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DISH Introduces Hopper and Joey – Next Generation Whole-Home HD DVR Entertainment System
DISH Network has introduced a whole-home high definition DVR entertainment system featuring the award-winning Hopper and Joey. The Hopper HD DVR and accompanying small Joey set-top boxes create a whole-home HD DVR entertainment system that lets DISH customers easily record, pause, and play back shows from any room in the home. While most whole-home DVRs do not have the same DVR functionality on every...
New Samsung Smart TV’s You Control With Your VOICE, FACE & MOTION
Smart interaction, smart content and smart evolution will change the way you experience entertainment in your living room
At the recently-concluded Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Samsung unveiled new innovations in its latest LED and Plasma TV series that will redefine the way consumers manage their home entertainment experience, interact with their smart TVs and other devices and access the...
Electronics Recycling at the Rochester Public Market
Rochester Public Market Now Accepts Electronics For Recycling To Benefit The Sunnking/Foodlink We-Cycle Donation Program
If you haven’t been to the Rochester Public Market to shop around for the freshest produce and other unique foods in Rochester, here’s yet another reason to swing by. Sunnking has teamed up with the Public Market to offer free and convenient electronics recycling on select Sundays...
HBO App For Watching Shows On The Go
Free App is Latest Online Offering from HBO, Bringing More Than 1400 Titles to Customers Who Subscribe to HBO Via a Participating Television Provider
With HBO GO, you can enjoy instant and unlimited access to every episode of every season of HBO shows, movies, comedy, sports, and documentaries
HBO recently unveiled its mobile HBO GO app, which is available for download on Apple’s iPad, iPhone and...
3D Discomfort Explained By Recent Study
An academic study into stereoscopic (bespectacled) 3D at the University of California, Berkeley, has pinpointed the cause of the headaches and eye fatigues often caused by three dimensional viewing.
The study found that the root of the problem is that our eyes are trying to focus on the screen as well as focusing on virtual images that appear to be in front of or behind the screen.
The researchers...
‘Power Miser’ Device Protects Your Electronics From Surges, Reduces Energy Consumption
Power Miser reduces electrical draw from meter
We all want to protect our valuable home theater electronics, computers and appliances from the risk of lightning strike, power surge, or brownout (a drop in voltage in an electrical supply). Most of us use power surge strips to protect our valuable electronics. Most of us don’t run our home’s appliances (washer/dryer, refrigerator, sump pump, etc.)...
Quad Displays: 4 LCDs For One PC
My quad display graphics setup
Whoa, you might be thinking, why would anyone need 4 displays connected to one PC? The quick answer is I’m a graphic designer and can use all the screen real estate I can get to help me be more efficient and streamline my workflow of producing marketing materials. Yes, lots of designers do get by with a single display, but I’ve found that having a dual display setup...
New, Ultra-Thin Samsung 3D LED HDTVs Offer Cinema-Quality 3D Experience
At the International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung unveiled its new LED TV series that redefine the home entertainment experience and add a touch of refined elegance, simplicity and luxury to any home. The new smart TVs address consumers’ growing need for greater choice and control over how and when they access content.
Samsung will be augmenting its extensive product lines by previewing at...
Review: Apple TV
The Apple TV has been around since 2007 but has been regarded as more of a hobby platform than a serious solution. In an attempt to enhance the public perception (and success) of the platform, Apple recently released a new and improved version of Apple TV based on the same operating system used in the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The big question is, did they succeed?
What is Apple TV?
In its latest...
Kinect for Xbox 360
It’s a new era of controller-free gaming and entertainment, thanks to Microsoft and the Xbox 360 gamesystem. Once it meets you, Kinect recognizes you. With just a wave of the hand or a voice command, Kinect comes to life, bringing games, movies, TV, music, exercise, dancing and sports to your fingertips.
Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways without using a controller....
