Entertainment 2.0-Episode 60: Revenge of the Skype

Jan 15, 2010 by

As the title would suggest, this isn’t our best week audio quality-wise.  It seems that Skype simply didn’t want to work with us and as such, we’re having to provide a lower quality show to our listeners this week.  Never fear however.  We’ll hopefully return next week...

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Seen in HD #19 – CES Post Mortem, Adventureland Blu-ray

Jan 12, 2010 by

CES is over. The nearly week-long orgy of electronic goodness has come and gone, and we’re here to talk about what piqued our interest, and there’s a lot of it. What better place to start CES 2010 talk than with 3D. It was hands down the news of the show. HDTVs, Blu-ray, gaming....

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Entertainment 2.0-Episode 59: 2010 Media Center Prediction Show

Jan 8, 2010 by

Welcome back and welcome to 2010!  For this, our first official show of 2010, we’re joined by none other than THE Custom Integrator, Derek Flickinger.  He’s bringing his industry expertise to Entertainment 2.0 for the week. For those of you wondering why we’d be releasing a CES and 2010...

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Microsoft Announces MediaRoom 2.0 at CES 2010

Jan 7, 2010 by

At the CES keynote Microsoft announced enhancements to the MediaRoom IPTV service in version 2.0 that is coming this year. If you’re in America you can experience MediaRoom if you use AT&T U-verse as your television provider. The major enhancements include the ability to watch U-verse...

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Seen in HD 18 – CES, District 9 and more

Jan 6, 2010 by

Show 18 comes just as the CES news started to trickle out, and we’re talking about it. Tivo accidentally leaked news about a new product by slipping the wrong instructions sheet into one of its products. One problem, it went to a tech blogger who posted it to his Web site. Nothing too...

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Vizio Shows Off XVT Pro Series

Jan 5, 2010 by

Vizio is typically regarded as the best of the low-end high definition television manufacturers, but they may be trying to change that image with these latest two offerings. These two models fit into Vizio’s new line, the XVT Pro Series. The first is the massive, and feature packed,...

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Samsung Unveils New Portable Media Players

Jan 5, 2010 by

Sometimes it can be hard to remember that consumers have more than two options, iPod and Zune, when it comes to portable media players, but Samsung continues to innovate. At CES 2010 Samsung is unveiling it latest pair, the IceTouch and the MyFit,  to the market. The IceTouch appears to be the...

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D-link readies the “Boxee Box” for CES 2010

Jan 5, 2010 by

They showed it off a bit at their event in NYC on December 7th and now D-link has announced before CES even opens that yes, the Boxee Box is coming and sometimes during the first half of 2010 for under $200.  Boxee has struck a deal which will see D-link pushing out a hardware version of the...

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Mobile TV coming, playing second fiddle to 3D

Jan 5, 2010 by

Yeah yeah, you know I think 3D broadcast is a long way off and probably going to fail.  That’s just my opinion but for anything other than feature films I just don’t see people grabbing their glasses when they sit down to watch some TV in the evening.  That said, I do see people sitting on...

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Microsoft live streaming their CES keynote

Jan 4, 2010 by

Just like last year, Microsoft will be live streaming their CES keynote.  No one is quite sure what MS will be showing but there have been rumblings… The company has worked a lot in the last year to bring Zune and Xbox Live content together and we have to assume they’ll continue to move...

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SiliconDust CableCard Tuner possible at CES

Jan 4, 2010 by

While there certainly isn’t any confirmation at this point, it appears as though SiliconDust, creators of the HDHomeRun network tuner, may be jumping into the CableCard fray. Brent Evans (the GeekTonic) has details which were posted to the SiliconDust forums recently.  Apparently one of the...

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Popbox leads out the internet TV streaming onslaught

Jan 4, 2010 by

We know that even more than last year, this year’s CES will be slammed with companies looking to push internet content to your television.  It started with widgets built into TVs last year and that seemed, for the most part, to go nowhere. Syabas, makers of the Popcorn Hour, recently...

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