Tag archive: HTPC

With the onslaught of whiz-bang media center interfaces including Boxee, Apple TV, Google TV, and even good old Windows Media Center, it’s easy enough to skip over an option like Moovida. Until you see it, of course. In a step away from the flat, tile-based systems used by most of its immediate competitors, Moovida presents titles as a 3D wall of box art, undulating across the screen with every press of an arrow key. Highlight a title and the… Read More

Reports earlier this month already indicated that Google was working on a set-top box to bring the Internet to the television, but now new details have surfaced that show the Mountain View giant isn’t working alone. According to the New York Times, Intel, Sony and Logitech will all coordinate with Google to bring an Android-powered set-top box to market. Like the A-Team, each player will bring its own contributions to the table. Google will… Read More

Boxee’s new set-top streamer comes pre-installed with the very popular Boxee media center software that is used by many on Home Theater PCs. What the Boxee Box does is make hardware setup as easy as plugging in a DVD player, which should allow less tech savvy users to experience Boxee without the headache of setting up a PC.

At the beginning of September, I walked outside the house with a hatchet in hand and chopped the single line of coax that kept my household wired into the universe. I severed the cable TV. Not literally, of course. That would have been pretty stupid – especially considering that our house kept the cable Internet connection as part of Plan B: Watch only what we could retrieve from the Internet. One connection, one bill. More literally, all three… Read More