I’ve had my LG Optimus V for over a month now and been loving it. I especially love that it only costs $25 a month on Virgin Mobile for unlimited web and texts. The only issue is that occasionally, the data connection hangs and drains the battery quickly. I usually experience the problem when...
Some months ago, the Hub compared the Roku and TiVo Amazon Instant Video players. The two devices interacted with the Amazon service in a fundamentally different way (streaming vs. download). As the Amazon Instant service becomes available on more devices, it typically has been implemented as a streaming player. TiVo has stated that they...
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....
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....
For a little while, it appeared that Netflix was on the ropes. First, there was the the loss of Showtime first-run series such as Dexter and Weeds. Then Starz announced they were adding a 90-day window to their shows after the first broadcast date. In addition, there was also speculation that Starz would renegotiate...
Amazon continued to roll out the building blocks of their media ecosystem empire on Tuesday with the release of their new Cloud Drive for storage and Cloud Player for music. Any Amazon customer can store up to 5 gigabytes of data in their cloud based storage for free. For another $20 a year or...
Given the recent announcements from Netflix and Amazon, there’s been a lot written about video streaming services lately. One thing not thoroughly covered is the audio and video quality of streaming services. It’s ironic that you’ve invested all of this money in your home theater system–large HD screen, receiver and speakers–and you end up...
Just when you thought TiVo was only focused on the Premiere, there have been a number of enhancements to the Series3 platform as of late. In particular, Pandora was released for the Series3 last October TiVo is about to roll out a software patch to fix stability issues for the Series3 Netflix client (version...
Yesterday, Amazon announced and released their new streaming service as an added bonus to their Prime customers. Amazon Prime is a value-added service that gives you free two day shipping on all of your Amazon purchases for a yearly fee of $79. So, Amazon enters the all you can watch buffet competing against Netflix...
There are lots of ways to access Amazon’s Video on Demand Service (previously known as Amazon Unbox): Clients have been deployed on a variety of TVs, blu-ray players, computers and set top boxes. Thanks to the special offer credits the Hub has built up on Amazon, I decided to purchase Sons of Anarchy Season...
2012 CES Coverage