Month: October 2014
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The best TV set top boxes/sticks for this holiday season
The Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Christmas shopping season is upon us, with more gadgets than ever available to choose from. A smart TV box might be a great holiday present for your loved ones and family. They are reasonably cheap, many of them are extremely intuitive to use (so that I would trust […]
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Sony’s Playstation TV disappoints
The Sony Playstation TV was released in the US a few weeks ago, and so far the reviews seem to picture it as an underwhelming device. Looking at the titles of the reviews alone paints a sad picture for Sony’s latest device: Small in size, smaller in scope (IGN) Gaming power needs some tweaks (mashable) […]
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Review: Cloudnet Go CR13 – Ultra HD Quad Core Android TV Box – The perfect XBMC/Kodi experience?
Smart TV Boxes running Android are much more frequent nowadays than when we started this website, with new ones coming every day. Today I’m reviewing the CR13, a quad core Android box that supports Ultra HD (4K) video. I’ve been using the CR11/s android box for exactly a year now, from the exact same company. […]
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XBMC unstable on your Android box? This might be the hardware acceleration settings, here’s how to fix it
I was recently sent a CR13 Android Set top box for testing. The device ships with the latest RK3288 CPU from Rockchip. This CPU has very good hardware acceleration to play HD movies, and works flawlessly with XBMC, even on the most demanding videos. However, with XBMC’s default settings, I had stability issues: videos would […]
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PS4 Blu ray Drive stopped working for no reason? Here’s how to fix
I purchased my PS4 a bit less than a year ago, and I’ll have to admit I went full digital: My PS Plus subscription is providing me with most of my gaming needs, Netflix and the DNS Redirection mechanism Unblock-US to bypass any IP restrictions are here for my movies and TV Show. So I […]