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Apple iTV pushed back as IGZO panels unready for shipment

Chris Burns, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

It appears that both Samsung and LG are both keeping their panels to themselves this season as the Smart TV market fires up and Apple sets its sights on IGZO. Sources are speaking to the tune of Sharp being the next on the list for Apple to be looking to for Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide displays for their upcoming iTV production line. Meanwhile the competition in LG and Samsung, who've both provided parts to Apple in the past, are tipped to be holding back in this case to keep their HD Smart TVs strong in and of themselves. Read The Full Story

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Canonical embeds Ubuntu Linux into TV

Sam Koutroulakis, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

There's Google TV, Apple TV, and now Canonical is working to bring us Ubuntu TV. Throughout the past couple months they've built a limited, skinned version of Ubuntu to the television. Like Google TV, it's built into the hardware. Updates can still be integrated over WiFi, and the TV connection will eventually offer a 'shared-screen' experience to iOS, Android, and Ubuntu devices. Read The Full Story

Samsung Smart TVs to get DIRECTV without the set-top box

Rue Liu, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

New 2012 Samsung Smart TV owners will be able to access DIRECTV services without the need for an additional set-top box. Samsung has revealed that it will be enabling support for DIRECTV on its entire new lineup of Smart TVs and promises a seamless user experience that offers the same interface that customers are used to with the DIRECTV DVR set-top box. Read The Full Story

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X-Reality Pro by Sony

Sam Koutroulakis, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This has been consistent with recent technology - resolution from our smaller devices or even YouTube doesn't render clearly when streamed over our larger televisions. Sony's new televisions will incorporate their X-Reality Pro software into every one of their future Bravia televisions. It properly pixelates what your video or image should look like in real time. Read The Full Story

Motorola Corvair photos leaked

Chris Burns, Nov 5th 2011 Discuss [4]

It appears that Motorola has had a bit of a leak this week in the form of not only some packaging but in the device itself, the device being one called Motorola Corvair, an Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet that acts as a television controller. Besides that, the source of this leak, Nilay Patel of The Verge, notes that the device is in testing with cable companies right now. The devices true abilities remain somewhat of a mystery, but what seems clear is that it'll be a media controller with large displays in mind. Read The Full Story

Apple “iTV” rumors persist and now a concept rendering

Rue Liu, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [60]

Following revelations from Steve Jobs' biography by Walter Isaacson, long simmering rumors of an Apple "iTV" television set have boiled over with the latest reports claiming it's a matter of "when" and not "if." A new wave of speculation on an upcoming Apple product certainly can't be without concept renderings and that's what we have here from artist Guilherme M. Schasiepen. Read The Full Story

Apple rumored working on HDTV with iOS, Siri, and FaceTime

Rue Liu, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [6]

Apple has long been rumored to be working on its own HDTVs and the recent revelations from the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson has reignited that speculation. Analysts believe that Apple already has prototypes flowing through factories in China and that those HDTVs would be integrated with iOS, Siri, and FaceTime. Read The Full Story

Jobs biography reveals plans for integrated Apple TV

Rue Liu, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [12]

Among several interesting revelations, the new biography on the late Apple co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, reveals his plans for a future Apple TV. And by that, we don't mean just another iteration of the current Apple TV set-top box, but a full-fledged Apple-branded television set designed on the same principles of simplicity and ease of use that have made Apple's other products so successful. Read The Full Story

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Elgato EyeTV Mobile DTT/Freeview Television Tuner for iPad 2 Hands-on

Chris Burns, Sep 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

This week at IFA 2011 we’ve gotten hands-on experiences with more than a couple awesome devices, but none of them is as strange and oddly enticing as this one: the Elgato EyeTV Mobile, aka the world’s first DTT/Freeview Tuner for the iPad 2. With this little bit of technology, you can turn your iPad 2 into a mobile television. Pause, rewind, and record at will. What we’ve got here is a quick look at this device as it exists at IFA 2011 this week – the real deal will be available sometime in late September in at least the UK and Germany, though will be sold through Elgato’s online store so you’ll be free to pick it up wherever you may live.

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Google TV Inevitable, Eric Schmidt Says Why [Video]

Chris Burns, Aug 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

While we’ve all heard whispers of the mysterious entity known as Google TV over the past year or so, but just this week we’ve heard the main man, Google chairman Eric Schmidt, speak what he believes the future of the platform will be. Mister Schmidt spoke the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, speaking broadly to broadcasters all over the land, warning them not to be left in the dust as internet connectivity becomes the must-have of any television-like entertainment system of the future. Watch his entire lecture on the subject below.

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Netflix Launching “Just for Kids” Interface

Chris Burns, Aug 16th 2011 Discuss [1]

Everyone's favorite video streaming service Netflix has today announced their intention to launch "Just for Kids," a tab on their everyday user interface which brings up a child-centric selection screen and collection of movies and shows. From this screen you'll be able to find shows for kids 12 and under, selectable via similar means to what you're used to on the primary Netflix interface with a lovely row of characters the kids can select from if they know WHO they want to see but don't quite know how else to find them. Read The Full Story

Verizon Seeks Strike Injunction

Chris Burns, Aug 9th 2011 Discuss [6]

It was just this past Sunday when the strikes began across the USA, Verizon workers from Washington D.C. all the way to Massachusetts protesting Verizon's demands of "over 100" concessions to be made on the part of Verizon workers in the face of falling profits. Affected Verizon customers include those working with Internet service, land line phones, and Verizon's FiOS television. What's happening today is Verizon seeking injunctions against these strikers to prevent "illegal" and "reprehensible" strike activities to continue. Read The Full Story