Archive for the ‘Home Entertainment’ Category
The new iHome’s product, a iH15W iPod stereo; Which contains a Subwoofer and a LED colour system, which will change colour randomly throughout play-time. As far as anyone knows, the color depends on the track, for example a more depressing song may have lighter-colours, or a girly-song might have a pink/purple colour. If you can afford to buy one of these and you are looking for some home iPod speakers, I’d suggest getting this speaker system, it’s worth it. Although you are looking at paying $59.99 but if you are willing to pay that much, check out the website here.
Netflix is the company which was once well known for taking phsyical discs right to you amilbox and they are now getting all sorts of attention for it work in online delivery space.
Starting from today, Serises three, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL owners are able to access thousands of Netflix films on their set-top box and better yet, the owners are able to watch a growing list of HD films as well! Of course this new functionailty comes to no extra-cost, although you will need a Netflix account to take advantage of this!
If you want some more information on how to get movies streamed from Netflix via your TiVO DVR, click here.
There has been a lot of talk about merging a Blu Ray player into an HDTV, similar to what some have done with standard DVD players. Mitsubishi and Funai were the first to announce the intention, but in the end, it’s Sharp’s Aquos DX LCD TV which reigns supreme in the battle for Blu Ray. The TVs are scheduled to appear in several sizes ranging from 26″ all the way up to 52″. The tv comes equipped with an integrated HDTV tuner and the ability to play BluRay movies. Perhaps the only other item worth mentioning is only the 37″ and the 52″ models will be offer 1080p resolution. The Aquos is scheduled to ship in late November for a whopping $1,963, depending on the size, of course.
As if Dubai needed to claim another world’s first, the city will be receiving the planet’s largest LED screen, designed by UAE development company Tameer Holding. The enormous LED screen will be 33 stories high and will reportedly be “embedded on an intended commercial tower in the Majan district of Dubai.” The gigantic LED will stand tall and serve up advertisements to onlookers from a mile away. The building which will house the screen is being called Podium, and will features 33 levels of commerical office space, as well as two floors dedicated to retail and four floors of parking space. There’s no word on when the project will be finished, but residents of Dubai should be glad there homes aren’t anywhere near the monster screen.
AT&T has tried just about everything short of world domination. Awhile back they dropped their partnership with Dish Network to offer their own satellite service. Apparently that didn’t go so well for them. Now they’re looking into establishing a deal with DirecTV to offer something similar. If you’re in the market for a new cable setup, you may want to wait. Apparently AT&T is going to continue offering their current Dish network until January 31st before they switch over to DirecTV. It would probably be best to wait until the switch happens, but unfortunately it’s not always that easy to go without or get a contract you can cancel after that short of a time period.
Starting October 15th, the Nero LiquidTV/TiVo PC box will be available for purchase. The package comes in two options: software only or tuner model. The software only model will run you $99 while the tuner model will cost you $199. Both include a free year of TiVo (afterwards it will cost you $99 per year for the service). While Nero is known for their burning software, it looks like the exporting on this package is going to be limited to portable devices and the like. We’ll have to see how long that lasts or if it will cause the device to not sell as has been expected. It has also been over a year since the announcement of this partnership, so whatever steam there was may be gone by now.
Netflix has been working their magic to greatly increase the service that they provide to their users. Their goal has been to increase the amount of streaming content to their service, so their sights have been set rather high.
So far, it’s clear that Netflix is looking to work with CBS and Disney, but they’ve already started working with NBC. After the brand new season premiere of Heroes aired on Monday, Netflix was getting ready to unveil something pretty amazing. You can now directly stream every Heroes episode through the Netflix service one day after it airs.
Hopefully this is the type of thing that will catch on, allowing us to watch all of our shows in this format. With CBS and Disney on the way, there will be plenty of streaming content coming to Netflix in the next few months.
Oh and don’t forget that you’ll be able to stream Netflix onto your Xbox 360 relatively soon!
We’re finally going to see some Pico Projectors!
There have been numerous announcements over the past several months declaring that we’ll actually be seeing one soon, but now we’re talking official launches. The 3M LED Pico Projector has officially be slated for a September 30th stateside launch.
Dubbed the MPro110, this little device is going to run you $359. Unfortunately it’s lacking a built in speaker, but where exactly would you put it on this device?
The review done on the MPro110 found it lacking in brightness in some movie scenes to the point where it was indecipherable as to what was going on. But for it’s size and the overall quality, it’s a good first Pico Projector.
Comcast, we’ve got a problem.
First you decide to invade the privacy of your customer base and establish which ones are torrenting and have slowly been killing their connection. Now you’re going to set a physical bandwidth cap per month?
The press release below issued by Comcast is announcing that their new monthly bandwidth cap is now set at 250GB per account. They’re even nice enough to break this down into the number of emails this would equate!
But the issue is, this doesn’t just hinder pirates, people who legally purchase movies and tv shows may easily find themselves at that cap on a particularly heavy month. What to do!
Read the press release after the jump.
Creative has always been well know for their….creativity. So when it comes to cool little devices, we’re never really surprised at just how far they will go to appease the masses. We usually just squeal with glee at how cool the devices are. At this years IFA, Creative unleashed their new X-FI Go! mobile sound card. This little doohickey is quite the enhancement over their old Soundblaster Play! and easily turns any USB 2.0 port into a full functioning soundcard.
You’ll have plenty of features to take advantage of, including a Crystallizer, CMSS-3D, EAX Advanced HD, OpenAL support, and even 1GB of flash storage. What’s nice about this storage is that it even comes loaded with Alchemy, WaveStudio, and a few other apps. Right now, the X-FI Go! is Singapore only for about $56, but we should see it debuting stateside shortly.