Google TV really looked like a legitimate contender for my living room until these words were confirmed by Google TV project manager, Rishi Chandra: “Google TV ads will not be skippable”. Bummer. If you think about it though, Google is a company that thrives off of advertising. Of course they’re going to do anything and everything in their power to get ads in your face. Except with Google TV, these ads will supposedly be more targeted than ever,...

As if we needed another reason to hate the MPAA — SOC will live on, invading our homes and gadgets effectively neutering them. Now, if you’re one who doesn’t record videos via analog outputs on devices, you have nothing to worry about. But for those who do, you have plenty to worry about. From here on out, any media the MPAA feels is “too new” or valuable will have the switch flipped, rendering those analog outputs on your TV, cable, or...

Oh the irony. DVR’s have been happily pleasing end users such as you and I for years. For one, we can break free from the network’s schedule and instead enjoy our TV when wewant to. Second, we can rid our lives of the hell that commercials wreak. From the beginning, TV networks, advertisers, and content owners off all kinds have spoken out again and again of how DVR’s are a poison and how they’ll kill the TV industry. Riiiiight. Kill their...

Theres nothing like a little anti-consumer, DRM loving propaganda to get you in the mood to slap a kitten and make new friends in the slammer. The latest bout of stupidity and utter ignorance comes to us from none other than the MPAA. For some time now they’ve been trying to break everyone’s DVR so that we can’t record what we watch. They claim such devices hurt sales, artists, and promote piracy — all of which are baseless claims based on fear...

The MPAA, the ugly sibling of the RIAA is pushing FCC to pass legislation that would allow them to use “Selective Output Control”.  This SOC will allow them to block certain movies/programs from being recorded on your DVR.  Anyone with a single lonely brain cell can see that this is bogus B.S. and is a cheap (in reality expensive for the consumer) ploy to get consumers to pay “extra content” that they’ve already paid for.  The MPAA claims...