Posts Tagged ‘ Apple TV ’

Apple Wants Your Input On The Future Of Apple TV

Feb 9th, 2009 | By | Category: General, Internet TV, Video

Apple has set up an online survey to find out how recent buyers of Apple TV make use of their box and what they do and don’t like about it in an effort to improve the system. The online survey asks for demographic information, then asks you about how frequently the use Apple TV for […]



Cable, DVD Industries Sag as Consumers Shift Attention To Online Media

Feb 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Todd Mundt, longtime public radio guy (and a favorite former Iowan) who writes as The Mediavore, is featured today in a CNN Money article about Americans’ changing media consumption habits. Mundt’s changing media consumption habits are reflective of similar changes taking place throughout many U.S. households. Many families are economizing on entertainment costs, as they […]



Piper Jaffray Forecasts Apple Planning ‘Connected Television’, Skeptics Disagree

Feb 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Digital Movie Store, Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Video

Apple Insider says that investment bank Piper Jaffray expects Apple to introduce networked tv, along with an Apple TV set-top DVR box later this year. Apple has consistently denied interest in such markets, however. “We expect Apple to design a connected television over the next two years (launching in 2011) with DVR functionality built in,”Piper […]



Google Announces YouTube for Television

Jan 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Google has announced YouTube For Televison – its initiative to bring Internet TV to your living room – is now available on Sony PS3 & Nintendo Wii game consoles: Currently in beta, the TV Website offers a dynamic, lean-back, 10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share […]



Netgear Takes On Apple With Two New Internet TV Boxes

Jan 7th, 2009 | By | Category: General

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, networking hardware maker Netgear unveils two new Internet-connected set-top boxes. Netgear’s product launch comes amid a flurry of announcements and launches of other Internet-ready televisions and digital video players and recorders: the Roku digital video player‘s partnership with Amazon, Netflix-enabled televisions, among others. The company says the […]



Do You Want Netflix Built Into Your TV?

Jan 5th, 2009 | By | Category: Commentary, General, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer reports that Netflix is working with manufacturers to get Netflix streaming built into your next TV: Beginning this spring, Korean electronics giant LG will build Netflix streaming directly into some of its plasma and LCD HDTVs, the companies will announce today. This means that Netflix subscribers will be able to stream […]



Boxee Back on Apple TV

Nov 24th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Boxee is a funky hybrid of an application: an open source, cross-platform media center and entertainment hub with social networking features. Sound like a mouthful of jumbled buzzwords? Suffice it to say that Boxee is a promising (if currently slightly klunky) application that lets AppleTV users (and PC, Mac, and other multimedia devices) watch and […]



Apple TV Gets Minor Update

Nov 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Featured Story, Internet TV, Video

Apple has released a new update for Apple TV, Apple TV Software Update 2.3, that brings new features for AirTunes streaming, support for third-party remotes and more.



New Media Links For 11/11

Nov 11th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

Here are some interesting new media stories for 11/11: Idols producers creating a show just for YouTube. FremantleMedia, producer of the “Idols” reality-TV show format and soap opera “Neighbours,” has agreed a deal to produce programs to be shown exclusively on YouTube and to split revenues with the video-sharing site. Gizmodo has a Apple TV/Boxee […]



Steve Jobs: Apple TV Still A Hobby Through 2009

Oct 21st, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

While there was lots of good news for Apple fans in today’s Q4 earnings call, but there was also some news that people don’t want to hear: that Apple TV was going to keep on its road to nowhere for the near future.  “I think the whole category is still a hobby right now,” Jobs said, […]