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The curved television era has officially begun, with LG announcing US availability for their new Curved OLED HDTV, which is the first of its kind to reach the US. LG’s 55-inch class model is going on sale starting today at select Best Buy locations. However, you’ll want to save up and go through your piggy bank to make sure you have enough cash, because these things aren’t cheap.

The new television from LG will cost you $15,000, a price that isn’t too surprising and one that we were expecting, but it’s certainly not in the category of an impulse buy. The curved OLED TV was initially put on sale in Korea, but Americans are now finally getting their chance to own one of the newest pieces of technology.

The TV is exclusively launching at Best Buy’s flagship store in Minneapolis, but availability will begin to spread over the coming weeks, including locations in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, and San Antonio. Availability at all Best Buy locations is expected to hit later this summer at some point.

The new TV is only 0.17 inches thin at the edges, and it weighs just 38 pounds. On top of the OLED technology (which is known for better image quality and low-power state), LG’s proprietary WRGB technology is being used in this new model, which features white sub-pixels on top of the traditional RGB color scheme. It’s also the world’s first OLED TV to achieve THX Display Certification, but we’ll let the buyers be the judge of the television’s quality, if anyone is up for buying it, that is.

LG Curved OLED HDTV rolling out in the US is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In “Firefly Online”, those of you crossing your fingers and your toes hoping for Joss Whedon to reveal a Firefly TV show revival at this years’ SCDD get a half-treat this afternoon. Those in charge of holding the torch for the long-lost cult classic science fiction show have found the developers and backing they need to create none other than a high-flying mobile video game, appearing in 2014 for both Android and iOS devices.

This game will allow you to fly Serenity through space, creating your own adventures as you do so. It’ll be up to you to create the ship from the show – or whatever ship you do so desire to create, while you “explore the Verse”, as they say. This game will feature “cross platform, cross device” support, meaning we’ll be able to pick up where we left off from one device to the other, too.

It’s Fox Digital Entertainment that’s footing the bill on this one, working with mobile game developer QMX Interactive behind the scenes. Those aiming to roll with the game in either mobile or desktop web browser format are able to access updates from the development crew through their official “Keep Flying” website. Upon signing up, the following message is delivered:

“On behalf of QMx Interactive and Spark Plug Games, we want to say thank you.

Together with you, our fellow Browncoats from around the world, we’re about to do the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

FIREFLY ONLINE is going to be a game unlike any other and 99.9% of that will be due to fans like you who are already making it so incredibly special. As a registered FIREFLY ONLINE player, you will receive exciting news updates and be entitled to future discounts and exclusive offers. You’ll be the first to know when our new website features are unveiled, such as the blog, where you’ll be able to track live progress of the game and ask questions of the developers, and the FFO store, which will be absolutely chock-full of shiny virtual loot (and real loot, too).

It’s going to be one mighty fine shindig, if we do say so ourselves.

Again, we humbly thank you for your support. Keep flying!”

– Andy Gore (QMx) and John O’Neill (SPG)

Stick around as we follow the creation of this game and see how it fares in the ever-expanding world of MMORPGs and the like. Until then – Find a Crew. Find a Job. Keep Flying.

NOTE: This game will be out for smartphone and tables initially, but the crew has made it clear that “we’ll see how things go :)”. They followed up to an off-hand question on if the game will appear for Windows RT, Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8 with a “just ’cause you asked 🙂 We’ll make it so.”

The PR team behind this game is clearly underestimating the interest they’re about to have with half-announcements such as these, bless them. They’ll wise up quick!

Firefly returns as a cross-platform cross-device multiplayer game is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Hey now! This year’s Emmy nominations were just announced, and House of Cards is up for Best Drama. Which is fairly good news for everyone hoping for streamed, original shows take off.

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As powerful as the Hopper DVR can be, it largely exists in an app vacuum: to date, only official releases like Dish Explorer and Dish Social have had access. Dish is giving its set-top box some much needed flexibility, however, by offering the Hopper’s APIs to third-party developers. The expansion lets non-Dish mobile apps control the Hopper directly, whether it’s switching to a live show or scheduling a recording. Thuuz Sports (shown above) is the first app to take advantage of the APIs, although we wouldn’t expect a flood of releases afterwards — Dish is screening developers for privacy issues and “other considerations.” Still, the move represents a rare level of openness in an industry that frequently insists on self-branded software.

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