Mediacenter
29 Jun 2010
The Apple TV is a great way to get media content from the internet to your wide screen TV. Here is the low down on how it works! We bought the original 40GB Apple TV a few years ago. It enables us to access content we have purchased from the Apple Store like movies, TV shows and music and play it on the family room TV and through our stereo system. We have also loaded …
17 Jun 2010
Netflix started out as a home delivery DVD service but these days we use it mostly for Internet streaming. For as little as $8.99 a month you can access a catalogue of movies and TV shows and stream them to your PC. The Roku box is a very convenient way to take that same content and stream it to your TV. In my first 2 posts on this topic I have reviewed Netflix and how …
14 Jun 2010
Its all very well watching videos on the web from your PC but what you really want is something that transforms your computer into a TV like experience right?. Enter the free Boxee software that does just this for you on your Windows, Mac or Linux PC. Boxee is a powerful but easy to use solution for aggregating all the content you might want to see and delivering it to you with a TV like …
9 Jun 2010
Netflix started out as home delivery DVD service but these days we use it mostly for Internet streaming. For as little as $8.99 a month you can access a catalogue of movies and TV shows and stream them to your PC. The Roku box is a very convenient way to take that same content and stream it to your TV. Last time I posted I predominately discussed Netflix and how we started out on a …
1 Jun 2010
If you use a Mac, you’ll likely know about Front Row, the included Media Center interface built into Apple’s OS X software. It is a very elegant and easy way to access your media content on your computer. That’s nice, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could access Hulu’s free television over the internet from that very same pretty interface? With a free Front Row plugin you can. Read on to find out how. …
19 May 2010
Netflix started out as home delivery DVD service but these days we use it mostly for the free Internet streaming. For as little as $8.99 a month you can access a catalogue of x movies and TV shows and stream them to your PC. The Roku box is a very convenient way to take that same content and stream it to your TV. We have been Netflix members for about 6 years now. The business …
18 May 2010
About 3 million Americans visit Hulu.com every day to watch their favorite TV episodes for free over the internet with just a browser. As convenient as this is, Hulu has made available a free application for Windows, Mac and Linux that brings all the content from the website packaged up in a gorgeous dedicated application that turns your computer into a mediacenter. Hulu is a great service (even if it will soon go subscription) that …
Although the recent research confirms that more and more of us are watching media content on our computers via the Internet, there is still little evidence that consumers are taking that final step and cutting the cable to rely solely on the internet.
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