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Apple TV Giveaway Winner and Money-Saving Geek Tips
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed At the end of March, we announced the giveaway of an Apple TV. Requirements for entry were pretty simple: You had to follow both myself and The Frugal Geek on Twitter, and send out a Tweet of your own. We actually [...]
Giveaway of an Apple TV
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Streaming content into your home is more than just some passing fad. Thousands of people have already “cut the cable cord” in favor of set-top boxes such as the Apple TV. Using a device like this gives you more control over [...]
How to Jailbreak an Apple TV 2G
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed You may have jailbroken your Apple iPhone or iPod touch, but have you thought of jailbreaking your Apple TV? Reza talks this week about doing just that. While you may be happy enough simply being able to access your iTunes content, [...]
Set-Top Debate: Boxee vs Roku vs Apple TV
Streaming content in your home is quickly becoming much more than just a fad. People are cutting the cord in favor of set-top boxes such as Roku, Apple TV and Boxee. Using a device such as this gives the consumer more control over the content they can watch as well as being more cost-effective than [...]
Unboxing the Roku HD
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The Roku HD set top box works with virtually any TV, offering HDMI for HDTV or composite connections for standard def televisions. The Roku HD supports 720p video and connects to the Internet via WiFi. Kelly Clay does an unboxing of [...]
Android Set-Top Box
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Shenzhen Geniatech Co. Ltd presents some interesting Android Powered Set-top-boxes. These could be sold for around $100 like the Apple TV or Roku box, but they just run the full Android OS including support for lots of video codecs. While Android [...]
Google TV vs Apple TV
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is Google TV. I am more than grateful to the team at Google for sending this unit to me, and for showing me how I can help all of YOU win one for yourself. I have to tell you – [...]
Free iTunes Movie
Everyone loves free stuff, including me. Apple is reportedly sending out free movie codes to many of the registered iTunes users. There has been no official announcement about this. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason as to who can receive a code. The free movie rental promotion lets you rent one of [...]
Apple TV Initial Impressions
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I received my Apple TV the other day, and decided to unbox it in front of the live audience. Yes, I know that the television currently in my home office sucks. If you have recommendations for a new one, I’d love [...]
Apple TV Moves to Rental Model, Drops Price to $99
DISCLAIMER: I thought the first Apple TV was relatively useless. Today, Apple announced significant changes to Apple TV at the press event held in San Francisco (which, by the way, was streamed LIVE for the world to watch). The new Apple TV, available by the beginning of October, comes in at 1/4 the size of [...]
Apple Special Announcement Event on September 1st
Apple sent out invitations to the press this morning, asking them to attend a special event on September 1st. There’s zero information in the invitation on the nature of the event, and the only hint is the photo of the guitar with the Apple-logo shaped cut out. There has been much speculation floating around in [...]
Google TV Thoughts
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone in the live chat room asked me last night what my thoughts are about Google TV… bringing the Google experience to your television instead of just the Internet. It makes sense to me, given that Google owns YouTube. They are [...]
Am I the Only One Who Doesn’t Feel Like They are Missing Out on Anything by Not Owning an Apple TV? They are not that Interesting!
I recently wrote a blog post talking about the Apple TV. I just don’t get what all the fuss is about. There are very few updates, and virtually no awesome features. There’s no WOW factor involved. I had to get some other opinions on this matter. It’s not just me… right? What do you think… [...]
Apple TV vs Every Other DVR
When Apple first announced their Apple TV product, I was interested but not excited. Years later, that interest has completely warn off – largely because of the lack of updates and killer features. Admittedly, I do already have a TiVo (and a few Comcast DVRs to boot). Still, why has Apple seemingly abandoned the Apple [...]
Recommendations for Formatting Video Podcasts
Apple’s iTunes Podcasting Team (nameless, faceless people) sent me the following tips for getting along with Apple TV: If you’re encoding your video podcast at 320×240, please increase the resolution to either 640×480 or 640×360 (depending on the aspect ratio of your source files). Why? Because video podcasts at this resolution look great on Apple [...]
