CRTC orders an end to “ear-splitting ads”
A year from now you won’t have to reach for the remote to turn the volume on TV commercials thanks to an order by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commision that calls for an end to...
View ArticleRecipe to Riches: My new obsession
I’ve just found my next obsession and it’s called Recipe to Riches. I’d planned to watch this new TV series that debuts tonight anyway, but only in a casual manner. But having watched the teaser, I...
View ArticleCinemaNow brings online movie service to Canada
Best Buy is getting into the online entertainment business, offering movies and TV shows for sale and rent through its digital service CinemaNow. Following the lead of Apple’s iTunes, CinemaNow is the...
View Article10 Last-Minute Gifts for the Geek in Your Life
Some people call it last-minute shopping. For others, Christmas Eve shopping is an annual tradition. And for others yet, an IOU under the tree while they wait for Boxing Day sales is the way to go....
View ArticleVancouver Canucks: Apps for watching games on the go
Under the better late than never category comes this season’s update of the popular Canucks lifestreaming iPhone and iPad app. At $9.99 in the iTunes app store, Canucks Live combines the features of...
View ArticleDeloitte survey finds Internet devices driving demand for content
Digital is no longer spelling doom for the entertainment and publishing industries. Instead the proliferation of Internet-connected devices is leading to increased accessibility to content, a trend...
View ArticleTablets fastest growing tech gadgets in Canada
In the coming year, many Canadian households will have more tablet computers than they have people as tablets increase in popularity at a pace unmatched by any tech device to hit the market in this...
View ArticleWhile Apple TV rumours rampant, Telus launches first voice, motion-controlled...
With Rogers and Bell rumoured to be in talks with Apple over Apple’s long-awaited television that could let users control their TVs with their voice, Telus has leapfrogged ahead with the announcement...
View ArticleExperts: The trouble with our new secular ‘priests’
In a blind taste test, not one of 54 French wine experts could tell they were drinking white wine rather than red. Almost all economists failed to foresee the 2008 U.S. financial melt-down, from which...
View ArticleGoogle TV comes to Canada
Google TV is coming to Canada this August. In the latest product that can turn your television into an Internet-enabled device, Sony’s Internet Player with Google TV will let you surf the Internet on...
View ArticleSports talk host falls asleep live on TV
As we all know, being a sports talk host is probably the hardest job known to mankind. Talking football, baseball, and hockey for three to four hours a day is physically very demanding work. So we can...
View ArticleWhat are the best TV shows on U.S. Netflix that Canada doesn’t get?
Netflix has become incredibly popular in Canada over the past few years. But a common gripe among Canadian users is that our version of Netflix isn’t nearly as good as their version of Netflix in the...
View ArticleThe best TV shows on Netflix in Canada but not in the U.S.
Canadian Netflix users often gripe about how they don’t get a lot of shows that are available on the American version of Netflix. And my analysis of Netflix data shows they are right to complain: There...
View ArticleThe Bachelorette, episode 4, recap: Sumo, sex ed and a budding bromance
It’s difficult to pick the most awkward part of Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette. The first group date was right up there, with the guys competing as sumo wrestlers in mawashi — or, as Kaitlyn...
View ArticleVideo: Victoria actor Beau Mirchoff comes of age in MTV's hit show Awkward
Victoria’s Beau Mirchoff has spent five seasons understanding his character Matty McKibben, in the hit MTV show Awkward. He opens up about life in Los Angeles and the inspiration that drives him as an...
View ArticleFirst-look at Samsung’s newest products, SUHD TVs and Atmos Sound Bar
The Sun got a first-look at Samsung’s newest products, including the 2016 SUHD TV which was announced in January at CES in Las Vegas, Dolby Atmos Sound Bar and Radiant speakers.
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