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We knew it was coming, and after over a month of making the official announcement, ESPN and Cablevision have let it be known that, as of today, Optimum Online subscribers can now start enjoying content from ESPN3. Naturally, this will bring a plethora of sporting events from The Worldwide Leader in Sports to Cablevision customers which hold an Optimum internet account — tidbits like live events and replays of the NCAA Championships, basketball, tennis, golf, cricket and, of course, both types of football. As for the company’s Optimum TV to Go, it has said that WatchESPN, Watch Disney Channel, Watch DisneyXD and Watch DisneyJunior will indeed be “coming soon” to the service, though it wasn’t quite clear about how “soon” that’s going to be.

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When Plex rolled out its PlexPass subscription that offered paying customers access to some new features as they were being developed, a new web client was first in line. Now an update to its Media Server is available that brings it to all users, along with a slew of other fixes and tweaks including improved photo access, transcoder management and increased subtitle support over DLNA. If you are on PlexPass however, now that the Plex/Web feature has escaped over the paywall the blog post teases a “mystery feature” set to debut tomorrow. Hit the source link for the full changelog and instructions on how to access everything.

Update: The new PlexPass-exclusive feature is “PlexSync”, that lets users flag content in their library to be automatically reformatted and loaded on their iOS (or Android, soon) device. There’s several filters included to manage what content gets sideloaded plus APIs for developers, check the new blog post for more details.

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It’s time for Thanksgiving, but whether or not you’re planning on overeating this weekend, there’s plenty of reasons to chill on the couch for a while. Football season is heating up, both college and pro, and throughout the week most of our primetime TV schedule remains intact. Of course, we will say goodbye to iCarly, and tune in for the final race of the F1 season.Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.

Tarantino XX
While many high profile releases have either already gone on sale or are waiting until after the Black Friday rush, fans of Quentin Tarantino may be interested in this Lionsgate/Miramax collaboration. Collecting eight of the director’s movies into one box Tarantino XX includes special packaging and artwork as well as two extra discs with all new bonus materials. There’s a trailer after the break, if you somehow haven’t seen Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Death Proof and Inglourious Basterds yet.
($69.99 on Amazon)

Brazilian F1 GP
The Formula One season wraps up this weekend at Interlagos, and the driver’s championship is still in doubt. Whether you’re watching to see Vettel take his third series victory in a row, hoping for Alonso to snatch the crown away or waiting to see if the drivers on the move next year like Hamilton, Schumacher or Perez snatches one last victory under their current banner, it should be an exciting one.
(November 25th, 11AM, Speed TV)

The Walking Dead – The Video Game
While the current season of the AMC TV show still has a couple of episodes left before break, Telltale is dropping the finale of its episodic adventure series this week. According to Joystiq the story has improved as it’s gone along, snag the digital download on your platform of choice (Xbox Live, PSN, PC, Mac, iOS) to find out how the story of Lee and Clementine ends.
(November 20th on PSN, 21st everywhere else)

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As we enjoy our first F1 action in the US since 2007 we’re glad that it’s in HD this time, however it still falling short in one area — in-car camera shots. Although the racing series belatedly made the jump to high definition broadcasts last year, protests from the teams over weight and space issues caused it to stick with standard-definition cameras for the on-board shots. Now that a couple of years have passed and presumably the technology has improved, that may be addressed next year, at the same time US broadcasts of the series move from Speed/Fox to NBC Sports. Formula One Supporters Association caught up to F1 journalist Christian Sylt who got a peek at future plans that include the possibility of HD in-car cameras, multi-channel formats offering different views of the track and an interactive 3D replay feature. We’ll have to wait and see how much — if any — of that is actually implemented any time soon, but if you’d like to check out the technology in use today, Speed TV has a live stream from several of the cars currently racing around the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas.

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Formula 1’s on-board cameras may switch to HD next season originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The file sharing crew at BitTorrent has so far taken only tentative footsteps into the living room with its certification program. If CEO Eric Kinkler’s comments to Multichannel News are any indicator, though, the company is ready to make itself at home. He reveals that BitTorrent has signed pacts with 20 electronics makers to include its peer-to-peer service for media streaming in new TV sets, some of which will ship as soon as the end of 2012. Kinkler isn’t naming the partners, but he notes that most of the torrent-ready screens are destined for Asia and Europe rather than the US — many TV builders in American shops already have a raft of streaming video deals with the likes of Netflix, the executive says. Don’t anticipate seeing a row of BitTorrent TVs in the local big-box store, then, but do expect the firm to make a name for itself beyond software and the occasional router.

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BitTorrent lands deals with 20 TV makers for peer-to-peer video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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