Microsoft introduces Zune HD as a competitive alternative to the iPod Touch. Perhaps the coolest thing about the Zune HD is that it will use one of the most powerful chips to go into a portable media player yet: Nvidia’s multicore Tegra processor. This should prove to optimize the Zune HD’s benefits: A HD Radio, HD (720p) video, Wi-Fi, a Web Browser, built-in accelerometer, and touchscreen QWERTY keyboard.
Slingbox allows viewers to watch TV or DVR from your television to your laptop or mobile phone. With Slingbox, TV watchers will never miss a sporting event, show or special event. Also there’s no subscription needed.
Blockbuster utilizes its immense library of films for its OnDemand site often allowing new movies within 30 days of its release.
Redbox offers movie rentals at one dollar a day at its 15,000 kiosks (many located in stores nationwide). If you return the DVD the following day, at any kiosk not only the one your rented it from, the rental is one dollar. If you keep the film an extra day your credit card is billed only one more dollar…
While Netflix is exclusively on the Xbox 360, PlayOn allows Xbox 360 (without a Xbox Live Gold Membership), Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii (currently in beta), HP MediaSmart TV, and Moxi HD DVR users to get Netflix instant on their tv. But PlayOn doesn’t stop there. They also offer Hulu, CBS, YouTube, CNN, ESPN.
Vizio extends the possibilities with their new SV422XVT series. Not only does the SV422XVT have 240 Hz, TruLED, and the local dimming LED backlit technology previously reserved for the 55-inch and absolutely beautiful picture has led them to lead the LCD market in 2009. Also the SV422XVT eliminates the need for another cord, working on a wireless 802.11n connection instead of an ethernet cord in the back [...]
LG’s new LH50 series includes Netflix, VUDU, Yahoo Widgets, YouTube, and flickr, allowing you to tap into the internet without all those pesky boxes getting in the way. This is combined with a TruMotion 120 Hz that eliminates motion blur and gives you that crisp picture that LG has used to make a dominating name for itself in the business [...]
