You’ve finally picked up a monster-sized high-definition 1080p flatscreen for your entertainment center, you’re plowing through your Blu-ray stacks of Lost or Friday Night Lights or Breaking Bad at a crisp, eyeball-thrilling 1920 x 1080 pixels, and then you see this: Sony’s launching a projector that’ll run at 4K, or 4096 x 2160 …
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Walmart-Netflix Settlement to Be Paid Out in Walmart Gift Cards?
Leave it to Walmart to find some kind of silver lining in an expensive settlement to a class action lawsuit. A California court has tentatively approved the corporate giant’s proposal to provide the 40 million Netflix subscribers their agreed upon settlement in the form of gift cards to Walmart’s website, which just happens to house …
Exactly What Is Google Planning for Hulu?
What Hulu, exactly, is Google trying to buy? A report on All Things D suggests that, while Hulu bosses mull over offers from Amazon, Yahoo and Dish Network, Google’s rumored “big ass ideas” for Hulu might actually go far beyond what the owners were actually trying to sell in the first place.
As recently as last Thursday, Google was …
Netflix: Streaming Not Limited to One Device at a Time
Put down your pitchforks, people. Contrary to some reports, Netflix is not limiting streaming video to one device at a time—at least not on purpose.
“No Netflix member is limited to less than two concurrent streams,” Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey told Techland in an e-mail. “A few Netflix members have heard differently from us, …
New $500 ‘TiVo Premiere Elite’ Records Four TV Shows at Once
Yama-hama, that’s a whole lotta TiVo. The company that put digital video recording on the map has just released a monster in the TiVo Premiere Elite, a $500 set-top box that can record four different shows at once and stores up to 300 hours of high-definition video. If you’re of a more nerdacious persuasion, that’s four digital tuners …
Dish Network Plans Netflix-Like Blockbuster Streaming Service (with Starz)
Netflix seems to be having an official Worst Month Ever, what with price increases leading to customer uproar and Starz refusing to resign an all-important content sharing contract, and so the news that Dish Network is gearing up to launch a Blockbuster streaming-video service almost adds insult to injury.
According to sources, the …
Who’s Offering Money to Buy Hulu?
After months of speculation, it’s time for the sale of streaming video site Hulu to turn into a bidding war. Six companies have submitted informal bids for the site this week, according to those in the know, including three big names eager to own what could be turned into a Netflix streaming video killer.
Amazon-Owned Netflix Rival to Launch Streaming Service in U.S.?
Move over, Netflix, there might be another streaming video-on-demand company angling for your crown.
Lovefilm, the European version of Netflix that was purchased by Amazon at the start of the year, is rumored to be close to launching in new international territories, according to a recent interview with the company’s Chief Marketing …
Sony’s New 3D Head-Mounted Display Probably Hipper than Viewmaster
So Sony’s launching a new 3D head-mounted display, which looks like a pair of goggles you could sit a couple action figures in and take for a pretend Jetson-style spin. Ugly? Check. Cumbersome? Check. Potentially deadly if worn while ambling across the room to pluck an adult beverage from the fridge? Check.
Didn’t we used to call this …
Google TV to Launch in Europe ‘Early 2012’
American networks might not want to play ball in the U.S., but that isn’t stopping Google from pursuing its television dreams—it just means that other countries may experience the ideal Google TV dream even as the U.S. version languishes in the background, unloved.
Speaking at the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh …
Apple Subscription TV Rumor Resurfaces, Still Shaky
You know what they say about tech rumors: If you repeat them for long enough, eventually they’ll come true. The Wall Street Journal is doing its share of repeating with a rumor on Apple’s subscription television plans, which have been coming together in whispers for years.
What sayeth the WSJ’s “people familiar with the matter” now? …
Miramax Embraces ‘Digital Locker’ Concept with New Miramax App [Updated]
Former Disney studio Miramax is following those two companies onto Facebook with the launch of a Miramax app – the Miramax eXperience – for the social networking giant that will allow Facebook users to rent, and eventually buy, movies through the site.
According to Miramax, there are more than 50 million Facebook users who either …