Feb 21, 2012
This in-depth review take a close look at Apple’s second-generation Apple TV streaming media player, equipped with its recent v4.4.4 firmware update. Although it’s exceptionally well constructed and excels at doing what Apple wants it to do, the device trails its competition in several significant respects.
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Feb 20, 2012
This screenshot tour was created to accompany our detailed, in-depth review of Apple’s second-generation Apple TV streaming media player. The tour below includes 120 screenshots showcasing the Apple TV 2′s menu system, settings, channels, and apps for streaming movies, TV shows, podcasts, photos, music, and internet radio to your TV.
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Feb 13, 2012
Netgear recently introduced the NeoTV NTV200, a compact, low power, highly integrated, streaming media player that’s quite similar to Roku’s latest devices. Netgear clearly intends the NTV200 to capture some market share from the highly-popular Apple TV and Roku 2 streaming media players. Will it succeed?
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Feb 10, 2012
This screenshot tour was created to accompany our detailed review of Netgear’s NeoTV NTV200 streaming media player device, a direct competitor with the popular Roku 2 series products. The tour comprises about 100 screenshots showcasing the NTV200′s menu system, settings, and broad range of content channels available for watching movies and TV shows, listening to music and internet radio, and more.
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Feb 8, 2012
Boxee is battling with the U.S. cable industry over the right to keep “basic cable” transmissions unencrypted, so that third-party devices like the Boxee Box can be used in lieu of cable provider-supplied TV set-top-boxes (STBs). Boxee and other opponents of basic cable encryption assert that provider-supplied STBs generally are huge energy wasters, in contrast to more advanced gadgets like the Boxee Box.
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Feb 8, 2012
Sonos, a leading innovator of Internet radio and wireless music-streaming devices, has created a “History of Radio Infographic” that traces 120 years of evolution from the first radio frequencies observed by Tesla in 1892 to today’s Internet radio services.
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Feb 7, 2012
This in-depth review and screenshot tour takes a close look at Roku’s latest streaming media players. Although the Roku 2 series players are smaller and cost less than their predecessors, they’re jam-packed with A/V apps, offer multiple A/V outputs along with microSD and USB expansion, and are significantly less power-thirsty.
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Feb 4, 2012
This periodically updated post provides tips and tricks for getting the most from your Boxee Box. Things like streaming via AirPlay to your Boxee Box, playing videos and music files from Windows and UPnP network shares, building better bookmarks, adding the free Navi-X online multimedia aggregator, using your Boxee Box as network-attached-storage (NAS), and more.
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Feb 1, 2012
This screenshot tour was created to accompany our detailed review of Roku’s latest streaming media player device family. The tour comprises about 140 screenshots showcasing the Roku 2 media player’s menu system; its extensive library of movies, TV shows, and Internet content channels; the ability to stream from USB drives and LAN shares; the device’s setup functions; and more.
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Jan 24, 2012
The moment our Boxee Live TV adapter arrived, we connected it to our Boxee Box and investigated its capabilities. The screenshots below demonstrate Boxee Live TV’s setup, channel editing, watching broadcast HDTV channels, and more.
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