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Comcast starts offering multiroom features, 500GB hard drives with AnyRoom DVR
Oregon and Southwest Washington are enjoying more than just the launch of Comcast’s updated A28 guide today, the company also announced it has begun offering Anyroom DVR (not to be confused with Anyroom On Demand ) setups in the area. It’s a pretty standard MoCA implementation, one central HD DVR that allows customers to watch and control recorded programming from other hard drive-less set-top boxes in the same house. Comcast say Anyroom DVR is available in 20 markets including the Bay area, Western Mass, Augusta, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Little Rock and others, while forum posts on DSLReports indicate promos have been spotted in Chicago and Pennsylvania with a price tag of $19.95 for the main DVR, and the usual fees for the other boxes (maximum of 3)
Sharp plunges headfirst into 3D market with LV-series Quattron TVs, Blu-ray DVRs
Looks like Sharp’s keeping its word — next month, the fourth-largest LCD TV maker will launch a slate of new 3D TVs in Japan, just as planned . Based on the same Sharp Quattron quad-pixel technology that made George Takei’s jaw drop , the new LV-series of AQUOS panels will come in 40-, 46-, 52- and 60-inch sizes when they debut July 30th, and feature 1080p resolution, UV²A panels and a high-speed signaling technology named FRED that Sharp says increases brightness and reduces crosstalk. More interesting are the AN-3DG10 glasses that come with them, which reportedly allow each individual viewer decide whether to view content in 2D or 3D — we’re guessing by tweaking the glasses to show either the left or right image to both eyes simultaneously, instead of flipping back and forth .
Is Sony developing PlayTV2? And will we get to play in the states?
Sure, it’s only one word in a long and involved interview, but according to Sony Cambridge Studio’s Mark Green (who’s been talking shop with Spong ) it seems that a little something called PlayTV2 is in the works. “We’re still working on PlayTV , PlayTV 2,” he says, while the shop has “other guys working on other concepts.” And while that’s all well and good, but is there any chance that the digital tuner / DVR for PS3 might make it to the states some time soon? To be honest, we’re beginning to lose interest
Logitech’s Google TV companion box includes smartphone apps, we go eyes-on
Dashing away from the Google I/O keynote as fast as our feet would carry us, we scored the very first look at Logitech’s Google TV companion box.
Showtime getting ready to go online?
What’s a “premium” movie service these days without access on additional screens?
FiOS adds Youtube and internet radio for all HD customers
Verizon FiOS likes to try and set itself apart from the competition and the latest in the list is the addition of Youtube and internet radio support to its Media Manager software. If you already have a FiOS DVR and Media Manager installed on your PC, all you have to do is hit the update button — Mac fans are once again left on the outside looking in on this one
