Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

Sony has announced the forthcoming launch of two new sound bar models and a new receiver with 3D image standby passthrough and HDMI image repeating. The 400 watt HT-CT350 will ship with a mounting bracket that affixes it to the bottom of select 40-inch plus 2010 model BRAVIA HDTVs, while the 340 watt HT-CT150 attaches [...]

TigerDirect is offering a Brand New Samsung LN55B650 55″ Class LCD HDTV for $1449.99 with Free Shipping. This LCD 55″ offers top of line specs: 1080p, 1920×1080, 100000:1 Dynamic, 4ms, 120Hz, and 4 HDMI ports. The Samsung LN55B650 also give you access to Samsung Apps. Samsung Apps feature Web 2.0 applications such as: BLOCKBUSTER, YouTube, [...]

Seagate’s criminally underpromoted FreeAgent Theater + HD media streaming and playback box has received a new firmware update which adds support for Netflix Watch Instantly streaming as well as other major online media portals in YouTube, vTuner and Mediafly. This makes the FreeAgent + HD a much better deal in comparison to other streaming media [...]

The Blu-Ray Disc Association, the business consortium responsible for the direction of the Blu-Ray disc format has announced the development of two new specifications for the format in IH-BD and BDXL. The BDXL specification details High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs which will write up to 128GB of content on a disc limited to write [...]

A new manufacturer based in Sweden by the interesting name of People of Lava has announced the first HDTV line powered by Google’s Android operating system. The company will also launch its own app store to be built into its Android build along with apps for Facebook, YouTube, Google Maps, and Twitter, along with a [...]

Sling Media Mobile Prouct Marketing Manager Dave Eyler has stated that the company is “actively moving towards H.264″ and Silverlight support for Windows Phone 7 Series as well as delivering streaming with resolutions beyond the current 320×240 resolution supported on the Sling Player Mobile client when speaking to Dave Zatz. Sling Media has also stated [...]

The open source Miro video player/BitTorrent client has been upgraded to version 3.0 and now features support for subtitle streams along with file name editing, increased maximum volume and improvents in application performance. The group responsible for Miro has also announced a companion Miro Video Converter that eases the conversion of video files into other [...]

Buy.com has the a Samsung 2333HD LCD Monitor With Built in TV Tuner on sale for an amazing price of $229 with Free Shipping.  This is a 48% discount off the retail price of $448 and is the lowest price we have seen for an LCD Monitor with a built in TV Tuner.   The feature [...]

Like Hulu, but sometimes wish you could save stuff for offline viewing? Enter StreamTransport, a new Windows-only stream ripper that promises to allow for downloading videos off of the ever popular service along with other video portals.  When running, the application automatically captures the stream URL for downloading, with no interaction needed in its own [...]

Ceton Corp has placed its long-awaited InfiniTV 4 multi-tuner CableCARD expansion card up for pre-order for $399.99, with the card scheduled to be launched on May 31st. The InfiniTV 4 is a low-profile PCI Express expansion card for PCs running Windows Media Center 7 that allows for recording/watching up to four separate programs at once [...]