TV

Will A Google Acquisition of Hulu Provide Worthwhile Synergy?

by Mike Mansell September 7, 2011

If there’s one aspect of our day-to-day lives that I am sure will change dramatically over the next few years I honestly think that thing would be television. I mean, think of what TV was like fifty years ago – a bulky little box with bunny-ears and a black-and-white picture that families circled around in [...]

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Best Buy Releases Insignia Connected TV

by Mike Mansell August 2, 2011

Looking back it now it’s somewhat entertaining and equally mesmerizing to realize how far television has come in the past few decades. I mean, it really wasn’t that long ago when a big box-sized television sporting bunny-ears and more than likely only a simple black-and-white picture was considered the “standard.” Now in our present day [...]

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Roku 2 Promises to Rock You Again

by Mike Mansell July 21, 2011

It seems that anything we do anymore has a core shaped around the Internet. Think about it. That connection piped into your home does so much more than anyone would have imagined it would. Sure, we use the Internet on our computers to exchange electronic messages and keep up with our social lives; but it [...]

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Why Does Apple Score So Much Free Product Placement?

by Mike Mansell June 17, 2011

As far as weekdays go, yesterday was a pretty relaxing day. Being my day off, I plopped into the lazy chair in the living room; remote and phone on a side-table, dog and laptop on my lap. And for the better part of the day I remained a fixture in this spot while watching a handful of movies and television shows, cleaning off the DVR to make room for television shows next season.

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Netflix Needs Original Content More Than A Few Cancelled Classics

by Jeff Weisbein March 19, 2011

I just read an article by MG Siegler titled, “Another Netflix Content Idea: Saving Cancelled Cult Hits” and while I think his idea is an interesting one, I don’t necessarily agree that it’s the right move for Netflix. Instead, I would recommend Netflix look at potential TV shows that were pitched to networks that didn’t [...]

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Amazon Prime Now Includes Streaming Media

by Mike Mansell February 23, 2011

I absolutely love Amazon. If there was ever such thing as an “Amazon fanboy”, then I am most definitely the living breathing definition of one. What once started out as a simple book store has emerged to become so much more; a full-blown online store that sells just about everything you can imagine, a web [...]

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Chrome OS: Not Just For Netbooks

by Mike Mansell November 26, 2010

It has already been made perfectly clear that Google’s upcoming Chrome operating system is going to be a miserable failure if it is used exclusively for netbook computers. With the market for tablet computers expanding at a rapid rate, competition in the mobile computing field is undoubtedly going to become a big thing. So it should [...]

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Web-Based Television is the Future

by Mike Mansell November 11, 2010

Sites like Hulu and Netflix’s relatively new streaming service appear to have started a revolution in how we consume media. Is this revolution complete? Absolutely not. In the future, I expect to see more open standards for viewing television online and through products such as the Google TV and the Apple TV. More importantly, however, I am [...]

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Google TV: The Missing Feature

by Jeff Weisbein October 5, 2010

Google TV looks great. There’s no doubt about it. In fact, it looks so good, I want one even though I just purchased an Apple TV. However, despite what Google TV has to offer, it’s missing one key feature. A feature Google TV may not be able to replicate anytime soon because of Google’s insistance [...]

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Apple TV Bridges the Gap Between Computer and TV

by Jeff Weisbein September 1, 2010

I just ordered the brand new Apple TV. But I guess the question is why? Why did I order it? It wasn’t the inner-fanboy, like some may argue took over when I ordered the Magic Trackpad. This purchase actually bridges a gap in my media consumption experience. For the longest time, I haven’t been able [...]

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