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Boxee Live TV coming January with $49 tuner

Chris Davies, Nov 16th 2011 Discuss [1]

Boxee has officially revealed its Live TV plans, including a $49 Live TV dongle and a software update that will allow the Boxee Box to show free-to-air TV and unencrypted cable channels. Rumored last week, the Boxee Live TV update will be pushed out in January alongside the tuner, though it doesn't - yet - turn the Boxee Box into a DVR. Read The Full Story

Biscotti TV Phone brings video conferencing to your TV with Google Talk

Rue Liu, Nov 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

The Biscotti TV Phone has gone on sale today and offers an easy solution for folks wanting to use their TVs for video conferencing. Sporting a camera and microphone, the device works with Google Talk for free internet voice and video services over a WiFi connection without the need to connect to a computer. Read The Full Story

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Yes, It Really Is Time For Sony to Ditch TVs

Don Reisinger, Nov 12th 2011 Discuss [103]

Over the last several months, there has been an increasingly bitter debate surrounding Sony’s decision to keep its television business. There are some folks that say the time has come for Sony, which has watched its market share continue to trail far behind the leaders of the pack, Samsung and Vizio, finally spin off the operation. Sony, on the other hand, has argued that such a strategy makes little sense, and what it needs to do now is hunker down and turn things around.

Oh, how wrong Sony is.

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Sony “four screen” revolution to preempt Apple Siri TV

Chris Davies, Nov 11th 2011 Discuss [17]

Sony is working on its own revolution in the TV market, with engineers rushing to develop the company’s “four screen” strategy before Apple can release its own television set. “There’s a tremendous amount of R&D going into a different kind of TV set” CEO Howard Stringer told the WSJ, referring to the “four screen” potential once Sony controls not only its own TV, computer and tablet businesses, but Sony Ericsson after buying out its partner.

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I Don’t Need to See Apple’s Television to Know I’ll Buy It

Don Reisinger, Nov 9th 2011 Discuss [80]

If you’ve been following Apple lately, you know that the prospect of the company launching a television has come up quite often, due to Steve Jobs discussing the device in an interview before his death. Subsequent reports on the television suggest Apple is currently hard at work on the set for an eventual launch late next year or early 2013.

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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

Google eyeballs pay TV offering

Shane McGlaun, Nov 4th 2011 Discuss [3]

You can bet if there is a place that Google can reap some ad money it wants to be in there. Google already has ads online and in several other places. The biggest ad market that Google isn’t into so far is TV ads. The TV industry generates over $150 billion each year according to the WSJ and you can bet Google wants a chunk of that money. To grab its share Google is looking at an interesting play that might be something many people are interested in. Read The Full Story

Sony warns of $1.15bn year losses: PS3 up, LCD down

Chris Davies, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [1]

Sony has warned of a potential $1.15bn full-year loss, after lackluster TV sales, the strong yen and the continued impact of the Thai floods saw the company post another quarter of losses. Sony saw sales amounting to $20.5m [pdf link], down over 9-percent year-on-year, good for an operating loss of $21m. In total, for Sony shareholders the loss reaches $350m. Sony says it will undergo significant restructuring to attempt to turn around its decline. Read The Full Story

Sony eyes an exit from S-LCD joint venture with Samsung

Shane McGlaun, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [0]

Sony and Samsung have been operating an LCD joint venture since 2004 called S-LCD. At this point Samsung holds 51% of the joint venture with Sony having 49% of S-LCD. Sony has not been doing well in the TV realm of late with loses in the segment that continue to increase. As a result of the mounting losses, Sony is said to be considering pulling out of the joint venture. Read The Full Story

Apple Siri Television “guaranteed product” says source

Chris Davies, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [16]

Apple’s television plans are a case of “when” not “if” the latest rumors insist, with Steve Jobs’ well-quoted “I finally cracked it” comment believed to be referring to Siri replacing the traditional remote control rather than the TV hardware and design itself. ”Steve thinks the [TV] industry is totally broken” a source told the NYTimes, one of several who apparently confirmed that Apple was experimenting with TV hardware and software. ”Absolutely, it is a guaranteed product for Apple” was the message, with execs supposedly knowing the true Apple TV was on the roadmap as far back as 2007.

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AT&T U-verse customers can get industry’s first wireless receiver on Oct 31

Shane McGlaun, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

I think in every place I have ever lived I have stood in at least one room and wondered why the builder put the cable outlet in that spot. Generally, if you want the cable outlet on another wall you end up having to get a new outlet added to the room or running a cable under the floor or across the room. If you live in an AT&T U-verse area you will have a new option starting on October 31 that will make it a snap to get your U-verse box in any room you want, on any wall, without having to use wires or cables even if that room has no outlet. Read The Full Story

Apple HDTV project reportedly led by iTunes top dog

Chris Davies, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [4]

Rumors around Apple’s TV set ambitions continue to flourish, with the latest being suggestions that the software engineer responsible for iTunes has now turned his attention to developing an Apple-branded HDTV. Jeff Robbin, involved in both iPod and iTunes development, is reportedly leading the Apple television drive so Bloomberg‘s sources would have it, though the project is said to be still a top secret one within the company. Speculation around an Apple HDTV has flourished in the past week, after it was revealed that Steve Jobs told his biographer that he had “finally cracked” how to make television as usable as iPods and the iPhone.