Like many of you I was pleased to hear the news that Hulu unveiled their Hulu Plus offering today. Now I'm wondering if it's actually something I'd be interested in paying for. Luckily, NewTeeVee did the leg work for us in comparing Hulu Plus with Netflix's instant streaming collection. According to the site, Hulu's biggest [...]

Great news for Hulu fans. Hulu has officially announced the upcoming availability of Hulu Plus (currently available via "preview invite"). The $9.99/mo Hulu Plus service will provide subscribers with a complete archive of all shows available through the service in 720p HD video. In other words, if you're interested in, say, Lost, all episodes from [...]

Here's an interesting offering. Jamcast is $29.99 music server software application for Windows that allows users to stream audio to a game console, mobile phone, tablet, HDTV, or other DLNA/UPnP networked media device (there's word you can access your music over the Internet as well). Jamcast essentially captures any audio your computer is playing (including [...]

We showed you last week that Motorola's Droid X handset was DLNA certified and had the capability to function as a Controller to a DLNA compliant PC media server. In other words, you could use the Droid X to navigate available media and tell the PC to play back video, for example, on the computer's [...]

No one is quite sure what the next step for TV and the Internet is going to be. Some, like Google, think it will be by bringing the Web through the actual TV, while others like GetGlue, HotPotato, Kickfour, Tunerfish, Miso and Philo, believe we'll use our 'net-connected portable devices to interact with friends while watching [...]

eMachines has pulled a new trick out of its computer bag, the $299.99 Mini-e Home Entertainment Center. The new pint size computer (9lbs., 7.1" L x 1.2" W x 7.1" H) has all the features you'd expect from a device of its kind, like HDMI, 802.11n, Gigabit Ethernet, S/PDIF, NVIDIA GeForce 9200 graphics, 2GB of [...]

You may have heard the news today that Verizon unveiled the DROID X Android handset designed by Motorola. However, what you may not have heard too much about is that phone has the ability to play local media content like photos, recorded video, music, downloaded movies, etc. through its optional $49.99 Multimedia / Charging Cradle [...]

Attached here is a demo of Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.07 for ARM processors running on a 1Ghz Freescale i.MX51 Pegatron netbook reference design. UNE 10.07 (releasing this July) will support Cortex-A8, multi-core A9 processors and will take full advantage of ARM's multimedia processing and power efficiencies. UNE — though not mentioned in the video here — will [...]