On soap operas, the sexy leads will often kiss, date, mate, hiss, throw things, break up, make up and kiss again. And that works on a soap. But the whole on-again-off-again thing isn’t quite so cute when it comes to the digital television transition. Many consumers are fed up with the mixed messages...
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The Internet has a new designer drug and its name is Boxee. Sure, the name is clunky. And yep, the service is even clunkier. But consider what Boxee does: It brings Hulu to your television set. Boxee is a new service that’s popular among the just-graduated-from-college-crowd and the tech cognoscenti...
Keith Olbermann let me down. In my first 24 hours without traditional TV programming the one show I watch daily on Apple TV was nowhere to be found. I’m talking about MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the very show I trumpeted in last week’s column as being the easiest to watch on my Apple TV...
Has the time come to get rid of my television? I’m not referring to just my specific provider here. I mean no cable TV. No satellite TV. No rabbit ears. Can it be done yet? Can broadband video fill the void? I’m going to let the readers decide. Yes, I’m offering myself up as a guinea pig for the broadband...