Score one for college basketball fans… DIRECTV’s about to make you even happier. Starting this weekend, you’ll see a series of 4K basketball games. The first is the Cal-Stanford game this Saturday February 17, at 10pm…
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Like a lot of you, I’ve paid a lot for TVs. Back in the 1990s I paid $700 for a Sony 27″ tube TV that barely lasted three years before the picture started to fail. In…
A couple of weeks ago, I challenged the young and optimistic Jake Buckler to talk about one of Netflix’s newest series, The OA. He and I are both watching the show, which has proven so dense that it’s practically…
One of the surprising winners of 2016 was a company who had been nearly written off for dead: Microsoft. Back in 2012 I called their latest operating system a “day 1 fail” and called Microsoft’s hardware “doomed.” Well, you can…
It’s not looking good. Fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers are looking at a third straight season without home games on TV, and it’s beginning to get old. Famed broadcaster Vin Scully has now retired, and…
Going way off topic this week, apparently scientist have discovered what may be a completely different species of insect from anything that has ever been seen before. Aethiocarenus burmanicus is unlike anything you (or science) has ever seen….
Sad to say, not a lot has changed in four years. In 2013 I reported that Nielsen was finally ready to start tracking online viewing. (Sadly that article has been lost.) If you look at their web site,…
Yes, I mean a real, beginning-to-end marine-rated cell booster. This Super Halo from Shakespeare is completely designed for marine needs. It will help you get great reception from further than you ever thought possible. Land-based cell towers…
This is going to be gorgeous. If you have a 4K TV and a DIRECTV system capable of showing 4K, get ready to enjoy golf as you never have before. Starting tomorrow DIRECTV will be showing…
And not just gloves. Yeah, sometimes our interns get too literal when we ask for things like “pictures of hand tools.” I mean, we do sell these gloves and they’re pretty good gloves too. But, they’re…
Boys and girls, here’s a lesson on how politics affects your life. The former FCC Chair, Tom Wheeler, became a strong advocate for net neutrality after he was scolded for his views on the subject. He…
Streaming services Amazon and Netflix spent the most to acquire new films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. According to an article on Mashable, Amazon and Netflix outspent traditional studios for the rights to movies that debuted…
If you haven’t visited Worth1000.com, you’re missing a lot. The site has been running Photoshop contents for nigh on a decade that combine the truly artistic with the oddly laughable. Their recent contest had participants recreating…
Who says a cell booster has to be ugly? The SureCall Flare is one of the most powerful home and office cellular signal boosters out there, and it’s the first one you might actually put in the…
OK, so it actually gets less confusing. DISH has always had a strong relationship with a company called EchoStar. In fact DISH was once part of the EchoStar family, until it was spun off in 2008. At that…