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Chumby Store Sells New Chumby One For Only $100

It's always cool when an interesting product gets updated. It's even better when it's only half the price of the older model, and yes, it does a lot more. But what is the Chumby exactly? Read on to fi...

Xbox Live Getting Streaming Sky TV More Coming Soon?

With Netflix coming to a PS3 near you, we were left wondering what would happen to the Xbox 360. Most Xbox 360 owners are already using their consoles to stream media from their computers, but how abo...

Netflix Coming for PS3 in November

This is pretty great news for us PS3/Blu-ray holdouts, as we've yet to jump onto the bandwagon of either technology/media serving device due to too many limitations of each device by themselves. But w...

Sonos Releases Lower Priced Home Streaming Unit

Despite being a young company, Sonos has built a following for being a premier solution for wirelessly streaming music from your PC to all of the rooms in your house. But they've always been pricey li...

Super Slim, Super Expensive Sony KDL-XBR10 LCD

The Sony KDL-XBR10 LCD has a lot going for it: a Kate Moss slim profile, native 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, wireless HD streaming, Motionflow 240Hz for smooth fast motion display, built-in video content...

Re(al)view: Audioengine W1 Wireless Stereo Adapter

Last week, we wrote about Audioengine's W1 wireless audio streaming solution. Boasting a software-less install, intuitive plug-n-play interface, and CD-quality sound up to 100 feet, we were more than ...

Audioengine W1: Enter Stereophonic Wireless Sound

The boys at Audioengine, makers of the acclaimed A2 speakers we're so bonkers about, claim to have a much more streamlined solution than using Apple's Airport Express for audio streaming. Software-l...

How To: Turbocharge Your Airport Express with a DAC

Since we've clearly established that wireless streaming around your house does not add jitter or degradation to audio, today we're going to let you in on a little secret that will make your music soun...

Is Wireless HDMI Dead? Belkin Flywire Gets Canned

It seems like Belkin will no longer be releasing its FlyWire wireless HDMI accessory, as confirmed by Belkin's PR announcement yesterday afternoon. Apparently "its retail price of $1,499 would be out ...

LG's HDTVs That Instantly Stream NetFlix

You know that you love NetFlix as much as we do, but just like us, you are probably having trouble dealing with the snail mail return service. That's why the online service is so neat. It lets you com...

NetFlix Streaming Comes to Sony Bravias

If you are using NetFlix to stream movies, you'll soon be loving their new partnership with Sony. This will make streaming movies to your Bravia TV a cinch and remove a bunch of messy wires, if that's...

ICFF 2009: Sonoro elements W Wireless Internet Radio

click for more pics below One of the handful of straight up home electronic designers at this year's ICFF show were the team from Sonoro Audio, a German company with a lineup of minimal modern audio d...

Survey: How Do You Watch Movies These Days?

While our readers have made it clear that they're pretty on the fence about viewing cable TV on the Internet, the movie industry's approach to curb illegal downloads has been pretty diverse when it co...

Netflix Flirts with HBO Streaming
Would You Pay Extra to Watch?

We don't have cable, though we sure do love watching TV. The main reason we don't is that we don't agree with the cable payment structure. Why do we have to pay close to $100 for hundreds of channels...

Roundup: Media Servers

Economically, there's nothing better than to have one computer holding all your media while all your other devices stream it directly over your network. Unfortunately, like many things, it's almost al...

Apple TV + Free Boxee App: A Cable Free Life?

We know, we know...Every few months some new (or just new on the scene) product, application or service comes along and everyone starts talking about how it will change the media center for good. They...

News Flash: LG to Release Netflix Ready Plasma this Spring

Netflix has changed the way we watch movies, there's no question about it. They started through the mail and have recently launched streaming movies for those who don't want to wait for snail mail. W...

Survey: How Do You Tune In?

Over the holidays we caught up on some back episodes of Gossip Girl (yes, we know...). In one episode, Serena, complaining about her mom and step father's new house rules, exclaims, "What's next? No ...

Good Questions: How Do I Get My Digital Music to My Speakers?

Cynthia in SF asked a great question in the comments for our post on streaming non-iTunes tunes. OK, dumb question here - please don't be mean!!! I have an iMac, Airport Express, and a wireless net...

How to: Stream Any Type of Video To Your Playstation 3

Looking for a way to watch any movie or TV show on your multimedia powerhouse, Playstation 3? Here’s a step by step, if not a bit convoluted, method of getting nearly all your standard and high defi...