[Tom’s Guide] This week, New York City is abuzz with the “NewFronts” — the online video version of the Upfronts that cable and network stations host each year to introduce their new show lineups. But online TV doesn’t just mean reproducing cable TV.… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] Samsung’s new NX30 sports a DSLR-like design, but this mirrorless camera offers several advantages over digital single-lens reflex cameras. These include a continuous-shooting mode of 9 frames per second and the ability to switch seamlessly from shooting stills to 1080p video and back again.… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] Yahoo’s painfull puppet parody, “The Fuzz.”It’s no secret that Yahoo will be launching a new original-video strategy, possibly with four new comedy shows, at an event at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 28th. And the launch can’t come soon enough.… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] Think of the Roku Streaming Stick less as a Chromecast challenger and more as a new way to enjoy all the advantages that the company’s set-top boxes offer in a more compact design. This includes a vast array of content and apps and an intuitive remote.… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] To the TV buzzwords “OLED,” “4K” and “Ultra HD,” you can now add the humble word “curve.” All of these options will be available to TV buyers this spring and summer. Manufacturers like Samsung are betting that you’ll pay a lot more for a slightly curving TV screen.… Read the rest
[Tom’s Guide] The winners are in. After collecting viewer feedback on 10 new pilot shows, Amazon has picked four that will go on to a first season: the dramas “Bosch” and “The After” and the comedies/dramedies “Transparent” and “Mozart in the Jungle.”… Read the rest
[TechNewsDaily – via Yahoo News] “You can just listen to it, but you can’t control how you listen to it,” said Chris Danielsen, a spokesman for the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), about Kindle e-books. While it’s not difficult to convert digital text into speech that the blind can listen to — as is possible with many Kindle books — students require more tools to learn from a text, he said.… Read the rest
Point-and-shoot cameras are dying, or already dead, thanks to ever-better camera phones — so goes the popular wisdom, anyway. Many photo aficionados are reluctant to agree, though, pointing out that smartphone cameras still have relatively tiny image sensors and lenses that can’t match the quality of a “real” camera’s gear. … Read the rest
For the second keynote in a row, pundits and rumormongers have wondered aloud whether Apple would release a new version of, or new software for, its rather successful Apple TV online video streaming box. Starting about two years ago, people were anxiously anticipating a whole television set from Apple.… Read the rest
