so you own an Android smartphone, tablet and probably having fun with cloud-computing on your Chromebook but your Google’s Android experience is far from complete – at least not without a Google TV or in this case, an Android TV. there is no out-of-the-box Android TV per say but you could turn your regular HDTV into one with this $129.99 ARCHOS TV…
there are a couple of reasons why one might be in need of a 4K cinema player: first, you probably have a 4K video rig and a 4K UDTV but don’t have a player to playback those ultra high definition footages and two, you are just one heck of an insane videophile who believe that the only the best resolution available to mortal beings is the only resolution that your eyes should…
we have seen quite a lot of media players but as far as aesthetic goes, most of the them sticks to the safe rectangular black box. with the new Xiaomi Box, it not only looks different from the sea of media boxes but it also boast an incredible low price point of 399 RMB or about US$64. measuring a mere 4.1 inches by 4.1 inches (105 x 105 mm) and 0.8 inch (21 mm) thick, it sports…
gone is the sinking cube and in comes a regular rectangular black box that says pretty much what it will do – a set-top DVR. the Boxee TV features a dual tuner that works with both unencrypted basic cable channels and over-the-air HD broadcasts. also packed inside this unassuming black box is a slick UI, preinstalled apps including Netflix, VUDU, Pandora, YouTube and…
we are accustom to media player. the little rectangular box that stores and streams your digital movies collections, and sometimes, let you access to a host of online digital contents. but the Slingbox here does it a wee differently: it encodes video signal into SMPTE 421M or VC-1 format for transmission over the Internet, thus allowing you to manage, view your TV’s…
as much as we like the idea of keeping the model name the same through the different generations of a gadget, it does create some confusion but be reassure that the NETGEAR NeoTV Steaming Players featured here are new stuff coming out from network hardware specialist, NETGEAR. these new media streamers employ HTML 5, HLS, as well as digital rights management…
until the day that we managed to complete the ‘A Dummy Guide to Turning Discs to Digital Content’, we are content with just spinning them on our Playstation 3 and a standard DVD player. however, if we ever succeed in doing so, then the Xtreamer Prodigy Silver is likely the wireless media player we have on our to-buy list. it is a full HD media player that’s 3D…
sure. Skype on TV isn’t new, let alone webcam for TV but the telyHD from Menlo Park-based company, Tely Labs begs to differ from the rest of the lesser kind. while it is totally capable of Skype-on-TV, it is more than just a webcam placed on top of your HDTV. in fact, it is way more than that. Tely Labs wants us to think of it as a tablet that runs off your standard…
amidst the buzz surrounding the newly announced Nexus 7 Tablet, there is actually one device being overlooked. and it really shouldn’t be cos’ the Nexus Q, as it is called, is Google’s answer to Apple TV. billed as a social streaming media player, the Nexus Q let…
smart TVs are commonplace today but if you are still holding on to your not-so-smart TV, not all hope are lost. thanks to product like Vizio Co-Star Stream Player, you can turn your regular HDTV into a smart TV. granted, this idea…
if a modern day digital content vessel like a media player is still missing from your home entertainment setup, then you will be glad to know that the market is not lacking of choices when you…