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  • elgato EyeTV HD DVR for Mac easily makes iPad-compatible versions of your favorite TV shows

    elgato EyeTV HD DVR for Mac easily makes iPad-compatible versions of your favorite TV shows

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Mac users may get a kick out of this, the elgato EyeTV HD. It's a DVR solution that works with your cable and satellite channels, sending everything to your Mac instead of a plain ol' TV. From there you can watch or edit whatever you've recorded. Easy as pie.

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  • We demand Steam rentals, now!

    We demand Steam rentals, now!

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    We were discussing in the chat room a little while ago how fantastically awesome it would be to be able to rent games from Steam. Allow me to explain.

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  • The new Roku Netflix experience adds search, Instant Queue modification features

    The new Roku Netflix experience adds search, Instant Queue modification features

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Woot! Netflix for Roku's wee little box will be updated "soon" for Netflix subscribers, adding search functionality that the service badly needed. As you can see from this jaunty video, the entire UI has been improved and the standard "press left to see all of the other movies" is gone, giving you more movies per page and a considerably more streamlined experience. The best thing? You can now add movies to your queue from the box. Click through for a video and a bit more info.

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

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

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    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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  • UK ISPs prepare for Digital Economy P2P fallout

    UK ISPs prepare for Digital Economy P2P fallout

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    The Digital Economy Act passed in the UK, as you know, and it's pretty terrible. One of the more spicy sections of the law involved peer-to-peer use, and how it basically makes ISPs responsible for what their customers download. So if HBO finds that you've been download “The Pacific,” (really good show, by the way, much to my surprise) it can contact your ISP, who's then responsible for telling you to knock if off. If not, you face a truly horrible punishment: you're sent to Stoke! (That's a joke, people!)

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  • iTunes 9.1 is live, iPad syncing, modded Genius Mixes added

    iTunes 9.1 is live, iPad syncing, modded Genius Mixes added

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Tunes 9.1 just went live. I'm digging through to see what's new in this version, but iTunes just updated to 9.1. It seems you actually have to go to the Apple.com/itunes site to download it because my System Update and the Update Software command in iTunes didn't catch it.

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  • Alienware to probe shoppers on QVC

    Alienware to probe shoppers on QVC

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Get ready home shoppers, Alienware is going to be paying you a visit at 1am Eastern time on the 6th. Apparently, showing up on geeky TV shows and at Blizzcon isn't enough, so Alienware is going to be selling it old school: on QVC late nights.

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  • Apple TV could start offering unlimited TV shows for $30/month

    Apple TV could start offering unlimited TV shows for $30/month

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Riddle me this: would you pay Apple $30 a month for unlimited access to TV, presumably coinciding with the actual network air time or shortly thereafter? Interesting, non? PKafka has talked to some industry execs who have been approached by Apple in preparation of just that sort of thing. You pay $30 and get TV - on demand. The Apple TV would ignore the DVR market completely, instead becoming a sort of subscription-based cable TV service.

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  • Roku releases $79 streamer, two new players

    Roku releases $79 streamer, two new players

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Do you need a streamer in your life? An HD media player? MLB, Netflix, and Amazon content? You, sir or madam, are in luck. Roku has announced the Roku SD player for $79 and added the HD and HD-XR models for $99 and $129 respectively. The Roku SD player connects to the TV using the included [...]

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  • How to use RSS to automatically download anything from Usenet

    How to use RSS to automatically download anything from Usenet

    Posted on October 17, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s the tree of life, and for no particular reason, either. As a corollary to Biggs’ “cable companies are doomed” article from earlier today, I thought I’d demonstrate how easy it is to accomplish what he was threatening. That is, live a happy and successful life without having to pay $100+ a month to Comcast, Time [...]

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  • What “on-demand” media really means and why your cable company should be scared

    What “on-demand” media really means and why your cable company should be scared

    Posted on October 17, 2009 | No Comments
    I’ve been angling to get rid of my TiVo and cable for some time now and I believe I’ve finally figured out a solution that works best for me. It involves a lots scripting, Sabnzbd, and HandbrakeCLI and I’ll tell you what I ultimately did next week once it’s stable but it seems to be [...]

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  • The Samsung R1 is a PMP, all right

    The Samsung R1 is a PMP, all right

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    The “anybody but iPod” crowd has another portable media player to choose from, and it's from Samsung. It's called the R1, and it's your standard issue touchscreen PMP. It does play Divx-encoded video, which should be a benefit to those of you who haven't moved into Blu-ray rips, or who enjoy watching standard-def rips of TV shows on the subway.

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  • Facebook ain’t cool with the kids no more

    Facebook ain’t cool with the kids no more

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Sorry, but social networks simply aren't cool anymore among the 15-to-24-year-old crowd. (I'm 23, and have all but quit Facebook (I stopped tweeting a few months ago), but that's more of a function of me being an anti-social cad than anything else.) Why? It seems the older crowd—people 25 and older—has given social networks the unmistakable stench of being not cool. Why would an 18-year-old kid want to mimic the lifestyle of a 30-year-old?

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  • PlayStation Home could stream TV shows, movies in the future

    PlayStation Home could stream TV shows, movies in the future

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    We don’t typically cover PS Home updates at the ‘Gear, but the Sony PS team just dropped a tiny morsel of goodness and I feel compelled to tell you about it. The Movie Theater in Home is getting revamped with a 10-screen layout that PS Home Community Manager CydoniaX says could one-day stream full-length TV shows and movies. Nothing is set in stone so we’ll throw this one on the backburner for now.

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  • CrunchDeals: ‘Blu-ray Blowout’ at Amazon

    CrunchDeals: ‘Blu-ray Blowout’ at Amazon

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    blurayAmazon is currently having a "Blu-ray Blowout" with movies as low as $9.99, categorized in $15.99 and Under, $16-25, and Over $25 groupings. Not to be confused with the Blu-ray Blowout you'd experience after a long night of drinking followed up by burnt coffee and blueberry mini-muffins for breakfast.

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