A French PSP modder has created an app for the handheld console that allows you to watch live streaming TV. The homebrew software – unimaginatively called PSP Live TV – currently shows content from fourteen French channels, including Eurosport and music videos.
It’s not all swiveling, docking, lightweight netbooks at Gigabyte’s CeBIT stand; the company has also brought along a couple of more mainstream models. One such is this, the Gigabyte W376M, a 13.3-inch widescreen Centrino 2 notebook with integrated 3.5G HSDPA and TV tuner.
After rumors on Friday that LG were considering withdrawing from the plasma HDTV business, LG have been quick to quash speculation. According to the company’s press release, LG will not only continue to make plasma sets but are aiming to increase their market share, focusing on 50-inch and larger sets where plasma still ousts LCD and demand is, apparently, higher.
Apple have released a new update for the Apple TV, version 2.3.1, and users have discovered that it unceremoniously dumps the unofficial Boxee plugin from their set-top box. Boxee is an open-source media player, and by installing it onto the Apple TV the STB is able to play just about any DRM-free multimedia file, rather than simply Apple’s own iTunes content (or files specifically compatible with iTunes).
Chumby and Broadcom have announced a collaborative effort to put the formers widget platform on internet-connected TVs, using Broadcom-based set-top boxes, DTVs and Blu-ray players. There are currently in excess of 1,000 widgets available for the Chumby, a compact touchscreen WiFi device, and these will now be accessible along the bottom of big-screens too.
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Philips has today unveiled an Internet-based TV service, NET TV, to be available in UK. Initial rollout targets its high-end TVs lineup (series 8000-9000, and recently announced Cinema 21:9 ), enabling partnered internet contents to be displayed and browsed though a user-friendly and a simplified web-TV layout.
The 65-inch Mitsubishi Laser TV got official back in 2008 and later rolled in production with shipping date announced in October. Its debut gained positive reviews nationwide, supposedly the next generation display to rival Plasmas and LCDs thanks to its wide color gamut ability and low energy consumption. It’s still a new and exciting technology, the expectation is high but the unit has long overdue and high in demand.
Despite we were told its availability months ago, we haven’t heard if the display has indeed shipped to paying customers. Latest update on the Laservue doesn’t help; the manufacturer has temporary hold the production of the laser TV due to a manufacturing problem. Details of the holdback were not disclosed but said the engineers are on their feet to ensure displays are back on production, at highest standards as soon as possible.
California company Rosum have developed a way of triangulating location based on digital, analog and mobile broadcast TV systems, which they claim is capable of working not only in dense urban areas but indoors. The technology – which can be deployed on its own, or coupled with traditional GPS in a hybrid system – relies on TV signals having a greater transmission power advantage over GPS, together with frequencies that are capable of penetrating buildings.
You would think a mini 5-inch TV with waterproof feature has no use in your neck of wood, it does has its marketing value around the pool, outdoor and suitable for housewives like to spend time watching soup opera in the kitchen or bathtub. Apparently the Panasonic in Japan thought so, they have announced new models with upgrades to its IPX6/7 portable 5-inch Viera displays with better contrast, reception and improve power efficiency.
Prepare for TV confusion, as the House of Representatives passes the amended digital TV switchover delay bill and it makes its way to President Obama’s desk for his final approval. When that’s given – which, considering his backing of the original bill, isn’t expected to be any sort of hurdle – it will put TV broadcasters themselves in the position of deciding whether to switch off analog signals on the original February 17th date, the new June 12th date, or any time in-between.
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