Faster Forward Archive: TV
Amazon Prime now includes free streaming movies, TV shows
Frequent online shoppers have a new video option to consider: Amazon now provides "more than 5,000" streaming movies and TV shows for free to members of its $79/year Amazon Prime program. The Seattle retailer announced the news this morning. This feature uses the same technology as Amazon's video-on-demand service--meaning it...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 22, 2011; 11:34 AM ET |
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The cord-cutting conversation, cont'd. (with bonus Boxee Box review)
My column two Sundays ago about my experience ditching subscription TV for a combination of free over-the-air broadcasts and online video is still generating comments. I'll try to answer those questions and critiques -- and use this opportunity to post an overdue review of yet another online-video receiver you can...
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Rob Pegoraro
| February 17, 2011; 11:29 AM ET |
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Comcast and NBC: Did the Feds fold?
The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department imposed separate but overlapping conditions on this combination before approving it. If you read only descriptions of these terms from the FCC and the DoJ, you might think that the two government agencies have tightly constrained what this new company can do. Yet another perspective emerged from a conference call that Comcast held for reporters this afternoon.
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 18, 2011; 8:06 PM ET |
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Policy and politics, TV, Telecom, Video
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Glassless 3-D looks for a spot in the living room
LAS VEGAS--Interest in a 3-D television seems a lot higher inside the convention center here than in stores elsewhere, and one reason (along with a lack of 3D content and high prices) is the need to don expensive "active shutter" glasses to see a 3-D effect. At this year's show,...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 8, 2011; 6:34 PM ET |
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CES 2011, TV, Video
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Panasonic points: Connected TV, tablets and 3D
LAS VEGAS -- Panasonic would like your next TV to be a 3D model. It's all but ensuring that it will be a "connected" model that can access Web content in app-size chunks. For 2011, the Japanese firm is renaming its Viera Cast feature to Viera Connect and adding an...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 6, 2011; 5:07 PM ET |
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CES 2011, Internet TV, TV, Tablets
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Weekly video: Packing for CES
Packing for the Consumer Electronics Show isn't like getting ready for the average trip. For one thing, I spend as much time picking out socks--preferably, the comfortable hiking kind--as I do shirts. For another, I wind up with a lot more chargers and cables in my luggage than usual. In...
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Rob Pegoraro
| January 4, 2011; 1:53 PM ET |
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CES 2011, Gadgets, Gaming, Internet TV, Mobile, TV, Tablets, Weekly video
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