VHS era is winding down – Los Angeles Times… The last big supplier of the tapes is ditching the format, ending the long fade-out of a product that ushered in the home theater. Pop culture is finally hitting the eject button on the VHS tape, the once-ubiquitous home-video format that will finish this month as […]
Turn off TVs by just looking at them – By Mitch Altman…. “Hey, you mind turning that thing off?” Simple enough question, but I got tired of people looking at me like I’m from Mars. When a TV is on in the room, I can’t think. I just stare at the thing and drool. So […]
What happy people don’t do – Watch TV… I wonder if the Cornfield Electronics paid for this study? :) Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That’s what unhappy people do. Although people […]
Nice Boxee write up at Gizmodo, how-to max out Apple TV’s potential with Boxee… This is a guide that, if followed, will unchain your Apple TV from its cruel iTunes tether, turning it into the useful living room conduit of music, video and web-based content it should have been all along via the media center […]
The end of TV: Boxee + Apple TV + Hulu, a review of Boxee @ Tux Geek… People want to do much more with their iPhone then Steve Job allows. So they jailbreak it. The same goes for the Apple TV. While it is a great and relatively cheap media center, it has restrictions, just […]
Nice how-to at Hack-a-day from Ian on how to make a USB remote control receiver, he writes… Now that we listen to MP3s, and watch XVIDs or x264s, a computer is the entertainment center in at least one room of most homes. Unless you have a special HTPC, though, you’re probably stuck using the keyboard […]
Johan writes in… A Neuros community member has created a technology for superimposing chat on top of a TV broadcast, called ‘Crowd Narration’ using the Neuros OSD. Users won’t need a Neuros device to participate at http://narration.neuros.tv/ but their chat text will be sent in real time to participating viewers watching the debate through their […]
