Category: TV

By now, everybody knows there's a massive e-waste problem on the horizon, though some U.K. researchers claim to have found a way to cut down on e-waste and fight bacterial infections at the same time. According to a press release from the University of York, researchers melted LCD TVs and extracted a substance that could be used to destroy some bacteria. Since this team estimated that about 2.5 ...

Two unlikely retailers are throwing their hats into the streaming movie service ring. According to CNET News, Sears and Kmart have partnered with Sonic Solutions to launch a digital video service by the end of the year. If customers buy a TV or Blu-Ray player manufactured by Sharp, LG, Sony, Samsung, Panasonic or RCA at either retail store, they'll get access to the service, dubbed Alphaline ...

Share The digital age has smashed the primacy of the all-powerful television camera. Why rely on major networks when we have Twitpics, cell phone cameras and live-streams to make our own broadcasts? It seems that even the networks have recognized that all their fancy machinery can still be bested by a camera on a laptop. When a power failure hit the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' studio on Monday, the ...

Well, we've got to hand it to Verizon. The company is now offering its contract-less "worry-free guarantee" option across almost all of its FiOS markets. New customers can now sign up for Verizon's Internet, phone and TV service without agreeing to a contract, which means they're free to decide month to month whether or not they want to stick with the service. Most impressively, Verizon will ...

Share No space is sacred for advertising directors these days. It's bad enough that you're bombarded by advertisements when you're sitting in front of your computer, watching TV or even riding the PATH train tunnels under the Hudson river. Now a company called Automated Media Services (AMS) is testing a new system dubbed 3GTV that will put small screens playing commercial loops on supermarket ...

According to Geekosystem, many a DirecTV customer who owns the company's HD DVR woke up Tuesday to find that their device wouldn't work. The glitch was apparently a result of the satellite company's Whole-Home DVR service, which allows customers to record and watch shows in any room of their house with just one DVR unit. When this roll-out occurred late Monday night, some updated program guide ...

Thanks to the inclusion of Flash, some intrepid users have figured out how to watch Hulu on the latest edition of Android. Of course, Froyo isn't officially available yet, and, even if it were, it wouldn't be of any help to non-Android owners. But while Hulu drags its feet on entering the mobile space, Bitbop, a Fox-backed streaming TV service, is landing on handsets now with a beta version of an ...

We were initially pretty skeptical about the idea of turning the endlessly hilarious ShitMyDadSays Twitter account into a television show. Then we heard that Bill Shatner had signed on to play the cantankerous father that inspired the account, and we got a little excited to hear Captain Kirk spit out little bits of wisdom like, "Waking up when you got a baby, you feel like you drank a bottle of ...

Share Google came out swinging during day two of its Google I/O conference with several big announcements. Earlier in the day, the Android's Froyo OS got official, and then Google launched into its plans to bring the Web (and all its video and multimedia content, including Flash) to your living room. Despite some spectacular tech demo hiccups, Google unveiled its vision for the future of ...

Browsing content-packed sites like Hulu can be a frustrating task if you're doing it on a TV screen. According to The New York Times, however, the video search engine Clicker unveiled a tv-optimized verison of its site Wednesday at Google's I/O conference that makes it easier for users to browse its library on their TVs. Rather than index videos with small thumbnails, Clicker.tv -- still in beta ...

What began as an innocent bar-room hypothetical conversation soon became a reality -- and now, it's become the centerpiece of a brewing legal storm. Back in April, journalists Matthew Honan, Sarah Rich and Alexis Madrigal were drinking together at a San Francisco bar, when they suddenly found themselves wondering about whether it'd be possible to start a new magazine over the course of a ...

Google and Intel are widely expected to announce a new "smart TV" initiative this week. The new platform will see the chip maker's Atom processor (normally found in netbooks) paired up with the Android OS (normally found in cell phones). The combined technology will be finding its way into set-top boxes and TVs, bringing Web connectivity and applications to the boob tube. To date, efforts to ...

While HTML5 might be the the future of the Web, Hulu says it isn't ready to climb aboard just yet. Business Insider reports that Hulu announced (and later removed its blog post [Ed. Note. and now reposted it]) that it is sticking exclusively with Adobe's Flash Player to play its content. That's bad news for iPad and iPhone users who hoped HTML5 would finally allow them to watch the ad-supported ...

Because watching HD TV on an actual TV is so last decade, Netflix has reportedly begun streaming over half of its HD collection for both PC and Mac users. As HackingNetflix explains, all you have to do in order to find out which titles are currently available for HD streaming is roll your mouse over a given movie or show, and look for the 'HD available' tag that pops up at the bottom of the ...

Share As many television shows are wrapping up their seasons, we have horrible news. No, it's not a 'Lost' spoiler, but a rogue satellite orbiting the Earth could disrupt some cable programming. According to the AP, the Galaxy 15 satellite, which is owned by European company Intelsat, is on course to drift into the orbit of another satellite called AMC 11, which transmits cable programming ...