How many movies do you regularly see in a month—in a movie theater, mind you? If the answer is more than five or so (bravo, by the way), check out MoviePass, a new mobile service that offers all the movie tickets you can stand for $50 a month. MoviePass will be...
Still annoyed that Netflix’s recent website redesign won’t let you sort through the video giant’s massive cache of streaming movies and TV shows? Well, you could try this simple hack in your browser’s address bar—a crude solution, but it works....
At last, TV lovers who have signed up for Hulu’s premium, $8-a-month “Plus” service can watch episodes of “The Daily Show,” “Glee,” “Modern Family,” and other network television shows on an Android smartphone....
One of the oldest Apple rumors around got a fresh shot in the arm Tuesday, with gadget site DailyTech claiming that an Apple-branded television may be in the works. DailyTech’s source, an unnamed ex-Apple exec, boasts that Apple hopes to “blow Netflix and...
Redbox is known far and wide for its ubiquitous red kiosks, not to mention its $1-a-night DVD rental policy. But the video rental giant is—once again—tinkering with raising prices, with a new test in Portland, Ore. hiking the price for a night’s DVD rental to...
Here’s the thing when it comes to buying a new gadget: you’ll surely spot a better deal the moment you plunk down your cash, and yes—there’s always a newer, better model right around the corner. But now there’s a new online shopping service...
Those telltale Redbox DVD kiosks at your local supermarket aren’t just for movies anymore. Starting Friday—tomorrow—about 21,000 of the company’s 27,000 kiosks will be stocked with the latest Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 games, including such...
Andrea writes: I’m about to buy my first big flat-screen TV (finally) and a Blu-ray player, but I have a question about the HDMI cable that connects the Blu-ray to the TV set. How much do I need to spend on it? The guy at the store keeps trying to sell me a $100...
A full 32 percent of streaming Netflix users—almost one in three—are mulling downgrading their cable or satellite TV service or cutting the cord altogether, according to a recent survey. Are you one of them? The new figures come courtesy of The Diffusion Group, which...
So says a recent report by the National Resources Defense Council, which found that pay-TV set-top boxes and digital-video recorders are costing U.S. consumers about $3 billion a year in energy bills. Why are DVRs and cable boxes so power hungry? Because most of them...
