Comcast's Xfinity X1 TV service is the cable company's latest entertainment offering. TV and Internet packages vary with your area from how many channels are offered and what speeds of Internet. I picked up their X1 Starter Double Play service for Internet and TV. The Internet package I chose was the 75Mbps tier and I use my own modem and router to reduce costs. Testing the … [Read more...]
Making a TV Bluetooth-compatible
I became interested in making my television able to output its audio to a Bluetooth speaker. I wanted to be able to watch TV without disturbing a sleeping baby or hearing the show over other noises, such as cooking, without blaring the volume. Just bringing the sound closer and more directional would be sufficient to reduce the ambient volume. The connection could be either … [Read more...]
Adobe helps ‘The Simpsons’ with live animation
This past Sunday's episode of 'The Simpsons' included a 3-minute segment at the end that was live animation. Back in 1997 in The Simpsons episode “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show”, Homer Simpson got an up-close look at the world of animation when he became the voice talent behind the animated dog Poochie. When Homer asked whether the episode was airing live, a … [Read more...]
Trailer for Mr. Robot season 2.0
MR. ROBOT follows Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), a young cyber-security engineer who becomes involved in the underground hacker group fsociety, after being recruited by their mysterious leader (Christian Slater). Following the events of fsociety’s hack on multi-national company Evil Corp, the second season will explore the consequences of that attack as well as the illusion of … [Read more...]
CBS cancels CSI: Cyber
CBS has cancelled the CSI franchise. CSI: Cyber was the last to remain after CSI, CSI: New York, and CSI: Miami ended previously. At one point, CSI was the most-watched show in the world. CSI: Cyber took the franchise against cyber threats but from my limited viewing of the show, it looked like TV's classic bad use of technology as a plot device with all of the latest … [Read more...]