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		<title>New PlayLater service lets you DVR online videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Haselton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The firm behind PlayOn, the popular online video streaming service, announced its new PlayLater service. PlayLater allows users to record streaming video from nearly any website — including popular cable programs such shows from TBS, CBS, Adult Swim, and more — for watching at a later time. Its offline cachine features means you can store the video for watching even when a connection isn&#8217;t available, too. It&#8217;s exactly like a DVR, which means you can choose what you want the software to record, and simply forget about it until later. PlayLater is supported on PCs, and recorded content can also be watched on mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPad. Early beta users will receive a free one-month trial]]></description>
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<p>The firm behind PlayOn, the popular online video streaming service, announced its new PlayLater service. PlayLater allows users to record streaming video from nearly any website — including popular cable programs such shows from TBS, CBS, Adult Swim, and more — for watching at a later time. Its offline cachine features means you can store the video for watching even when a connection isn&#8217;t available, too. It&#8217;s exactly like a DVR, which means you can choose what you want the software to record, and simply forget about it until later. PlayLater is supported on PCs, and recorded content can also be watched on mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPad. Early beta users will receive a free one-month trial of PlayLater, after which it will cost $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Hit the jump for the full announcement, as well as a chance to be one of the first 5,000 users in the early beta.<span id="more-95120"></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Introducing PlayLater, the DVR for online video. Now you can record and watch your favorite shows anytime, anywhere, even offline!</strong></p>
<p>Today, we are kicking off the closed beta for PlayLater, the world’s first DVR for online video. PlayLater is a revolutionary new technology that lets you record your favorite TV shows, movies, and sports events from nearly any website and watch them later, even offline.</p>
<p>If you travel or commute and don’t always have an Internet connection, PlayLater is the perfect way to keep up with your favorite flix and shows. We don’t care if you’re on a plane, train or automobile*, you can watch any shows you recorded with PlayLater.</p>
<p>PlayLater brings the functionality and convenience of your standard DVR to online videos. Tell PlayLater which shows you want to record, and just like your home DVR, PlayLater will record it and let you watch when it’s convenient for you. You can queue up a bunch of shows or movies to record, so you never run out of new content to watch.</p>
<p><strong>Record Any Channel Available With PlayOn</strong></p>
<p>PlayLater lets you record almost any video available online, from nearly any website. Queue up the latest Hollywood blockbuster, find your favorite music video from the 80s, or record the pilot episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia for tomorrow’s train ride into work.</p>
<p><strong>Watch Your Videos On Any Device<br />
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Of course you can watch your PlayLater recorded videos anytime you want on your PC, but if your PC is connected to your TV, you can easily watch your recorded content on your Television too. When used with our flagship product, PlayOn, you can watch your recorded content on your iPad, iPhone or other mobile device.</p>
<p>PlayLater works with any Internet connected PC and costs $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Beta users will receive a full one-month free trial. To be one of the first 5,000 users in the closed beta and get PlayLater free for a month, download here http://www.playlater.tv</p>
<p>We are passionate about new technology and online video. As more people look online for video content, they will demand more flexibility in their viewing, including a DVR. With PlayLater, we are ready to deliver the ability for people to watch anytime, anywhere.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Netflix inks multi-year instant streaming deal with Miramax</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/16/netflix-inks-multi-year-instant-streaming-deal-with-miramax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 00:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Haselton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netflix announced on Monday that it has reached a multi-year agreement with Miramax to offer several hundred Miramax films, including hits like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Good Will Hunting, through its instant streaming service. &#8220;From day one, we&#8217;ve been very clear about the importance of digital and our desire to respond to the significant pent-up demand for our films — delivering to consumers whenever and wherever they want,&#8221; Miramax CEO Mike Lang said. Netflix did not disclose the financial terms of its deal with Miramax. Netflix subscribers looking to get in on the action will be able to access the new content — on a rotating basis — beginning in June. Hit the jump for the full press release.]]></description>
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<p>Netflix announced on Monday that it has reached a multi-year agreement with Miramax to offer several hundred Miramax films, including hits like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Good Will Hunting, through its instant streaming service. &#8220;From day one, we&#8217;ve been very clear about the importance of digital and our desire to respond to the significant pent-up demand for our films — delivering to consumers whenever and wherever they want,&#8221; Miramax CEO Mike Lang said. Netflix did not disclose the financial terms of its deal with Miramax. Netflix subscribers looking to get in on the action will be able to access the new content — on a rotating basis — beginning in June. Hit the jump for the full press release.<span id="more-89555"></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Netflix Announces Strategic Multi-Year Agreement With Miramax</strong></p>
<p><em>Netflix Members Can Instantly Watch Hundreds of  Iconic Miramax films, Including such classics as &#8220;Pulp Fiction,&#8221;  &#8220;Shakespeare in Love,&#8221; &#8220;The English Patient,&#8221; &#8220;Good Will Hunting,&#8221; &#8220;Bad  Santa,&#8221; &#8220;Scream,&#8221; &#8220;Spy Kids,&#8221; &#8220;The Piano&#8221; and &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221;</em></p>
<p>BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. and SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 16, 2011  /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Miramax today  announced a multi-year agreement under which Netflix members in the U.S.  will be able to instantly watch some of the world&#8217;s most loved and  acclaimed motion pictures from the Miramax film library. It is the first  time Miramax titles have become available through a digital  subscription service.</p>
<p>Beginning in June, Netflix members in the U.S. will be able to  instantly watch several hundred Miramax movies, with dozens of titles  being added on a rotating basis.  The movies can be watched on multiple  platforms, including TV, tablet, computer and mobile phones.  Financial  terms of the deal are not being disclosed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Netflix is thrilled to enter into this deal with the new team at Miramax,&#8221; said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos.   &#8221;Existing relationships with management and a shared affinity for  these great films make this an important deal for both companies and for  our members, who will enjoy instantly watching movies from one of the  truly great film libraries for many years to come.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;From day one, we&#8217;ve been very clear about the importance of digital  and our desire to respond to the significant pent-up demand for our  films &#8212; delivering to consumers whenever and wherever they want,&#8221; said Mike Lang,  CEO of Miramax.  &#8221;This agreement is an important first step in our  digital strategy.  Netflix has always been a trailblazer, with a  tremendous track record of innovation and quality customer service.   We&#8217;re thrilled to now be in business with them as we build and  revitalize the proud Miramax brand.&#8221;</p>
<p>Through this partnership, the Netflix library gains a variety of  films which collectively have 284 Academy Award nominations, across 83  films, with 68 wins, including the Best Picture winners &#8220;The English  Patient&#8221; and &#8220;Shakespeare in Love.&#8221;  Iconic titles such as &#8220;Bad Santa,&#8221;  &#8220;Chasing Amy,&#8221; &#8220;Cinema Paradiso,&#8221; &#8220;Clerks,&#8221; &#8220;Cold Mountain,&#8221; &#8220;From Dusk  Till Dawn,&#8221; &#8220;Good Will Hunting,&#8221; &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; Volumes I and II, &#8220;Muriel&#8217;s  Wedding,&#8221; &#8220;The Piano,&#8221; &#8220;Pulp Fiction,&#8221; &#8220;Reindeer Games&#8221; and many of the  &#8220;Halloween,&#8221; &#8220;Scary Movie,&#8221; &#8220;Scream&#8221; and &#8220;Spy Kids&#8221; movies will be available over time.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>LG to unveil prototype MeeGo devices next month</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/29/lg-to-display-meego-prototype-devices-in-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Haselton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LG&#8217;s about to get its MeeGo on. Next month, the Korean phone manufacturer is set to debut a prototype device during the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco from May 23rd to May 25th. Details leaked by MeeGo Experts have revealed that LG has a special session up its sleeves during which it plans to show off &#8220;multiple&#8221; LG branded devices running the OS created by Intel and Nokia. LG will also discuss its future plans for the platform, including its developments for MeeGo powered tablets, smartphones, and in-car entertainment systems. We wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see this leak pan out, given that Nokia has decided to focus its efforts on Windows Phone devices, and that LG, ZTE, and China Mobile]]></description>
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<p>LG&#8217;s about to get its MeeGo on. Next month, the Korean phone manufacturer is set to debut a prototype device during the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco from May 23rd to May 25th. Details leaked by <em>MeeGo Experts</em> have revealed that LG has a special session up its sleeves during which it plans to show off &#8220;multiple&#8221; LG branded devices running the OS created by Intel and Nokia. LG will also discuss its future plans for the platform, including its developments for MeeGo powered tablets, smartphones, and in-car entertainment systems. We wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see this leak pan out, given that Nokia has decided to focus its efforts on Windows Phone devices, and that <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/16/reuters-lg-others-interested-in-meego-as-nokia-bows-out/">LG, ZTE, and China Mobile</a> have all recently decided to work towards creating MeeGo smartphones. <span id="more-87479"></span></p>
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		<title>Sears announces Alphaline Entertainment online movie streaming service</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/29/sears-announces-alphaline-entertainment-online-movie-streaming-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retail giant Sears isn&#8217;t the first company that comes to mind when you think about digital movie downloads, but a newly launched offering aims to change that. The company has announced Alphaline Entertainment, a digital movie rental and download service that runs on the RoxioNow platform. First rumored back in July, Alphaline will offer users 24-hour movie rentals for between $3 and $4 or movie purchases for between $10 and $20. Movies can be viewed on a PC or on any RoxioNow capable device (e.g. Xbox 360). In the future, Sears hopes to support viewing on Macintosh computers, mobile devices, and network connected TVs. What do you think? Does Sears stand a chance against Amazon, Netflix, and the like? Read]]></description>
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<p>Retail giant Sears isn&#8217;t the first company that comes to mind when you think about digital movie downloads, but a newly launched offering aims to change that. The company has announced <em>Alphaline Entertainment</em>, a digital movie rental and download service that runs on the <em>RoxioNow</em> platform. First <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/06/23/kmart-and-sears-to-launch-a-streaming-video-service-in-time-for-the-holiday-shopping-season/">rumored back in July</a>, Alphaline will offer users 24-hour movie rentals for between $3 and $4 or movie purchases for between $10 and $20. Movies can be viewed on a PC or on any RoxioNow capable device (e.g. Xbox 360). In the future, Sears hopes to support viewing on Macintosh computers, mobile devices, and network connected TVs. What do you think? Does Sears stand a chance against Amazon, Netflix, and the like?<span id="more-70666"></span></p>
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		<title>Mercedes-Benz Media Interface Plus review [Video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a Mercedes owner and a BGR reader, you might have noticed that your car falls a bit short in the technology department regarding music and video playback (any model Mercedes). The Media Interface Plus accessory is a just-released plug and play Bluetooth box that&#8217;s now available for purchase, and since it offers a whole heap of enhancements, we decided it was worth checking out for ourselves. For starters, here is what the Media Interface Plus can do that your Mercedes currently can&#8217;t: control the Pandora app from your iPhone (including changing songs and even rating songs thumbs down or thumbs up from the steering wheel), streaming music from your Bluetooth device (iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, iPod touch, etc.),]]></description>
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<p>If you are a Mercedes owner and a BGR reader, you might have noticed that your car falls a bit short in the technology department regarding music and video playback (any model Mercedes). The Media Interface Plus accessory is a just-released plug and play Bluetooth box that&#8217;s now available for purchase, and since it offers a whole heap of enhancements, we decided it was worth checking out for ourselves. For starters, here is what the Media Interface Plus can do that your Mercedes currently can&#8217;t: control the Pandora app from your iPhone (including changing songs and even rating songs thumbs down or thumbs up from the steering wheel), streaming music from your Bluetooth device (iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, iPod touch, etc.), allowing you to view your SMS messages from the car&#8217;s COMAND display, and even playing back iPod video from your iPhone or iPod. Hit the jump to find out what else this little accessory can do, and check out our video overview.<span id="more-70006"></span></p>
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<p>The box itself is pretty clunky and much bigger than we had imagined, but physically connecting it is dead simple &#8212; just unplug your current iPod/media interface cable if you have one, and plug this in instead. You then have to first pair the new box via Bluetooth to your car, then you can pair your devices to it. A total of five phones/devices can be paired with only one active at a time. One of the first issues with the Media Interface Plus is: if you normally connect your phone via Bluetooth to your car your device can only be connected to either the car (for using the telephone) or the Media Interface Plus (for music).</p>
<p>While the expanded options the MIP offers is great, the device requires you to keep your phone or iPod physically connected in order to use most of the features properly. To control Pandora for instance, you&#8217;ll have to manually launch the app on your iPhone and start playing a station while the phone is connected. Then you can control it from the steering wheel and/or COMAND console. Video playback requires the device to be physically connected as well, streaming Bluetooth music doesn&#8217;t obviously, and SMS viewing does not as well. We couldn&#8217;t get SMS viewing to work on our iPhone, and streaming Bluetooth playback sometimes takes a while to start and get going properly. We also couldn&#8217;t make a downloaded TV episode play from our iPhone though the audio played back just fine.</p>
<p>All in all, the Mercedes Media Interface Plus enhances the existing offering, while adding the capability of streaming your music wirelessly via Bluetooth. If we wen&#8217;t into this with that mindset, we&#8217;d have been a little happier, we just assumed you could do most of what the device promised without physically connecting your phone, that&#8217;s all. At $298 for the accessory, it&#8217;s a bit expensive for just enabling Pandora playback/control, streaming Bluetooth, and iPod video playback &#8212; but hey, we won&#8217;t judge you if you take the plunge.</p>
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		<title>MMC to launch TVLine.com next month</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/10/mmc-to-launch-tvline-com-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Epstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BGR parent company MMC announced Friday the coming launch of its latest digital property, TVLine. The new website, which will focus on consumer TV news, is set to debut next month. Michael Ausiello is Editor-In-Chief and Founder of TVLine, and he joins MMC from his most recent roles as Columnist at Entertainment Weekly and Senior Writer at TV Guide. Matt Webb Mitovich will serve as Editor-At-Large. TVLine will be the most recent addition to MMC&#8217;s leading entertainment portfolio, which includes Deadline.com, led by Nikki Finke; HollywoodLife.com, led by Bonnie Fuller; and Movieline.com led by Charles Runnette. &#8221;We are very excited to launch the TVLine property,&#8221; MMC founder and CEO Jay Penske said in a statement. &#8220;To announce this addition to our portfolio, and with such a]]></description>
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<p><em>BGR</em> parent company MMC announced Friday the coming launch of its latest digital property, <em>TVLine</em>. The new website, which will focus on consumer TV news, is set to debut next month. Michael Ausiello is Editor-In-Chief and Founder of <em>TVLine</em>, and he joins MMC from his most recent roles as Columnist at <em>Entertainment Weekly</em> and Senior Writer at <em>TV Guide</em>. Matt Webb Mitovich will serve as Editor-At-Large. <em>TVLine</em> will be the most recent addition to MMC&#8217;s leading entertainment portfolio, which includes <a href="http://www.deadline.com/">Deadline.com</a>, led by Nikki Finke; <a href="http://www.hollywoodlife.com/">HollywoodLife.com</a>, led by Bonnie Fuller; and <a href="http://www.movieline.com/">Movieline.com</a> led by Charles Runnette. &#8221;We are very excited to launch the <em>TVLine</em> property,&#8221; MMC founder and CEO Jay Penske said in a statement. &#8220;To announce this addition to our portfolio, and with such a strong editorial leadership team, positions us perfectly to redefine the breaking news TV category. <em>TVLine</em> will perfectly complement our existing editorial teams and leading entertainment properties.&#8221;<span id="more-69372"></span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>MMC Announces January 2011 Launch Of TVLine.com</strong></p>
<p><strong>Los Angeles, December 9, 2010</strong>&#8211; MMC, the media and publishing company founded by Chairman &amp; CEO Jay Penske announced today TVLine as the name of its new consumer TV focused property launching in early January 2011. Michael Ausiello is Editor-In-Chief and Founder of the new website, with Matt Webb Mitovich serving as Editor-At-Large. MMC also owns the entertainment properties <a href="http://www.deadline.com/">Deadline.com</a> led by Nikki Finke, <a href="http://www.hollywoodlife.com/">HollywoodLife.com</a> led by Bonnie Fuller, and <a href="http://www.movieline.com/">Movieline.com</a> led by Charles Runnette.</p>
<p>MMC also announced that HBO is on board as the exclusive advertiser for the first two weeks of TVLine&#8217;s much anticipated launch.</p>
<p>Prior to going live in January, at <a href="http://www.tvline.com/">www.TVLine.com</a>, TVLine will announce the hiring of additional reporters to complement Ausiello, Mitovich and Deadline&#8217;s Nellie Andreeva (who will contribute to the new site while continuing TV industry coverage at Deadline.com). The focus of the editorial team is to fulfill MMC&#8217;s goal of creating a premiere news destination that offers exceptional and judicious coverage of television&#8217;s most popular and talked about scripted programs as well as reality-TV heavyweights such as American Idol and Dancing With The Stars.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are very excited to launch the TVLine property&#8221; said Jay Penske, MMC&#8217;s founder and CEO. &#8220;To announce this addition to our portfolio, and with such a strong editorial leadership team, positions us perfectly to redefine the breaking news TV category. TVLine will perfectly complement our existing editorial teams and leading entertainment properties.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Spearheading the creation of TVLine is a fantastic opportunity for me&#8221; said Editor-In-Chief Michael Ausiello, whose years of news reporting experience include Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide. &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly excited to bring my vision for this property to fruition.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Sony Internet TV Blu-ray Player with Google TV review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan S. Geller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony thinks their Google TV-enabled Internet TV product is the future of home television. We covered the announcement and played with the product a little bit at the press event, but there isn&#8217;t anything like getting up close and personal with something in your own environment. Your TV, your sofa, your own install and set up. Read on for our thoughts on Sony&#8217;s Internet TV Blu-ray player, and whether or not we think the future is here! Set Up Once we furiously ripped open the packaging that Sony lovingly messengered over to our apartment, we got to work. The Blu-ray player came with a power brick, power cord, remote, AA batteries, HDMI cable (looks to be 3 ft), and dual]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Sony thinks their Google TV-enabled Internet TV product is the future of home television. We covered the announcement and played with the product a little bit at the press event, but there isn&#8217;t anything like getting up close and personal with something in your own environment. Your TV, your sofa, your own install and set up. Read on for our thoughts on Sony&#8217;s Internet TV Blu-ray player, and whether or not we think the future is here!<span id="more-63950"></span></p>
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<p><strong>Set Up</strong></p>
<p>Once we furiously ripped open the packaging that Sony lovingly messengered over to our apartment, we got to work. The Blu-ray player came with a power brick, power cord, remote, AA batteries, HDMI cable (looks to be 3 ft), and dual IR blaster cable. The way the video chain should work is, you&#8217;re effectively putting the Internet TV in the middle. That way, it can take the incoming video, do its dirty work and overlay menus, applications and more on top of the video content. So, video out of the DVR or cable box into the Internet TV, and then simply out of the Internet TV into the TV directly, or into your receiver if you have one.</p>
<p>Once that is done, you&#8217;ll most likely want to hook up the IR blaster so that the Internet TV remote will be able to control your DVR / cable box in addition to the Internet TV itself. If you&#8217;re in the advanced segment of the population and would like to make use of a custom remote set up (Crestron, Control4, Philips Pronto), it looks like it&#8217;s going to be a pretty challenging task for the time being.</p>
<p>After physically plugging in the unit, you&#8217;re ready for the software side of things.</p>
<p>During the set up, we were asked to define the size of our TV by pushing a black overlay to the edges of the screen. We were then asked to identify our cable provider, verify channel lineups, verify the IR blaster commands were working properly, and configure our Internet connection (we chose Wi-Fi). After we went through that process, our unit alerted us to a software update that would take around 10-15 minutes to download and install. Being the adventurous bunch we are, we decided to go ahead. After the software update was downloaded and installed, our unit rebooted. Unfortunately, our setup settings &#8212; that we had just went through which took around 10 minutes &#8212; were not saved. Kind of a bummer, and not exactly the best first impression. It&#8217;s also not the end of the world, though.</p>
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<p><strong>Usage</strong></p>
<p>There are a couple main buttons to help you navigate Google TV. You have the home button, back button, and a 5-way directional pad. This is grossly, grossly oversimplifying the included Sony remote, but we&#8217;ll get into that a little bit later. After pressing the home button, you&#8217;re presented a cleanly-organized home menu. You have main categories on the left like Bookmarks, Applications, Most Visited, Queue, and more. After highlighting one of those, you are presented with either a thumbnail or a list view of the contents on the right.</p>
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<p>But, you don&#8217;t have to visit the home menu much to be honest. This is Google we&#8217;re talking about&#8230; just search! Hitting the dedicated search button on the keyboard brings up a familiar search box. Just type whatever you&#8217;re looking for, local to the device or not, and you&#8217;ll get back search results almost instantly. Populated search results include upcoming TV programs matching the entered text, local items like apps, search results from YouTube and of course Google search. This lets you bounce around pretty quickly and it works very, very well.</p>
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<p>In addition to the search bar, there is a window icon to the right. This holds all the open windows (pages, apps, whatever) and you can flip through all of them pretty effortlessly. Yes, this is a form of multitasking. What&#8217;s very cool is that you&#8217;re able to stream a song from your favorite station on Pandora while checking out a recipe on Foodnetwork.com while watching TV in Dual view mode (think Picture-in-picture for you oldies). It&#8217;s definitely intense, but it&#8217;s definitely up our alley.</p>
<p>Something that&#8217;s very frustrating about this first generation product though, is that unless you&#8217;re a DISH TV subscriber, Google TV doesn&#8217;t integrate fully with your DVR. For instance, we have a Verizon FIOS DVR, and Google TV can&#8217;t communicate with the box besides sending simple IR commands. This means that when we search for something in Google TV and find the program listing (which very slyly displays the upcoming time and date) we can&#8217;t set it to record. We have to manually set that up on the DVR. No season guides, no recording of current or future programs &#8212; nada. It&#8217;s a very half baked approach and makes the two different video devices feel very separate in this regard.</p>
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<p><strong>Browser</strong></p>
<p>The browser is good enough to justify being here, but in all honesty, it&#8217;s just not fast enough to be useful for us. That&#8217;s not to say family or friends of ours wouldn&#8217;t enjoy using it, but it definitely lacks the polish and speed that we were hoping to see. Scrolling is choppy instead of being fluid, as it should be. And then, Hulu is blocked. Online content from ABC, NBC, as well as CBS is blocked as well. Scrolling the on-screen cursor below the cut off the display should scroll the page down with it in our opinion, but you have to use the physical down key to &#8220;scroll&#8221; (more like push pages around), and like we said, it&#8217;s not fluid. There&#8217;s no kinetic scrolling , and again, it&#8217;s just usable enough at this point to make it worth using. We&#8217;re not sure if it&#8217;s a hardware or software issue (we&#8217;d guess a bit of both, though hardware would make more sense).</p>
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<p><strong>Remote</strong></p>
<p>The remote is oddly usable, but also annoying and complicated. There are 102 buttons on this thing and half of them don&#8217;t even need to be there. Seriously, it&#8217;s uber-confusing to use at first, and even once you get used to it, you still aren&#8217;t friends with the remote. Sony said they took inspiration from the Dual Shock PS3 controller, and while it shows, the simple fact is that the Dual Shock controller is infinitely more comfortable to hold and use.</p>
<p>The optical joystick on the right of the remote performs decently, though it&#8217;s not as sensitive or as quick as we&#8217;d like. It always feels like the system is processing the mouse&#8217;s movements and then catching up. It doesn&#8217;t feel slow per se — it just doesn&#8217;t feel very natural, quick, or what we&#8217;d expect in a 2010 device. Once you configure the keyboard settings, things get a little better though. But, what&#8217;s a little confusing is adjusting the keyboard settings adjusts the entire button settings for the remote, not just the keyboard or letters. For instance, key repeat delay and repeat rate. Normally things for just a keyboard right? Not in this case. After playing with some settings we found the directional arrows completely flipping out on us when we were controlling the program guide on FIOS. Paging through channels was erratic, and worse, would duplicate or even triplicate our commands. We dialed back the repeat rate and upped the delay a bit and things were fixed, but it&#8217;s just something you shouldn&#8217;t necessarily have to muck with or worry about.</p>
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<p>There are even two triggers on the right and left of the remote to be used by your index fingers. Zoom and scroll. You hold them down while scrolling with the optical joystick and they perform the intended functions.</p>
<p>Some of the Blu-ray buttons on here really could have been sub-buttons to clean up the clutter, and the remote is really intimidating for people just wanting to lay back and watch some World Series while browsing www.mlbtraderumors.com.</p>
<p>All in all, if you have an Android handset, using the upcoming remote app will probably turn out to be a much more enjoyable and relaxing experience.</p>
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<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to justify a $399 TV enhancement device in almost any scenario. Unfortunately, while most of the time we loved using Google TV on Sony&#8217;s Internet TV Blu-ray player, we can&#8217;t at this point think of much of a reason you&#8217;d want this. Again, it&#8217;s definitely cool and it definitely does help transform the TV viewing experience, but we&#8217;d be much more open to a Sony Internet TV with built-in Google TV. That&#8217;s a no-brainer and a separate device is pretty hard to swallow. Making matters worse, we already had a 3D Sony Blu-ray player and it is kind of disappointing that this box doesn&#8217;t play back 3D Blu-ray films. There is no way to justify having two Blu-ray players in the same room, and it&#8217;s a choice we had hoped we wouldn&#8217;t have to make. (Spoiler: we decided on the Internet TV Blu-ray player)</p>
<p>Our new Sony TV has most of what Google TV offers minus a browser. It has Netflix built in, Hulu Plus, Internet widgets like Twitter, stocks, news, and Wi-Fi out of the box.  Most new TVs have a lot of this functionality already, and a separate item at $399 isn&#8217;t that appealing. Would we prefer the Google TV experience to what Sony offers natively? Absolutely. And that&#8217;s a very, very good thing.</p>
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<p>Another thing Google TV has against it is the target market for the product. For instance, we&#8217;re sitting here watching our TV with Google TV while typing this review on our MacBook Air with our iPhone 4 sitting next to us on the left, our BlackBerry 9700 to our right and our Motorola DROID X in our laptop bag. Are we the norm in this case? We&#8217;d like to think so, but sadly no. However, we do think many, many people will either have a laptop, smartphone, or iPad-like device with them all, most, or some of the time while watching TV. It&#8217;s these usage scenarios that complicate the usefulness of Google&#8217;s initiative in our mind. It&#8217;s great that there is a browser on my TV, but it&#8217;s kind of slow to scroll, a little slow to load, and well, I&#8217;m still not sure why we need it.</p>
<p>Once Google TV matures (typical Google, right), we have no doubt that this will be a major step forward for the Television industry and consumers. It will be second nature to have a browser everywhere you turn and the cost will be absorbed by the TV you purchase since it will be built in. You will get access to the entire world, all your information at your fingertips without lifting your lazy butt off of the sofa — and we think that&#8217;s magical.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bgr.com/nggallery/page-320/album-1/gallery-69/">Click on over to our Sony Internet TV Blu-ray player gallery!</a></p>
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		<title>Plex and LG to challenge Apple TV, Boxee, and others</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plex, for those not familiar, is a software company whose former creed was to: &#8220;bridge the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media.&#8221; Today, the company has announced that it will be partnering with electronics maker LG to &#8220;integrate the Plex platform into their 2011 lineup of Netcast connected TVs and Blu-ray devices.&#8221; In the company&#8217;s announcement, they quip that when it comes to connecting devices to your television, a Mac Mini is &#8220;too large,&#8221; a Boxee box is &#8220;too pointy,&#8221; and the new Apple TV is &#8220;too tiny.&#8221; The company is betting on this free, integrated software model to be the future of connected televisions.]]></description>
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<p>Plex, for those not familiar, is a software company whose former creed was to: &#8220;bridge the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media.&#8221; Today, the company has announced that it will be partnering with electronics maker LG to &#8220;integrate the Plex platform into their 2011 lineup of Netcast connected TVs and Blu-ray devices.&#8221; In the company&#8217;s announcement, they quip that when it comes to connecting devices to your television, a Mac Mini is &#8220;too large,&#8221; a Boxee box is &#8220;too pointy,&#8221; and the new Apple TV is &#8220;too tiny.&#8221; The company is betting on this free, integrated software model to be the future of connected televisions. The announcement continues: &#8220;Early next year, when you buy an LG Netcast TV or Blu-ray player, you will have Plex functionality built-in. Specifically, it will connect to a cloud version of the Plex platform for online content, and, if you happen to have a Plex Media Server running anywhere in your house (after all, who doesn’t have a computer in their house?), you can access your local and online content, in a rich interface, with full metadata.&#8221; The concept of integrating mature, intuitive media software into a TV really does sound like a great idea; especially for LG, as TV manufacturers are always trying to differentiate themselves from the competition.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;There will be more content providers investing in writing Plex plug-ins, so your online content choices will grow. And next year, if you’re upgrading your TV, ﻿or ﻿or buying an LG Blu-ray player, you’ll have the ability to get Plex, built in, at no additional cost. Fully integrated into killer consumer electronics gear, exactly as it should be.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Yes, that is the way it should be. Hit the read link for more info on Plex and their recently inked LG deal.<span id="more-60069"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://elan.plexapp.com/2010/09/02/plex-and-the-future-of-television/">Read</a></p>
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		<title>Throwback Thursday: The Power Glove, it&#8217;s so bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Munchbach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Throwback Thursday, we covered the NES Zapper; a well known and respected Nintendo accessory. This week, we are going to go a little bit more obscure&#8230; with the Power Glove. The Power Glove was an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System that never really took off. Made in 1989 by U.S. toy company Mattel, the Glove was a wearable NES controller that was meant to track the movements of your hand in order to control gameplay. While we never owned a Power Glove ourselves (a little too rich for our 7 year-old blood), we do remember it making a cameo in the 1989 film The Wizard. One of the more memorable movie lines from a 12-year old dweeb with teased hair was: &#8220;I]]></description>
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<p>Last Throwback Thursday, we covered the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2010/08/05/throwback-thursday-nes-zapper/">NES Zapper</a>; a well known and respected Nintendo accessory. This week, we are going to go a little bit more obscure&#8230; with the <em>Power Glove</em>. The Power Glove was an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System that never really took off. Made in 1989 by U.S. toy company Mattel, the Glove was a wearable NES controller that was meant to track the movements of your hand in order to control gameplay. While we never owned a Power Glove ourselves (a little too rich for our 7 year-old blood), we do remember it making a cameo in the 1989 film <em>The Wizard</em>. One of the more memorable movie lines from a 12-year old dweeb with teased hair was: &#8220;I love the power glove. It&#8217;s so bad.&#8221; Oh, and how bad it was. There were only two, count em&#8217; two, titles released with specific Power Glove functionality; although you could technically use any game by entering codes on the gloves keypad. While sales of the wearable controller were &#8212; by all accounts &#8212; an unmitigated disaster, duality can be seen between the Glove and the current technology used in the Nintendo Wii&#8217;s <em>Wiimote</em>. How about it? Anyone have a rich uncle that gifted you a Power Glove? Oh, and we&#8217;ve got that awesomely bad clip from <em>The Wizard</em> ready for you after the bounce.<span id="more-58524"></span></p>
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<p><em>BGR Throwback Thursday is a weekly series covering our (and your) favorite gadgets, games, and software of yesterday and yesteryear</em></p>
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		<title>Hollywood studios gain approval to block analog hole for new releases</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2010/05/08/hollywood-studios-gain-approval-to-block-analog-hole-for-new-releases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 13:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Hodgkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood was granted a major victory by the FCC this past week in a decision that gives the studios permission to shut down the analog ports on home entertainment equipment such as televisions, cable boxes, and satellite receivers. The decision stems from a 2008 request by the Hollywood studios which asked for the power to block analog outputs which lack copyright protection and can be recorded from freely. Blocking these analog ports is an anti-piracy measure that would force television programming to play back via digital outputs which have copyright protection to prevent the recording of the video signal. This power to shut down the analog hole would only be used for first run content which, according to the studios,]]></description>
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<p>Hollywood was granted a major victory by the FCC this past week in a decision that gives the studios permission to shut down the analog ports on home entertainment equipment such as televisions, cable boxes, and satellite receivers. The decision stems from a 2008 request by the Hollywood studios which asked for the power to block analog outputs which lack copyright protection and can be recorded from freely. Blocking these analog ports is an anti-piracy measure that would force television programming to play back via digital outputs which have copyright protection to prevent the recording of the video signal. This power to shut down the analog hole would only be used for first run content which, according to the studios, has the highest rate of piracy. Blocking this potential avenue for piracy would allow the studios to bring new content to the viewing audience sooner as well. New releases in exchange for Hollywood control of home entertainment equipment, sounds like a <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">deal with the devil</span> great decision, no?<span id="more-49300"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-07/u-s-lets-hollywood-disable-home-tv-outputs-to-prevent-piracy.html">Read</a></p>
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		<title>Benz and Bosch to bring SPLITVIEW to 2010 S-Class</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2008/12/11/benz-and-bosch-to-bring-splitview-to-2010-s-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Epstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In-car video entertainment is hardly something uncommon these days. Any run-of-the-mill mini van or SUV can be fitted with a nice DVD / console entertainment system for a fraction of what it used to cost, typically directly from the dealer. If you want to give your front passenger something to focus on during those long trips however, it&#8217;s a slightly different story. Sure you can have your local shop slap a flat panel into your passenger-side visor but unless you&#8217;re a teenager you&#8217;re or prepping for an appearance on Cribs, you might get a few funny looks. Don&#8217;t sweat it though, Mercedes-Benz and Bosch might just have the cure for what ails you &#8211; assuming you can squeeze a new]]></description>
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<p>In-car video entertainment is hardly something uncommon these days. Any run-of-the-mill mini van or SUV can be fitted with a nice DVD / console entertainment system for a fraction of what it used to cost, typically directly from the dealer. If you want to give your front passenger something to focus on during those long trips however, it&#8217;s a slightly different story. Sure you can have your local shop slap a flat panel into your passenger-side visor but unless you&#8217;re a teenager you&#8217;re or prepping for an appearance on Cribs, you might get a few funny looks. Don&#8217;t sweat it though, Mercedes-Benz and Bosch might just have the cure for what ails you &#8211; assuming you can squeeze a new S-Class into your budget next year. The duo have developed a new display technology dubbed SPLITVIEW that will allow a single screen to display two different pictures depending on the viewing angle. Using a combination of clever pixel placement and a unique filter, SPLITVIEW will allow a centrally-located monitor in the dash to display navigation or control information to the driver while displaying a DVD or even TV channels to the passenger. The passenger will also have the option of using headphones, freeing up the car&#8217;s speakers for music or turn-by-turn navigation instructions. Pretty slick, eh? Expect SPLITVIEW to make its first appearance in production 2010 S-Class cars this summer.</p>
<p>Thanks, Robby!</p>
<p><a href="http://benzinsider.com/2008/12/mercedes-benz-s-class-splitscreen-technology/">Read</a></p>
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		<title>Sony pulls PSP-3000 Memory Entertainment Pack, only offers one bundle</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2008/10/28/sony-pulls-psp-3000-memory-entertainment-pack-only-offers-one-bundle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Epstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were having trouble deciding which PSP-3000 bundle to choose from and you don&#8217;t care about the scan lines or other display issues, it looks like Sony just did  you a big favor. According to an official blog post from yesterday, Sony has decided to pull the 4GB Memory PSP Entertainment Pack it had previously announced would be available. That leaves customers with one, and only one, option &#8211; the Ratchet &#38; Clank pack currently available. As for those in need of the added memory, Sony says quit your whining and fork up the $45 for a card. Well, they didn&#8217;t really say the part about the whining&#8230; [Thanks, phil!] Read]]></description>
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<p>If you were having trouble deciding which PSP-3000 bundle to choose from <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">and you don&#8217;t care about the <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2008/10/21/the-honeymoon-is-over-psp-3000-display-issue-galore/">scan lines or other display issues</a></span>, it looks like Sony just did  you a big favor. According to an official blog post from yesterday, Sony has decided to pull the 4GB Memory PSP Entertainment Pack it had previously announced would be available. That leaves customers with one, and only one, option &#8211; the Ratchet &amp; Clank pack currently available. As for those in need of the added memory, Sony says quit your whining and fork up the $45 for a card. Well, they didn&#8217;t really say the part about the whining&#8230;</p>
<p>[Thanks, phil!]</p>
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		<title>Mysterious New Eee Monitor Could be iMac Competitor</title>
		<link>http://www.bgr.com/2008/07/02/mysterious-new-eee-monitor-could-be-imac-competitor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Epstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well what do we have here? A few upcoming Eee PCs were recently uncovered as images made the rounds earlier this week but here we have something completely new from Asus. So what is it exactly? To be completely honest, we&#8217;re not really sure. The unit is reportedly called the Eee Monitor and it had been discussed briefly at Computex earlier this year but the Taiwanese computer company made sure to sit on many key details. Well say hello to our little friend. Several shots of the Eee Monitor are now swimming around the internet and it looks like a gem. As was the case before, details are still a bit scarce but a quick look at the display, the]]></description>
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<p>Well what do we have here? A few upcoming Eee PCs were recently uncovered as images made the rounds earlier this week but here we have something completely new from Asus. So what is it exactly? To be completely honest, we&#8217;re not really sure. The unit is reportedly called the Eee Monitor and it had been discussed briefly at Computex earlier this year but the Taiwanese computer company made sure to sit on many key details. Well say hello to our little friend. Several shots of the Eee Monitor are now swimming around the internet and it looks like a gem. As was the case before, details are still a bit scarce but a quick look at the display, the logo in the bottom right corner on the face of the unit and the ports on the back of the unit lead to some pretty probable speculation. How about a self-contained PC with built in Denon audio hardware, a 19&#8243; display and a rumored integrated TV tuner? We&#8217;ll take two, thanks. Word on the street is that there will be a 19&#8243; and 21&#8243; model and the price point will start at&#8230; Ready? $500.</p>
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