Collaborate Disseminate
The marketplace for streaming TV dongles looks pretty crowded, with solid offerings such as Google’s Chromecast Amazon’s Fire TV Stick and Roku’s Streaming Stick. Is there room for one more? Dish thinks so, and launched its 4K HDR AirTV Mini … Continue reading AirTV Mini 4K dongle merges streaming services and OTA channels
Fake security cameras are advertised as a cheap way to deter anyone who might be up to no good. This isn’t a crime and punishment blog, so we’re not really in a position to say how accurate that claim actually is, but we see enough of these things for sale …read more
Continue reading Pi Zero Streams Video From “Fake” Security Camera
Critical bugs impact a widely deployed streaming platform, common in the U.S. and elsewhere. Continue reading Streaming Video Fans Open to TV Hijacking
The Roku streaming video device and the Sonos Wi-Fi speakers suffer from the same DNS rebinding flaw reported in Google Home and Chromecast devices earlier this week. Continue reading Roku TV, Sonos Speaker Devices Open to Takeover
What if Google Glass didn’t have a battery? That’s not too far fetched. This battery-free HD video streaming camera could be built into a pair of eyeglass frames to stream HD video to a nearby phone or other receiver using no bulky batteries or external power source. Researchers at the University of Washington are using backscatter to pull this off.
The problem is that a camera which streams HD video wirelessly to a receiver consumes over 1 watt due to the need for a digital processor and transmitter. The researchers have separated the processing hardware into the receiving unit. They …read more
Continue reading No-Battery HD Video Streaming Does It with Backscatter
Netflix and Hulu dominate the headlines, but there are more than a few other services worth checking out. Continue reading There’s More to Streaming Video Than Netflix
The streaming video service’s inconsistent performance has not gone unnoticed by would-be cord cutters. Continue reading Buffering, Bugs Mar DirecTV Now Performance Weeks After Launch
Roku’s streaming devices are plenty popular, but do Roku-branded TVs hold their own? Continue reading How the Roku Experience Translates to a Dedicated TV
Back in the day you had to suffer to watch fake fighting. Continue reading How Pro Wrestling Fans Watched Foreign Matches Before the Internet