This is 2015, errrr 2019 , 2021 and the technology choices for us to watch movies is dizzying! A bit of history…. I don’t want to start too far back, but, in the past 30 or 40 years there has been a remarkable technological shift in the way we watch movies (and TV shows, etc). When I was a kid,
Read moreThe world is changing. Rapidly. Bits are flying over the Internet at an unprecedented pace. As my loyal reader…..you know my feelings about Cisco and video conferencing, but, it looks to me as though they are getting back to focusing on handling bits….a very good thing. For everyone! This commercial by Cisco is interesting. I LOVE the part where they
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(Our VUDU) As my loyal reader….you know what I feel about VUDU (and here, and here). Also see our movie reviews on ForCarol.com, a lot of what we watch is on VUDU. Now that VUDU is embedded in new TV’s, Blu-Ray players, etc., you no longer need the separate box that we have. There is also the ability to
Read moreEver see one of those square barcode like looking thingys? I had one hanging on my door from Google Places, but, I did not know what it was or what to do with it. It looked cool, so I stuck it up there. So what the hell is it? Well, finally getting curious I did a bit of web searching.
Read more` I was surfing this morning and came across this bit of disturbing news from the good folks at Mashable (and also at Broadband DSL Reports). AT&T will cap DSL users to 150GB (I assume Bytes…not bits) and Uverse users to 250GB per month. If you go over that cap more than 3 times you will be charged $10 for
Read moreOK, this is cool. A few seconds after I downloaded the free app “Livestream Podcaster” I was streaming live video from the AltamontCowork public computer to Facebook! I have tried Justin TV and Ustream as our “Virtual Window” but both dropped the calls, after awhile, within a few minutes. Hmmmm, I wonder if it was Comcast limiting me? Sooo, I’m
Read moreRating: 5 WaterTowers (still nearly perfect) After you are done here: See my original review of VUDU. This weekend we recieved our new Vudu system. As you may already know, we love Vudu and we used it for a long time before I actually had to remind Vudu that we had the demo unit. Life was miserable without Vudu.
Read moreI found a gold mine of lost blog entries! Here is another… +++ Rating: 4 WaterTowers (Internet streaming made easy) Justin TV allows you to stream live video and audio over the Internet. It took me all of two minutes to sign up and start streaming. Very easy and very cool. 🙂 I can see tons of applications for
Read moreIf you have not read my VUDU Review blog, now may be a good time. The basic VUDU unit (good enuf for me) is now selling for $149.00. Watching movies downloaded from the Internet has never been so easy and so enjoyable. I gave VUDU 5 WaterTowers a year ago and only recently had to send it back
Read moreGoogle has added some capabilities (via collaborations) that, when fully operational, will allow you to do some pretty detailed testing of your Internet connection. See this article for all the information (well, not all, but, some pretty good stuff). One of my heros from my college days when I was learning communication technology,Vint Cerf, has something to do with this. 🙂 I
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