I’ve been thinking about the potential impact the iPad will make on my home and there’s a natural progression for a certain hobby of Apple’s which of course is AppleTV.
If the iPad succeeds at becoming the predominant home use system as I believe it easily can, it could really be an “instead of” not an [...]
The post-iPad digital home
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, gadgets and technology, iPhone
Tags: apple·appletv·digital home·ipad·media server
The entertainment business just doesn’t get it
February 18th, 2009 · View Comments · gadgets and technology, marketing, movies, music, software, tv
Let’s face it. It’s easy to acquire video content these days regardless of whether you subscribe to a particular tier from your cable company or even whether you live in the country. Regardless of this the content companies still do not offer a legit path to offer content direct to consumer on a [...]
Tags: appletv·boxee·broken·bullshit·content·hulu·MediaCenter·piracy·torrent
Windows 7 “Plays to” DLNA Standards while Apple keeps it closed – as usual
January 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Nokia, apple, gadgets and technology, software
While this feature is not currently in the open beta, Play To highlights Windows 7 ability to be both a control point and server in a DLNA network. What’s so awesome about this is that a ton of devices already have this baked in and Windows 7 can auto-discover them as well as present itself [...]
Tags: apple·appletv·DLNA·itunes·MCE·MediaCenter·Microsoft·Play to·UPnP·Windows 7
Cisco to Push into Home Electronics – Why?
December 29th, 2008 · View Comments · Nokia, gadgets and technology
I get and respect Cisco’s desire to dig deeper into the home, but I am not convinced that a piece of consumer electronics gear is the way to to do it. According to the NYT, Cisco is looking to develop a “a digital stereo system that is meant to move music wirelessly around a house.”
I [...]
Tags: appletv·boxee·Cisco·connected entertainment·drm·fairplay·itunes·roku·sonos