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DirecTV Website Outage

August 4, 2011

DirecTV's website is down. Isn't that just the luck? I have a DirecTV installer here today installing my service and they accidentally signed me up for Spanish TV. While I took 3 years of High School Spanish, I think I'll pass on the Spanish TV.

Posted in Home Entertainment, TMCnet, Video Hardware & Software

Delta Airlines TV FAIL! Plus my Streaming TV over Internet Workaround

August 2, 2011

I was on a Delta Airlines flight a few months ago and was excited to see each seat has a TV on the back of each seat. Jetblue was the first airline to carry live TV on all their flights and I've loved flying Jetblue ever since. It makes the droning hours pass by much quicker if you can watch TV. So in any case, I was pretty excited to see my Delta flight had TV.

After we took off, I pressed the touch-screen to see what channels were available.

My only choices were On-Air 1, On-Air 2, Movie Trailers, and Dish Network.

Posted in Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Internet, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Video Hardware & Software

Phantom Flex Camera Super HD 2,564fps Staggering Slow-Mo footage (video)

April 20, 2011

Want to see water drops captured at 1080p with 2,564fps speed played back in slow motion? How bout shattering glass and lightbulbs in slow-mo? Or watching the wave impact travel up a Blackberry as it hits? Tom Guilmette took a Vision Research Phantom Flex camera recently and put together a video of mind blowing slow-motion footage.

Posted in Accessories, Digital Cameras, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Video Hardware & Software

The HTML5 Revolution

April 14, 2011

When Steve Jobs and Apple blocked Adobe Flash from Apple's popular line of mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), Apple's main claims against Flash were that it was too processor-heavy, a battery hog, and that HTML5 was a better standard for the future. Rich Tehrani calls it the "Apple Tax". According to the HTTP Archive project, a website that tracks over 17,000 top websites and lets you compare web statistics over time, Flash experienced a 2% drop in usage over the last 4 months. It went from 49% on November 15, 2010 to 47% on March 29, 2011.

The move to HTML5 is clearly on.

Posted in Android, Apple, Home Entertainment, Internet, Mobile Phones, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Video Conferencing

Google Store Launch? Look out Apple Stores?

April 7, 2011

Rich Tehrani gives his reasons why Google needs to launch what I'll call "Google Store", a direct retail competitor to the Apple Stores located in many malls and cities around the country. Only one problem with this is that Google only sells Android products to consumers. Apple stores sell a variety of products including laptops, tablets, computers, iPods, iPod/iPhone accessories, Mac software, etc.

Google only sells tablets and Android mobile phones. Their software is mostly hosted, including Gmail, Google Apps, etc.

Posted in Android, Apple, Computer Hardware, Gadgets, Google, Home Entertainment, Mobile Phones, TMCnet, Wireless

Star Wars The Complete Saga on Blu-ray Hits September 16

March 30, 2011

The release date for Star Wars: The Complete Saga is now set for September 16th - a Friday. The three Star Wars Blu-ray box sets, Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Star Wars: Original Trilogy and Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy, was originally slated to be released on on September 27 - a Tuesday. Friday is movie/popcorn night in my house and many other people's houses, so a Friday launch date is much better - and earlier to boot! Gives you the entire weekend to watch the trilogy.

Posted in Home Entertainment

HomePNA Ratifies Fast EoC Delivering 640 Mbps over Coax

March 23, 2011

Home wireless too slow for you? But too much trouble to "snake" Ethernet cables throughout your home for speedier performance? Well, today we have a new solution from HomePNA, which just ratified a new broadband access specification called "Fast EoC" where EoC stands for Ethernet over Coax. The new “Fast EoC” delivers up to 640Mbps performance using Ethernet over Coax. Although this can be used in residential applications, the main target goal for Fast EoC is MDUs (multi-dwelling units) such as apartment complexes, hotels, hospitals, etc. The advantage of coax over Ethernet is that most homes and MDUs already have coax connections in most rooms.

The HomePNA Alliance said that Fast EoC can deliver performance up to 320 Megabits per second (Mbps) in regular mode, and up to 640 Megabits per second (Mbps) and more than 300 Mbps user data throughput to Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) environments in a new “enhanced” mode.

Posted in Home Entertainment, Internet, TMCnet, Technology and Science, Triple Play

iPad 2 Review Video (Parody)

March 11, 2011

If you want a laugh, you have to check out this iPad 2 review video parody by Norwegian Eskild E. Fors. In the YouTube video with nearly 3 million views he has a giant super-sized iPad, which can do all sorts of tricks, including a super-sized Skype call. I'd really like to know how the super-sized display looked like it was indeed running the iPad operating system. I'm guessing this was done using green screen technology with Adobe After Effects to project images onto the fake iPad. But I won't spoil the fun. If you know how he did it, post a comment. Watch the video and see for yourself.

Posted in Apple, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Internet, PDAs & Handhelds, Personal and Humor

Sirius is Serious About Customer Service

March 9, 2011

Sirius is serious about providing superior customer service. One reason Sirius satellite users often pay for satellite radio is because they have no patience with commercials that you get with traditional radio. So having these same users wait 'on hold' listening to music-on-hold or audio promotions is not a good idea. Well, now Sirius customers and potential customers can now reach call center agents with one click - no phone menus, no waiting on hold, leveraging Fonolo's virtual queuing technology.

Posted in Home Entertainment, Satellite Radio, TMCnet, Wireless

Netflix Drops Add to DVD Queue from Streaming Devices

January 18, 2011

Netflix today announced on its blog that it’s removing the “Add to DVD Queue” feature from streaming devices causing a revolt amongst Netflix users. Thus, you will no longer be able to add titles to your DVD queue from your iPhone, iPad, Blu-Ray player, PS3, etc.

Here's what Netflix’s Jamie Odell said:

We’re removing the “Add to DVD Queue” option from streaming devices. We’re doing this so we can concentrate on offering you the titles that are available to watch instantly.

Posted in Home Entertainment, Internet, TMCnet, Video Hardware & Software

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