Awesome Tv

If you haven’t tuned in to watch Banshee on Cinemax, you’re missing out. This dark drama is packed with some of the best action scenes ever on TV, and bad guy protagonists who are only a bit less evil than the show’s really creepy villains.

With the help of an HDTV antenna, Tablo records and streams TV shows to mobile devices and desktop computers. It also lets you search and record shows through your mobile device. It also works with Roku, Apple TV and Chromecast.

An Android over-the-air HD receiver and set-top box. With the help of an HD antenna and an Internet connection, it turns free HD broadcasts, media apps like Netflix, and webpages into channels that you can access in one interface.

Amazon makes its move into living rooms with the Fire TV. Connect the tiny, but powerful box to your HDTV to browse streaming services or use the voice search to instantly access a massive library of TV, movie, music and game titles.

Created by the founders of TiVo, Qplay is designed to unify online content sources into a single interface, grabbing videos from numerous sources and letting you play them on your TV with the included streaming box, or via your iPad.

SeeSpace InAiR is an HDMI add-on for HDTVs. It searches online for information related to what you’re watching, and displays it as a floating overlay. It also connects to your social networks. The 3D version can float info in front of the TV.

Samsung’s 55″ and 65″ 4K TVs should be available for pre-order any minute now, and while they’re not cheap, they’re much less than their 85-incher. They offer 3840 × 2160 pixel resolution, HD upscaling, and Smart TV 2.0.

Belkin’s Dyle is a mobile TV tuner for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It lets you watch over-the-air digital channels on the go, without the need for an Internet connection. Available in the United States only. Coverage map here.

The Philips DesignLine TV looks like it’s made of a single piece of glass, thanks to its seamless and frameless glass front. The LED-backlit 3D HDTV also uses Philips’ Ambilight technology.

The first Roku to have a motion controller for games, dual-band Wi-Fi, an Ethernet port, a USB port. It also comes with the new streamlined Roku user interface and Angry Birds Space pre-installed.

Bender sets himself on fire, Professor Farnsworth dabbles in the occult and Zoidberg gets eaten by Zoidberg in the trailer for the second half of Futurama’s 7th season.

Before SNL and Portlandia, Fred Armisen drummed for the post-hardcore band Trenchmouth. After a taping of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, he proved that he still had it in this drumoff with ?uestlove.

Upload a picture of your room, set the scale and see how different-sized TVs will look once they’re set up. Won’t give you the optimal viewing distance for each TV size, but still a useful tool.

That’s right, thanks to NHK and Sharp, TV is going ultra. They showed off this LCD display that produces images with a resolution 16x greater than today’s HDTVs. 2020, please come faster.

The producers, actors and author George R.R. Martin himself give us a tour of some of the places – as well as their culture and atmosphere – we’ll see in the epic new HBO TV fantasy series.

Kiefer Sutherland’s web series The Confession, about a hit man spilling his secrets to a priest, premieres in March. We like the Jack Bauer-style whispers in the confessional. (Thanks Brendan!)