Kabletown Comcast is taking advantage of the calm before the WWDC/E3 storm to announce two initiatives to help out 'round the home. First up, the company is adding a public WiFi channel to its newest Wireless Gateway hardware, enabling your home to become a muni-fi hotspot for roving Xfinity customers. Wondering how public usage might affect your personal bandwidth cap situation? Basically the way … [Read more...]
Comcast launching Xfinity-branded cloud-based home control, muni-fi services
June 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Slamdance Comes Home: Fest Partners With Cinedigm To Bring Winners And Faves To VOD
June 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
If you regularly catch my reviews and articles here at Twitch than you know I totally dig the Slamdance Film Festival, that beautiful anarchic step child of Park City who shines a considerable spotlight on first-time filmmakers with flicks made for under a million bucks. Some of my absolute favorite films from the last few years (Without, The Sound Of Small Things, Fynbos) have premiered at the … [Read more...]
Verizon FiOS TV rolling out new set-top box Home Page
June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In the old days, you'd turn your TV on and see video. Typically it would just play whatever channel was on last, but more advanced digital boxes might start at a main menu or specific channel. Verizon's latest twist on that idea is rolling out video hub office by video hub office, and should reach all 5 million customers' set-top boxes within a few weeks. Called FiOS TV Home Page, it welcomes … [Read more...]
Asus Announces VivoPC home theater at Computex
June 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Asus announces a New VivoPC home theater PC for use connected to your TV. They are claiming it can double as your main PC. They don't say much what hardware is in the machine, but they say it has the new 802.11ac standard wireless for HD streaming over wireless. It does have Windows 8 with fully upgradable hard drive and memory with easy access. They are also throwing in Asus SonicMaster Audio … [Read more...]
Vudu disc-to-digital home Ultraviolet conversion software leaves beta, comes to Mac
June 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
It took some time to work out the bugs, but Vudu is finally removing the beta badge from its home-based disc-to-digital service. The idea and the price are still the same as when the beta launched, but what's new is support for OS X, plus an improved user experience and disc identification powered by Gracenote. We gave it a try and found the process couldn't be any easier or more straight forward. … [Read more...]
Catherine Zeta-Jones Returns Home from Treatment for Bipolar II Disorder
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
"I can't wait to see her," says husband Michael Douglas People.com Latest News … [Read more...]
TWC TV Android update with live TV streaming away from home now available
May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Just as promised, Time Warner Cable has delivered a new version of its TWC TV app for Android users that includes access to live TV streams of certain channels while away from home. That new feature is accompanied by several other tweaks, including TV mini guide filtering and expanded device support for devices running Android 2.2 and higher. Out of home streaming is still more limited than that … [Read more...]
Netflix keeps its lead in streaming video use at home, YouTube rules the road
May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
When we last checked in with Sandvine's stat trackers, Netflix reigned supreme in online video traffic at home, especially downstream. It's still sitting pretty several months later, Sandvine tells AllThingsD. Quite possibly helped by the House of Cards debut, Netflix kept a healthy lead at 32.3 percent of downstream use on wired networks this past March. That's no mean feat when some of its … [Read more...]
Seagate Central review: media sharing for the home, plus backup too
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We really enjoy the ability to consume content on any device from just about anywhere we may roam. The cloud has been a big part of making that happen, but there are still a few things the cloud can't do nearly as well as local storage -- namely, share large files and provide continuous full backups of large media libraries. Attempting to bridge that gap is the Seagate Central. Ranging in price … [Read more...]
American Idol’s Top 3 Visit Home Before Finale
May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Cheers, tears and lots of love greet Idol finalists Kree Harrison, Candice Glover, Angie Miller on Saturday People.com Latest News … [Read more...]
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