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Video: Google TV…

logtech — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:59:41 +0000

Google's First TV Ad

logtech — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:55:32 +0000

This is Google’s First TV Ad that premiered Super Bowl 2010

Apple's iPad

logtech — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:27:37 +0000

Despite the name, Apple’s new iPad is an attractive device. In essence the tablet is a 9.7 inch iPod touch with the ability of 3G. It runs on a new version of the iPhone software and has a fairly high quality screen. It has a very nice browsing experience (except no Flash yet) and a good mail client. Viewing pictures is a clean and easy process however there is not build in camera which is a disappointment. Video including Youtube, will play in HD . The AppStore and iTunes are the same except for the addition of iBooks. iBooks is like iTiunes for books, and that’s about it. iBooks is defiantly not a new idea but will help a industry. And of course there is a maps app and a calendar app. Most apps in the store will work on the device. The most important part of this however is the price. The starting price is at $499.99. This was a lot lower than expected, however it is not surprising because if they priced it at 999 for example, it should be more like a computer which it is not (Price list below). The 3G is a lot cheaper than you get with a computer at $ 30.00 for unlimited data. The iPad is said to last 10 hours and a month on standby. Over all this is a sleek device that will create a new category that we will see change the way we do computing. However, this is probably not the device to define this new tablet category. (The iPad wifi is available in 60 days and the 3G in 90 days).

	16 GB	32 GB	64 GB
Wi-Fi	$499	$599	$699
Wi-Fi + 3G	$629	$729	$829

Hulu Mobile

logtech — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:22:59 +0000

Hulu.com, the popular video on demand website, has sealed its self off from being accessed on Skyfire 1.0. Skyfire is a relatively new application for cell phones which allows people to access content most cell phone browsers don’t support like Flash. This was very disappointing, but it seems they are doing this for a reason. If you look back a few months ago hulu did a similar thing with boxee. They blocked there content from boxee and just about a month later came out with their own desktop application. So it seems obvious what they are planning, come out with their own mobile application. If they do come out with their own mobile application how are they going to do it? There are several ways a site like hulu could go about this. They could create their own mobile applications for devices like the iPhone, Blackberry, Pal Pre, ext. However, if they do go this path their content will not be available on all devices and they will have to create applications for each device. On the other hand they could create a mobile website which could be reached by most mobile browsers; this would have a wider distribution but limit capability and quality. They could reach people either way but it would be much easier if the world could come together and create a stranded for web videos on the computer and on mobile devices.

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Sling.com Review

logtech — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:14:25 +0000

I spent the past week taking a look at sling.com. Its from the makers of popular Sling box (I have one and must say I love it). Sling.com allows sling box users to view videos like on hulu, and soon short clips that people have captured using their sling boxes. You can also watch your sling box through Firefox, or Internet explorer browsers just by installing a plug-in. Everything worked very well and I did not run into any problems. The videos that you view on play in a sling.com’s own player but the content is streamed from sites like Hulu. We are hearing that sling.com will be coming out November 10, according to Techcrunch.com

The Olympics on your computer, Vista machines that is

logtech — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:34:23 +0000

Today NBC launched there Media Center app, that will show all of the Olympic converge in your windows computer. I downloaded it to my Vista machine today, and acutely enjoyed my experiences. Now the Olympics do not start until 8/8/08, but they do offer the Olympic trails. The videos that I say was fairly high quality, and their saying that most of the content will be in HD. However to get the full experiences you must download the videos to your computer, but you can watch it while it downloads. The menu system in this app was created using the tvtonic.com, app. Acutely it is the same beside the video. Over all it is worth downloading if you have a Vista media center PC, and are really into the Olympics.

PS. I tride to do a video on the app, but it did not turn out to well, I will try agin.

Hulu Days of Summer…

logtech — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:34:57 +0000

Hulu.com has been releasing movies out every day of the weekday as of June. Look below for a line up of all the movies

Update: We just had a resent reply that said, “have nothing against marketers, public relations people… (than gave a link to there site, than quoted the post)”, I don’t know what this person is trying to say, but this post was just telling the readers about tech news. I can’t put the reply up because it could have “bad links”, but I put up what the person said anyways.

It's all about the TV… Google TV Ads

logtech — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:29:51 +0000

Back in June of 2007 Google released Google TV Ads. Today it was let out of beta and is now avible to every one. When I first heard about it, I thought it was odd that a company like Google was going to bring AdWords to the TV. But then again is seems Google will try anything.

Google TV Ads now allow any one who can spend only a couple hundred dollars on a ad, to have this ad premiere on some of the most popular networks out there. This really makes me think, what types of commercial are we going to start to see. It’s so cheap now that almost anyone could make the money, and make the commercial premiere on any network the next day. Take a look at the Google TV Ads video below, from Google. Check out the demo for Google TV Ads here

The converter

logtech — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:03:05 +0000

In 2009 people of America will have to add a converter box to be able to run HD souse. If you currently run a terrestrial antenna (bunny ears), for you Television you will need to purchase in a HD terrestrial antenna.

modernfeed.com

logtech — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:07:21 +0000

Modernfeed.com is a site that is basically a search engine of all the online shows and content. It is a big TV guide to shows online right now. So lest say you want to search your show, well you type it in to the search box or find it by networks, A-Z, and others. When you find your show it will tell you what episodes are available and if you can download it to your Ipod or if its in HD.Then it will bring you to that site, if its on ABC, FOX, ex. and you watch the show. I find it useful although Hulu does a good job to if you prefer that.

PS: (I also saw it works on the Iphone)