months of 2012. For its subscriber numbers, these were the best numbers...
2012 CES Coverage