Click on Netflix’s brand-new “Just for Kids” tab and you’ll find a kid-friendly paradise populated by the likes of Hannah Montana, Dora the Explorer, and the Cookie Monster. Needless to say, neither Freddie Krueger nor Tony Soprano are invited....
Videos are probably the biggest space hogs around when it comes to computer hard drives; just ask anyone who’s ever purchased and downloaded an entire TV season from iTunes. Indeed, a single HD episode of, say, “Mad Men” from the iTunes Store weighs...
Instead of revolutionizing the way we watch TV, the first wave of Google TV-enabled devices merely complicated it—all without adding much in the bargain. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as too much surprise that the very first Google TV box—the Logitech Revue,...
Starting next month, you’ll have to prove you’re a paying customer of an “approved” pay-TV provider to watch new Fox TV episodes on Hulu or Fox.com the day after they’re aired—otherwise, you’ll have to wait more than a week before...
The Roku ranks as one of the best home-video bargains out there, if you ask me, with the cheapest Roku streaming HD-quality videos from the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon for a mere $59—or forty bucks cheaper than Apple TV. Well, Roku just refreshed its entire...
So, you’ve settled in to watch the perfect movie from Netflix’s collection, when all of a sudden … poof! The movie grinds to a halt, replaced by a rude “connection error” message. What gives? Well, it’s possible that something’s up...
So you’re browsing the aisles at your local big-box retailer, shopping for a big, beautiful HDTV, and you’re stumped. On the left, you’ve got the 60-inch Samsung UN60D6500, while on the right sits the UN60C6500—same size, same basic look....
First, the good news: Starting today, anyone who’d rather stick to DVDs and skip the instant streaming can sign up for a new, $7.99 DVD-only plan. The bad news? Netflix has also decided to chuck its combined DVD-and-streaming plans, meaning that subscribers who...
Barely a month after unveiling an extreme makeover of its home page that provided “more focus” on instant videos while nixing the ability to sort them, execs at Netflix say they’re ready to change course—at least as far as sorting is concerned,...
Fans of two of ABC’s legendary—and recently cancelled—soap operas are holding their collective breath after word that the long-running serials might land on the Web. The New York Post says it’s “learned” that “All My Children” (yes,...
