This is 2015, errrr 2019 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, there were
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.
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