Yep, still got some CES news to share. For me, like many folks, my home theater system resides in the living room, given I don’t have a dedicated room for it. To peacefully co-exist in the living room, most folks don’t have monster speakers but something on the smaller side. While some simply opt...
At CES, there are lots and lots of TVs. All of the major manufactures rolled out their new wares: Plasmas, LCDs and LEDs and now OLED and Crystal LED. There were lots of incremental improvements but no game changers. After sitting through press conferences from LG, Samsung and Panasonic, the one thought that kept...
There’s lots of blog and Twitter commentary about how awful CES is: the crowds, the spread-out venues, the bland press lunches and the disgusting bathrooms. Not that I enjoy any of the aforementioned, but I think there’s always annoying things like that you can dwell on in life. This was my first CES and...
Yes, there’s more from TiVo! Tech of the Hub also received a demo of the new Netflix client for the TiVo Premiere. Due to be released with the next major version of the TiVo software this spring, version 21, the Netflix client offers a number of improvements over the current version. As previously reported, the...
At CES, Panasonic announced a new line-up of Blu-ray players, building on their successful line up from last year. Last year, the Panasonic DMP-BDT210 was one of Tech of the Hub’s favorite Blu-ray players given its quick load times and excellent Netflix player. This year, Panasonic introduced a new high-end player to the line-up, the...
Note: This post was written before today’s TiVo announcements at CES reported on by our friend Dave Zatz at Zatz Not Funny. Outside of formatting and grammar, I have not made any significant edits to it. It’s interesting to see what came to pass in the post and what has not. Specifically, TiVo revealed the features...
Some of the best content is now getting great sounding audio to go with it. It was announced today that HBO will utilize Dolby Digital Plus in its HBO GO streaming video app. The important word here is app. Connected devices that use the web-based version of HBO GO will probably not be able...
Since the launch of the iPad, all of the tablets on the market are variations of the iPad’s form factor. Sony breaks the model with its new foldable “Tablet P” made up of two dual 5.5″ touch screens. While it was first revealed a few months ago, I had not seen or heard of...
For some time, HDMI has been the king of home theater cables in terms of convenience and quality. In one cable, HDMI carries high-definition audio and video as well as ethernet (in the latest version). Now, there are challenges to HDMI’s supremacy: From one side, there’s wireless streaming tehcnologies such as Apple’s AirPlay and Intel’s WiDi....
Sony used its press event to show off two new Google TV devices: The NSZ-GP9 Blu-ray player and stand-alone streaming player, the NSZ-GS7. Last year, Sony lauched a Google TV Blu-ray player and HDTVs. No word from Sony if the HDTVs will be refreshed for 2012. The differentiator of Sony’s Google TV is its new remote control. One...
Sony displayed a 55-inch prototype of their new crystal LED display technology at CES 2012. Unlike a regular LCD which requires some form of backlighting, crystal LED technology consists of LEDs that self-illuminate. For each pixel, the panel uses three miniature LEDs, one for each primary color. At first glance, the crystal LED set...
