The Brew Cave is a walk-in beer cooler with a built-in kegerator that measures roughly seven feet wide by seven and a half feet tall by five feet deep and makes me curse the fact that I don’t live in an apartment large enough to …
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Still Missing from ‘One Sony’ Strategy: An Identity
The press release about how Sony plans to save itself is a long, dull slog, but a perfectly logical one. Here’s the short version of the plan, known as “One Sony”:
- As its core business, Sony will focus on gaming, digital
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TiVo Gets Comcast’s Xfinity on Demand
I have a gazillion boxes of various sorts connected to the two TVs in our household, but the longest-serving one is my TiVo DVR. I got it when I moved into my present home and signed up for Comcast cable TV — and I still …
Wii U Launch Date Leaked: Remember, Remember the 18 of November
If the world doesn’t end before the 2012 holiday shopping season rolls around, it sounds like there’s a decent chance we’ll actually see Nintendo’s Wii U on Sunday, Nov. 18. That’s the date plucked by WiiUDaily from an email it …
Is the Flat-Screen TV Boom Over?
The consumer electronics trend that had us shuffling out our perfectly good but perfectly bulky CRT televisions in favor of fancy-new flat screens appears to be ebbing.
What’s in the Next Xbox? Blu-ray, ‘Always Online’ Requirement Claims Site
It sounds like nonsense because it probably is: an Xbox with a Blu-ray drive? But that’s what VG247’s claiming, that the next Xbox — they’re dubbing it the Xbox 720, which you can bet is precisely what Microsoft won’t call …
Yes, I’d Pay to Turn My DVDs into Digital Movies
All Things D’s Peter Kafka is skeptical about Walmart’s new Disc to Digital service, which lets you take one or more DVDs into a Walmart store and pay a fee to unlock digital access to the same content. That lets you stream and …
Greetings From SXSW (and a Final Plug for My Panel)
I snapped this fuzzy photo with my iPhone at SXSW Interactive, and the intensity of the crowd isn’t some weird aberration — the conference, associated events and parties are often that mobbed. Especially the parties.
I’ve had …
The Twidiot Box: How Do You Use Twitter with TV?
I’m en route to Austin, Tex., where on Sunday I’ll be speaking on a South by Southwest panel, Arts Criticism 140 Characters at a Time, about how Twitter and other social media have affected critics. My answer, in a word: immensely.
via The Twidiot Box: How Do You Use Twitter With TV? | Entertainment | TIME.com.
Report Claims Next Xbox Due in 2013, Will Ditch Optical Disc Drive
Microsoft may be looking to abandon optical discs for its next Xbox gaming console, but will still put games on physical media in the form of flash storage, according to a new rumor.
The next Xbox will launch in 2013, but it’s …
Meet the New Apple TV, a Lot Like the Old Apple TV
As expected, Apple debuted a new version of its hockey puck-sized Apple TV media player at its press show today, trumpeting new features like 1080p video playback and iCloud support. But anyone hoping for features like Siri voice …
Apple Wants to Upend the TV Business: Will Big Content Play Ball?
Over the course of his career, Steve Jobs revolutionized three industries — personal computing, digital music, and mobile communication. Before his death last fall, he had turned his attention to a fourth — television.
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