The Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player is really fascinating. It’s such a small box, but it packs so many features, and it does them all so well. I just got hold of one and I’ve quite impressed. Streaming media players have been around for many years, but it’s still not quite that ubiquitous here in Singapore. It will change, no doubt. Television has changed so much in the last decade. This is the third generation of Western…
As much as I sympathize with football fans who were upset by SingTel’s mioTV epic failure during the epic EPL season finale, I’m glad I don’t watch football. I would otherwise have been completely infuriated and spent the following week organizing a campaign against SingTel. This is a colossal engineering failure. Surely SingTel knew the number of subscribers they had on mioTV. I think most subscribers are on mioTV only because of the football programmes. Otherwise they would probably find…
If SingTel plays their cards right, I think they’re going to win lots of customers. Their win of the English Premier League broadcast rights in Singapore last week surprised many people. The immediate reaction of most people was one of worry of how much it would cost them to watch soccer in the coming years. It costs quite a lot to watch soccer with StarHub. Will they have to pay just as much with SingTel? Or perhaps more, considering that…
My new Samsung 40″ LCD TV has arrived. It’s the new “B” generation of their Series 5 LCD TV. The TV looks really cool, and the pictures it produces are superb. The colours are bright and vivid, the contrast is excellent, and the image is crisp. It’s quite impressive. Perhaps I’ve been watching my old projection TV for too long that I’m now mesmerized by the quality of the pictures produced by this new TV.
Fancy a TV that costs over $100K? Yeah, that’s the super big Panasonic Plasma TV, which measures 103″ diagonally. That’s humongous. The price is also unreal. That’s the TV “featured” at Best Denki at Takashimaya. I was there a few nights ago to check out the TVs on offer, because I’m now on the look out for something to replace my dead 42″ Panasonic projection TV. Of course, the 103″ TV is out of my league. I’m looking for something…
After some months of procrastination, we’ve finally gotten around to getting ourselves a HubStation. StarHub markets the HubStation as a 3-in-1 device that lets you watch TV, surf the Internet and make phone calls. Actually, it’s main feature is really about TV, in particular its DVR and interactive TV functions. At the risk of sounding so ‘suaku’, the DVR and interactive TV are really cool. (Yah, no DVR at home until now… other than the one plugged in my PC.)
