Today, Amazon announced the addition of one thousand new TV shows and movies to their all-you-can-watch offering for Amazon Prime members (announcement below). For $79 a year, Amazon Prime customers receive free two-day shipping on their purchases. In February, Amazon added a streaming video library at no extra cost. This offering was functionally similar...
The Doctor Who Season Six Part I finale will air tomorrow night (Saturday) on BBC America at 9 PM Eastern / 8 PM Central. What you may not know is that there is a short prequel video for the episode you can watch here on Tech of the Hub. Alternatively, you can download a...
In February 2010, Tech of the Hub highlighted the poor picture and sound quality at a local cinema. Today’s Boston Globe had a thorough article on the potential cause for that poor movie-going experience. The proliferation of dual-use 3D and 2D projectors has resulted in poor picture quality. This is due to the fact...
VUDU took a step towards challenging other streaming services as it expands its line up of TV shows. Up to this point, the lack of TV series has been the biggest content hole for VUDU. When we recently looked at streaming services, the Hub liked VUDU since it offered the best audio and video...
Update (3/3/2012): Doctor Who Season 6 is now available on Netflix. All thirteen episodes are available in HD and surround sound. Well, actually it says all of the episodes are in Dolby Digital Plus but a few of them are only in stereo. I’ll see if I can fix it with my sonic screwdriver....
Our friends over at the Missing Remote have put together a comprehensive listing of all new TV shows, finales, mini-series and made for TV movies. It’s nice to have it one place so you can decide what to record on your TiVo (DVR). The guide can be found here. It highlights new shows such as...
On the playground the other day, parents were swapping stories about movies they recently saw on Netflix and Amazon Instant. We all enjoy watching movies through our Rokus, Apple TVs or other streaming boxes. During the conversation, one parent stated how a friend had challenges enabling parental controls with one of the streaming services....
The economics of hi-def movie and TV show downloads just don’t make sense. I recently saw caught some of the hit show Sons of Anarchy and was hooked. I wanted to go back watch all of season one and thought it was a good opportunity to buy it on-line and download it. The cost...
I don’t own too many complete series but I recently purchased Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series on blu-ray. Battlestar Galactica is one of the best sci-fi shows ever made. Much more than just a remake of the original, the show addressed many of the issues raised in a post-September 11th world. My review follows....
NBC announced yesterday that the long-running Law and Order series is being cancelled. Since it was his favorite show, I’m sure my father-in-law (FIL) is sad. The soul purpose for me to upgrade his TiVo with a larger hard drive was so he could store hundreds of hours of Law & Order (451 episodes to be exact). ...
This evening, TiVo announced its new Series4 box called the TiVo Premiere. Tivo calls it the “one box to rule them all” (Did they read my blog post last Thursday?) Below are a number of links covering the launch extensively. To summarize and analyze: The Premiere has more powerful hardware, more recording capacity and...
2012 CES Coverage