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Apple TV ’
Feb 9th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Apple TV, the future of television
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Feb 9th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Amazon Video On Demand, Apple TV, DVDs, Google, Hulu, Internet television, Internet video, movies, Roku, Streaming Video, the future of Internet video, the future of television, trends, video trends, Yahoo Video, YouTube
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Feb 5th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Apple TV, AppleTV, DVR, Internet television, Internet TV, Internet video, Piper Jaffray, set top box, the future of Internet video, the future of television, the future of video
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Jan 16th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Apple TV, Google, new media trends, trends, YouTube, YouTube For Television
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Jan 7th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Apple TV, CES, Internet TV, Internet video, NetGear, Roku, set top box
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Jan 5th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Apple TV, hdtv, Internet television, LG, Netflix, the future of television, trends
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Nov 24th, 2008 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Apple TV, AppleTV, Boxee, Internet television, Internet TV, open source, social media, the future of television, Video
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Nov 20th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
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.
Tags: Apple, Apple TV, Internet television, the future of television
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Nov 11th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
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 […]
Tags: Apple TV, blinkx, Boxee, information overload, new media links, YouTube
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Oct 21st, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
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, […]
Tags: Apple, Apple TV
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