An interesting new service is available which can pretty much turn your own DIY PVR into a media streaming broadcast centre so you can catch up on those recorded shows whilst away from home: Orb. I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet but it seems like a good idea: stream video, music […]

The prerelease candidate of the next edition of Media Portal is now available for download from the Media Portal project page here. Note its not the final release: this will be available later in the month. Think beta.
I haven’t had the chance to have a go at this yet, but if it’s […]

Fellow Weblog Empire site The Gadget Blog has a great review of LifeView’s Q DVB-T TV Tuner. To quote from Colbert:
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atching Digital TV and enjoying Digital Radio on your pc and laptop is now much easier with the handy LifeView’s Q DVB-T (white). Somehow I missed out the point of them having another twin called […]

Walt Disney Co. has hired the former president of TiVo Inc. to lead a streamlined corporate strategy group responsible for planning and identifying acquisitions.

According to Reuters Marty Yudkovitz will be senior vice president of the group. Whether this means PVR technology companies are on the Disney Media radar is yet to be seen, but bringing […]