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		<title>The Xbox One Is All-New &#8212; But Familiar, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-all-new-but-familiar-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New game consoles don&#8217;t exactly come along every week. Microsoft unveiled its current one, the Xbox 360, back on May 12, 2005 &#8212; an era when the newest version of Windows was XP, almost all forms of gadget input involved clacky little buttons and the fastest way to get Netflix into your living room involved a red envelope and the U.S. postal system. In the eight years since that announcement, the Xbox 360 has evolved &#8212; a lot. Microsoft has reworked its user interface repeatedly and added scads of features. Using Kinect, which arrived as an optional add-on in 2010, you can control the 360 with your entire body and your voice. And thanks to Netflix and other streaming services, Xbox owners spend more total time watching video than they do playing games. But at its heart, the 360 has remained a piece of hardware from another era &#8212; an old dog that works really hard to perform new tricks, and does them well. But it&#8217;s still an old dog. Microsoft On Tuesday, in a tent at its Redmond, Wash. campus, Microsoft introduced its new console, the Xbox One. Its specs reflect eight years of dramatic technological advancement since the 360&#8242;s debut: It sports a vastly more powerful eight-core processor, sixteen times the RAM of the original 360, a much more capable version of Kinect that now lets you make Skype video calls in HD, advanced Wi-Fi, a Blu-ray drive, HDMI input and output, and three &#8212; count &#8216;em: three &#8212; operating systems. (As Microsoft explained, the box has an Xbox OS, a special version of Windows and a bridging OS which melds the two into one experience.) But while the Xbox One is all-new from a technology standpoint &#8212; it won&#8217;t even play Xbox 360 games &#8212; it also feels like a continuance of the ideas that Microsoft has been adding to the Xbox 360 since 2005. There&#8217;s no radically new concept akin to the two-screen interface that Nintendo gave the Wii U. It&#8217;s just that all of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163237&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Xbox One, Microsoft Emphasizes TV over Games</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-revealed-microsofts-next-gen-console-emphasizes-tv-over-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From beneath gray skies, working a boisterous audience packed into a giant tent on its Redmond, Wash. campus, Microsoft this afternoon took the wraps off its third Xbox, dubbed Xbox One. But gamers tuning in to watch the live-stream event only caught glimpses of vaguely better-looking in-game footage, and then not until the presentation&#8217;s finale. Instead, Microsoft and its partners chose to spend most of the presentation talking about the future of TV-related entertainment as well as Xbox One&#8217;s much-refined voice command-driven interface. Kicking off the one-hour show, Microsoft president of interactive entertainment Don Mattrick helmed the stage, electric-green Xbox screens flanking him, to portray Xbox One as the center of an interactive media-verse. That universe is more heterogeneous than ever, said Mattrick, comprising casual games, live and recorded TV, sports and movies, multiple platforms, living rooms in flux with cloud-powered Internet services, voice and gesture controls and mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. &#8221;To continue to lead, we must provide compelling answers to new questions,&#8221; he said, then asking, &#8220;Can we take what you love and make it better? Can we improve a living room that&#8217;s become too complex, too fragmented and too slow?&#8221; Microsoft&#8217;s answer: a set-top console that looked less than ever like a stylized game console and more like a traditional, almost mundane piece of orthogonal, black, glossy hi-fi stereo equipment. The new console was joined by a revamped Kinect camera &#8212; included with each Xbox One &#8212; and a refined, slightly more angular version of the Xbox 360 gamepad (making it look a hair more like a batarang). &#8220;For the first time, you and your TV are going to have a relationship,&#8221; quipped Mattrick, a statement that sounds awkward at first blush &#8212; we&#8217;ve had a relationship with our TV sets for decades &#8212; until you realized he was hyping Microsoft&#8217;s considerable ramping-up of the Xbox brand as a media-platform first, and a games console second. TV &#62; Gaming Before delving into hardware specifics, Microsoft interactive entertainment marketing honcho Yusuf Mehdi demonstrated Microsoft&#8217;s vision of the Xbox One as a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163159&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Fact: There Was Once a Yahoo DVD Player</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/20/fun-fact-there-was-once-a-yahoo-dvd-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, will you look this? Isn&#8217;t that a sight for sore eyes? Forget Yahoo the web portal, forget Yahoo the e-mail service, forget Yahoo the company that just bought Tumblr: Back in 2005, there was a Yahoo DVD player. As CNET&#8217;s John Falcone tweets: Remember when Yahoo made a DVD player? reviews.cnet.com/dvd-players/ya…&#8212; John P. Falcone (@falconejp) May 20, 2013 Yes, John Falcone. Yes, I do. But it&#8217;s been&#8230; oh, eight years since I&#8217;ve thought about it. Man, what a gem. Now, this was no ordinary DVD player. Well, it was sort of ordinary in its functionality, but it sure didn&#8217;t look like ordinary DVD players. Yahoo&#8217;s YDP-530 had two superfluous analog meters flanking the disc tray; one measured audio volume, its needle bouncing back and forth as dialogue ebbed and flowed. The other supposedly measured the bit rate of the video being played as it made its way from the DVD player to your TV set. To say that CNET&#8217;s 2005 review of the YDP-530 is interesting doesn&#8217;t do it justice. This quip, for instance, is marvelous: Facing pressure from Google on the search, maps, and e-mail front, Yahoo has decided to strike back with…a DVD player? While the $100 YDP-530 bears the Yahoo brand, it&#8217;s actually manufactured by Diamond Electronics, a company that, as its press release states, &#8220;supplied the DVD player that Forbes Magazine (September 2003) referenced as Wal-Mart de Mexico&#8217;s single largest dollar volume product in the entire country.&#8221; As for those cool analog meters? [W]hile they look pretty nifty and even light up, we can&#8217;t really imagine any practical purpose for them. Unfortunately for the geek who wants to know how many bits that last chase sequence averaged, the bit-rate meter is wildly inaccurate; it kind of just bounces up and down, even on still images. Standard OSD meters are much better for actually showing video bit rates. Do yourself a favor and read the entire review. It&#8217;s not long. The video embedded at the top of it shows off those funky meters, too. Yahoo YDP-530<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163127&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV-over-Internet Service Aereo Hits Atlanta Next Month</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/tv-over-internet-service-aereo-hits-atlanta-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Anick Jesdanun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Aereo, the startup that offers live television broadcasts over the Internet starting at $8 a month, said it will start service in the Atlanta market on June 17, following an expansion to Boston on Wednesday. Until this week, the service had been available only in the New York City area. Aereo said Tuesday that it will offer 27 Atlanta-area broadcast channels, plus the Bloomberg TV cable channel. Service will be limited to residents of 55 counties in Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. Those who had pre-registered will be able to start using Aereo on June 17. Others will be eligible a week later. Aereo converts television signals into computer data and sends them over the Internet to subscribers&#8217; computers and mobile devices. Subscribers can watch channels live or record them with an Internet-based digital video recorder. They can pause and rewind live television, just like using a DVR. Aereo sells its service as a low-cost alternative to cable or satellite TV, and it plans to target those who have dropped pay-TV service or never had it. Aereo offers far fewer channels than most pay-TV packages, but it could appeal to viewers who already turn to Hulu, Netflix and other online sources for TV shows and movies. Broadcasters see Aereo as a threat to their revenue, even though stations already make signals available for free. Broadcasters are increasingly supplementing advertising revenue with fees they get from cable and satellite TV companies for redistributing their stations to subscribers. If customers drop their pay-TV service and use Aereo instead, broadcasters lose some of that revenue. So far, federal courts have ruled against broadcasters&#8217; claims that Aereo&#8217;s service constitutes copyright infringement. Aereo claims what it is doing is legal because it has thousands of tiny antennas at its data centers and assigns individual subscribers their own antenna. According to Aereo, that makes it akin to customers picking up free broadcast signals with a regular antenna at home. Broadcasters argue that the use of individual antennas is a mere technicality meant<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162775&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ouya Delayed to End of June, Snatches $15m in New Funding, Lures Ex-EA Boss Bing Gordon</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/ouya-delayed-to-end-of-june-snatches-15m-in-new-funding-lures-ex-ea-boss-bing-gordon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most visible of the Android-based micro-consoles with the name that sounds like what Kool-Aid man says when he&#8217;s busting through painted styrofoam walls will delay its $100 Ouya game cube until the end of June: specifically June 25 &#8212; about two weeks after E3 wraps. The reason for the delay? The company doesn&#8217;t say in a press release that&#8217;s mostly about other stuff, burying the revised launch date at the end (the system was originally due out June 4), but Joystiq managed to speak with Ouya honcho Julie Uhrman, who explains the sudden pushback: We&#8217;ve had incredibly positive reactions from our retail partners, and so in order to meet their greater than expected demand, we decided to shift the launch date by a couple of weeks &#8212; three weeks &#8212; which will allow us to create more units and, basically, have more units on store shelves in June. You know all the worry about the controller feeling cheap? Complaints about some of the buttons sticking under the top plate when hammered? It sounds like Ouya&#8217;s already addressed this (well, the button-sticking part anyway): Uhrman says the company&#8217;s made the holes for the face buttons a trifle larger to rectify the problem. &#8221;We made that change very early so all the units are being produced with those larger button holes,&#8221; says Uhrman. The revised controllers are already shipping to Kickstarter backers. As Gamasutra notes, the new launch date pits Ouya squarely against GameStick, a flash drive-sized, Android-based game console designed to plug directly into Smart TVs (or to a standard TV through an HDMI dock). GameStick has a launch date of June 10, but the company&#8217;s said the first units won&#8217;t be in the hands of those who preordered it until the final week of June. But what Ouya really wants everyone to know, is that it just secured $15 million in new funding led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &#38; Byers, with participation from Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners. If KPCB rings some distant game history<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162461&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Vdio: I Dislike You. Please Go Away.</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/dear-vdio-i-dislike-you-please-go-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made no secret of my love for Rdio (see Dear Rdio: I Like You. Please Don’t Die.), the streaming music service that competes with Spotify and, in my view, offers a slicker design and better features than its more established rival. But I&#8217;ve also worried that while Spotify ascends, Rdio could be yet another great music service bound for the scrap heap. So imagine my dismay a few weeks ago when the folks behind Rdio announced a new streaming TV and movie service, dubbed Vdio. Unlike its musical sibling, Vdio isn&#8217;t subscription-based. It&#8217;s all a la carte, similar to iTunes&#8217; video store. Its main hooks are the ability to connect with other Vdio users to see what they&#8217;re watching, and to build &#8220;Sets&#8221; of shows that are the equivalent of music playlists. (At the moment, it&#8217;s only available to existing Rdio subscribers.) Jared Newman / TIME.com My concern was that this new video service would subtract from Rdio&#8217;s focus on music. But I figured I&#8217;d reserve judgment until I actually gave Vdio a try. I finally got my chance this weekend, thanks to a $25 credit Vdio is offering to Rdio users&#8211;just enough money to catch up on season 5 of Breaking Bad. Sadly, this will probably be the last time I use Vdio. The service is troubled in so many ways that it&#8217;s hard to imagine anyone wanting to use it. The problems began with the sign-up process. Right away, Vdio warns you that sharing your viewing activity is mandatory. I regret not getting a screen capture of this initial disclaimer, but the site&#8217;s sharing policy makes it clear: IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO THE SHARING AND/OR PUBLIC DISPLAY OF YOUR VIEWING ACTIVITY, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO VIEW THE VIDEO CONTENT THROUGH THE VDIO SERVICE. In fairness, you can &#8220;protect&#8221; your account, preventing strangers from following you without permission. But this option is buried in the &#8220;Advanced&#8221; section of settings, and it&#8217;s disabled by default. Apparently, Rdio works the same way, and I hadn&#8217;t realized it. Sharing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161242&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Complaining: Playmysong and Spotify Just Gave Us Free Jukeboxes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/stop-complaining-playmysong-and-spotify-just-gave-us-free-jukeboxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evolver.fm / Eliot Van Buskirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comedian Louis CK made a great point that’s worth revisiting (transcript), even if you’ve seen it before:  that “everything is amazing and nobody is happy.” The disruptive funnyman was referring to the way we complain about the world we live in, even as we enjoy unprecedented abilities and conveniences thanks to the preposterous degree of technological advancement over the past few decades. People love to complain about flying, for example, and they are people who are sitting in chairs in the sky checking their Facebooks on WiFi. In the sky — and complaining about it, when just a few generations ago, traveling that same distance took years or occasionally lives. This brings us to the point: Playmysong launched a Spotify app this morning (Spotify link) that can turn any computer into a jukebox containing most of the music in the world, for free. You and all of your friends can control it with your smartphones at parties, in offices, dorms, or wherever else. We just gained another amazing thing to complain about! Please consider that just a few years ago, a jukebox capable of anything remotely similar to that would have been accessible only to the very richest people on the planet — and even then, their jukeboxes would contain a limited selection of music that would start going out of date right away. And the remote controls, which would have to be custom-made for tens of thousands of dollars, would have been super clunky and lame, probably without touchscreens, let alone the ability to let you complain about them on Facebook. As of today, even an earnest Luddite who thoroughly enjoys being terrible at technology can set up a Playmysong/Spotify jukebox in minutes that anyone with a smartphone can control, all using equipment that most people reading this already have, meaning that for all intents and purposes, this magic is completely free — and not only that, but Spotify pays artists, labels, songwriters, and publishers for the music you play (some people say not enough, but that’s a different<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161094&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Rumored to Be Prepping a TV Box for Streaming Video</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/amazon-rumored-to-be-prepping-a-tv-box-for-streaming-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports &#8220;people with knowledge of the matter&#8221; as saying that Amazon is working on a TV box for streaming on-demand video. The rumored box will apparently be available later this year and looks to compete with the likes of Apple TV, Roku and similar streaming boxes. Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video [Bloomberg]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161005&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV-by-Internet Service Aereo Expands to Boston</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/23/tv-by-internet-service-aereo-expands-to-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Anick Jesdanun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Aereo, the television-over-the-Internet service that is threatening the broadcast and cable TV industries, is expanding to Boston on May 15. With prices starting at $8 a month, Aereo will offer 28 Boston-area broadcast channels, plus the cable channel Bloomberg TV. Service will be available in Boston and surrounding areas in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. The Barry Diller-backed company announced in January that it plans to expand beyond New York to 22 additional U.S. markets. Boston represents the first metropolitan area outside New York. Others expected in the coming months include Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington. Aereo converts television signals into computer data and sends them over the Internet to subscribers&#8217; computers and mobile devices. Subscribers can watch channels live or record them with an Internet-based digital video recorder. They can pause and rewind live television, just like a DVR. Aereo sells its service as a low-cost alternative to cable or satellite TV, and it plans to target those who have dropped pay-TV service or never had one. Aereo offers far fewer channels than most pay-TV packages, but it could appeal to viewers who already turn to Hulu, Netflix and other online sources for TV shows and movies. Broadcasters see Aereo as a threat to their revenue, even though stations already make signals available for free. Broadcasters are increasingly supplementing advertising revenue with fees they get from cable and satellite TV companies for redistributing their stations to subscribers. If customers drop their pay-TV service and use Aereo instead, broadcasters would lose some of that revenue. So far, federal courts have ruled against broadcasters&#8217; claims that Aereo&#8217;s service constitutes copyright infringement. Aereo claims what it is doing is legal because it has thousands of tiny antennas at its data centers and assigns individual subscribers their own antenna. According to Aereo, that makes it akin to customers picking up free broadcast signals with a regular antenna at home. Broadcasters argue that the use of individual antennas is a mere technicality meant to circumvent copyright law. Although the latest ruling,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160834&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have a House Full of Streamers? Netflix Is Rolling Out a $12 Family Plan of Sorts</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/have-a-house-full-of-streamers-netflix-is-rolling-out-a-12-family-plan-of-sorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not realize it, but Netflix apparently has a two-stream limit for each account, meaning that I can watch SpongeBob SquarePants on my iPad at the same time my wife watches whatever could possibly be more interesting to her than SpongeBob SquarePants on her own iPad. Yes, we are a multi-iPad household. I will not apologize for that. If we someday decided to pursue the option of an open marriage &#8212; and I mean really open, like the third and fourth person would actually live here &#8212; then neither of these new people would be able to watch something using Netflix if my wife and I were both using the service on our separate iPads. Somehow, I really don&#8217;t think this scenario is going to be a problem for our family. I&#8217;m not sure about your family, though. That&#8217;s none of my business anyway. For families of more than two people &#8212; or families doing something similar to the open marriage scenario I described above &#8212; Netflix will soon be rolling out a $12 per month option that will allow for up to four simultaneous streams. The following quip from Netflix&#8217;s letter to its shareholders sums up the plan: A few members with large families run into our 2-simultaneous-stream limit. To best serve these members, we’re shortly adding a 4-stream plan, at $11.99 in the U.S., and we expect fewer than 1% of members to take it. So there you have it. Apparently less than 1% of Netflix families with more than two people try to all stream stuff at the same time. If you fit that slice of the user base, however, it looks like this plan might be for you. No word on when exactly this is rolling out, other than the appearance of the word &#8220;shortly&#8221; in the above quote. Netflix will offer $11.99 family plan with up to four simultaneous streams [The Verge]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160800&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logitech&#8217;s New Harmony Remotes: One&#8217;s a Deluxe Model, and One&#8217;s Your Phone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/17/logitechs-new-harmony-remotes-ones-a-deluxe-model-and-ones-your-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January, Logitech announced that it&#8217;s trying to sell off its division that makes Harmony universal remotes. But it&#8217;s going out with a bang: the company has announced its highest-end Harmony model to date, plus one aimed at people who don&#8217;t realize that they need a universal remote at all. The top-of-the-line model is the Harmony Ultimate, a $350 unit with a 2.4&#8243; color touchscreen along with tactile buttons for standard actions such as changing channels and adjusting the volume. As with all Harmonies, you set it up by telling it what devices you&#8217;ve got in your living room &#8212; it knows 225,000 of them by name. (This initialization process can now be performed without a PC.) You can set up multiple-device sequences of actions, so that, for instance, one command switches your TV to the right input for your Blu-ray player and starts a movie playing. Logitech Unlike most Harmonies, the Ultimate comes with a little box called the Harmony Hub, which serves as a middleman between the remote and your living-room gear. The Hub communicates with the remote via RF wireless; unlike infrared, it doesn&#8217;t require a clear line of site to work, and can sit inside a closed entertainment center. It talks to most consumer-electronics boxes using infrared, but (in a new feature) can also control the PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 via Bluetooth. Oh, and the Ultimate can control Philips&#8217; Wi-Fi-enabled Hue lightbulbs, letting you dim the lights when you watch a movie. It&#8217;s the first time that a Harmony remote has dabbled in home automation, although the company says that more such features might be on the way. The Ultimate also lets you download iPhone and Android apps that let your phone serve as a remote with features similar to the Ultimate itself. But if that sounds exciting, you might be better off with the Harmony Smart Control, a $129.99 product based the concept of BYOR &#8212; bring your own remote. That&#8217;s because with it, the app is your primary remote. Logitech Like the Ultimate,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160374&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is There a Walt Disney&#8211;Steve Jobs Connection?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/17/is-there-a-walt-disneysteve-jobs-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Greelish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Walt Disney and Steve Jobs had a lot in common, at least in aspects of business. There were a number of other interesting parallels between their personalities too; however, the two men certainly were not just alike. In fact, they were very different in numerous ways, each having been born in a different generation: Disney was born in Chicago in 1901, and Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. Disney was generally a more formal, suit-wearing, conservative businessman, while Jobs exemplified the counter-culture values of the 1960s. I can go on with their list of differences, but what is really remarkable are all of the similarities between the two men and how they both impacted the American culture and then the world. Both Disney and Jobs built strong, successful businesses with a variety of creative products, along with unique, standout brands. What is most similar, though, is how they each went about it, what motivated them and what they saw as priorities in doing so. During my adulthood, I have been a lifelong fan of the Macintosh, Apple and Steve Jobs, but I’ve also been a lifelong fan of Walt Disney. Since childhood, I have been a fan of many of the Disney movies and especially the theme parks, but now as an adult, I am inspired by the man. A similarity between the two men may not be obvious to many, but I came to recognize it some years ago. David Greelish I have three framed stock certificates that I purchased in 2004, which hang on the wall in my office. There is one from Apple Computer, Inc., one from The Walt Disney Company and then one from a company which doesn’t exist anymore as a stand-alone corporation: Pixar. My Pixar stock certificate is now even more of a cherished and valuable collector’s item to me. Those three certificates make up a set that I created: “The Steve Jobs Collection.” The reason I purchased them was because of how cool I thought it was for Steve Jobs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160322&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smile for the Camera: How Gadgets Can Better Measure TV Ratings</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/15/smile-for-the-camera-how-gadgets-can-better-measure-tv-ratings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan Feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture this: A family of four squishes together on their living room couch ready to gawk at their favorite reality show. As Dad flips on the television to find the channel, a small camera mounted on the set turns on, too, identifying and recording whether he’s watching alone, or whether Mom and the kids are tuning in as well. It’s not happening anytime soon, but facial recognition technology and other devices may be the future of how television networks and advertisers find out just who&#8217;s watching what and when. Media research company Nielsen is working on a number of changes to its television ratings methodology in the next few months &#8212; including expanding measurement of streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu by fall 2013 and tablet habits by the end of the year &#8212; but whether cameras could one day provide new metrics is already in consideration. The arrival of facial recognition in home TV viewing doesn’t seem that far-fetched in terms of the technology, but the public’s receptiveness to these kinds of methods has a longer, more complicated history. If having a camera recording in your living room sounds a bit like big brother is watching, you’re not alone. Brian Fuhrer, Nielsen’s senior vice president of national and cross-platform television audience measurement, says over the past two decades there has been considerable pushback against the use of measurement techniques that record audience data so passively &#8212; until now. “The big change is now with cameras and everything built into so many different consumer electronic devices, it’s less of us pushing that and [more] making it as easy as possible for panelists to identify themselves,” Fuhrer tells TIME. “It’s something we’re looking at in terms of an R&#38;D standpoint, and we want to be ahead of the technology when our panelists are ready to accept it.” (MORE: Nielsen to Begin Counting Online Viewership) Nielsen currently measures household viewing through its Nielsen People Meter, a small box connected to a television that has different settings for each member of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159907&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox Off the Air in Aereo Dispute</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/09/news-corp-threatens-to-pull-fox-off-the-air-in-aereo-dispute/?iid=biz-main-lead</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox network might cease broadcasting over the U.S. public airwaves if the company’s dispute with upstart challenger Aereo isn’t resolved, a senior company official warned Monday. via Murdoch’s News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox Off the Air in Aereo Dispute &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159869&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: 4K Media Players Are Ridiculously Expensive, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/08/reminder-4k-media-players-are-ridiculously-expensive-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who can afford to spend $5,000 or more on an Ultra HD television, another $699 for a 4K media player is probably chump change. Or so the logic goes at Sony. This summer, Sony will launch its first 4K media player for $699. The exquisitely-named FMP-X1 4K Media Player includes 10 feature films in 4K resolution (also known as Ultra HD): Bad Teacher, Battle: Los Angeles, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Karate Kid (2010), Salt, Taxi Driver, That&#8217;s My Boy, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Other Guys and Total Recall (2012). A handful of video shorts will be included as well. If the idea of watching old and/or mediocre movies in beautiful 3840-by-2160 resolution doesn&#8217;t excite you, worry not; Sony promises that users will be able to download more movies to the player this fall, via a &#8220;fee-based video distribution service.&#8221; Just don&#8217;t get any ideas about using the Media Player with other Ultra HD televisions. A Sony spokesman tells me the FMP-X1 will only work with Sony 4K televisions, and only in the United States. The good news is that Ultra HD televisions will come a lot cheaper as TV makers start offering them in smaller screen sizes. In addition to the new media player, Sony announced 55- and 65-inch Ultra HD TVs, respectively priced at $4,999 and $6,999. That&#8217;s still really expensive&#8211;these days you can get a good 55-inch LED HDTV for around $1,000&#8211;but not as insanely pricey as Sony&#8217;s 85-inch set, which costs $25,000. And even Sony&#8217;s largest Ultra HD television isn&#8217;t as expensive as Samsung&#8217;s 85-inch set, priced at $40,000. As I&#8217;ve said before, the current Ultra HD push from TV makers has a &#8220;because we can&#8221; feel to it, but Sony&#8217;s strategy is broader. As the company churns out more televisions, it&#8217;s also tapping its Sony Pictures division to produce Ultra HD content, including native 4K movies and &#8220;Mastered in 4K&#8221; Blu-ray discs, with 1080p video optimized for 4K televisions. The idea is to start putting out content now so there&#8217;s a decent<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159763&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speakerfy: A Free App for Whole-Home Audio, or Silent Discos</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/01/speakerfy-a-free-app-for-whole-home-audio-or-silent-discos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing music in multiple rooms around the house can be an expensive endeavor, with products like Sonos costing upwards of $300 per speaker. If you&#8217;ve already got a handful of phones, tablets and laptops connected to existing speakers around the house, why not sync them together so they&#8217;re all playing the same songs at the same time? Speakerfy, an app that officially launches on iPhone and iPad this week, and on Windows and Android next week, is a quick and dirty way to make it happen. It allows you to synchronize audio playback on multiple phones, tablets and laptops, so you can listen to the same music while wandering from room to room. (Whole-home audio isn&#8217;t Speakerfy&#8217;s primary intended function. It&#8217;s actually billed as a &#8220;social sound&#8221; app, allowing people to listen to music together across devices. Yes, it&#8217;s an app for silent discos. No, I&#8217;m not hip enough to partake in said discos. Whole-home audio it is.) Speakerfy streams audio over your local Wi-Fi network, or over a shared mobile hotspot, to any device that&#8217;s also running the app. Just send an invite to the devices you want to connect, then choose a song, album or playlist from your music collection. The other devices will start playing music in time with the host device. Right now, Speakerfy isn&#8217;t perfect. Every time you play a new song, there&#8217;s a delay of a few seconds as the devices get in sync, and once playback begins, the receiving devices stutter for a moment while the audio falls in line. John Wright, Speakerfy&#8217;s president, told me that the company&#8217;s working on the issue. The app itself is also aesthetically rough around the edges, and it&#8217;s prone to strange behavior. When I first tried the app, my iPhone and iPad failed to get in sync, and a message told me to force-close and restart the app. I had to do that again later on, when I&#8217;d left both devices idle for a while. Jared Newman / TIME.com Finally, there&#8217;s one major limitation to Speakerfy: It<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159360&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: Ultra HD Televisions Are Still Ridiculously Expensive</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/20/reminder-ultra-hd-televisions-are-still-ridiculously-expensive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Samsung, LG, Vizio and other tech heavyweights showed off their Ultra HD televisions at CES in January, the one thing they weren&#8217;t so eager to talk about was pricing. Now we know why: Samsung just revealed a whopping $39,999 price tag for its 85-inch S9 UHD TV, which will be available for pre-orders later this month. That makes it by far the most expensive Ultra HD television on the market. Ultra HD is another term for displays with a resolution of 3840-by-2160, also known as 4K. These displays pack four times as many pixels as today&#8217;s high-definition televisions. Although the technology is expensive, TV makers remain undeterred from building and selling 4K televisions. It all feels like a &#8220;because we can&#8221; sort of endeavor, more than an attempt to actually address current market needs. Even so, Samsung&#8217;s S9 is more exorbitant than the rest. LG&#8217;s 84-inch Ultra HD television costs a mere $20,000, and Sony&#8217;s 84-inch set costs just a teeny bit more, at $25,000. It&#8217;s unclear why Samsung&#8217;s set is so much pricier, aside from the funky easel design that makes the TV appear to &#8220;float within its thin frame,&#8221; as the company puts it. Samsung doesn&#8217;t even have its own 4K video delivery system, unlike rival Sony, which plans to launch one this summer. (Sony will also &#8220;loan&#8221; a 4K video player to anyone who buys one of the televisions.) Until the content selection improves and prices fall way down, buying an Ultra HD television will be more about bragging rights for the ultra-wealthy. But if Samsung&#8217;s S9 is any indication, prices are still going up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158589&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of YouTube: More Channels in More Places</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/18/the-future-of-youtube-more-channels-in-more-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When YouTube first hit the web back in 2005, it attracted attention simply by making Internet video-watching simple rather than a glitchy hassle &#8212; and the fact that large numbers of real people used it to share their mini-movies with the world was a novelty in itself. That was a long, long time ago. Today, with four billion hours of viewership a month, YouTube is more popular than ever. But it&#8217;s also part of an Internet that&#8217;s radically different than it was when YouTube was young. Today, when YouTube videos become monstrous hits &#8212; such as the multiple versions of the Harlem Shake, which have scored tens of millions of views apiece in just weeks &#8212; it&#8217;s because people have shared them on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social networks that were either new or nonexistent in 2005. Video created for YouTube is increasingly slick and professional, which makes it more directly competitive with conventional television programming. And while plenty of folks still use the service in its traditional, browser-based form, they&#8217;re also watching video on phones, tablets, HDTVs and just about every gizmo with a screen. I recently sat down with YouTube Director of Product Management Shiva Rajaraman to talk about how YouTube is evolving to reflect where Internet video is in 2013, and where it&#8217;s going. Executive summary: The company&#8217;s vision involves it being irresistibly easy to find and watch YouTube video, on every video-capable gadget you&#8217;ve got. YouTube, of course, built its popularity on bite-sized videos. It now offers longer-form items &#8212; even recent feature films &#8212; but it&#8217;s still dominated by quick-hit fare that&#8217;s consumable in small amounts. That has its benefits: &#8220;If you&#8217;re watching YouTube at work and you&#8217;re in front of your desktop, you&#8217;ll probably limit your watching to one video,&#8221; Rajaraman told me. Elsewhere, however, you might be willing to watch lots of videos &#8212; a scenario that&#8217;s important to YouTube&#8217;s bottom line, since it means you&#8217;ll be exposed to more ads. So even if you&#8217;re more likely than ever to arrive at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157460&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netflix Goes Social in the U.S., but Watch Out for Your Privacy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/13/netflix-goes-social-in-the-u-s-but-watch-out-for-your-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a year after Netflix added Facebook connectivity in other parts of the world, U.S. users are finally getting their chance to share. Netflix&#8217;s social features are rolling out in the United States this week, allowing users to see what their Facebook friends are watching, and vice versa. Although 44 other countries have enjoyed this feature since 2011, the United States had been excluded due to an old law against disclosing people&#8217;s video sale and rental records. The law was amended in January, after a big lobbying push by Netflix. Being able to see what friends are watching could be useful when Netflix&#8217;s own recommendation algorithms fall short, which happens quite often, in my experience. Still, not everyone will want to be transparent about their viewing habits. Thankfully, sharing with Facebook is opt-in, but once you&#8217;ve done so, everything you watch gets shared automatically. Here&#8217;s how the sharing works in detail: Once sharing becomes available to you, you&#8217;ll see a dialog box on Netflix&#8217;s website asking if you want to connect with Facebook and share your viewing history. If you agree to share, the videos you&#8217;ve watched &#8212; both past and present &#8212; become visible to your Facebook friends. They&#8217;ll see your viewing history as part of a &#8220;Friends&#8217; Favorites&#8221; list on Netflix&#8217;s website and apps, and they&#8217;ll also be able to look up what you, specifically, have watched lately. Things get a little messy if you want to pre-screen which movies and shows to share. The only way to do this is to start playing a video, then click a &#8220;Don&#8217;t Share This&#8221; button in the player during the first few minutes of playback. You can also go to the web page for that title and click the &#8220;Unshare&#8221; button. There&#8217;s no way to choose whether to share or not share a video before you actually start watching it. By default, the videos you watch don&#8217;t appear on your Facebook timeline, they only show up within Netflix itself. You can, however, add Netflix viewing history to your Facebook<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158076&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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