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Pandora outs HTML5 site for TVs, consoles and STBs

Craig Lloyd — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:32:48 +0000

In an effort to bring its music-streaming service to as many platforms as possible, Pandora launched an HTML5 website geared toward televisions, gaming consoles, and set-top boxes. Pandora says that the new site is “optimized for a 10-foot experience,” making it ideal for streaming music in the living room. At the moment, the new site

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Intel inks baked-in WiDi deal for smart TV, consoles and STBs

Chris Davies — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:53:49 +0000

Intel is giving its WiDi technology a shot in the arm, coaxing smart TV and STB chipset manufacturers to include native wireless display support in their chipsets so as to allow Intel-based computer users to squirt video directly across. The silicon company has announced collaborations with Cavium, Mstar Semiconductor, Sigma Designs, Realtek, Wondermedia and others; you may

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BlackBerry Media Box tipped: Apple TV meets Presenter with PlayBook power

Chris Davies — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:02:58 +0000

RIM is reportedly working on a BlackBerry Media Box, a compact set-top box (STB) that would run the same QNX OS as the PlayBook and the company’s upcoming “superphone.” According to a trusted source speaking to n4bb, the new STB would be based on similar hardware to the PlayBook and has been described as a crossover

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Logitech Revue price slashed to $200 in Ice Cream Sandwich aftermath

Chris Davies — Sat, 14 May 2011 08:50:56 +0000

We’ve just been talking about Amazon’s competitive pricing, and now the retailer has shown its hand again. The Logitech Revue, one of the first Google TV set-top boxes to reach the market, has seen its sticker slashed from $300 to $199.99, a sensible move given popular opinion was that the STB was always too expensive

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Amazon Android “family of devices” due Q4: Tablets, Phones & STB?

Chris Davies — Sat, 14 May 2011 08:28:07 +0000

Amazon may not have just one Android tablet in the works, but a whole range of devices using the Google open-source OS. That’s the latest rumor, anyway, shared with Android and Me by a trusted “industry insider” who claims the much-speculated slate is only one of Amazon’s “family of devices” headed to its virtual shelves this

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VIA Nano X2 E-Series dual-cores promise ultra-frugal HTPCs

Chris Davies — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:52:41 +0000

VIA has unveiled its latest Nano X2 E-Series dual-core processors, and they want to make your HTPC and other embedded gadgets faster. The new 64-bit chips run at either 1.2GHz or 1.6GHz, and play nicely with Windows Embedded Standard 7, the platform which could form the basis of Microsoft’s upcoming push into Mediaroom-based IPTV. Like

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Silverlight for Xbox 360 imminent with Windows Phone gaming ahead of Windows 8 app store

Chris Davies — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:52:57 +0000

Microsoft is reportedly planning to imminently add Silverlight support to the Xbox 360, with an announcement of the update tipped for MIX11 next week. According to WinRumors sources, Microsoft’s engineers have been hard at work on the functionality “for some months” and could potentially be looking to allow Windows Phone developers to bring their apps

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Roku XD heads to Best Buy for off-the-shelf streaming

Chris Davies — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:47:17 +0000

Roku has announced that its Roku XD media streamer will now be available in Best Buy, Fry’s and RadioShack, the first time the STB has been available in retail stores rather than solely online. Still priced at $79.99, the Roku XD offers 1080p Full HD streaming along with integrated WiFi b/g/n and access to over 150

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LG Smart TV Upgrader ST600 priced/dated; Plex support incoming

Chris Davies — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:11:09 +0000

LG’s Smart TV Upgrader ST600 is apparently only weeks away from launch, with Amazon taking orders for the internet-enabled STB and suggesting a ship-date in two to five weeks time. Priced at $129.99, the ST600 will turn any TV – and it needn’t be an LG model – into a smart TV, complete with Netflix, VUDU

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Boxee raises $16.5m funding: More content & tablet support promised

Chris Davies — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:13:49 +0000

Boxee has closed a new round of funding, raising a further $16.5m in investment which the company says it will spend on adding content to the streaming media platform, increasing the number of hardware partners producing standalone Boxee Boxes, and developing the system to take on more of the established A/V ecosystem. According to Boxee

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Microsoft IPTV plans could put Mediaroom on Silverlight STBs

Chris Davies — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:56:13 +0000

Microsoft’s plans for IPTV and set-top boxes continue to trickle out, with the latest batch of rumors suggesting it’s Mediaroom which will be at the heart of the system. Mediaroom is Microsoft’s IPTV platform, licensed out to various carriers and TV/video service providers, and part of the company’s Interactive Entertainment Business division; according to ZDNet‘s

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AMD Embedded G-Series puts Fusion APU in set-top boxes, SFF PCs, more

Chris Davies — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:38:36 +0000

AMD’s Fusion-based APU may have taken a while to reach the market, but it seems the company is wasting no time taking on Intel’s Atom range for low-power applications. The latest is the AMD Embedded G-Series, an x86 Bobcat core with an integrated GPU and DirectX 11 support, designed to slot into set-top boxes, SFF

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PrimeSense score new funding; Motion-sensing STBs, TVs & HTPCs incoming

Chris Davies — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:41:14 +0000

PrimeSense, the motion-tracking company behind Microsoft’s Kinect and ASUS’ WAVI Xtion is obviously doing something right, as the company has just secured a new round of funding. The exact nature of the deal hasn’t been disclosed, but when we talked to PrimeSense the company confirmed it was “extremely focused” on the “living room experience –

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Amino Freedom Jump MeeGo STB promises to play nicely with operators

Chris Davies — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:14:43 +0000

Streaming STBs like Logitech’s Revue and the Boxee Box are hugely flexible, but as Google and other have discovered, content owners are turning out to be pretty cautious with who and what can access their multimedia. Amino reckon that’s a gap in the market; its Freedom Jump uses the same Intel Atom CE4100 as the

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