It's been about two years since Cablevision introduced its Optimum for iPad app that brought its live TV channels streaming to the tablet, and now it's finally ready to offer the feature even when users are away from their home WiFi network. That ability is coming in an update rolling out tonight, however currently it only applies to the News 12, News 12 Traffic & Weather & MSG Varsity … [Read more...]
Cablevision’s Optimum for iPad app adds streaming even when users are away from home
April 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
‘You’re Next’ Trailer: Home Invasion is Bloody Fun
March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Good news for gorehounds: the trailer for You’re Next, the fourth feature-length film from horror director Adam Wingard (2012′s horror anthology V/H/S) has hit the web – and it’s a good sell. After spending the last couple of years in a holding pattern, possibly due to Lionsgate’s acquisition of Summit Entertainment earlier this decade, the highly-touted home invasion … [Read more...]
Dancing with the Stars: Who’s Going Home First?
March 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Four couples spent two consecutive weeks at the bottom of the leader board People.com Latest News … [Read more...]
Plex client project for Raspberry Pi gets a fresh update and its own site to call home
March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
RasPlex is not the only HTPC software project aimed at the Raspberry Pi (also see Raspbmc, OpenELEC or PyPlex), but it is trying to leverage the Plex Media Server to become the best option. As detailed on the "Why Rasplex?" section of its new website, Plex's client/server model lends itself to handling video streams that might otherwise not be supported by the Pi's lightweight ARM CPU, as well as … [Read more...]
American Idol Sends Home First Finalist of the Season
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The top 10 faced the first elimination of the season on Thursday People.com Latest News … [Read more...]
‘Psych’ Season 7, Episode 2: You Can’t Go Home
March 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
While the title of tonight’s episode of Psych might suggest otherwise, ‘Juliet Takes a Luvvah’ focuses more on Shawn (James Roday) and his various relationships than it does Juliet (Maggie Lawson). This should come as no huge shock since the show has always been written from his point of view, but what is surprising is that this marks a potential turning point in not just one, … [Read more...]
Telefonica shows off streaming 4K video on home fiber
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The future of TV is supposed to involve streaming video, and it's also supposed to involve 4K TVs -- but melding the two has been difficult. Telefonica wants to show that the feat is at least possible with mere mortal connections: it's been using Mobile World Congress to show 4K video streaming on a 100Mbps fiber-to-the-home link. As our Spanish teammates can attest, the (admittedly very local) … [Read more...]
QNAP adds NAS lines with XBMC support, skips the home theater middleman
February 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
High-rolling (or just highly nerdy) home theater PC setups often have network-attached storage to hold the reams of video that invariably won't fit on the PC itself. QNAP wonders why we don't just cut to the chase -- both of its TS-x69L and TS-x69 Pro entries in the Turbo NAS range support XBMC's home theater software out of the gate, letting either NAS serve as the front-end as long as they're … [Read more...]
PlayStation Home Arcade brings parts of Sony’s Second Life-esque world to PlayStation Vita
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
You like the games in Sony's PlayStation 3-based social network, Home, but not the endless Quincying? We can fully respect that, and we're glad to tell you that Sony's doing something specifically catered to your wants, fictional person -- today, PlayStation Home Arcade launches on the PlayStation Vita, bringing arcade games from the network to Vita with none of the awkward virtual dancing found … [Read more...]
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