“Cord Cutting” defined in plain English simply means that you don’t have a paid subscription to any traditional television entertainment. In other words, no cable subscription. Personally, I’ve been a cord-cutter for 6 years. My means of entertainment on the television come from Netflix and freely available antenna-fed DTV. This works...

A recent article by the New York Times explains that when it come to television, most people prefer to have a traditional cable subscription even though it’s prohibitively expensive. In many areas, a subscription with just a few extra options can easily run over $100 a month. Something the article touches upon oh-so briefly explains why we’re not...

A strong indicator that a specific technology is dead or about to die is when major retailers stop carrying it. On the chopping block currently is the tried-and-true CRT television set, a.k.a. the “Tube TV”. What I find amusing about CRT vs. LCD has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with price. More on that in a moment. On a search...

It’s interesting to consider what the best mediums are for entertainment and news. Obviously it depends on what type of entertainment or news is being referred to, so here’s a basic rundown. Local News 1st place: Newspaper 2nd place: Internet 3rd place: TV Last place: Radio Your best source of local news is still the tried-and-true newspaper. This is...

Over the course of the weekend I finally got around to hooking up my Magnavox DTV Digital to Analog Converter. The model of this particular converter is TB100MG9 for those interested. For those that just read the above and said, "What’s that for?", it’s the thing used to receive a digital over-the-air signals for an analog TV. Or to be very...

As everyone (and I mean everyone) has been hearing for about, oh, a year’s time is that analog television will cease transmissions on February 19, 2009 and switch to digital – so if you receive TV via rabbit ears (pictured) you’ll have to throw those out and buy a new set that can receive digital. But now the soon-to-be CINC is suggesting that...

From the "Nobody really gives a flying f*#$" category (but a good watch anyway), Microsoft has already unveiled some new ads which are more on target with what they normally do. Here’s one of them. It’s all about "I’m a PC". Just to show you how bland the above ad is, Microsoft hasn’t really done any decent ads since...

We may not make a regular habit of discussing television technology here on PCMech, but we are all about cool technology and helping you get the most out of it. And what’s coming in the world of flat screen televisions is exciting and is sure to affect the world of computers, too. Plasma TVs are so yesterday. And rear projection has long been dead. LCD...