D-Link DSM-750 - Wireless N HD Media Center Extender

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 24 May 2008
Back in Episode #178 (June, 2007) we did a feature on the Vista Media Center. For that review we used an HP m8000n to run the Media Center. We talked about the features of the Media Center and how one could use the computer to run spreadsheets during the day and watch live TV or...

Kangaroo Web TV faces monopoly probe

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 01 July 2008
The Office of Fair Trading says the joint venture between BBC, ITV and Channel 4 could create an excessive concentration of video content

DISH / EchoStar keep fighting back, sue TiVo again over DVR patent

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 14 June 2008
Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentThe timeshifting DVR patent that's been at the core of TiVo's closed-but-not-quite-closed lawsuit with DISH / EchoStar is being contested yet again by the very same company. Not content just appealing to the Supreme Court regarding the Federal...

NEWS: T-Mobile offers full album 'dual downloads' to your phone and PC

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 04 June 2008
The number of sources for digital music seems to grow with every passing day, which can only be a good thing for consumers. It causes existing providers, such as T-Mobile's Mobile Jukebox service, to up their game. For the first time users will be able to access and dow...

Netflix Teams with Roku on Player that Instantly Streams Movies from Netflix Directly to the TV

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 25 May 2008
Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service, and Roku, Inc., an innovator in digital media streaming technology, today announced the introduction of The Netflix Player by Roku™, a device that enables Netflix subscribers to instantly stream...

Popcorn Hour's A-100 HD media streamer publicly available for pre-order

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment What do you know? Yet another outlet for you to happily blow $179. As of today, Popcorn Hour's heralded A-100 HD media streamer is finally available for the public at large to pre-order. Previously, folks had to actually sign a list just to...

DVR Add-On Ups HD Storage Another 500GB

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
Western Digital’s USB add-on allows for another 60 hours of high-def content.

New Dish DVR Adds in Slingbox

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
The satellite provider’s upcoming set-top will include 1TB of storage, web and Sling capabilities. 

Lieberman Wants All Terrorist Videos Pulled from YouTube

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 23 May 2008
Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman criticized Google this week for not removing all YouTube videos produced by Islamic terrorist organizations.

Amazon Unbox content going HD on TiVo

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment We had a pretty good feeling this would go down eventually, but we certainly didn't see a confirmation (of sorts, anyway) coming this soon. Jim Denney, VP of product marketing at TiVo, has been quoted as saying that although the current versi...

Wake Up to Internet Radio from Aluratek

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
Aluratek’s $199 Internet Radio Alarm Clock with MP3 Player gives you access to thousands of web-streamed stations.

Terra-San Pre-Loads Rolling Stone Mag’s Top 500 Albums to Your Media Server

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
You can have a pre-loaded library of music history provided by Terra-San onto your media server.

Napster’s MP3 Store Goes DRM-Free

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
Napster’s latest software allows it to serve up its 6-million song catalog free of DRM, and mostly as 256 Kbps downloads.

TiVo extends lifetime subscription offer

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 20 May 2008
Despite the fact that competing DVRs from cable and satellite companies have made great headway in the past few years, we're still fans of TiVo's intuitive interface and constantly improving feature set. However, the knock against TiVo is that it's expensive- -you have to buy the...

[NSFW] Isabella Rossellini romps with praying mantis

Tags: digital media, Tagged: 14 May 2008
Bizarre 'Green Porno' trailers hit YouTube NSFW We're not quite sure what to make of this one, but Isabella Rossellini is currently wowing the crowds down at YouTube with a couple of trailers for a series of "Green Porno" shorts - no-holds-barred insights into the wonderful world...