Kill the Cable

I’m not entirely sure why YouTube chose to illustrate their move to 1080p HD with a series of increasingly zoomed in pictures of a dog’s nasal cavity, but the news is welcome in any case.
You can checkout their 1080p test video of Pennie the Jack Russell Terrier, though they do caution:
“For viewers with big monitors [...]

The NewTeeVee Live conference, which took place today in San Francisco, has posted video of their panels and interviews up at livestream.com.
Some highlights:

Reed Hastings NetFlix CEO
Jason Seiken, PBS
Amy Banse, Comcast
Murali Nemani, Cisco

Boxee has announced that:
We have signed our first partnership with a CE company. At this point we can not say more about the partner or the specs of the device, but we can tell you we are working closely with them to make sure we deliver a great Boxee experience on it.
We will show mockups [...]

Each individual video on demand service (Hulu, Netflix Watch Instantly, etc) has a queue or subscribe feature where you indicate what shows you want to watch in the future. It’s a bad situation: imagine if you had an entirely different interface and options for adding CBS shows vs Fox shows on your cable based DVR [...]

Mashable has a story up comparing the Top 10 Most Watch Web Series in October and the overall ratings astonished me. The number one show Happy Tree Friends has 19 million viewers.
In comparison a top rated show broadcast TV show like NCIS has around the same number of viewers in a week. Now these are [...]

Most digital cable now comes with an absolute stack of digital radio stations, which get used once a year at Christmas when the “Sounds of the Season” is preferable to one more freaking rendition of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer on the Christmas Tape my parents have been using since I was a child, or [...]

YouTube has increasingly been adding long-format videos to their service (hey, you can’t watch kitten videos all day) and it only makes sense that they should release an interface that works better on a TV than the current web interface with tiny buttons and hundreds of comments written by what I can only assume are [...]

WiFi can be great for lots of things, but if you’re moving large multimedia files arounda and streaming media through your home network you can easily swamp the bandwidth that’s available and cause yourself no end of problems.
If you’re not going to use WiFi and you still want all your electronics to talk you need [...]

If you’re going to in NYC on December 7th, you should definitely check out the Boxee Beta Unveiling launch party. They’re going to be showing off new applications and:

new user interface
improved navigation
search TV Shows and Movies
a user controlled Queue
shortcuts
more…

Can’t wait to see all the cool new stuff.

The OCModShop has a very extensive review (with lots of pictures) of the nMediaPC HTPC 8000 case. The design of the case itself looks very thoughtful with preset slots for large quiet fans, lots of connections and a design that won’t look like Flash Gordon left some accessories laying around your living room.
If you’re in [...]