According to a press release by TiVo, they will be supporting the Sony PSP and Apple iPod as delivery mediums for their TivoToGo product in the near future. The release date is first quarter of 2006 and it appears to be a feature that will be made available to all …

Not exactly a movie, a new TV series, but it's interesting nonetheless and you don't have to wait a year for the sequel. Last night, Carol and I sat down and watched the second episode of Commander in Chief (IMDB link), the new drama on ABC centered around the first …

I haven't seen one yet and I haven't even seen the Steve video from yesterday, but having read the news on about 20 sites, read the anti- hype from CNet, and looked over the tech specs and content available, I have some first impressions on the new iPod. I'm getting …

So, you're probably wondering why it took so long for me to write this, aren't you? Well, I was taken a bit by surprise by the fact that I actually thoroughly enjoyed the third (sixth) installment of the Star Wars trilogy (the second, er, first one). I did find out …

In a major coup for NetFlix, Walmart has bowed out of the mail-order DVD rental business by entering into a marketing relationship with NetFlix. According to a BusinessWeek article, BlockBuster, the other main competitor, may be looking at raising prices or leaving the market altogether in order to cut costs …

Well, the folks at Gizmodo are now showing us a picture of the pop-up ads that are being/will be presented by TiVo during fast forwards, and they're huge. They take up a quarter of the screen. Unfortunately, the center quarter of the screen. Ouch!

The Scotsman has an article about an interview with Peter O'Toole about the movie Troy (in which he starred with Brad Pitt) where he tells it like it is about the film.

Blockbuster, attempting to get themselves in a better position in the video rental market against strong players like NetFlix, announced earlier this year that they would be charging "No late fees." I rushed right out to their site to figure out what they were doing instead and determined that it …

Wired had an interesting article about the difficulties in dealing with program licensing when the music industry is involved. Anyone who was alive and watching TV in the US in the late 1970's and early 1980's will remember WKRP in Cincinnati, a campy sitcom about a small-time radio station in …

The movie, In Good Company, starring Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace (Eric from That Seventy's Show) is called a workplace comedy drama, and for good reason. The acting and writing provide a refreshing step away from many of the pieces of shallow movie-fare that we've been seeing lately and the …

In a passionate and detailed article, Popular Science takes the movie industry and the MPAA to task over their strangle-hold on content on DVDs. The article describes the faustian bargain that we all made with the movie industry when we accepted their copy protection scheme, since broken many times and …

At CES, DirecTV announced during a technical discussion that they would be moving to MPEG-4 for their HDTV delivery. Along with the launch of four more satellites this year, they are expecting the technology switch to allow them to offer a bevy of new HD channels, including local channels in …

I know, you're wondering why we continue to go to films in the theater if we hate everything we see. Well, here's reason enough: The Aviator. I'm not a huge Leonardo DiCaprio fan, but this is likely his best effort since What's Eating Gilbert Grape. And Cate Blanchett does a …

Continuing with our holiday fare of movie reviews, is the film with the longest title this Christmas: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. We went to see it with our niece and nephews in Colorado just before Christmas (hi to Kelsey, Kyle, and Richard, if you're reading this) and …

The quick summary is: don't waste your money. Don't go see it in the theater, don't rent it (even if you have NetFlix), and certainly don't buy it! The only exception to this rule that I can see is that if you see it coming up on cable and you …

Tivo, the acknowledged leader in Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), has announced the availability of their new TivoToGo service. Of course, they've short-sightedly released it only for the PC (Windows 2000 and Windows XP), but if you have a Series 2 TiVo (people with DirecTV TiVos need not apply), you can …

Not exactly travel, but I'm not sure where to put this. On Saturday night, Carol and I went to Celtic Christmas, a concert held at Dumbarton United Methodist Church in Georgetown. The concert was good, but the meal ahead of time was spectacular! Red Ginger of Georgetown (located at 1564 …

An article from InfoWorld notes that the FCC has approved (PDF) Friday a software defined radio made by Vanu.. The radio is for use as a cellular base station for GSM and will be capable of handling a variety of frequencies (important for GSM, since Europe uses 900MHz and 1 …

I've been a DirecTV subscriber since about one month after they rolled out the service. I've added the second NAM for the second satellite to get more local channels, and then I added the third NAM for the third bird to get HD. However, the number of HD channels has …

Wired reports that DirecTV and EchoStar have reached agreements with NBC that will allow them to carry the NBC HD Olympics coverage in a number of markets (including Washington, DC). DirecTV will carry it on channel 84.