In Apple’s latest product reveal, there was a little bit of mention of iBeacons. You probably missed it if you were as frustrated as I was. iBeacons are a low-power technology that is designed to deliver information…
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Alas, it is finally no more. The MSN TV box, originally known as WebTV, is finally closing down forever on September 30, 2013. Of course, most folks thought it had shuttered years ago; the hardware hasn’t…
Another exciting day on the CEDIA Expo show floor! Today we had the chance to visit a few of the more distant booths. For every behemoth like Crestron or AMX, there are ten little booths filled…
It wasn’t so much what they showed, it was what they said. Our friends at zBoost (formerly Wi-Ex) brought a lot of near-production-ready gear to the 2013 CEDIA Expo and all of it points in…
The DarbeeVision booth at CEDIA Expo wasn’t easy to find, but it was packed with new and interesting technologies. Darbee has been busy this year working on partnerships, and that means more devices with Darbee technology…
DISH didn’t miss the opportunity. With DIRECTV a no-show at this year’s CEDIA Expo, DISH jumped in with both feet. There were DISH graphics and banners everywhere, a giant stuffed Hopper and a costumed character Hopper,…
CEDIA Expo 2013 doesn’t compare in size or scale to its larger cousins IFA and CES but this trade show for home theater installers really stepped things up this year. Your blog team was on hand…
The new term is “cord-nevers.” It seems to stem from a series of articles over the past year in The Atlantic talking about the generation born after 1980 who may never get traditional pay-TV. They’re perfectly happy to make do…
It was a little over a year ago that Sony showed one of the first production-ready 4K TVs at CEDIA Expo. Just three months later 4K was everywhere at the Consumer Electronics Show. That was just eight months…
As we inch closer to the end of Breaking Bad… there’s some argument as to what real “quality TV” is. Breaking Bad is arguably the best-produced, most meticulous show of the 2010s so far, but it’s not the only…
Seriously? Colored plastic and gold metal? Seriously, that’s what the world has been waiting for from an iPhone? When iOS 6 hit with a massive THUD last year you’d think that Apple would learn its lesson. Apparently not,…
For a generation raised on ever-smaller devices, the “phablet” craze doesn’t make any sense. Didn’t we leave gigantic cell phones behind in the 1980s? Younger folks are snapping up these half phone, half tablet devices in…
Last week we showed you the warehouse… this time it’s the office staff getting the time-lapse video treatment. Check out the well-oiled machine that is our general office… and see if you can spot your favorite…
A la carte programming. Everyone wants to pay for just what they watch. We’ve shown you before how that could end up costing you more, and how it’s not likely to happen as long as cable companies and content…
We’ve told you the story before: ESPN gets a huge slice of the average pay-TV bill. It’s estimated that up to 25% of the average customer’s bill goes to Disney, the parent of ABC, ESPN and the…