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Roku, makers of the streaming TV, film, music and gaming boxes, launched a new family of Roku devices on Wednesday and is bringing its top-of-the-line Roku 3 unit which has been available in the US since earlier in the year to the UK and Ireland. The devices announced on Wednesday include an updated Roku LT Continue Reading →

Despite a few legal entanglements along the way, Aereo continues to spread its cloud-based TV streaming service across the country. The lucky municipals this time around are Columbus and Cincinatti, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, and San Antonio, Texas. As with Aereo’s other launches, those interested can pre-register at the company’s website to gain priority access when Continue Reading →

I’m tired of having things spoiled for me. And I don’t mean *SPOILER ALERT* warnings on Twitter, like how Walter White [REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED] on the last episode of Breaking Bad. (But really… how good will that finale be this week?!) No, I’m tired of knowing everything about everything before I even get to experience Continue Reading →

If you’re a Verizon FiOS customer who’s always on the go, keeping up with your favorite shows just got a little easier. Last week, Verizon announced an update to the company’s FiOS Mobile App, which now lets FiOS customers watch live TV and video on demand anywhere they want on iOS, Android and Kindle Fire Continue Reading →

Netflix won its first Emmy award — the kind doled out at the flashy, star-studded televised ceremony — Sunday night, as David Fincher won for best directing of a drama series. The online subscription-video service, which has been touting itself of late as the “world’s leading Internet television provider,” was nominated for 14 primetime Emmy Continue Reading →

Verizon has just announced that FiOS TV customers can now watch TV shows and movies on mobile devices while away from home. It is available through the newly enhanced FiOS Mobile App, which FiOS customers can watch the live TV and video on demand they want on iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire and Android tablets and smartphones, and Continue Reading →

When sony announced the PlayStation Vita TV, it seemed like it could very well have become a device to transform the video game and set-top streaming markets both. The diminutive device was going to be a video-streaming, game-playing, PS4-mirroring wonder not quite like anything we’ve ever seen before. It was going to play PlayStation Vita Continue Reading →

Time Warner Cable customers, if you’ve ever dreamed of chucking your set-top box, that vision is on track to becoming reality soon. Chief Operating Officer Robert Marcus, who will become the cable company’s chief executive next year, said at a conference Wednesday that Time Warner Cable should, within about a year, be able to let Continue Reading →

***Consumer Electronics Association executives stick with their forecast of Ultra High Definition TV sets not taking off in a big way until 2015 or 2016. The Ultra-TV set-maker crowd almost to a TV, whether big players Samsung, Vizio, LG and Toshiba or newbies like Seiki, stick to their belief that next year will be the Continue Reading →

Technology is a fickle mistress and no-company knows it better than Sony. There was a time when its television sets were a fixture in every upwardly mobile household. Sony game consoles were on every teenage boy’s Christmas wish-list and many of us grew up plugging into the Sony Walkman. It was a company that at Continue Reading →