Do you use Hulu to stream your favorite live TV shows? This service soon will be available for Fire TV and Amazon’s Fire Stick, according to an announcement from the company. Hulu is adding its live…
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Here’s something I thought I’d never say: Microsoft’s already cooler than Apple and getting cooler by the day. Surprisingly, it’s true. It was revealed a while back that Microsoft customers are more satisfied with their tablets than Apple…
You’ve got mail. For many people, AOL Instant Messenger was their first experience with live chat. It wasn’t really the first of course, as real-time chat has been around pretty much since the first time that two people…
Almost 50 years on, it’s still airing somewhere. The Brady Bunch was a Gen-X touchstone due to frequent reruns in the 1970s and spawned sequel series, TV movies, a variety show, an animated TV show, off-broadway recreations and…
If you’re an avid reader of this blog, you already know that DIRECTV will be ceasing all (or at least most) SD programming in 2019. More importantly, the round dish you’ve got now will probably stop…
Take a look at the most powerful antenna in its class. It may not be the easiest to assemble, but our Solid Signal team takes you through every step with a video that will help you…
Over the long weekend I happened upon this article on DigitalTrends. with quite a proclamation. It stopped me in my tracks, and in fact the entire article was built around the sort of wink-wink, man-bites-dog kind of journalism…
Some of the blog’s best work can be found in March, 2016
Comet TV recently made the jump from OTA to a streaming box app. Does this mean that other sub-channels will follow Comet into the streaming world? A partnership between Sinclair and MGM, Comet TV is an…
Believe it or not it’s been four years since my review of DIRECTV’s then-new TV Apps. It’s tempting to say that not much has changed but actually there’s quite a bit. TV Apps started out as an…
So I finally got around to watching Hidden Figures. By now everyone knows what this movie is about, so I won’t rehash that. But look past the actors and the story and there’s another little bit there…
Check out what we were doing back in early ’16.
As long as we don’t go back to avocado green. Since the end of the “woodgrain era” of electronics, your stuff has generally come in one of two colors: black or silver. And, it’s mostly been…
Several months ago, I posted a rather bitter description of the new programs debuting on the broadcast networks. I cited the lack of imagination of the networks and their collective ability to actually provide much stuff…
Super-fast cell data without waiting for 5G. Is it even possible? A recent article in engadget claims that by using an encoding scheme that’s currently used in cable television, it will be possible to get speeds up to 1000Mbps…