VidaBox LLC is excited to announce the new TouchClient12™ in-wall touch panel computer. Featuring a 12.1” color touchscreen and XP embedded computer, it is selling at an affordable retail price of $2499. MORE »

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EchoStar Technologies L.L.C, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, today announced its entry into the cable industry with the introduction of CableLabs Certified® DOCSIS® 2.0 SlingModem at CableNET® in New Orleans, La. Earlier this year, EchoStar Corporation™ spun-off from DISH Network Corporation, retaining its set-top box business and certain infrastructure assets. EchoStar purchased Sling Media last fall and is now pursuing OEM relationships with cable operators worldwide.“The introduction of the SlingModem demonstrates our operator-agnostic philosophy, as well as our dedication to the cable industry,” said Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian. MORE »

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How cruel and how funny at the same time. The Onion pokes Blockbuster right in the eyeball on its outdated business strategy of offering in-store movie rentals – touts Netflix and iTunes as the future winners in the download movie space. [via]

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Now Mac users can enjoy digital TV with The Tube, regardless of their current location. equinux has released The Tube 2.7, featuring placeshifting, another free update to its innovative TV software that adds live-streaming of content via iChat. The Tube users can share the show they’re currently watching with others via iChat, tell friends about their TubeToGo web gallery and subscribe to a podcast of their latest recordings, e.g. on the Apple TV in the living room. The Tube also adds numerous other Leopard-exclusive features. MORE »

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D-Link today introduced the newest member of its award-winning Xtreme N™ product family, the DAP-1522 Wireless Bridge, which enables users to create a powerful Wi-Fi bridge to the home entertainment system using the latest draft 802.11n technology. The DAP-1522 connects up to 4 wired devices to an existing wireless network to lend high performance to the home entertainment system for HD transfers, online gaming and more. MORE »

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A free software update is now available for EyeTV 3 adding support for H.264 broadcasts in standard TV and HDTV resolutions. The update also offers separate deinterlacing options for Standard TV and HDTV, improved on-screen menus (better font readability and thumbnail badges for unplayed recordings), and additional hardware support. Learn more about EyeTV 3.0.2.

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Another day, another update to an increasingly powerful PVR platform. SageTV v6.4.2 is now boasting support for the Hauppauge HD PVR, automatic STVI Generation in the SageTV Studio, EXIF metadata/thumbnail support for JPEGs, new file system and network browser, playback support for YouTube’s H.264 videos, high definition photo display via SageTV’s HD Media Extender, and improved Placeshifter file transfer capabilities. Full release notes and download links provided here.

Aside: If you’ve been considering jumping over to SageTV, or have been a long-time user, check out Brent Evans’ in-depth review of SageTV’s super-impressive HD Media Extender.

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This news will probably excite those living in the UK more than anybody else, but Martin Millmore (aka MilliSoft) has just announced the availability of his new BBC iPlayer VMC Add-In that’s essentially a hack that scrapes the iPlayer website to grab data and transform it into something that media center can use for navigation and playback. Martin notes that the same procedure was recently used for the PS3 after BBC recently enabled the iPlayer for the Wii. [via]

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With another demonstration of the power and flexibility of the Orb architecture, Orb Networks, today announced the world’s first way to stream live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch. For the first time, iPhone users can enjoy the immediacy of live sporting events and fast-breaking news on their phone.

“TV on the iPhone is now real,” said Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks. “Steve Jobs may think that buying shows from iTunes is the same as watching TV, but iPhone users know better. When the NBA playoffs are on, you want to see the game, live, wherever you are. Free.” MORE »

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Looks like the guys working on porting the Linux version of XBMC to OS X have been making some great progress. According to the release notes for version 0.5.0b1, XMBC on OS X has added support for Apple Remote, Universal Remotes, the Xbox 360 Controller and has included new features like display “sleep” mode and SSA subtitles. MORE »

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