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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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Why DRMs are still a necessary evil on movies and TV shows (according to the industry)

    A very close friend of mine works for a big company that does media streaming and movie downloads. One of our favorite discussion topics is DRMs, and how they are actually preventing the market to grow exponentially. People are still worried (and legitimately so) today that if they buy a digital movie, they won’t be […]

  • How to: Set up unblock-us on the Amazon Fire TV

    Unblock-us is the service I’ve been using for 2 years now to bypass geolocation checks on services such as Netflix and Amazon instant video. It lets us watch streaming services like Netflix from countries like India, Australia, Spain, Canada. I’ve been personally using it from Japan and India with great success. I’m also a gadget […]

  • One last step, and I’ll ditch Netflix in favor of Amazon Instant Video

    We’ve written not so long ago an article name How Amazon Instant Video is slowly but surely getting better than Netflix. Today, Amazon added free music streaming to their prime offer, making the service even more attractive than ever. There’s one remaining tiny step for Amazon to take before I ditch Netflix…

  • Review: Amazon Fire TV

    There are many reviews of the fire TV out there, so why one more? I’ll be trying to compare the fire TV to the devices I usually use for my own TV use which is slightly different from the typical reviewer: I won’t be comparing the fireTV to the Roku or the Apple TV: these […]

  • This is the real reason Google wants to become your fiber provider

    Google, like many other tech giants, has been expanding in various directions lately, from hardware (wearable computing, home automation, cars) to services such as video streaming or becoming an ISP. It sometimes feels like these companies go in various directions, throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks, but in this case I want […]

  • What’s wrong with Japanese electronics today

    I’ll change a bit the general topic of this blog today by talking about general electronics. But this is not entirely off topic: smart tvs and set top boxes have one general issue they need to solve: it’s how to become simpler. What people like about their TVs is that they don’t have to go […]

  • Amazon releases the Fire TV

    With the Amazon Fire TV, Amazon the world’s largest e-shop, stepped into the realm of set top boxes. Media streaming services such as Youtube, Netflix, Pandora, Hulu Plus and Amazon’s own Prime Instant Video are becoming more and more popular by the day. The Amazon Fire TV is the company’s solution for streaming a large […]