Archive for July, 2009
Powerline Outage
Tom’s Guide goes into great detail into reviewing powerline products, from its start to where it is right now. Here is the gist of the review:
PowerLine AV will work to stream video—even HD video—from one source to one target when PowerLine AV enters the picture. But given its relatively meager practical throughput of between 2.3 and 10.0 MB/s (or 16.6 to 80.0 Mb/s, if you prefer megabits to megabytes per second) it isn’t on par with GbE, 802.11n, or 802.11g.
I’d be wary of using it in households where more than one HD video stream is likely to be active on the network at any given moment or where lots of traffic is routinely on the move.
When Tom’s Guide is able to test a MoCA setup, it will most likely come in right behind Gigabit Ethernet, but leagues in front of wireless and especially powerline.
via Tom’s Guide
ABC Shows are Cropping up on Hulu
In April ABC announced that they are going to become a full partner in Hulu. Finally, the shows are being put up on Hulu, the first shows to be up will be Grey’s Anatomy then Desperate Housewives, followed by many, many more. If you want the updates as they come in, you can check out Hulu Days of Summer or follow us on Twitter @MoCABlog.
In addition to “Grey’s Anatomy,” Hulu says it will be introducing more ABC content this week, but the site is not revealing what will be appearing just yet. Instead the site will post daily updates on its Hulu Days of Summer online calendar, and post hints leading up to new content debuts on the company’s Facebook and Twitter feeds.
This leaves CBS as the only major TV network that isn’t on Hulu. People won’t want to be confined to watching their HD television shows on their small computer monitors, they’ll want to watch it on their nice, large, HDTVs and the best way to do that is through MoCA!
via PC World
