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Entries Tagged as 'Media Extender'

Waiting on the Real Apple TV

May 20th, 2012 · No Comments

You may have noticed that when I talk about TV over the Internet, I haven’t been talking about Google TV or the like. Instead, I’ve been focusing on “media extenders” like the Apple TV, Roku, and the various Internet-equipped Blu-Ray DVD players. The main reason is the elephant in the room: “When will Apple announce [...]

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Tags: Apple · Business · Entertainment · HDTV · Internet · Media Extender · Network · Video

Finding your TV shows on the Internet

May 14th, 2012 · No Comments

It seems to me some days like the media companies want their own Internet TV subsidiaries to fail. Take, for example, the simple task of finding the show you want. DVRs manage it, TV Guide managed it when the only way we got to watch TV was by using rabbit ears. But finding the shows [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Internet · Media Extender · Network · Video · Web Services

Five Internet TV cable cutting considerations

May 6th, 2012 · Comments Off

I’ve been watching video over the Internet since its first days. And, I’ve been pushing that video from the net to televisions for almost as long. It wasn’t until late year though that I finally cut my cable and went to just watching television over the Internet and with a little bit of over-the-air (OTA) [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · HDTV · Internet · Media Extender · Network · Web Services

TV for Human Beings: Ubuntu Linux

January 9th, 2012 · Comments Off

Ubuntu Linux fans will recognize this story’s title as a play on the operating system’s slogan: Ubuntu: Linux for human beings. Now, Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is taking on Apple and Google by trying to make Ubuntu the operating system of choice for all-in-one Internet, cable, and satellite TV: Ubuntu TV. According to Jane Silber, [...]

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Tags: Business · Canonical · DVR · Entertainment · HDTV · Internet · Linux · Media Extender · Network · Operating System · Video

Internet TV Shootout: Apple TV, Roku and Sony Blu-Ray DVD Player

November 27th, 2011 · Comments Off

When people talk about Internet TV, I’ve noticed that they usually talk about either Apple TV or Roku. Both are fine devices, but you may be over-looking that are many other ways to get Internet video to your TV. Many of these are still too complicated for general use and others, like Google TV, are [...]

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Tags: DVD · Entertainment · HDTV · Media Extender · Video