Apple has recently integrated its Genius recommendation system, already an iTunes staple, into the Apple TV environment via a silent update. The service will be available for both episodic content as well as movies, based on your previous content purchases. It’s accessible from the new Genius menu option for the 4.2 million or so households that have purchased the Apple TV so far. [Apple Insider]
It seems like just yesterday when TiVo was a verb. But times change, and more brand-neutral DVR seem to be on the rise. As you can see in this clip of a new 30 Rock episode aired in the States, Liz Lemon expresses her longing for days gone by. Personally? I still catch myself remembering to “tape” episode. What is that, even? More »
You know that cable channels make content and beam it to a satellite, but what happens then? This video is a quick look behind the curtain with one of Time Warner’s chief engineers. Who knew porn had to go through all that? [TWCable Untangled] More »
The Dothraki language in Game of Thrones isn’t some slopped-together, haphazard gibberish. As the NY Times tells it, it’s a full-formed, logical vernacular put together by a linguistics expert inspired by languages such as Swahili and Estonian. More »
You totally know that actor. He was in that movie you watched just last week — oh God, what was his name? With Hulu’s new Face Match service, your days of almost remembering stars are over. More »
UPDATED The cannonball was supposed to blast through an array of water barrels and a cinderblock wall. Supposed to. Instead it hit the wall, a hill and Jasbir Gill’s Toyota Sienna. Now do you see why they tell you not to try this at home? More »
2011 was the year of the Smart TV, but which television was the smartest? You’ve voted, and the winner is… More »
Kryten — well, OK, the actor Robert Llewellyn rather well known as Red Dwarf’s Kryten (as well as host of Junkyard Wars and online series Carpool) is writing a novel that fights back against the prevailing vision of the future as being a dystopian wasteland; he’d like the world to be nicer and greener, with significantly fewer zombies. More »
The end of the year is nigh, and that means it’s time to sort out what the best products of the year have been. Today’s first category up for nominations is TV. Which flat panel impressed you the most? More »
ABC’s The Slap, the TV mini-series based on Christos Tsiolkas’s novel of the same name, has garnered itself a small international audience. Just not small enough to fly under the radar of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT); AFACT has gone after a number of websites offering the show for download and forced them to shut down. More »
