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[20 May 2010 | Comments | 427 views]
Comcast and TV Guide Gonna Get Ya During Fast Forward

We knew someone would think of it eventually and it looks like a joint venture between Comcast and TV Guide may be the first. 
Radnor’s Guideworks, a joint venture between Comcast and TV Guide is the company that maintains Comcast’s interactive program guide.  This is what you see when using the company’s DVR.  It seems they’ve recently applied for a patent that will allow them to provide alternate or substitute information when fast forwarding is detected.  That’s right!  If this is approved and added to STBs, the minute you …

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[6 Feb 2010 | Comments | 708 views]
When is not stealing stealing? When you’re Boxee streaming NBC content, that’s when

Along with Windows Media Center, I also use Boxee on my HTPC to stream great content from the internet.  There’s a good bit of it out there and Boxee allows me to feed it to my TV.  The application does this untouched mind you.  Boxee doesn’t remove ads, doesn’t place their own ads over the content or edit the content itself in anyway.
Yet, according to Jeff Zucker, CEO of NBC, Boxee is allowing me to steal Hulu content.  That’s right.  Even though I watch Hulu on my TV …

Entertainment 2.0, HTPC, Podcasts »

[11 Dec 2009 | Comments | 684 views]
Entertainment 2.0-Episode 56 Part 1: The Muppets Have Landed

We’re back with another roundtable this week and as most roundtables go, this is a two-parter!  You’ll hear part one this week and we’ll be sending out part two next Thursday.
This week, Josh and I are joined by Phil Lozen from Seen in HD and Richard Green.  We’ve decided to expand the topic for this episode and step into the mire that is streaming, net neutrality, bandwidth throttling and data caps.  It isn’t an easy topic to discuss but we take a shot at it.  Be sure and leave …