Tag Archives: home entertainment

The remote control may soon be obsolete if the latest technology for TV has anything to say about it. The days of browsing through hundreds of channels or flipping through the weekly TV Guide are long gone for those who embrace technology. Here are just a few ways that DirecTV and other apps are working to make watching TV even easier.

It's no secret that many techies are struggling to budget for new gadgets. However, even in today's economy, you can get your gadget fix without breaking the bank.

A 1.5TB hard drive, support for 4k resolution, 3-D Blu-ray optical drive, a touchscreen controller. This needs to exist.

Those of you who have AT&T Internet and find yourself using 250GB+ a month of bandwidth may soon be seeing overage charges appear on your bill.

During a Q&A panel at the Game Developers Conference, Box2D creator Erin Catto asked Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka, quite publicly, if he could have a credit in 'Angry Birds'. After all, the game uses his physics engine.

While Apple is getting all sorts of heat for their faulty design and software issues of the iPhone 4, the iPad remains a fallback excuse for what makes Apple just so Apple-y. It’s slick, it’s smooth, it’s edible, it’s quick and maybe most important, it’s fun. In fact, the iPad is such a success that other companies are starting to ...

I’m not quite sure how my household would get along without this DVD Rewinder, a truly necessary gadget in any man serious about his media. I despise receiving DVDs from Netflix, only to find that they haven’t been properly rewound. I do not care to see the middle of a film before I’ve seen the beginning. It’s almost as irritating ...

I’m a realist. I’m not going to promise my kid they can do whatever they want, because in reality, they’re likely never going to grow wings out of their asshole and fly. And even more realistic, they’ll almost positively never be President of the United States. I’d say the asshole wings have better odds then that. So I’ve decided that ...

April Fools’ Day is right around the corner, which means it’s time to get nasty. It’s time to get mean. It’s time to get ruthless. And feel totally not guilty about it at all. TV Poltergeist is a little device that you can hide in your living room that will automatically turn the power to the TV off and on ...

For the past two months or so, Netflix has been delaying the shipment of many Warner Bros. new releases by 28 days, a new mandate installed by the production company in order to allegedly provide a better user experience. Well, Netflix users should be enraged to see that Blockbuster signed a deal that allows them to both ship to their ...