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  • PSA: Futurama returns tonight, make sure you set your DVR!

    PSA: Futurama returns tonight, make sure you set your DVR!

    Just a friendly reminder, Futurama returns to Comedy Central tonight. And while I made a joke about setting your DVR, please watch it live. Particularly if you are a Neilsen family. It’s only going to stay around if you watch the show, and the networks still think it only counts if you watch it live, [...]

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  • Is life nothing more than a fancy computer simulation?

    Is life nothing more than a fancy computer simulation?

    The Science Channel has a new series that debuted last night called "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman." The first episode discussed the idea of the creator. That is, how did all this stuff (people and all the other life on Earth, stars, planets, etc.) get here? Is there some nice, wise old man in the sky sitting on a heavenly La-Z-Boy orchestrating everything around us, or is something else at work? One of the more fun suggestions: perhaps we're all merely a fancy computer simulation of Future People? Maybe we're merely some Future Kid's science experiment on his PlayStation 200?

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  • Homer Simpson is the greatest TV character in the past 20 years

    Homer Simpson is the greatest TV character in the past 20 years

    And the greatest character in the past twenty years of television and film is...?

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  • Fox Mobile launches Bitbop beta, a Hulu for your phone

    Fox Mobile launches Bitbop beta, a Hulu for your phone

    While Hulu might be missing out on the mobile space due to licensing issues, Fox Mobile-backed Bitbop is looking to step in and take the reins. The app, currently in beta and available only for select BlackBerry devices, has 25 content partners including Fox (of course), CBS, NBC, and Comedy Central. It's said to work over WiFi or even 3G data connections and is free so far, though a section in the FAQ intimates that Fox will also launch a premium plan with "unlimited, full-length, network TV shows with no commercial interruptions" for $10 a month, and mobile movie rentals are also apparently on the way. And never fear, Android and iPhone lovers -- mocoNews reports that apps for your smartphone of choice are coming, too. Let's hope Fox gets it working on Froyo, before Hulu kills that workaround.

    Fox Mobile launches Bitbop beta, a Hulu for your phone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 May 2010 21:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • ‘Lost’ finale now the most downloaded TV show in history!

    ‘Lost’ finale now the most downloaded TV show in history!

    The mania surrounding "Lost" continues. It has emerged that the series finale now holds the record of being the most downloaded TV show in the history of TV. The final two episodes, within 20 hours of appearing online, were downloaded some 900,000 times. Quite a bit, yes.

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  • TV viewers now refusing to watch SD content?

    TV viewers now refusing to watch SD content?

    There's a handy option in the DirecTV menu guide for "HDTV Channels." On the rare occasion when I'm actually sitting in front of the TV looking to "channel surf" (more like "menu surf" nowadays), it's only "HDTV channels" I'm concerned with. Nearly halfway through 2010, it has come to the point where, unless I absolutely have no other choice, I simply won't watch a network unless the program is in HD. Has it come really come to that? That, unless a show is in HD, you'll simply skip it?

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  • DuPont working on cheaper ways to make OLED screens

    DuPont working on cheaper ways to make OLED screens

    OLED televisions are notoriously expensive and difficult to make; but like all technologies there is always someone working on making the technology cheaper. DuPont recently announced the development of a new process that prints OLED screens in sheets, much like a inkjet prints on paper.

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  • Disembodied voice asks: Who will be the ultimate gamer (on season 2 of ‘WCG Ultimate Gamer’)?

    Disembodied voice asks: Who will be the ultimate gamer (on season 2 of ‘WCG Ultimate Gamer’)?

    The most shocking thing about the news that there will be a second season of "WCG Ultimate Gamer" on SyFy is that there was ever a first season. Could have fooled me. But alas, it has been picked up for another year. This calls for a celebration of some sort. Wee!

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  • Will ActiveVideo Networks successfully bring TV-viewing to the cloud?

    Will ActiveVideo Networks successfully bring TV-viewing to the cloud?

    I, myself, would move to the cloud if it were at all possible. And by that I don't mean move all of my vital digital services to someone else's servers, but float up into the stratosphere and just hang out there for the rest of my days. When ActiveVideo Networks talks about moving the TV-viewing experience to the cloud, they are, in fact, talking about moving servers outside of your house for your own good, enabling what they call interactive video on demand. The overall idea is to make TV-viewing just interactive enough to make it more compelling without sacrificing the "idiot box"-ness of the medium. When you're watching TV, you don't necessarily want to break out GCC simply to change the channel.

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  • Study: TiVo, other DVRs don’t negatively affect TV advertising

    Study: TiVo, other DVRs don’t negatively affect TV advertising

    Reasonably interesting study coming out of Duke University that says that digital video recorders (TiVo and the like) do not negatively affect television advertising at all. That flies in the face of conventional wisdom, wisdom that says TiVo and its ilk have destroyed the TV business forever. Well, that's just not the case.

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  • Samsung looking into bringing Android to the TV

    Samsung looking into bringing Android to the TV

    Sources at Samsung revealed that they are looking at TV’s that incorporate Google’s Android OS in them. I’m not so sure I want a TV that is quite that intelligent. An anonymous Samsung exec was quoted as saying, “we are considering Google TVs.” It makes sense to license Android, since the application base keeps growing, and [...]

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  • What could be better than watching MLB games on your PS3?

    What could be better than watching MLB games on your PS3?

    Back in my day a video game console was a video game console. Now? They're all over the place. The latest example: Sony has inked a deal with Major League Baseball to bring live baseball games to a PS3 near you.

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  • FCC pressing for AllVid to replace Cable Cards

    FCC pressing for AllVid to replace Cable Cards

    Looks like the FCC wants to replace your Cable Card with, I don't know, something useful. The new device, dubbed "AllVid," would work with a variety of media—TVs, computers, and the like—to deliver "multichannel video programming and Internet content." And I'm the Queen of England~!

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  • Red Dead Redemption gets Fox TV machinima special

    Red Dead Redemption gets Fox TV machinima special

    Quite the push behind Red Dead Redemption, no? The latest is that John Hillcoat, the guy who directed The Road (which I saw the other day—the future looks horrible), has worked on a 30-minute machinima for Rockstar . The short film will air on Fox on May 15. This is a pretty big deal.

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