Items tagged as tv

Cut-the-Cable Review

Sling TV's user interface is simple and intuitive. The channel selection is solid and worth the asking price. There are lots of things to like about Sling TV — it’s such a promising product.

ICON Prints by DKNG Studios

The idea behind the ICON project, as told by designers Nathan Goldman and Dan Kuhlken: “Every film has one. A signature prop, set, or location. Something that, in a single image, can represent the entire movie. With this in mind, they created 50 geometric prints of iconic places and things from various films and TV shows. Examples include Office Space, Groundhog Day,…

Down and Out TV Mount

An HDTV wall mount can be a nice thing to have. It helps clear up space normally taken up by an entertainment center, and depending on where you mount it, there's an added bonus of keeping your TV out of reach of children. The problem is that most mounts are inflexible, so wherever your TV is mounted, you'd better be happy with…

Breaking Bad: The Complete Series

While there are just three episodes left of AMC's Breaking Bad, you can pre-order the entire series in what has to be the coolest Blue-Ray set ever. Housed in the replica money barrel are discs with every episode of the show, 55 hours of special features from all seasons, a two-hour documentary, a Los Pollos Hermanos apron and more. The whole kit…

Breaking Bad: Season 5

While it's not available quite yet, you can pre-order Season 5 of Breaking Bad on DVD. If you want Blu-Ray, you can do that, too. Vince Gilligan's epic story of one-time-chemist-teacher Walter White reaches new highs — and lows — in the recent season, and if you haven't seen it yet, you really are missing out on some of the best television ever…

Sony XBR-84X900 4K TV

1080p is so yesterday. The new Sony XBR-84X900 4K runs at a full 4x HD resolution. While there's no content for that sized screen yet, Sony's built-in a way for upscaling content that is supposed to be good enough that you won't smash your new TV with a giant hammer. It's got Wi-Fi, a built-in array of 10 stereo speakers that are…

Apple TV

This little black beauty is an oldie but a goodie. I purchased an Apple TV last fall when these new ones came out, and it though it's the cheapest addition to my home entertainment center, it is perhaps the most important. Well, other than the TV and stereo. But that's just it: you don't need much more than a TV and an…