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Belkin’s Got a Crazy Half-Off-Everything Sale Today (Updated)

Networking and accessories vendor Belkin is about to make your Friday spendtastic. Today only, Through September 30, you can get 50% off everything at Belkin.com with no minimum purchase. Just use coupon code “FB50” when you check out and you’re set. Belkin offers a full line up of accessories for laptops, iOS devices, and Android…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Why Hell Is Other Peoples’ Remote Controls

There’s nothing that can better reduce you to a senseless ball of anxiety and clumsy flailing than trying to figure out someone else’s home entertainment system. System! If you can even call it that. Have these monsters never heard of a universal remote? [The Doghouse Diaries]

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

Video Stream App Turns Your iPhone Into a Set Top Box for Your TV

Getting all those video files you’ve accrued on the big screen is perhaps the most pressing challenge of our time. The newly-updated Video Stream app will let you stream files and control playback with another iOS device, no AppleTV required. Video Stream, like AirVideo or StreamToMe, is an app that streams video from PCs and…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Giz Explains: How 3D Works

It seems like 3D is everywhere. Movies, living rooms. Even real life is 3D! But how does it all work? Most 3D operates on a single basic principle—tricking our dumb, binocular brain into interpreting a 2D image into one with depth. The most basic way to do this is stereoscopy, which is essentially showing a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Best 3DTVs

Something you might not know: 3DTVs tend to be the best performing HDTVs period, ’cause the set has to scream to deliver awesome images to each eyeball separately. Well, these are the best 3DTVs around, as recommended by Televisioninfo.com. https://kotaku.com/how-to-buy-an-hdtv-5698534 Panasonic TC-P50VT25 Product Name: Panasonic TC-P50VT25, Screen Size: 50 inches, Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Refresh…

Gadgets Televisioninfo.com

Soon, You’ll Be Talking to Your DVR

Using the iPhone and Android phones as touch remotes is effectively old school at this point. Next up, telling your TV what to watch—which is what’s next for AT&T and likely, U-Verse customers.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

AT&T’s Windows Phone 7 U-Verse App Is What a TV Guide Should Be

AT&T’s U-Verse app for Windows Phone 7 is fairly snazzy. It’s got a full programming guide with DVR remote controls, and you can also download shows to watch later (no streaming yet, boo). A 30-minute show averages around 80MB, according to AT&T, and should take around 10 minutes to download over Wi-Fi. Yes, you gotta…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Best 3DTVs

Some 3D HDTVs actually kinda suck. The 3D effect can break down during fast movement and the active shutter glasses sometimes create a constant flickering effect. If you want decent 3D, check out these great sets recommended by Televisioninfo.com. Samsung UN55C7000 Product Name: Samsung UN55C7000, Screen Size: 55 inches, Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Refresh Rate:…

Gadgets Christina Bonnington

Martin Logan ElectroMotion ESL: Insane Audiophile-Worthy Electrostatic Speakers for Under $2000

“Affordable” for futuretastic electrostatic speakers means a few grand. Martin Logan‘s ElectroMotion ESL electrostratic speakers’ll be under $2000 when they’re out in March, using the cheapest full-size electrostatic transducer ever. They sounded superclean during a five-minute demo. [Martin Logan] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-speakers-from-the-future-5223106

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Crestron Core 3 OS Lets You Control Your Entire House from Android, iPhone and iPad

There’s lot going on in home automation giant Crestron’s new Core 3 OS, but up there is the fact that it runs on basically anything—from the iPhone and iPad to the Samsung Galaxy tablets sprinkled around their booth. https://gizmodo.com/crestron-home-automation-systems-are-now-ipad-compatibl-5475869 Core 3 supports HTML5, Flash, h.264 video, and from it you can control AV equipment, lighting,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Pioneer BDP-43FD: Because You Want a 3D Blu-ray Player With an Armored Chassis

What makes Pioneer’s first 3D Blu-ray player stand out? It’s got an armored chassis. So you can throw remotes at it. And it’s iPhone controlled. Which is all Pioneer’s saying about the BDP-43FD, but expect it to be expensive. [Pioneer] https://gizmodo.com/pioneers-vsx-1020-k-is-best-550-av-receiver-and-not-on-5485322

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sharp’s Skinny 3D Blu-ray Player Is What the PS3 Slim Should’ve Looked Like

A simple, skinny rectangle, Sharp’s 3D Blu-ray players pull in Netflix, Pandora and Vudu and plays back Divx files. There’s no built-in Wi-Fi, but it comes with a dongle. They’re $430 and $500. [Sharp]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sharp’s Quattron 3DTVs Are the Brightest, Thanks to Yellow Pixels

Sharp’s Quattron four-color pixel tech is now in its 3DTVs, which Sharp says are the brightest 3DTVs around. It’s hard to say without setting them next to another 3DTV, but they are pretty bright. https://gizmodo.com/sharps-fanciest-new-tvs-the-4-color-le920-series-5441497 Sharps says the brightest because they’ve combined their Quattron tech with their X-Gen LCD panel. The other standout feature is…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony’s Little Netflix-Streaming, MKV-Playing Netbox

A diminutive black box with an equally quiet announcement, Sony’s netbox is their take on the Roku box: It streams Bravia Internet Video (read: Netflix and Amazon), is DLNA-compatible and plays MKV and DivX files streamed across your local network. https://gizmodo.com/roku-hd-xr-hands-on-wheres-roku-going-with-this-5390586 It’s got wireless N, supports full 1080p video, USB storage and is controllable via…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Star Wars Blu-ray boxed set coming in fall 2011

Good news first. In the fall of next year, Lucasfilm will release a collection of all six Star Wars films on Blu-ray with extras a-go-go. The bad news? The films may not be sold separately, and Greedo shot first. Lucas spoke with the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog from Celebration V in Orlando. The DVDs…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

A Secret TV Panel To Hide Your A/V Skeletons

Some people put safes behind paintings. Me, I just want to put my home entertainment accessories behind a secret wall panel. How hidden is it? Here’s what it looks like closed: Forget the Blu-ray player and cables, I’m stashing my valuables slightly less crappy possessions there as well. Architect Dan Herchenroether put together this sweet…

Television Brian Barrett

Hulu Plus Subscription Service Likely Delayed

According to All Things Digital, that $10-a-month Hulu Plus subscription service won’t quite make it out the doors in time for the rumored May 24th launch-date. Considering Hulu still hasn’t confirmed that a subscription service is on the cards, it’s not entirely surprising we won’t be seeing anything next Monday. [All Things D] https://gizmodo.com/the-hulu-plus-subscription-10-a-month-to-kill-your-ca-5521657

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Hulu Plus Subscription: $10 a Month to Kill Your Cable

And it all comes together: Hulu will start testing a $10-a-month Hulu Plus subscription service as early as May 24, according to the LA Times. Huge. The pressure to make money—extremely significant quantities of it, given the financial demand of producing high quality TV has long given a Hulu pay service the sense of inevitability.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Verizon FiOS Is Going 3D Too

You’d think 3D was the new color, or something. The latest promise to go 3D is from Verizon, who says they’ll have 3D for FiOS in time for Christmas, to go with all of the 3DTVs that the industry’s selling you. Even if there’s nothing but crap to watch on them. [Verizon] https://gizmodo.com/the-movie-studios-big-3d-scam-5493832

Television Matt Buchanan

TiVo the Dinosaur Just Got a New Jetpack

The new TiVo Premiere is like dinosaurs who got upgraded with laser jetpacks: Fancier, but potentially outmoded in a world populated by tons of ninjas with nuclear shuriken. https://gizmodo.com/tivo-premiere-details-and-first-hands-on-like-imdb-on-5484003 I saved up enough money to buy the first-generation TiVo—one of the Philips models, I think—when I was still in high school, and mostly used it…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Belkin’s Got a Crazy Half-Off-Everything Sale Today (Updated)

Why Hell Is Other Peoples’ Remote Controls

Video Stream App Turns Your iPhone Into a Set Top Box for Your TV

Giz Explains: How 3D Works

The Best 3DTVs

Soon, You’ll Be Talking to Your DVR

AT&T’s Windows Phone 7 U-Verse App Is What a TV Guide Should Be

The Best 3DTVs

Martin Logan ElectroMotion ESL: Insane Audiophile-Worthy Electrostatic Speakers for Under $2000

Crestron Core 3 OS Lets You Control Your Entire House from Android, iPhone and iPad

Pioneer BDP-43FD: Because You Want a 3D Blu-ray Player With an Armored Chassis

Sharp’s Skinny 3D Blu-ray Player Is What the PS3 Slim Should’ve Looked Like

Sharp’s Quattron 3DTVs Are the Brightest, Thanks to Yellow Pixels

Sony’s Little Netflix-Streaming, MKV-Playing Netbox

Star Wars Blu-ray boxed set coming in fall 2011

A Secret TV Panel To Hide Your A/V Skeletons

Hulu Plus Subscription Service Likely Delayed

The Hulu Plus Subscription: $10 a Month to Kill Your Cable

Verizon FiOS Is Going 3D Too

TiVo the Dinosaur Just Got a New Jetpack

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