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One Parent's Initial Observations on Xbox Kinect
By Jared Benson, Nov 08, 2010


The Kinect sensor enables controller-free, full body play.

I had an opportunity last week to pick up Microsoft's new Kinect sensor bar, which introduces a new suite of full-body gestures and capabilities to the Xbox 360. My initial observations result from spending a weekend with it, playing as a family.

Now I imagine there will be scores of gamers out there who dismiss Kinect because the launch titles are more casual in nature, but I believe this device will steal some family game time back from the Nintendo Wii. When the Wii came out, we suddenly saw people playing video games that wouldn't have played...

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Digital Home, Gaming, Gestures, Observations, Xbox
The Battle for Content on Internet-Connected TV
By Mike Sparandara, Oct 22, 2010

2010 may very well go down as the year that internet-connected TV became widely popular. In the second part of this year alone, we will have witnessed the introduction of the new Apple TV, dirt-cheap Roku boxes, Google TV, and the long-awaited Boxee box. There isn’t a very well-defined term for these devices, so I’m just going to call them by their generic term, set-top boxes (STB). But to be clear, I am not referring to the type of box that is provided to you by your cable or satellite operator; we're talking about independent devices that stream their content over traditional internet.

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Digital Home, Television
The Future of Advertising: Fewer, Different is More
By Gretchen Anderson, Sep 29, 2010

I didn’t grow up with a TV, so I wasn’t trained from an early age to sit through ads. Now, when I watch the tube (and I’ve been doing a lot of that these days), I have an almost allergic reaction to ads. I once cornered an ABC executive at a wedding and chastised him for how they rolled out advertising on their online player. Why would you interrupt Ugly Betty three or four times per episode with the same Nasonex commercial? Why would you let an advertiser do this? It’s terrible for everyone. He responded with a shrug, and mumbled something about “working out the kinks.” I never watched online again.

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Digital Home, Observations, Television