Video: Control your TV with your smartphone, tablet
Using your smartphone or tablet to control your Tivo box is easy and offers a lot of flexibility in recording shows and channel surfing. The first thing you need to do is make sure your Tivo box is...
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Netgear adds Google TV streamer, Slingbox support, night-vision security camera
The Netgear NeoTV Prime with Google TV comes with its own remote, but you can also control it with an Android smartphone. LAS VEGAS—Netgear's got Google TV, as of today. At the International CES, the...
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Blu-ray looks ahead to 4K
LAS VEGAS—Seven years after the Blu-ray Disc Association announced at CES that it had completed the technical specification for the format, the Blu-ray format continues to forge ahead—and its...
View ArticleDish Network's Hopper with Sling now available, combines ad-skipping and...
Dish Network's Hopper with Sling, a set-top box that can skip recorded ads and stream live video to other devices, is now available to Dish subscribers--much to the dismay of major TV networks. The...
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Entertainment producers decry broadband data caps
Data caps on broadband service stifle innovation and hurt producers of groundbreaking video programs, representatives of the U.S. entertainment industry said Tuesday. Writers and producers of video...
View ArticleGesture controls added to Microsoft Kinect's repertoire
Microsoft has some new tricks for the Kinect game controller that developers will be soon able to incorporate into their apps for Redmond's. Hand gestures that allow you to pinch-to-zoom objects on...
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Boxee Live TV Tuner Review: Device Adds Over-the-Air to Boxee Lineup
The Boxee Live TV tuner ($49 as of June 21, 2012) lets you use a Boxee media streamer to watch over-the-air broadcast TV. This digital TV tuner connects to a Boxee USB port on one end, and (via a...
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Boxee Live TV Tuner adds over-the-air TV to Boxee Box
The Boxee Live TV tuner lets you use a Boxee media streamer device to watch over-the-air broadcast TV. This digital TV tuner connects to a Boxee Box's ( ) USB port on one end, and (via a coaxial...
View ArticleReview: Simple.TV DVR and placeshifter handles over-the-air signals, but...
Looking to cut the cable TV cord? The major broadcast networks all beam digital programming over the airwaves for free, but watching live TV is so last century—and without a pricey TiVo or your cable...
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Review: NuVo Wireless Audio System takes a few steps forward, and a couple back
When one company comes to dominate a market in the fashion that Sonos rules the midrange, multiroom audio scene today, I’m always delighted to see a challenger emerge with a superior product that...
View ArticleReview: TiVo Mini is a cheaper way to share (most of) the TiVo love around...
If you’re flush enough to own two or more recent-vintage TiVo DVRs (Premiere, Premiere 4, or Premiere 4XL), then you may already be enjoying one of TiVo’s cooler features-the ability to access content...
View ArticleReview: Roku 3 offers more power, new interface
I didn’t think Roku had much to improve on from its last high-end model, the Roku 2 XS, which I’ve been using for the past year or so to access Amazon, Netflix, and scores of additional streaming...
View ArticleNintendo Wii U sales disappoint, prognosis mixed
Recent unofficial sales figures for Nintendo's newest game console, the Wii U, continue to be less than impressive, which could be a cause of concern for the game maker, according to gaming analysts....
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Batter Up: The best ways to watch baseball on your digital devices
The 2013 Major League Baseball season is here, and tech-savvy fans have more ways than ever to stream high-quality video and audio at their command, whether it’s pulling out your iPad on the train...
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Hands on with the Slingbox 500's new SlingSync feature
Owners of Sling Media’s top-of-the-line Slingbox 500 can now use their place-shifting set-top box to enjoy media from their smartphone on their HDTV. Sling Media activated the new feature, called...
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Six Hacks For Your Mobile Gear
We'd be lost if we ever left the house without our arsenal of mobile tech gear, but we're also sick of being hamstrung by gadget makers who leave out important features or micromanage what we can--and...
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Review: Plair plays Web content on your TV, but needs more work
There’s a ton of streaming video content on the Web, but I think most of us would agree that it’s a more enjoyable experience to watch that content on a TV rather than a computer display. At least...
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Boxee introduces Boxee TV media streamer and cloud-based DVR
Most second-generation products are souped up versions of the originals, but streaming media pioneer Boxee is taking a different approach. On Tuesday, the company announced the Boxee TV, a $99 set-top...
View ArticleWhat was Steve Jobs's vision for the future of TV?
Steve Jobs “very much wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: make them simple and elegant. ‘I’d like to create an integrated television set that is...
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Microsoft expands $99 Xbox 360 deal; Xbox rebirth coming
Microsoft will add two new Xbox 360 models to its fledgling subsidized console deal that lets you buy a low-priced Xbox 360 if you sign up for a two-year commitment to Xbox Live Gold at $15 per month....
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