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Sneaky DSM all-purpose audio streamer promises quality sound

, Apr 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're a major consumer of streaming audio from a variety of sources or audio from physical media such as CDs, LINN has a new product called the Sneaky DSM that promises superb sound. The company says that the product provides superb sound from everything you listen to in the home and describes the device as an all-purpose streamer. The Sneaky DSM has both pre and power amps built into its slim form factor. Read The Full Story

Aereo wins in appeals court

, Apr 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Aereo has survived another legal attack on its web TV service, with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejecting an appeal by the big broadcasters angry with the streaming system the start-up offers. The networks had hoped to overturn a 2012 ruling that gave Aereo the green light to launch in New York City last year, but the appeals court decided that Aereo's service basically follows the path laid down by Cablevision's web-based RS-DVR. Read The Full Story

Aereo in AT&T and DISH deal talks amid broadcaster fury

, Apr 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Aereo, the would-be cable-disrupting streaming TV service that puts a PVR in the cloud, has been holding clandestine talks with AT&T, Dish Network, and others in an attempt to significantly broaden its availability, insiders claim. Currently available only in NYC, and stung with legal challenges from angry content owners and broadcasters, Aereo has been hunting new distribution methods such as direct-to-phone, sources tell the WSJ, though any eventual deal hangs in part of whether the start-up's service can continue. Read The Full Story

Amazon Prime Instant Video to get new original comedy pilot called Betas

, Mar 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

Streaming video services are working hard to differentiate themselves from each other in the mind of the consumer. One way some of the major streaming video services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video are looking to set themselves apart are with original TV shows that can't be seen anywhere else. Amazon has announced that it is working on a new original comedy pilot that will be exclusive to Prime Instant Video. Read The Full Story

HBO CEO is considering offering HBO Go without a cable subscription

, Mar 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

HBO Go is a streaming video service from the HBO premium cable network that has been around for a while now. HBO Go allows users who subscribe to HBO via a cable or satellite TV company to stream on-demand programs over the Internet from HBO. The available content includes movies and HBO's popular original series such as Game of Thrones. Read The Full Story

Dish Hopper second screen and mobile app updates cater to NCAA tournament fans

, Mar 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're a Dish Network subscriber that happens to have a Dish Hopper DVR and likes basketball, you will love this. Dish has announced a new second-screen and mobile app experience specifically designed to enhance the NCAA basketball tournament viewing experience. Dish has announced enhanced apps within its Hopper whole-home HD DVR platform to give sports fans an improved viewing experience. Read The Full Story

Popcornflix hits 1 million downloads via Roku platform

, Mar 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

We've talked a lot about the Roku platform over the years. Roku offers a variety of set top boxes and other offerings that bring streaming media and smart TV functionality to standard televisions. Roku streaming media devices have a number of applications that can be downloaded to bring various streaming services to the viewer. Read The Full Story

Sonos offers matte SUB in stock-limited $599 sale

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

The cheaper, matte black version of Sonos' SUB has finally gone on sale, though you'll need to be fast to save $100 on the wireless subwoofer. Promised back at the SUB's reveal in May last year, but missing in action since then, the original plan was to have the matte-finish SUB offered for $599 and the gloss version - which we reviewed here - sold at a premium. However, manufacturing plans scuppered that idea, but Sonos has thrown up a limited number of the matte models in a temporary sale. Read The Full Story

Intel MSRD set-top box detailed: motion-remote and second-screen grunt

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Intel's Web TV set-top box will use a motion-tracking remote control, it's been confirmed, with the chip firm turning to LG-favorite Hillcrest Labs for the tech. The new Intel Media Server Reference Design (MSRD), set to go on sale in April as the company tries to tempt content providers and OEMs to its Atom CE5300 multimedia chipset, will use Hillcrest's Freespace Motion Engine for navigating menus by waving a remote in mid-air. Read The Full Story

TiVo Mini shares the Premiere love whole-home for $100

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

TiVo has finally launched the TiVo Mini, its compact streaming box that funnels shows from your 4-tuner Premiere to other TVs in the home. Running over either wired ethernet or MoCA networks - with no WiFi option, at least at this stage - the TiVo Mini comes in at $99.99 (with a service fee sting) and basically takes over one of the Premiere's tuners, prioritizing it for another room. Read The Full Story

Sonos PLAYBAR Review

, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Movie and TV audio for music lovers: that’s how Sonos describes its new PLAYBAR, the first product from the whole-home audio company to tackle sound that comes with moving pictures, rather than audio for its own sake. Speaker-bars aren’t a new concept, but Sonos is aiming to bring some of its near-legendary ease of use to the segment; and, since this is a Sonos speaker after all, it works as a node in your streaming music system too. Perfect extension of the core brand, or a distracting dilution? Read on for the full SlashGear review.

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Elon Musk shows off “any song, any time” Easter Egg in Tesla’s Model S

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

I can't honestly say that I recall the Tesla Model S being an Internet connected vehicle. The Model S is apparently connected to the Internet while in operation. At least that's the idea given by company CEO Elon Musk as he shows off a feature of the Model S to Bloomberg that I've never seen. Musk promises the vehicle will play any song you ask for at any time. Read The Full Story
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