Apple offered up a press release last week stating how they were closing in on the 1 million sold mark for the Apple TV, and well, it seems they have officially hit that number. All said and done, 1 million in three months time is pretty impressive, but at the same time I am thinking more »

We’ve already heard what the new Apple TV has done to Roku sales, and now Apple is talking about how the device itself is selling. According to Apple, the new Apple TV will sell it’s 1 millionth unit sometime this week, just in time for Christmas. According to Apple, not only will the Apple TV more »

It looks like the Apple TV launch did some good for a company other than Apple. According to Anthony Wood, the CEO of Roku, their sales doubled after Apple announced the latest Apple TV. Pretty good for a device that many were expecting to have trouble after the Apple TV announcement. Wood went on to more »

As the “one more thing,” or rather “one more hobby,” at today’s event, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple TV. The product is essentially what we’ve heard rumors of for the past few months. The new Apple TV is small, about a quarter of the size of the original, which is possibly because it has more »

More Apple related rumors, I know, shocking to see on the day of an Apple event. That said, if you are a fan of the Apple TV and Netflix this one may be of interest though. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is planning to unveil a new Apple TV set-top box that will be more »

The Apple event rumors have kicked off once again, and the latest are suggesting that we could see an iPod and iTV event on September 7th. According to the details coming from Bloomberg, this launch will fall two weeks before the kick off of the fall television season. As for why that is important — more »

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According to recent reports it looks like the Netflix player from Roku has almost hit the 100,000 unit sold milestone. The Netflix player was originally launched back in May of 2008 and was quickly sold out. Overall not a bad set of numbers, especially considering that Apple has sold just 400,000 AppleTV units in two more »

Get ready, here comes Kodak into the TV set-top box market. Due to hit stores in September, their Theatre HD Player is a Wi-Fi equipped TV set-top box that can stream music, videos, and photos from any computer that is connected to the same network right to your HDTV. It offers 720 playback, HDMI and component output ports, and a USB port.

Sounds decent, right? Sure. Until you take a look at the price tag and then compare it to what is already on the market and comparable. We have the PlayStation 3 and AppleTV. These two alone offer the exact same features and more. The Theatre HD Player will run you $300. Now, while a 40GB PS3 is a little pricier at $400; it also has a Blu-ray player and the obvious video game console included. The AppleTV costs less than the Theatre HD at $229, and it even allows you to store media.

The Vudu XL has begun to ship. Available in the 1TB XL model, users will now have a pretty decent amount of available local storage for all your content. In addition, and just in case that large local storage is not going to be enough, they have also announced the Vudu Vault. Still listed as being in Beta, the Vault will allow users to store content online as opposed to taking up your precious local storage space. Access to the Vault will come with the latest software update, which brings it to version 1.3.