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Linn Kiko takes AirPlay up a level

, Oct 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Linn might not be the first name you associate with iPhone and iPad streaming, but the Scottish company is hoping that change all that with its "budget" Kiko media streamer. "Budget" for Linn means £2,500, mind (the company's hand-made kit usually comes in at around $70k) though you do get a fair amount for your money: while the Kiko system will play nicely with Apple's AirPlay, Linn has also custom built its own streaming hardware complete with audio upsampling whether you're listening to music on a phone or tablet, through Spotify or Netflix, or from your games console or Blu-ray player.   Read The Full Story

BeoVision 11 is Bang & Olufsen’s first Smart TV

, Oct 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Bang & Olufsen has launched its first smart TV, the BeoVision 11, up to 55-inches of media-streaming LCD pleasure clad in the Danish company's typically minimalistic design. Available in 40-, 46-, and 55-inch sizes, all running at Full HD 1080p resolution, the BeoVision 11 throws in Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter apps, as well as streaming content from various country-specific providers, along with a full web browser. Read The Full Story

YouTube Original Channels boosted with international content

, Oct 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has extended its YouTube Original Channels with more than fifty new options, including content from the US and Europe. Launched in late 2011 as a way of highlighting - and more successfully monetizing - original content being created for the YouTube audience, Original Channels has, Google says, been a huge success: 800m viewers watch 4bn hours each month, in fact. Read The Full Story

B&O BeoPlay A9: AirPlay gets outlandish

, Oct 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

High-end home entertainment kit provider and style trend-setter Bang & Olufsen has outed its latest music system, but though the BeoPlay A9 goes wireless, it's certainly not discrete. The vast, round speaker system - which reminds us of an archery target, albeit one with touch-sensitive volume controls and a companion smartphone and tablet app - can be wall-mounted or stood on three wooden legs, streaming music around your home via DLNA and AirPlay. Read The Full Story

LG adds 3-D Disney movies to its smart TV platform

, Oct 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

LG electronics has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Walt Disney Studios that will bring 3-D Disney films to its 3-D TV platform. The Disney flicks will be available on LG's 3-D World in the coming months. Some 3D Disney films are on the service now with more coming. Read The Full Story

New Slingbox hardware lands at Best Buy

, Oct 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

I'm unsure why exactly a company wouldn't announce new products, sending them directly to retail outlets instead. If customers don't know the new products are available the chances of them buying them would seem more unlikely. However, more than a few companies never say a word about new products, and they just turn up on store shelves. This is exactly what has happened with a pair of new Slingbox models. Read The Full Story

Neil Young Pono player revealed to oust iPods for audiophiles

, Sep 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Neil Young might not be the first person you'd think of to reinvent the iPod, but the famous musician has been working on an alternative - promising top-notch sound - for some time now, and it's finally been shown in the wild. Pono, demonstrated by Young himself on The Late Show with David Letterman, Rolling Stone reports, isn't just a single media player but an ecosystem of a download store, the PMPs to play those purchases, and a special digital-to-analog conversion technology which promises studio-quality audio. Read The Full Story

Libratone Zipp takes AirPlay mobile

, Sep 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Wool-clad speaker company Libratone has outed its latest model, the Zipp, a wireless AirPlay-enabled model with battery life good for four hours of standalone streaming. Borrowing the fabric covered style of its felty predecessors, the Zipp supports direct AirPlay connections using Libratone's own PlayDirect WiFi technology, allowing the $399 speaker to hook straight up to your iPhone or iPad rather than requiring a wireless network in-between. Read The Full Story

NOOK HD and the B&N ecosystem gamble

, Sep 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

The tablet market is heating up, and for once it’s not Apple, or Google, or Samsung doing the shaking, but booksellers Barnes & Noble. The new NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ may carry the same name as B&N tablets of before, but they’re worlds apart in hardware and clarity of software ecosystem. Not content to chase Amazon and Apple on price alone, there’s an apparently legitimate attempt on B&N’s part to tune each model to the audience most likely to be interested in it, rather than chasing some imaginatively aspirational but likely non-existent “perfect” consumer.

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Cable cloud gaming to challenge Xbox, PS3 and Wii U in 2013

, Sep 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Xbox 360 and PS3 may face cable boxes edging in on their gaming turf if AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner and others have their way, with the promise of cloud gaming delivered direct to TVs bypassing traditional consoles. Trials are set to begin later in 2012, insiders tell Bloomberg, with broad commercial launches in 2013 at the earliest; games would be more advanced than the simple casual titles currently offered by some smart TV platforms. Read The Full Story

Sky+ adds 2TB HD box plus on-demand TV and iPad “second screen” app

, Sep 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Sky has launched a new 2TB Sky+ HD PVR, as well as an updated Sky+ iPad app that turns the Apple tablet into a second screen for social networking, remote control, and more. Powered by zeebox, the new Sky app will offer Twitter and show information for whatever program is currently playing, such as actor biographies, soundtrack listings, and more. Read The Full Story

Onkyo DS-A5 dock squeezes AirPlay into your A/V setup

, Sep 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple's AirPlay could end up a little more flexible thanks to Onkyo, with a new dock promising to add support for the streaming standard to existing A/V kit. The Onkyo DS-A5 iPod/iPhone/iPad Docking Station recharges your iPhone or iPad, but also acts as an AirPlay bridge between them and a variety of home entertainment kit, with the possibility of funneling your music across an ethernet network too. Read The Full Story
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