Streaming local video to your Roku
On 2011/05/26
Roku boxes are great. They let you watch Internet video, pictures, and listen to Internet audio programs. Roku recently enabled playing content from a locally connected USB device. Roku boxes are easy to install, easy to use and are inexpensive.
One thing missing was the ability to play videos [...]
TED – Smart people talking to smart people
On 2010/12/31
Television was a great wasteland, filled with mindless shows like Leave It To Beaver or Petticoat Junction. I read books if I wanted to find stimulating ideas and thoughtful discussion when I was growing up. Video content has changed in the intervening decades.
There are [...]
Connecting your HDTV to the Internet
On 2010/02/12
Today it is not enough to have standard TV sources like over-the-air (OTA), cable or satellite, to watch video. We need Internet connections as well. That way we can watch video on demand (VOD) from sources such as Amazon VOD, the Apple iTunes store or Netflix. There are many ways to do this. Some [...]
The printed word is fading from view. Get over it!
On 2010/01/22
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It is ironic that I am writing about the decline and fall of the written word. The written word had a great run, starting perhaps as many as 6,000 years ago with Sumerian cuneiform. Writing has to compete today with more compelling and natural forms [...]
Prague: Canon 1DMKIV
On 2009/12/23
Roku HD-XR, easy Internet video on your HDTV
On 2009/12/10
Electronic entertainment is changing rapidly. Whole house audio is no longer only for the very wealthy. I recently finished installing a 8 zone, Internet connected audio system that cost less than $30,000 for equipment, including 30+ in-ceiling speakers and multiple audio and video sources. Today video is delivered in many forms, over-the-air broadcast, cable or [...]
Too little, too late, too difficult, too expensive
On 2009/09/17
Companies and industries that do not embrace change often come to regret that decision. This is a story of how American cable TV companies failed with CableCARD. They delayed complying with an FCC mandate, consistent with Section 629 of the 1996 telecommunications law, to "…assure the commercial availability to [...]
The end of TV – cutting the cable
On 2009/04/15
Technology changes, always.
Frisch’s third law
Cable and satellite TV began to replace broadcast television over 30 years ago. Internet video will replace cable and satellite TV, soon and in much less time.
What is a cable company president to do?
If I ran the cable company, I would [...]
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