It was reported today by Bloomberg news that Walmart will be the sole retail distributor for the new Boxee box. While the report stated that the Boxee would be available starting tomorrow, November 1st, I saw it at my local Walmart today. There were two units on the shelf available for sale at $98. The...
Boxee recently unveiled its new Boxee Box known as “Boxee TV”. With a built-in DVR that stores your shows in the cloud, Boxee TV will be able to record two shows at once from an over-the-air antenna or from unencrypted cable transmissions. The new Boxee box will sell at a competitive price point of $99...
This year, there has been a significant increase in the number of Netflix enabled devices that play the service’s 1080P video streams. Netflix’s support site now reveals the features and technical capabilities of select Netflix capable Blu-ray players, Smart TVs and stand-alone streaming players. Netflix used to be fairly mum about the respective features of...
Earlier this year, Boxee registered its strong opposition to the FCC proposal that would allow cable companies to encrypt basic cable channels (transmitted as clear QAM). As an alternative, Boxee advocated a standards-based IP solution. The cable companies, on the other hand, have been pushing for the rule change to prevent theft of service...
The Slingbox, the nifty set top device that lets you watch what’s on your TV or DVR from anywhere, is planning to add the WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub to the list of connected devices it supports. According to one tipster, the SlingPlayer beta program is asking users to add the...
HBO is revving up the hype machine for this weekend’s Game of Thrones premiere. Yesterday, HBO GO launched on the Xbox. Today, it appears that HBO GO’s interactive features are coming to their iPad app. Previously, from what I can tell, the interactive features were only accessible via the HBO GO website and not on the...
While in the works for some time, the FCC’s proposed change to encrypt all cable service is getting some attention again. Boxee recently posted a strongly worded note asserting that the encryption rule is anti-consumer. Given all this, I thought it was appropriate to share a cautionary tale about the CableCARD standard and how it’s...
If Oprah can have a list of favorite things for the holidays so can we. The exception being that our list is much geekier than Oprah’s (and I don’t have a TV show or a billion dollars). There’s no one-size-fits-all for connected devices in the living room, so we’ll help you find the right box...
In the last couple of days, it feels like Adobe Flash has been infected with the Black Death. First, came the announcement that Flash would not be supported on mobile devices and in turn the press declared that Flash was dead. Yesterday, GigaOM reported that Adobe stated that the Flash browser plug-in was also dead on connected...
It’s easy to assume that one needs to have an Apple TV to use Airplay. Airplay is Apple’s technology that allows you to stream music, video or photos from your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Mac OS X computer. What you may not know is that there are alternatives to Apple TV as an...
It’s a couple of days late but it’s been worth it. HBO GO is now available on the entire family of Roku devices. We spent the day using the new HBO GO app watching Game of Thrones and selected movies. Here’s what we found: HBO GO Channel on the Roku This version of HBO GO is significant...
2012 CES Coverage