Still no deal to have Letterman come back with everyone else in early January. - What's it like to ride the subway with Anderson Cooper?
- Entertainment Weekly picks the Best and Worst TV of 2007.
- Michael Ausiello has a
FestivusChristmas Wish List too. - Former NBC newsman John Hockenberry is not happy with his former network.
- Who would win in a fight, Charlie's Angels or The Three Stooges?
- Did you know they once made animated versions of Lost in Space and That Girl?
- Remember Apple TV?
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Out of the Blogosphere
AppleTV hack enables external hard drives
Digging the Apple TV, but not a fan of its anemic hard drive? Sure, Apple's released a 160GB version for $100 more than the 40GB AppleTV. But if you're a big movie/TV fan you might want to store more programming than you could fit on such a puny hard drive.Lucky for you, the Apple TV hacking community has released tools for enabling external storage. In fact, the hack is more sophisticated than that. It enables the Apple TV to boot off its internal hard drive while using an external hard drive as its primary storage drive. In other words, plug in your 750GB drive to store all the movies you can handle.
Remember to backup your unit before attempting the patch. This is certainly warranty-voiding stuff. But if you've got an Apple TV, and an intel-based Mac or Linux/Unix machine lying around to execute the script, we don't see why you wouldn't want to at least look into applying this hack.
[via Gizmodo]
Archos TV: everything you hoped the Apple TV would be
Here's what we know about the Archos TV Plus so far:
- Includes hard drives ranging from 80Gb to 250GB
- Includes UB 2.0, WiFi, and Ethernet connections
- HDMI and RGB inputs and outputs
- Functions as a standalone PVR
And of course, you can synchronize the Archos TV Plus with Archos portable media players. It looks like the Archos TV Plus will be available for €220 - €300, or $300 to $400 U.S.
[via Engadget]
Apple TV to offer YouTube video
Usually I don't mention technical stuff on this blog, mostly because such things cause my brain to freeze. Seriously, I can barely operate a manual can opener without crying.
Anyway, our pals over at the Unofficial Apple Weblog and Endgadget have been covering the All Things Digital conference, and one of their reports caught my eye: the new Apple TV will include an option to watch YouTube video right on your TV screen.
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i-mate X-Stream: good looking media hub with ridiculous name
While most of the news out of last week's 3GSM conference was understandably mobile phone-related. But i-mate took the opportunity to show off their upcoming X-Stream Digital media Hub.The unfortunately named X-Stream is basically an LCD TV sporting 720p and 1080i support with a built in Media Center PC running Windows Vista Ultimate. There's also a 500GB hard drive and a wireless router hiding in there. No word on pricing or availability yet.
i-mate also announced the X-Stream Dock, a small box running Windows CE that connects to your TV, allowing you to stream media from your PC to your TV set, and the Momento digital picture frame sporting 802.11b/g and supporting RSS feeds (think Flickr feeds).
Out of the Blogosphere
Lee Goldberg has the list for TV shows and movies nominated for Edgar Awards (mystery awards). - Oscar is making a big marketing push to get you to watch the ABC telecast next month.
- Adjab is doing a great wrapup of all the news concerning the Super Bowl commercials.
- Jennifer Aniston has work done or her nose.
- TUAW has a video demo of the new Apple TV.
- A Top Chef contestant has just quit his job at a NYC restaurant. Does that mean...?
- TVGasm has a full list of all of the premieres, specials, and finales for the rest of the winter (constantly updated).
Out of the Blogosphere
Grey's Anatomy's Isaiah Washington joins Michael Richards, Mel Gibson, and everyone else in apologizing and asking for "help." - Katie Couric is going to the Super Bowl.
- Oprah Winfrey is worth a gazillion dollars.
- AppleTV is selling faster than iPods??
- Like Joel, Aaron Barnhart is filing reports from the TCA.
- Over at Adjab, I talk about the product placement on last night's episode of The Office.
- Ryan Seacrest doesn't like Angelina Jolie, but Brad is fantastic.
- Is Ana Marie Cox going to host a new Sunday morning political talk show for HBO?
Out of the Blogosphere
Do you want to start watching 24 but you're not sure who's who? Ken Levine has a quick guide. - Aaron Barnhart says Apple TV will change everything.
- Jennifer Aniston: are those real or not-so-real?
- More Friends news: is Courteney Cox not wank-worthy?
- MSNBC and Fox News are having a battle of the clocks.
- Now it's Oprah vs. Barbara.
- Oh, and here's video of a local NBC anchoring falling on her ass because she's so bored with Brian Williams.
Apple introduces Apple TV
That low rumbling whirrr you heard coming from the west as you sat down to your Fruity Pebbles this morning was the sound of the generators for the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field coming online. The master took the stage once again today to wow fans, put an end to some of the recent speculation and introduce some new products. As far as MacWorld's go, this one was a little odd. Most of the keynote was devoted to the new iPhone, with no mention of iLife, iWork, Leopard or any of the computer hardware. You can get the complete rundown on the show, including all the info about the iPhone, from our pals over at TUAW. For our purposes here though, the big news is Apple TV.
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