Outfitted with a temperature sensor, a Bluetooth radio, and WeMo integration, this sturdy no-stick skillet can help you create perfectly cooked dishes.
New firmware and mobile app upgrades let you transfer video and photos from a smartphone to a USB drive connected to the Slingbox 500 for HDTV playback.
The Roku 3 is a worthy successor to the 2 XS, with faster Wi-Fi, a headphone jack on the remote, and other hardware tweaks. Plus, it ushers in a much-improved user interface.
The TiVo Mini lets you access live, recorded, and (some) streaming content from your TiVo Premiere on other TVs around the house. And it works pretty well for the most part.
Cisco designed its Videoscape Unity platform for a future in which we'll all have video walls with room for web content, social network feeds, and—oh yes—live TV.
Why bother with a set-top box when you can save space and cable clutter by using a set-side stick? That's the basic rationale behind the Roku Streaming Stick, a device that looks like a USB flash drive but delivers the same high-def media streaming functionality as Roku's current high-end box, the Roku 2 XS.
Looking to cut the cable TV cord? Really Simple Software’s $149 Simple.TV DVR/placeshifter can record over-the-air or basic digital cable (unencrypted) TV programming and stream it over a local network or via the Internet.
The latest set-top boxes from place-shifting pioneer Sling Media introduce support for 1080p, Wi-Fi, and local media viewing. But the super-easy setup may be the biggest improvement.
If your HDTV doesn't have a network connection, or doesn't support your preferred content sources, you'll want to consider a media streamer. Here's what to look for.