About a year ago, I learned that Justin Timberlake and Ben Ben Affleck were slated to appear in a poker movie titled “Runner, Runner” written by none other than the team of Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who wrote “Rounders” ...
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Samsung quietly released a new version (1051.2) of their Smart TV firmware on May 10. As it turned out, it was not as easy as I thought it would be to upgrade the firmware. In the past, I simply using ...
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Last time, I reviewed the Samsung 55″ LED 3D HDTV. That Samsung unit, as well as many other units have what they call the Smart TV and Smart Hub running on then. This review will explore the features that this ...
Read More »Samsung 55″ LED 3D UN55ES7500FXZA Review
As you may remember, back in 2008, I was on a tight budget and bought the cheapest LCD HDTV (Vizio 47″) that I could find at the time. Then in 2010, I got a smaller Samsung 40″ LCD HDTV which ...
Read More »Time Warner Cable TV iPad App Review
After downloading the must have apps for my new iPad, I started looking around for other iPad apps to download. Since I’m with Time Warner Cable, I downloaded the TWC TV app, which allows you to watch Time Warner cable ...
Read More »Time Warner Motorola Cable Box Fail
While trying to record the ESPN WSOP Europe on my Time Warner Motorola cable box, I got the list above. As you can see, the entire page is the same show at 7pm repeated. What you can’t see is there ...
Read More »Two and a Half Men Message
Since I have nobody to be with for Valentines, I was minding my own business watching “Two and a Half Men” on CBS tonight only to see this Easter Egg at the end of the show.
Read More »Samsung 40′ LCD HDTV
After getting a new Samsung monitor for my computer recently, I decided it was time to get a new TV for my bedroom. Since I’ve already ranted at length about the problems I had getting this new TV from Best ...
Read More »Redbox Comes to LA
Although the original company was partly owned by McDonald’s, Coinstar bought them out and created redbox. It’s only very recently that they have put their new DVD rental machines (made by Flextronics - also manufactures Zune, Xbox 360) at Southern ...
Read More »PS3 Remote and Blu-ray review
After getting the PS3, one of the first things I wanted to do was to watch a Blu-ray movie. Although you can control the movie via the wireless controller, this method puts a selection overlay on top of the movie ...
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