Tag: IPTV

Thanks to TV watching robots and other Quality of Service technology, French analysts at Witbe have determined the average channel change takes 1.9 seconds, using the up/down button on a remote, 3.4 if it's chosen directly by number. Whether this will come into effect the next time you choose a service provider is hard to say, but after measuring 30 different services in 16 countries it ...

A couple times a year, Microsoft sees fit to roll out a suite of improvements to the Xbox 360's Dashboard, the interface that you get if you boot up the thing without a game in the drive. From here you can browse the Marketplace, download games and movies, and not too long ago they added the ability to easily stream media from just about any computer. The company's latest Dashboard enhancement ...

With Microsoft's promise of the Xbox 360 becoming your one-stop media hub becoming more and more evident with each passing day, the rumor of an IPTV update for the concave box should be a somewhat exciting non-surprise. Recently, an Xbox 360 owner by the name of Aaron turned on his unit to see an interesting new icon had materialized on his dashboard that had four blank boxes and some text ...

Chime.TV is a new site that serves as a kind of cable box for the Internet. It goes out and collects the mountains of Web video being uploaded every day, sifts through it all and sorts it into channels such as Documentaries, Classic TV, Sports, Politics, Nature and Technology. Videos are sourced from YouTube, Veoh, Metacafe, Google Video and DailyMotion. And if you don't like browsing Chime's ...

White may be the trendiest of all colors when it comes to gadgets these days, but Microsoft apparently decided it's time to go back to its darker gaming roots for the Xbox 360 Elite. The matte-black Elite may be a step back in terms of color, but it's definitely a step forward in other areas. Engadget is reporting (after correctly predicting) that the new model will have a 120-gigabyte hard ...