After a too-long hiatus, Mad Men season 5 premieres on AMC on Sunday, March 25th at 9 PM / 8 PM Central. The crew from Sterling, Cooper, Draper and Pryce will also be available via download and streaming on iTunes and Amazon Instant Video the next day for the cord-cutters out there. While the...
Back to blogging! The other day I realized there’s actually three TV shows I’m looking forward to watching this winter. So, if you’ve been wondering what to watch on TV, here’s some suggestions for your TiVo. The three shows in particular are Downton Abbey, Lillyhammer and The Walking Dead. Downton Abbey In the tradition...
Update (1:11 PM): We’ve just heard from WCVB and they will be carried on all local cable systems including RCN and Norwood Light Broadband in the new year. At this time, the page on WCVB’s site has not been updated to reflect this yet. If you watch WCVB, the local ABC affiliate in Boston (aka...
Recently, HBO announced that their HBO GO video streaming streaming service would be made available to both Cablevision and Time Warner cable subscribers (if you subscribe to HBO). In both press releases, it points out that you can watch HBO GO on both Apple and Android smart phones as well as tablets and PCs....
One of our favorite TV shows at Tech of the Hub is Game of Thrones. The other day I saw that the Blu-ray was available for pre-order at Amazon. On the cover, it had a big label saying “1080P FULL HD VIDEO – DTS MASTER AUDIO”. I think the folks at HBO know how...
One day away from blogging and I almost missed that Amazon announced that Sons of Anarchy and Glee are now available on Amazon Prime Instant Video. For both shows, seasons one and two are now available to watch. Season 3 of Sons of Anarchy will be available on Christmas Day on Amazon Prime. Both shows were...
As reported in Multi-channel news, the cable industry wants to encrypt the basic cable channels going to your home. The FCC’s Policy Division has proposed new rules that would end the current ban on encrypting basic cable channels which dates back to the 1990s. In another words, if you have a cable-ready TV (or VCR...
Just in time for Christmas, there’s some user interface surprises for the Playstation3 Netflix player. If you go to the near bottom of the browsable categories, you’ll see the addition of “Holiday Favorites”. Besides getting us all in the holiday spirit, the category demonstrates some new ways to present cover art. As you can...
If you blinked, you would have missed it. Torchwood: Miracle Day is no longer available on Netflix streaming. To Netflix customers, it was a surprise since the series only became available less than two months ago. While the short appearance may not have been something the Torchwood team would investigate, it was a mystery made for...
The critically acclaimed and Emmy winning series, Arrested Development is returning with new episodes to Netflix. Yes, I said Netflix. First-run and Netflix are usually not used in the same sentence. With the exception of the deal for the US remake of the UK series House of Cards, all of Netflix’s TV series are...
Here we go again. A distributor and a cable network are arguing over the fees paid to carry a number of stations. In this case, DIRECTV and FOX Networks are battling. Between all of the claims and counter-claims, it’s difficult to get the real story here. You can make up your own mind by...
2012 CES Coverage